The Linked Data Fragment (LDF) framework has been proposed as a uniform view to explore the trade-offs of consuming Linked Data when servers provide (possibly many) different interfaces to access their data. Every such interface has its own particular properties regarding performance, bandwidth needs, caching, etc. Several practical challenges arise. For example, before exposing a new type of L...

BACKGROUND The Northern Alliance Hospital Admission Risk Program-Chronic Disease Management comprises 13 services delivering care to those with chronic disease and older people with complex care needs, who are frequent hospital users. AIMS To develop and implement a system-wide approach to the evaluation of this existing program. METHODS The Northern Clinical Research Centre audited all exi...

Self-report outcome measures were routinely collected from 4421 adult clients around Australia . The measures used were the Hearing Aid User's Questionnaire (HAUQ), which assessed hearing aid use, benefit, problems, and satisfaction, and the Client Oriented Scale of Improvement (COSI), which identified client needs, change in listening ability, and final listening ability in situations importan...

Background Community care workers (CCWs) in rural South Africa provide medical, personal, household, educational, and social care services to their clients. However, little understanding exists on how provision of services is approached within a household, taking into account available social support networks. Objective The aim of this study was to generate an understanding of the processes tha...

Current client-server applications such as online banking employ the same client-side software stack to handle information with differing security and functionality requirements, thereby increasing the size and complexity of software that needs to be trusted. While the high complexity of existing software is a significant hindrance to testing and analysis, existing software and interfaces are t...

BACKGROUND An ongoing service evaluation project was initiated following the establishment of a new, purpose-built, 20-bed sub-acute Intermediate Stay Mental Health Unit (ISMHU). This paper: provides an overview of the targeted 6-week program, operating within an Integrated Recovery-oriented Model (IRM); characterises the clients admitted during the first 16 months; and documents their recovery...

Component software, distribution, and the use of clusters of workstations are all key trends in today's technology. Little attention has been paid, however, to the network bandwidth required for data intensive applications. In the context of databases, much work has been done in parallelization strategies for monolithic architectures with dedicated, specialized networks or over disk arrays. We ...