As the communications industry continues to expand two current trends are becoming apparent: the desire to support an increasing diversity of communications services (voice, video, image, text, etc.) and the consequent requirement for increased network capacity to handle the expected growth in such multi-service tra c. This dissertation describes the design, performance and implementation of a ...

Next generation network computing systems are expected to provide a wide variety of Personal Mobility Services to users anytime, via a range of devices and anywhere in the world. Personal Mobility Services require an advanced architecture that integrates supported protocols, mechanisms and specialised functions to dynamically reconfigure applications. It should also integrate services that can ...

randomised controlled trial, while studying the role of selective decontamination of the oral cavity, post stroke. In the remaining three patients who had a normal swallow, but in whom E. sakazakii was found in the oral cavity, two received active SDD gel and one placebo, with no evidence of a pneumonic process or septicaemia. In the report of See and colleagues [1], the bacterium was resistant...

Similarly in the commercial airline industry, the global Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) business is faced with creating total service packages to attract future work, as airlines accelerate outsourcing and retire aging aircraft to minimize life cycle and transaction costs. Third-party service providers are challenging the market share traditionally dominated by the major airline subsidi...

Today's information society bears a stringent need for advanced communication services and content. Although solutions for methods of charging and accounting of single service class networks exist and are applied successfully, Integrated Services Networks require a completely different approach. Charging and accounting for the future Internet remain unsolved problems at the time being. This is ...

The book looks at concepts, models and theories of management, leadership and team-working and their applicability within an integrated care approach to health and social care delivery. It considers the legal and policy landscape of integrated care and the limit of its reach in changing practice on the ground; leadership styles, their applicability, use and effect; personality traits, features ...

grate services is well established. People come to human service agencies with a complex set of needs that no one program can fulfill. At the same time, different programs have different philosophies, goals, service structures and terminologies that often create challenges when trying to integrate services. As a result people come into a human service agency a “whole person” but are “broken int...

This paper presents the design and implementation of a quality of service architecture for the Internet. The architecture is based on the emerging standards for resource reservation in the Internet, namely the RSVP protocol and the associated service speci cations de ned by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Our architecture represents a major functional enhancement to the traditional ...

The IST project MOEBIUS (Mobile Extranet Based Integrated User Services) [6] is developing a platform for remote access to intranet services using mobile access technology and investigating its performance characteristics to demonstrate the advantages for health care and business applications. This paper deals with three important aspects the project is dealing with: the MOEBIUS network archite...

A very exible analysis approach is developed for the exact analysis of a non-gated TDM scheme, supporting Time Critical (TC) and Time Non Critical (TNC) packetized information. Correlations in the T NC traac and spreading of the T C traac over the entire frame can be accommodated, unlike in the past work.