Providing mobile clients with real-time access to a shared information base in a digital cellular or Personal Communication Network (PCN) environment is vital to the success of many future Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications. The well-known limiting factors of such an environment are the relatively low channel bandwidth, a small number of available channels, and a potentially ...

In this paper we consider the problem of providing eecient network support to distributed real-time applications with diierent communication requirements. In the case of resource reservation protocols, the level of eeciency of a transport service connection provided by a communication system is innuenced by the applications requirements, in terms of amount of network resources needed to provide...

Although provisions requiring nursing facility residents to agree to mandatory pre-dispute arbitration are now ubiquitous, many courts have refused to enforce these provisions and have adopted a variety of legal arguments to do so. Arbitration can be expensive and biased in favor of the nursing facility. It limits access to courts, discovery, available remedies and precedential value of decisio...

This article takes lactose intolerance as a topic for exploring clashes of power, authority, and knowledge in clinical interactions and interpretations of laywomen. In clinics providing maternal and child care, staff and clients jointly produced authoritative knowledge, most often a version of biomedicine. The Euroamerican staff tended to give advice that was biologically appropriate for them b...

background : nowadays, problem solving skills, clinical decision making ability and  making a proper  relationship to clients are essential necessities for nursing graduates, however there are few studies which investigated nursing student’ responses to clients with problematic situations based on nursing theories addressing interactions. the purpose of this study was analyzing the nursing stud...

Drawing upon an individual's needs, values, and expectations to guide decisionmaking and care giving is integral to long-term care (LTC). Articles in this issue demonstrate that client values and preferences can be elicited and used to guide decisionmaking about LTC. Service delivery and payment features can be shaped to support the patient/consumer, as well as to support and strengthen her or ...

noise is one of the main parameters to be considered to achieve a healthy indoor ambience in ferries. therefore, the noise standards need to be more specialized and specifically based on real sampled data and case studies. in the present research, the noise levels in a ship, under different working conditions, were sampled and compared with those specified in the new and old standards. an initi...