In the area of Human Resource Management, the trend is towards online exchange of information about human resources. For example, online applications for employment become standard and job offerings are posted in many job portals. However, there are too many job portals to monitor all of them if someone is interested in a new job. We developed a prototype for integrating information of differen...

INTRODUCTION In distributed settings, such as this of the WorldWide Web , where a large number of information sources and services reside, portals provide a single point of global access via a single and unified view. This view is circumscribed by a specific conceptualization and a specific vocabulary whose entries provide lexicalizations of the concepts used for shaping information, data, and ...

Background. Taking into account the high prevalence of mental disorders and the multiple barriers to the use of mental health services, new forms of fostering patient information, involvement, and self-management are needed to complement existing mental health services. The study aimed at investigating acceptance regarding design and content of the e-mental health portal www.psychenet.de. Metho...

OBJECTIVE To examine how patient portals contribute to health service delivery and patient outcomes. The specific aims were to examine how outcomes are produced, and how variations in outcomes can be explained. METHODS We used a realist review method, which aims to describe how 'an intervention works, for whom, and in what circumstances' by analyzing patterns between context, mechanism, and o...

Arthrodesis of the first metatarsophalangeal joint is indicated for severe hallux valgus deformity. Open arthrodesis requires extensive soft-tissue dissection. Recently, a technique arthroscopic in deformity has been reported. This approach includes endoscopic lateral release via plantar and toe web portals, followed by medial dorsolateral portals. Endoscopic can convert fixed into flexible one...

DNA enters the herpes simplex virus capsid by way of a ring-shaped structure called the portal. Each capsid contains a single portal, located at a unique capsid vertex, that is composed of 12 UL6 protein molecules. The position of the portal requires that capsid formation take place in such a way that a portal is incorporated into one of the 12 capsid vertices and excluded from all other locati...

The implementation of enterprise portals is still ranked top on the wish list of many CEOs, expecting that the portal becomes the core system for offering a flexible infrastructure that integrates and extends business applications “beyond the enterprise” (Hazra, 2002). By 2009, the market for application integration, middleware, and portals is expected to grow to $7.1 billion, with a 5-year com...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Most of the instruments used to assess the quality of health information on the Web (e.g., the JAMA criteria) only analyze one dimension of information quality (IQ), trustworthiness. In this study, we analyzed the type of intervention that websites describe, whether supported by evidence-based medicine (EBM) or not, to provide a further dimension of IQ, accuracy, and correla...