Democratic governments constantly need to make sense of their citizens’ needs to make appropriate decisions that reflect the overall wishes and needs of the population. However, except for mandatory voting scenarios, a low rate of citizen participation in government decisions through democratic processes is an aspect that defies democracy itself. Brazil’s participatory budget policy emphasizes ...

A number of separate studies have concluded that governmental organizations could greatly improve their efficiency as well as their quality of service by embracing state of the art IT. However, in reality few of the potential benefits are actually leveraged. Even those organizations that have succeeded in establishing online service delivery often fail in transformational aspects such as servic...

The distribution of the German government between Bonn and Berlin calls for the technical support for the collaborative document-based tasks performed by interand intra-ministerial work groups. The currently available cooperation and communication tools do not provide an integrated and homogeneous cooperation environment suitable for this application domain. This paper presents the Cooperative ...

Our promotional outreach raises your visibility and credibility with press, analysts, and investors. You may receive recognition for your role as an open standards leader in OASIS press releases [9], web sites, newsletters [10], and data sheets [11]. We offer many avenues for promoting your news, maximizing your press coverage, and driving traffic to your web site. Members also take advantage o...

Force-velocity relationships reported in the literature for functional tasks involving a combination of joint rotations tend to be quasi-linear. The purpose of this study was to explain why they are not hyperbolic, like Hill's relationship. For this purpose, a leg press task was simulated with a musculoskeletal model of the human leg, which had stimulation of knee extensor muscles as only indep...

press release of November 30, 1971). Information in that release further specifies statements in the paper indicated by a #. Figures from the press release are: the U.S. Government's scientific studies of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB's). The task force was coordinated by the Office of Science and Technology and the Council on Environmental Quality. Represented on the task force were the follow...

We model an outbreak of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) using a simple epidemic model that includes susceptible, infectious, reported, and recovered classes. The model's framework considers the impact of underreporting and behaviour changes on the transmission rate and is applied to a recent epidemic of AHC in Mexico, using a fit to the cumulative number of cases to estimate model param...

AIM Change of direction speed (CODS) is an important attribute for many sports and is believed to be influenced by a variety of physical factors. However, there is a lack of consensus as to which physical attributes relate to CODS. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of several physical attributes to CODS. METHODS Thirty-eight subjects (mean+/-SD: age, 21.5+/-3.8 years; heig...

Our promotional outreach raises your visibility and credibility with press, analysts, and investors. You may receive recognition for your role as an open standards leader in OASIS press releases [9], web sites, newsletters [10], and data sheets [11]. We offer many avenues for promoting your news, maximizing your press coverage, and driving traffic to your web site. Members also take advantage o...

Refugees frequently face extended delays in their efforts to enter the United States (U.S.) and those who are successful, in many cases, encounter overwhelming obstacles, inadequate resources, and a complex system of legal barriers. Travel restrictions based on equivocal health concerns and a drop in refugee admittance ceilings have complicated the situation. The authors retrieved and analyzed ...