OBJECTIVE To assess pharmacy workers' knowledge and provision of abortion information and methods in Kenya. METHODS In 2013 we interviewed 235 pharmacy workers in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu about the medical abortion services they provide. We also used mystery clients, who made 401 visits to pharmacies to collect first-hand information on abortion practices. RESULTS The majority (87.5%) of...

Many modern applications have a great need for matchmaking and real-time web communication. This paper first explores and details the specifics of original algorithms for effective matchmaking, and then proceeds to dive into implementations of real-time communication between different clients across the web. Finally, it discusses how to apply the techniques discussed in the paper in practice, a...

BACKGROUND Clinical staff offering sexual health services to young people need to balance the rights of the young person to confidentiality and good quality advice with the need to protect their wider interests. The needs of young clients may be complex and raise ethical and medico-legal questions for the staff involved in their care. METHODS In our large, integrated sexual health service, a ...

Assume a seller wants to sell a digital product in a social network where a buyer’s valuation of the item has positive network externalities from her neighbors that already have the item. The goal of the seller is to maximize his revenue. Previous work on this problem [9] studies the case where clients are offered the item in sequence and have to pay personalized prices. This is highly infeasib...

This article examines ethical decision-making related to insider trading. Using case study scenarios, the authors shed light on differences in evaluating use of material nonpublic information when expected outcomes trading benefit clients versus investment professional inside information. Participants perceive that is be a less egregious violation, even though it as equally illegal oneself dire...

This paper describes the design of a real-time data dispatching system (RTDDS), which is motivated by the needs of a performance guarantee on real-time data services by front-end clients. RTDDS consists of homogeneous machines with a quality of service performance guarantee. We address the resource allocation problems and consider BinPacking algorithms to assign requests to machines of RTDDS. P...

This document suggests some strategies for the combined use of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) both in user-oriented clients and in deployed servers. Such strategies, which mainly consist of configuration changes and minimal software modifications to existing clients and servers, aim to provide a single, full-featured, realtime com...