House is considered not only as one of the main needs of human beings but also as one of the best determining characteristics of living standard. Housing shortages is one of the most acute problems next to the rapid growth of the large cities and their suburbs in developing countries. These cities take all the opportunities, services and the funds Which a country has to offer,, Despite this ...

INTRODUCTION The Ontario Stroke System was developed to enhance the quality and continuity of stroke care provided across the care continuum. RESEARCH OBJECTIVE To identify the role evidence played in the development and implementation of the Ontario Stroke System. METHODS This study employed a qualitative case study design. In-depth interviews were conducted with six members of the Ontario...

In recent years software development with components became more popular. Component technology promises efficient software development through reliability and re-usability. A drawback is that there are no development environments which support all development steps for component technology. Therefore, tools to support component development will be investigated in this dissertation. Criteria to ...

This paper presents a framework which can be used to analyze information systems as knowledge flow facilitators in organizational processes. This framework may be useful, particularly to small organizations, for two main reasons: it can help them to start seeing the implications of KM in their current technical infrastructure, and as a result, they should be in a better position to know how to ...

In this paper, we describe a canonical program representation, Semantic Program Graphs (SPGs), and we show how SPGs can act as the foundation for multiparadigm software develop ment environments. Using SPGs as the basis for program representation allows developers to see different views of programs that correspond to different ways of thinking about them, and it allows editors to be created so ...

This paper describes an experimental generic software development environment which provides support for both textual and diagram-matic documents, and for visualisation of additional implicit relations between and within such documents. The relevant document structures are identiied, a framework for deening these structures and their associated presentations is introduced, and the current state...

AIM To evaluate the current practices in laboratory disease detection, biosafety and biosecurity measures and information-sharing systems available to the public health systems in R. Macedonia and the Balkan region. METHODS Epidemiological studies were reviewed from the region to examine the high incidence of localized forms of human brucellosis. RESULTS There is clearly a need for the deve...