The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of reading racetracks on the sight word acquisition and fluency of two elementary students who qualified for special education services. An ABABA’ reversal, single subject design provided data on the number of words the participants read correctly during a 1-minute timing as well as his or her error rate during that same 1-minute t...

This report is the main deliverable of the Strategic Intelligence Monitor on Personal Health Systems, Phase 2 project (Simphs 2).It is based on an analysis of developments in integrated care in thirty-one care schemes across eight different Members States:Denmark, the UK, Spain, Italy, Estonia, the Netherlands, Germany and France. It summarise the main outcomes of the research,s...

To minimize unwanted interruption and information overload during surveillance, mobile police officers need to be supported by a mobile, contextaware notification system. This system adapts message presentation to message priority and context of use. A prototype is designed and evaluated in a simulated surveillance task, requiring users to attend to videos while handling messages on a mobile de...

Internet-scale Web services-based event notification services face several new challenges that have not been addressed in traditional event notification systems. In this paper, an Open Publish/Subscribe (OPS) model is proposed to address these new challenges. The openness of OPS model enables collaboration among different event notification systems from different organizations. The layered arch...

Patient-initiated partner notification of sexually transmitted infection (STI), i.e. patients informing their sexual partners of a diagnosis, is a cornerstone of STI prevention. Growing evidence suggests that women exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) may fear such notification, or face negative consequences in response to STI disclosure. The current study assessed associations of IPV wit...

Software failures in wireless sensor systems are notoriously difficult to debug. Resource constraints in wireless deployments substantially restrict visibility into the root causes of node-level system and application faults. At the same time, the high cost of deployment of wireless sensor systems often far exceeds the cumulative cost of all other sensor hardware, so that software failures that...

BACKGROUND Electronic portfolios (ePortfolios) are used to document and support learning activities. E-portfolios with mobile capabilities allow even more flexibility. However, the development or acquisition of ePortfolio software is often costly, and at the same time, commercially available systems may not sufficiently fit the institution's needs. The aim of this study was to design and evalua...

The goal of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of two death education programs by comparing pretest and posttest scores of behavioral intentions and (reported) behavior of EMTs when at the scene of a death. After the interventions, the majority of EMTs intended to change their behavior at the scene of a death when compared to the control group. In a three-month follow-up study, the ma...

Results Twenty-seven percent of the respondents reported that they used CAM for at least one child in their family. Parents with higher education and income used CAM more than less educated parents and those with lower incomes. Parents who have tried CAM for themselves used it also for their children. Parents who have not vaccinated or partially vaccinated their children used CAM more than pare...

With the growing popularity of CORBA as a distributed computing infrastructure standard, the need for a reliable CORBA messaging solution is being increasingly felt. The Event Service, which is the first such solution, provides inadequate event delivery guarantees and lacks many important features such as configurable quality of service and filtering. A Notification Service has since been speci...