Measurement can help community development and health practitioners align and optimize their investments and leverage additional resources to achieve shared goals. However, there is no clear guidance for reconciling the established systems for measuring community development activities and outputs-such as housing units built, jobs created, and people served-with the outcomes and impacts of heal...

Locating objects with topology-independent identifiers has emerged as a key functionality in data and information centric approaches to networking. Numerous designs have been proposed to address the obvious scalability and efficiency challenges such systems face in Internet-scale deployments. However, dealing with evolvability and deployability concerns in environments encompassing multiple adm...

Hemostasis testing is critical to many hemorrhagic and thrombotic disorders, wherein laboratory diagnostics can provide critical information for diagnosis, prognostication, and therapeutic monitoring. Due to this crucial role in modern medicine, hemostasis tests should be carried out at their highest degree of quality, thus encompassing standardization and monitoring of all phases of the testin...

Given the ever expanding use of information and communication technologies by governments in their efforts to re-invigorate representative democracy and engage with citizens, there is a need to better understand current eParticipation applications and learn from these experiences. Although there appears much enthusiasm for eDemocracy initiatives at local government level, the objectives of diff...

In theory, usability work is an important and wellintegrated activity in developing software. In practice, however, collaboration on improving usability is ridden with challenges relating to conflicting professional goals, tight project schedules, and unclear usability findings. We study those challenges through 16 interviews with software developers, usability experts, and project managers. Fo...

the purpose of this research was analyzing factors affecting non-participation of stakeholders in rangeland management projects. the research method was descriptive-correlative design in ranches of piranshahr rangelands in western azerbaijan province, iran. all ranches that studied (zioke yurd, ziuke mirgah chaku, khargedashan yurd and gardeh bon), are utilized in common use manner. simple rand...

Cats are nice. (: : :) because cats never overlap. Abstract In this paper we discuss two approaches to adverbial quantiication, the so-called`bound variable approach' and thèsituation-based approach', and we address the suggestion that has been made in the literature that the latter reduces to the former as soon as the underlying structure of situations has been characterized at the required le...