Nowadays, there is a growing number of e-government portals and solutions that provide integrated governmental e-services to the customers (citizens, enterprises or other public sectors). However, the administration and interoperability of distributed e-government nodes are faced with increasing challenges caused by the service-oriented modeling difficulties and ontological issues in distribute...

OBJECTIVE To define pneumonia in critically ill children in the intensive care unit setting for surveillance of infection and for the design, conduct, and evaluation of clinical trials in the prevention and therapy of lower respiratory tract infections in this population. DESIGN Summary of the literature with review and consensus by experts in the field. RESULTS A variety of diagnostic crit...

The 75th anniversary of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) presents an opportunity to celebrate the past accomplishments of state and territorial health agencies (SHAs) and consider their potential future. Several authors have examined the current and future needs of the governmental public health workforce and future trends impacting the governmental public healt...

Considering that international development cooperation is a political field whose main philosophical tenets (the belief in progress, hope as endeavor or policy imperative, the development goal) bring about relationships of asymmetry, hierarchy and dependence, this article presents and discusses the results of an empirical research conducted in Duque de Caxias between September 2010 and January ...

BACKGROUND The most recent scientific findings show that even with significant emission reductions, some amount of climate change is likely inevitable. The magnitude of the climate changes will depend on future emissions and climate sensitivity. These changes will have local impacts, and a significant share of coping with these changes will fall on local governmental agencies. Public health is ...

Since 1989, blue-collar foreign workers have been permitted to work in Taiwanese industries. Most blue-collar foreign workers apply for jobs in Taiwan through blue-collar foreign workers' agencies. Because blue-collar foreign workers are not familiar with the language and culture in Taiwan, in occupational accident education and hazard prevention, the agencies play an important role in the coor...

Information about how agencies behaved in previous disasters could allow us to predict agency behavior and network structure in response to future events. In this paper, we review studies of two different disasters that occurred in the USA to provide insight into some of the common characteristics of disaster relief efforts. Specifically, the studies discussed explore how agencies involved in d...

INTRODUCTION To effectively address HIV/AIDS in Africa, evidence on preventing new infections and providing effective treatment is needed. Ideally, decisions on which interventions are effective should be based on evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Our previous research described African RCTs of HIV/AIDS reported between 1987 and 2003. This study updates that analysis with RCTs ...

Spatial data is one of the most critical elements underpinning decision making for many disciplines at the local, regional, and global levels. Consequently, the number and diversity of potential users of this kind of information have increased significantly over the last few years. Nowadays not only geographers, cartographers, and GIS scientists are interested in exploiting spatial data, but al...