The Denning Issues Test, Version 2 (DIT2), updates dilemmas and items, shortens the original Defining Issues Test (DIT1) of moral judgment, and purges fewer participants for doubtful response reliability. DIT1 has been used for over 25 years. DIT2 makes 3 changes: in dilemmas and items, in the algorithm of indexing, and in the method of detecting unreliable participants. With all 3 changes, DIT...

BACKGROUND There is an increasing trend of international migration of health professionals from low- and middle- income countries to high-income countries as well as across middle-income countries. The WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel was created to better address health workforce development and the ethical conduct of international recruitment. T...

In this paper we describe initial results from the Swedish innovation project "My Care Pathways" which envisions enabling citizens to track their own health by providing them with online access to their historical, current and prospective future events. We describe an information infrastructure and its base services as well as the use of this solution as an open source platform for open innovat...

This study presents a conceptual model to investigate the e-health readiness required by healthcare organization and the impact of such readiness in enhancing e-health transformation success. A scale to measure e-health readiness was developed and validated; then it was used to collect the large-scale survey data. The partial least squares (PLS) method was used to empirically test the conceptua...

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. A distributed system is a computing system in which a number of components cooperate by communicating over a network. The explosive growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web in the mid-1990's moved distributed systems beyond their traditional application areas, ...

With the development of electronic commerce, usability on a website is vital to online customers. However, many of these e-commerce applications still do not meet customers’ requirements. This paper is an attempt to investigate the current issues and development of e-commerce websites promotion and marketing of the laptop producers, specifically the laptop in a specific market China. AHP and Fu...

The web is being heralded as a global marketplace, and globalization is seen as one of the key drivers for the diffusion of electronic commerce (EC). In stark contrast to the enthusiasm for a global electronic marketspace we have collected empirical support for the premise that much web-based commercial activity is regionally focused. Based on a brief introduction of the notion of regions, we w...

THE COMMONWEALTH FUND ONE EAST 75TH STREET NEW YORK, NY 10021-2692 TEL 212.606.3800 FAX 212.606.3500 E-MAIL [email protected] http://www.cmwf.org Children are affected by widespread disparities in health status and in the quality of the health care they receive. Given the increasing number of minority children in the U.S., research on these disparities is very important. Paying heed to the inequali...

The advancement and convergence of telecommunications and computer technology has created the possibility of conducting businesses over the Internet, known as the Electronic Commerce (EC). In the recent years, Internet usage has grown tremendously in countries around the world including in the Arab Countries [Amin, H. (2000)] [ ElShenawi, N. (2001)][ Gray, V. (2001)]. The Internet popularity ha...