A student, supported by his classmates, throws a piece of chalk at the teacher who is writing on the blackboard. The teacher rapidly turns back and promptly catches him in the act. The student blushes and suddenly realizes how bad it was what he did. What happened to the guy? Why did he decide to throw the piece of chalk? And why, after a few seconds, he would have liked that what he did had ne...

H. Ludwig J. Hogan R. Jaluka D. Loewenstern S. Kumaran A. Gilbert A. Roy T. Nellutla M. Surendra To manage the delivery of services competitively on a large, global scale, an IT (information technology) service provider must efficiently use service delivery resources—in particular, skilled service delivery teams. Service requests form a large and important component of the management of a clien...

Parent-infant work is inherently relational and occurs in the intersubjective space between parent, infant, and worker. This space can be charged with primitive, unmet needs of both parent and infant, and this in turn can trigger these same states in the worker. The challenge for workers is to remain open to being affected by and responsive to these feeling states when their own early and possi...

The ecological model of child and family clinical and counseling psychology considers mental health service delivery within a health maintenance framework, approaching the complexity of children's behavior in a systematic and organized fashion using science-based intervention practices. The service delivery framework integrates assessment, intervention, and motivation at all phases of an interv...

The multimedia delivery chain consists of multiple stages such as content preparation, via Over-The-Top network and Internet Service Providers network.Within the service chain, each stage influences Quality Experience (QoE) end user. objective this work is to provide a comprehensive literature survey with future research challenges opportunities in field time-varying video quality delivery. con...

BACKGROUND The poor in low and middle income countries have limited access to health services due to limited purchasing power, residence in underserved areas, and inadequate health literacy. This produces significant gaps in health care delivery among a population that has a disproportionately large burden of disease. They frequently use the private health sector, due to perceived or actual gap...

In the real business environment, due to unpredictable market demand or high prediction difficulty and low accuracy, there will be inevitably operational loss in field of e-commerce logistics caused by undersupply oversupply express service capabilities. At present, China is deepening supply-side structural reforms. Confronted with growing for delivery, especially urgent tackling orders piling ...

Much of the radical transformation of the world economy from an industrial, manufacturing-oriented economy to a post-industrial, service-oriented one comes from the application of information technology (IT) to service delivery (Rai and Sambamurthy 2006). IT has contributed – and continues to contribute – to increased efficiency and effectiveness in service delivery. ITalso reduces the cost of ...