Objective. To determine the prevalence of Hepatitis A within subpopulations of southern California counties. Material and Methods. Age and race/ethnic-specific hepatitis A rates were derived from the California Department of Health Services Surveillance and Statistics Section for 1996-2001 and from demographic data of the California Department of Finance. Results. 2.3 million Latino children (a...

The collective work in the Grampians region resulted in a number of outstanding successes. The Grampians Region Aboriginal Eye Health Advisory Group (GRAEHAG) met regularly to drive planning, implementation, data sharing and evaluation to improve eye health outcomes. Gap analysis identified the need for additional optometry services through the Australian College of Optometry, with visits incre...

B2B electronic commerce has become an important issue in the debate about electronic commerce. How should the intermediary charge suppliers and buyers to maximize profits from such a marketplace? We analyze a monopolistic B2B marketplace owned by an independent intermediary. The marketplace exhibits two-sided network externalities where the value of the marketplace to buyers is dependent on the...

This paper reports on the design of a collaborative system to support citizens’ advisory services. Recent research on the adoption of collaborative technologies indicates that: a) successful collaborative technologies diffuse from the private sector to the business sector and not vice versa, b) collaborative processes evolve and therefore cannot be prestructured in detail, and c) creative colla...

The major purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing the design of agriculturaladvisory service network in the West Azerbaijan province of Iran. The population of thisresearch consisted of consultants who provided services to farmers. By using a Cochranformula, 306 respondents were selected. The results showed that consultants faced manyobstacles such as lack of necessary facilit...

Recent studies on buying services have shown that service specifications and agreements present an ongoing process in which service definitions evolve through buyer-service provider interactions. In the case of professional ICT services this interaction process is far from clear. Many organizations have been confronted with failing ICT projects, financial losses, and less-useable software and s...

We examine the strategic interplay between a buyer’s design decision and the ensuing competition between suppliers in a three-tier closed-loop supply chain setting with significant recycling considerations. The nature of the engineering design decision in our research entails choice of integral versus modular design that has direct implications for the input raw material waste and ensuing compe...