Persons who handle money for patients with mental disabilities often use access to funds as leverage to promote adherence to treatment. Drawing on data from a five-site study involving interviews of 1011 patients at community mental health centers, this paper explores who provides money assistance, the predictors of leverage use, and its impact on patients. A substantial minority of patients re...

nearly 80% of young people today will never be able to retire. why? because they lack the personal finance training that leads to long-term planning and future security. connecting the dots between kids and money management skills prepares them for the financial realities the world will face over the next century. pocket money is one of the first ways for children to learn the basics of managin...

We elaborate on the feature of reproducibility and random access in the process of electroacoustic composition. Random access has an intrinsic relationship to concrete sound material by means of the cutting operation. We propose a concise model of the electroacoustic composition process and within it locate the importance of random access. Random access is then interpreted in the light of real-...

Money is a technology for promoting economic prosperity. Over history money has become increasingly abstract, it used to be hardware, gold coins and the like, now it is mostly software, data structures located in banks. This datamoney is passive and requires computer programs for manipulation, these programs create money, add/remove money from accounts, transfer money in sales transactions, pro...

Many digital sound archives suffer from problems concerning on-line access: sound materials are often held separately from other related media, they are not easily browsed and little opportunity to search the actual audio content of the material is provided. The EASAIER project aims to alleviate these problems, offering a number of solutions to support sound archive managers and users. EASAIER ...

Last decade has witnessed the first steps to the end of passive television. Thanks to continuous advances in hardware and software, now, digital TV technology is mature enough to enhance traditional TV sets (limited to content reproduction) with computing capability to execute multimedia software integrating richer formats. The MHP standard promises to enable interactive applications to be down...

Nowadays, the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) paradigm is extensively used for the environmental monitoring including wildfires. Like other disasters, this phenomenon, if not detected early, may have grave consequences, e.g. a significant pecuniary loss, or even lead to human victims. This paper surveys the approaches to early wildfire detection using WSN facilities with a special focus on real d...

Since 1998 a lots of European Internet Service Providers (ISP) started to provide internet access freely. Why does a profit maximizing operator adopts this pricing policy? A consumer who wants to surf on the net needs to buy two services: the access from the ISP and the connection from the Telephone Operator. Since the two services are complements, the price of one service creates a negative ex...

In this age of modern era, the use of internet must be maximized. Yeah, internet will help us very much not only for important thing but also for daily activities. Many people now, from any level can use internet. The sources of internet connection can also be enjoyed in many places. As one of the benefits is to get the on-line computer money a systematic overview of electronic payment systems ...