Unlike journal corpora, which are supposed to be carefully reviewed before being published, the quality of documents in a patient record are often corrupted by mispelled words and conventional graphies or abbreviations. After a survey of the domain, the paper focuses on evaluating the effect of such corruption on an information retrieval (IR) engine. The IR system uses a classical bag of words ...

The MINIX 3 operating system is designed to restart misbehaving or crashed drivers, but currently cannot protect the user’s file-system data. Because the blockdevice stack lacks end-to-end integrity, it is impossible to tell whether data corruption occurred—and, even if we could, there is no means to recover the data lost. Therefore, we have extended MINIX 3’s failureresilience mechanisms with ...

Public sector corruption has long-term and damaging effects that are deep and broad. Addressing corruption relies on understanding the drivers that precipitate acts of corruption and developing educational programs that target areas of vulnerability. This paper provides an innovative approach to explore the nature of corruption by drawing on the perceptions and ideas of a group of public servan...

Erosion of citizen’s trust in Government due to rampant corruption at various levels in the Government ought to be an area of serious concern for developing countries and development agencies. A well-planned e-government strategy can build a more efficient, accountable and transparent government. If planned in consultation with representation from key stakeholders, e-government applications can...

BACKGROUND Corruption pervades educational and other institutions worldwide and medical schools are not exempt. Empirical evidence about levels and types of corruption in medical schools is sparse. We conducted surveys in 2000 and 2007 in the medical school of the Autonomous University of Guerrero in Mexico to document student perceptions and experience of corruption and to support the medical ...

a central problem in designing effective models of provider governance in health systems has been to ensure an appropriate balance between the concerns of public sector and/or government decision-makers, on the one hand, and of non-governmental health services actors in civil society and private life, on the other. in tax-funded european health systems up to the 1980s, the state and other publi...

corruption defined as abuse of power by governmental officials for personal goals.in recent years, many articles about determinants of corruption have been written that introduced so many variables as determinants of corruption. these factors can be divided into two categories: economic and non-economic factors.in these article we examine the effect of economic activities combination on corrupt...