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Video-based and in vivo (face-to-face) contact have been shown to be effective ways to change stigmatising attitudes and behaviours. The two approaches reflect the strengths and weakness of sometimes conflicting priorities in anti-stigma programmes: broad audience v. grassroots control. Regardless of perspective, anti-stigma interventions have the greatest impact when contact is targeted, local...

The Protein Data Bank began as a grassroots effort in 1971. It has grown from a small archive containing a dozen structures to a major international resource for structural biology containing more than 40000 entries. The interplay of science, technology and attitudes about data sharing have all played a role in the growth of this resource.

El Centro Hispano is a grassroots community-based organization dedicated to strengthening the Latino community and to improving the quality of life among Latino residents in central North Carolina. This article discusses El Centro Hispano's role in providing culturally and linguistically appropriate education, outreach, and referrals to prevent and control diabetes among Latinos.

This study examines the effect of e-payment system (EPS) on efficiency banks in Nigeria. Specific objectives are to determine implication mobile payment, Automated Teller Machine (ATM) and POS Nigerian banks, by collating data Central Bank Nigeria (CBN), from year 2012 2016. A linear regression analysis was used via SPSS carry out analysis, at a significance level 0.05. The result obtained P-Va...

As the Service-oriented architecture paradigm has become ever more popular, different standardization efforts have been proposed by various consortia to enable interaction among heterogeneous environments through this paradigm. This chapter will overview the most prevalent of these SOA Efforts. It will first show how technical services can be described, how they can interact with each other and...