BACKGROUND The Government of India, made TB notification by private healthcare providers mandatory from May 2012 onwards. The National TB Programme developed a case based web based online reporting mechanism called NIKSHAY. However, the notification by private providers has been very low. We conducted the present study to determine the awareness, practice and anticipated enablers related to TB ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the cost and effectiveness of three approaches to partner notification for infectious syphilis. STUDY DESIGN People with syphilis were randomly assigned to: (1) notification of partners by patients themselves within 2 days or disease intervention specialists would notify them; (2) immediate notification by intervention specialist; or (3) immediate notification by interv...

We describe a complete hardware/software system, dubbed Universal Real-Time Navigational Assistance (URNA), which enables communication of relevant location-aware information to a blind person carrying a Bluetoothenabled cell phone. Although URNA can be used for a number of different applications (e.g., an information kiosk at a shopping mall or public transit information at a bus stop), we con...

An event delivery mechanism based on the CORBA Event Service is described. Lowlevel hardware data are aggregated by event processing agents to produce complex events which supply summarized data to event channels for distribution to registered consumers, typically high-level software applications. The CORBA Notification Service, a recent extension to the Event Service, is also examined and pote...

Currently, Web Services for network management have been an intensive field of investigation. However, the investigations carried up to do not properly address the issue related to event notifications. The Simple Network Management Protocol, which is the widely deployed and accepted solution, has an interesting but also limited support for event notification through its trap messages. In this p...