Hospital websites are becoming an industry standard as patients (consumers) and health professionals use web resources for information, research, and communication. Industry predictions focused on future e-hospitals that would integrate all stakeholders in a seamless network allowing data to be shared. This paper investigates web assurance strategies implemented by hospitals in the design of th...

We review Erard's (this issue) article. We laud him for the measured tone and carefully reasoned position that is taken. Although his main point that The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the new American Psychological Association (APA) Ethics Code (2002) need not be seen as disasters for the practice of assessment, we pose several problems with his analysi...

providing a high-quality service for transmission and playing real-time voice conversations (voice streaming) over wireless ad-hoc networks is no mean feat. buffering together with adjusting the playout time of the packets is a receiver-side solution to overcome this challenge. in this paper, a new adaptive playout adjustment algorithm is proposed to stream the voice conversations over wireless...

objectives: nasality is one of the important parameters in pathology of voice resonance. voice of normal adults has nasality to some extent. it appears that nasality, like other parameters of voice, can be affected by loudness which can be measured in experimental evaluations. this study was conducted to determine the effect of vocal loudness on nasalance of vowels in normal adults and to ident...

This paper explores a number of dimensions of the accountability processes of governments. Accountability is associated with giving reasons for conduct for responsibilities or authority granted. A key argument of this paper is that governments make themselves accountable but only in a political, rather than managerial, sense resulting in, paradoxically, increasing, rather than decreasing, forms...

Significant changes in the global setting over the course of the last few decades resulted in an increasing prominence for the pursuit of transnational justice and individual accountability. Introduction The central argument of this chapter is that participatory budgeting and analysis-whether it is pro-poor, environment-sensitive or gender responsive-offers a new potentially innovative means fo...