BACKGROUND To adequately address the complex health needs of young people, their access to services, and the quality of services received, must be improved. AIMS To explore the barriers to service provision for young people and to identify the training needs of primary healthcare service providers in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. DESIGN OF STUDY A cross-sectional, qualitative study of t...

With the growing adoption of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the industry and the wide deployment of Web services, users are increasingly requiring services that are capable of meeting their quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for QoS-aware Web service provisioning, which relies on QoS brokers, to mediate between clients and service prov...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the impact of service provider characteristics on young people's choice of family planning (FP) service provider in rural Malawi in order to identify strategies for increasing access and uptake of FP among youth. METHODS AND FINDINGS A discrete choice experiment was developed to assess the relative impact of service characteristics on preferences for FP service providers...

Service providers as well as make-to-order manufacturers use priority schemes in conjunction with pricing as allocation mechanisms. By carefully selecting the appropriate scheduling scheme and the optimal prices, service providers can best utilize their resources to improve their customers’ social welfare or improve their overall value (through improved service quality or cost reduction). This ...

MPLS is an emerging backbone technology for service providers, which is being deployed on a large scale in recent days. Using MPLS, service providers can deliver different types of services like TE, QoS and IP VPN along with adequate security according to the specific business demands, across either switched or routed networks. This paper deals with the current problems in service providers’ ne...

Advances in sensor networking and location tracking technology enable location-based applications but they also create significant privacy risks. Privacy is typically addressed through privacy policies, which inform the user about a service provider’s data handling practices and serve as the basis for the user’s decision to release data. However, privacy policies require user interaction and of...

Web Services are mounting as an inventive mechanism for rendering services to subjective devices over the WWW. As a consequence of the rapid growth of Web Services applications and the plenty of Service Providers, the consumer is facing with the inevitability of selecting the “right” Service Provider. In such a scenario the Quality of Service (QoS) serves as a target to differentiate Service Pr...

Sensor network is a novel technology about acquiring and processing information. This paper introduces the basic interaction patterns between requesters and providers of services during a typical Service Discovery task. It discusses existing service discovery protocols and provides a preliminary analysis of the mechanisms for service and resource discovery in the Wireless Sensor Network domain....

Introduction: Nowadays the trend to travel abroad has extremely grown. This is while, paying attention to travelers’ health is an incredibly important issue. Many organizations try their best to provide health services during travelers’ trips. Meanwhile, the biggest and most effecting health care providers all around the world are hospitals. Regarding this fact, a theory has be...