Issues in understanding quality volunteering in human services

Volunteering for Health Services in the Middle Part of Ghana: In Whose Interest?

Background In many developing countries like Ghana, community volunteers assist in the provision of certain health services to rural and hard-to-reach communities. This study examined factors that influence the motivation and retention of community-based volunteers supporting with work on health-related activities at the community level in Ghana.   Methods Using a sequential mixed-method design...

Understanding the drivers of volunteering

Unbundling Power Quality Services: Technical Issues

The modern industrial facility depends on sensitive electronic equipment that can be shut down suddenly by severe power system disturbances. A large number of these disturbances on the power system are a result of line faults which can cause momentary voltage sags. This results in equipment malfunctioning and high cleanup cost. This papers describes some of the emerging opportunities for new se...

Quality of Service Issues in Internet Web Services

WE take great pleasure in introducing this special section on aQuality of Service Issues in Internet Web Serviceso to the readership of the IEEE Transactions on Computers. This special section is comprised of seven papers, spanning caching, prefetching, replication, admission control, and router scheduling. The topics covered include theoretical and implementation aspects of provisioning qualit...

Quality of Service in Internet Web Services: Issues and Solutions

Several techniques have been developed to meet the demand for faster and more efficient access to the Internet. Among them a main role is acquired by the replication of the Web services. Replication can be addressed both by a cluster of servers and by servers geographically distributed in the Internet. In this paper we deal with geographical replication. Two approaches are possible for geograph...