OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to comparatively analyze the perceptions of clients and occupational therapists regarding their involvement in the process of client-centered practice. METHOD Participants (11 occupational therapists, 30 clients) in adult/geriatric health care facilities were each engaged in a semistructured interview to determine their perceptions of client-centered pr...

INTRODUCTION Although most studies report high frequencies of consent to HIV tests, critics argue that clients are subject to pressure, that acceptors later indicate they could not have refused, and that provider-initiated HIV testing raises serious ethical issues. We examine the meaning of consent and why clients think they could not have refused. METHODS Clients in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mala...

A group of mutually trusting clients outsources an arbitrary computation service to a remote provider, which they do not fully trust and that may be subject to attacks. The clients do not communicate with each other and would like to verify the integrity of the stored data, the correctness of the remote computation process, and the consistency of the provider’s responses. We present a novel pro...

Events in a sequence may each be evaluated as good or bad. We propose that such good-bad evaluations evoke emotional responses that change current mood. A model of recurrent updating of current mood is developed and compared to a model of how a sequence of events evoking emotional responses is evaluated retrospectively. In Experiment 1, 149 undergraduates are presented sequences of lottery outc...

CONTEXT Client involvement in service development underpins the Department of Health strategy for sexual health improvement in the UK. Participatory approaches to user consultation have been effectively piloted in this context but the responses of service providers to these data are rarely documented. OBJECTIVES Recruiting clinic users and training clinic users to interview their fellow clini...

Much of speech therapy involves the clinician guiding the therapeutic process (e.g., presenting stimuli and eliciting client responses). However, this Brief Communication describes a different approach to speech therapy delivery. Clinicians at Waldo County General Hospital (WCGH) use high definition audio and video to engage clients in telepractice using interactive web-based virtual environmen...

A group of mutually trusting clients outsources a computation service to a remote server, which they do not fully trust and that may be subject to attacks. The clients do not communicate with each other and would like to verify the correctness of the remote computation and the consistency of the server’s responses. This paper presents the Commutative-Operation verification Protocol (COP) that e...

AIM This paper is a report of a study of psychiatric nurses' responses to clients who were sexualizing the nurse-client encounter. BACKGROUND Studies involving general nurses have reported incidents of 'unwanted sexual attention/behaviour' from clients. These behaviours have been identified, in the literature, as a form of sexual aggression and sexual harassment. Reported responses have inclu...

introduction: in any organization particularly in health care centers, the clients' satisfaction provides the conditions to achieve the pre-determined objectives. one of the ways to get the clients' satisfaction is to follow the clients' takrim plan. to this end, in this article, the clients' takrim plan was studied in health centers affiliated with oil industry organization. methods and materi...

With the prevalence of big-data-driven applications, such as face recognition on smartphones and tailored recommendations from Google Ads, we are road to a lifestyle with significantly more intelligence than ever before. Various neural network powered models running at back end their enable quick responses users. Supporting those requires lots cloud-based computational resources, e.g., CPUs GPU...