11 A s you progress through your nursing career, your needs may change and you may find yourself wondering about the difference between coaching and mentoring. Both coaching and mentoring involve a supportive partner who can help an individual improve personal and professional satisfaction. In both relationships, the client or person being mentored is responsible for the decisions they make and...

Applications running on a large distributed system face a dynamically changing environment. Thus, an application needs to adapt to new conditions or it will fail to continuously meet its specification. This is especially crucial if the application needs to implement a certain quality of service (QoS). Object-based middleware systems like CORBA implementations are currently not able to directly ...

Factors, which induced positive nurse-client interactions and barriers to positive nurse-client interactions from the perspective of nurses at Holy Family Hospital, were explored. In all, twelve State Registered Nurses participated in semi-structured interviews. Factors which induced positive nurse-client interaction included availability of adequate time, showing empathy, giving prompt care, c...

The Department of Children and Families has reviewed a Technology solution that should meet most their needs for improved client service asset management. protagonist, Brad Frearson, is carefully reviewing his plan the outcomes each SunCoast region.

Many database applications adopt a client-server architecture, in which data resides on a server that receives queries from a client. For each client’s query, the server often needs to transfer to the client a large amount of data that is an answer to the query. The communication network in these environments could become a bottleneck in the computation. In this paper we study how to minimize t...

The outsourcing of information technology (IT) to external vendors promises lower delivery cost while attaining higher delivery quality. Despite these positive prospects, many information technology outsourcing (ITO) projects still fail, often due to an unsuccessful client-vendor relationship. Most research to date has focused on investigating this relationship from the clients’ perspective, ev...

Amidst the era of e-economy, one of the difficulties from the standpoint of the information systems manager is, among others, the forecast of memory needs for the organization. In particular, the manager is often confronted with maintaining a certain threshold amount of memory for a prolonged period of time. However, this constraint requires more than technical and managerial resolutions, encom...

s we discussed in the May/June 2009 issue of the Banfield Journal, evidence-based veterinary medicine (EBVM) uses the best available research evidence along with clinical expertise, client preferences, patient needs and available resources to make the most informed clinical decisions. EBVM may suggest the best approach to a specific clinical problem, but it is the practitioner who integrates al...

Occupational therapists who must provide alternative computer access are faced with a daunting task. From nearly 500 types of devices, they must decide on a specific access technology that will meet clients' needs. Without extensive clinical experience, it is difficult to select an appropriate level of intervention from the alternatives without guidance. The RoadMap to Computer Access Technolog...

The JPEG2000 image compression standard provides many features to support interactive access to large images. These include efficient lossless and lossy compression, resolution scalability, quality scalability, region of interest coding and spatial random access. The ISO/IEC JPEG committee is in the process of finalizing the JPEG2000 Internet Protocol (JPIP) standard for interacting with JPEG20...