Introduction: This paper details an evaluation of the implementation and feasibility of a multilevel project entitled Kin KeeperSM Cancer Prevention Intervention that utilizes community health workers (CHWs) to deliver breast and cervical cancer education. The evaluation includes intervention fidelity, participant satisfaction, participant retention, and the cost of program implementa...

Methods Using a modified version of the SERVQUAL questionnaire, participants were asked to assign a score to each of 10 service quality factors (SQFs) on a 5 point Likert scale to indicate (i) how important they considered each SQF in relation to their attendance at the clinic & (ii) their actual experience that day. Participants were also invited to describe anything they found particularly sa...

The implicit yes{vote commit protocol (IYV), proposed for future gigabit{networked distributed databases, reduces the time required to commit a distributed transaction at the expense of independent recovery of failed participant sites. In this paper, we propose a novel coordination scheme for IYV that reduces the window of vulnerability to blocking and minimizes the time required for the sites ...

The problem of modeling human understanding and generation of a coherent dialog is investigated by simulating a conversation participant. The rule-based system currently under development attempts to capture the intuitive concept of "topic" using data structures consisting of declarative representations of the subjects under discussion linked to the utterances and rules that generated them. Scr...

One way in which collaboration can take place is that several people gather around a table to tackle a shared problem. We have designed the Agora Telecollaboration System to allow several spatially separated collaborators to work as though they were deliberating on and cooperating in the solution of a problem gathered around one table (Kuzuoka et al. 1999). We first clarified which conditions m...

Advancing evidence-based practice in hospitals can be a challenge. To address this issue, a virtual journal club (VJC) was developed using available intranet technology. Research manuscripts are posted along with professional critiques and discussion questions. Comments from nurse VJC participants are reviewed by the hospital’s nursing research council and analyzed for practice implications. Re...