BACKGROUND The Government of India declared TB as a notifiable disease in 2012. There is a paucity of information on the government's mandatory TB notification order from the perspective of private medical practitioners (PPs). OBJECTIVE To understand the awareness, perception and barriers on TB notification among PPs in Chennai, India. METHODS Total of 190 PPs were approached in their clini...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the impact of genetic notification of smoking-related disease risk on smoking cessation in the general population. Secondary objectives were to assess the impact of genetic notification on intention-to-quit smoking and on emotional outcomes as well as the understanding and the recall of this notification. METHODS A systematic review of articles from inc...

In order to examine whether a notification of genotypes related to a susceptibility to smoking has any influence on an intention to quit, a pilot study was conducted for 61 smokers out of 66 municipal government employees who attended an anti-smoking seminar in November 2005 or January 2006 (MG), and for 46 smokers (employees and students) on a medical campus (Tsurumai Campus) of Nagoya Univers...

In this paper, we propose an intelligent notification of a new e-mail, and describe an implementation of the notification system. There are two ways to read e-mails by using a computer. One way is a mail system on a user’s personal computer. The other way is a web mail system on a web server. Using a web mail system is better for users because they can read e-mails by using other person’s perso...

Publish/subscribe services, specifically notification servers, are used as the middleware for the implementation of a large set of collaborative software engineering tools. With their popularization, many notification servers are being developed to support specific application domains. At the same time, general-purpose notification servers provide a large set of functionality for a broad set of...

We describe a content-based distributed notification service for Publish/Subscribe communication that implements theWS-Notification (WSN) standards. The notification service is built on a messaging framework that supports an associative rendezvous messaging mechanism on a structured overlay of peer nodes. The entire system acts as a notification broker, so that notification publishers and subsc...

BACKGROUND Two of the major risk factors for hepatitis C are injection drug use and receipt of blood or blood products. Many patients are unaware that they have received transfusions. In 1998 Prince Edward Island conducted a province-wide look-back notification program to notify patients who had received transfusions in PEI between Jan. 1, 1984, and June 1, 1990. The authors present the results...

In this paper, we introduce an application for a discreet notification of mobile persons in a multi-user environment. In particular we use the current user position to provide a personalized email notification with non-speech audio cues embedded in aesthetic background music. The notification is done in a peripheral way to avoid distration of other people in the surrounding.

During the past years a lot of work on Notification Services has been focused on features like scalability, transactions, persistence, routing algorithms, caching, mobility, etc. However, less work has been invested on how to evaluate or compare such systems. The selection of the most appropriate Notification Services for a particular application scenario is crucial and today available tools ar...

Partner notification is an essential part of case management for sexually transmitted infections. Done correctly it reduces persistent or recurrent infection in the index patient, identifies previously undiagnosed infections, and may thus contribute to reduced transmission in the population. The effectiveness of patient referral of partners can be enhanced through the provision of written infor...