Abstract Background Contact tracing (CT) is a core intervention in the global COVID-19 response, but it laborious task for public health professionals (PHPs) who execute CT. In many countries, workload associated with CT of exceeded available resources Online respondent-driven detection (RDD) an innovative method case finding that can enhance efficiency, through active involvement index cases a...

OBJECTIVE To describe the state of research ethics policies and practices in health research institutions in sub-Saharan African countries. DESIGN A structured questionnaire was used to solicit information on research ethics from health research institutions. SETTING Forty-two sub-Saharan African countries. PARTICIPANTS Key informants from the health research institutions. MAIN OUTCOME ...

Home mechanical ventilation is increasingly used by people with chronic respiratory failure. However, there are few reports on attitudes towards treatment. A web-based survey in eight languages was disseminated across 11 European countries to evaluate the perception of home mechanical ventilation provision in ventilator-assisted individuals and caregivers. Out of 787 responders from 11 European...

Javascript Framework has been used by a lot of developer in Batam. There are many with similar functionality. this research aims to find out the influence between performance expectancy, effort social influence, and facilitating conditions on decision using Framework. Our qualitative have 30 respondent our quantitative 359 respondent. This disproportionate random sampling method we is multiple ...

Background and Objectives: Negative symptoms emerge in many patients with psychotic disorders long before the onset of the acute illness. These symptoms are often impossible to differentiate from certain Cluster A personality traits. Methods: The current study examines the extent to which premorbid negative symptoms are contributing factors to the development of primary and secondary negative s...

PURPOSE The aims of this study were to adapt the Paediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory, Dutch version (PEDI-NL) for children with cerebral visual impairment (CVI) and cerebral palsy (CP) and determine test-retest and inter-respondent reliability. METHOD The Delphi method was used to gain consensus among twenty-one health experts familiar with CVI. Test-retest and inter-respondent reli...

who provided excellent feedback. I am particularly grateful to Jennifer A. Blake who diligently and carefully looked up every respondent in this study on state voter files to ascertain vote history.

Purpose: Despite the rapidly growing competition, the study of consumer behavior is very important. The aim of this paper is to analyze the consumer preference for brand of Smartphone (in Rohtak city) and second, to determine whether there is a significant difference between preferences for features of smart phones on the basis of gender (special reference to Blackberry, Samsung, Apple and Noki...

The keynote overviews the efforts of a group of researchers and practitioners to build and test a theory of business processes (BP) that could be of use for building nonworkflow based business processes support (BPS) systems. The background for these efforts lies in two scientific disciplines outside the domain of business process management, namely: Systems Thinking and Mathematical System The...

We analyse item level keystroke data from cycle 6 of the National Survey of Family Growth, which is a survey on fertility and related topics that is conducted in the USA. The National Survey of Family Growth is conducted among both males and females by using computer-assisted personal visit interviews and an audio computer-assisted self-interviewing component for the most sensitive topics. Our ...