BACKGROUND The Thai HIV programme is a leader in the public health approach to HIV treatment. Starting at transmission of HIV and ending with transition to adult services this paper assesses the paediatric HIV treatment continuum from three perspectives: service-user, provider and policy maker, to understand what works well and why. METHODS A qualitative research design was used to assess and...

quality of service (qos) is an important issue in the design and management of web service composition. qos in web services consists of various non-functional factors, such as execution cost, execution time, availability, successful execution rate, and security. in recent years, the number of available web services has proliferated, and then offered the same services increasingly. the same web ...

service oriented enterprises (soes) are subject to constant change and variation. in this paper, the changes are considered from an economic perspective based on service culture notion. once a change is implemented, the costs of some member services may increase, whereas the costs of some other services may reduce. we construct a game theoretic model trying to capture the possible conflicting i...

Web service composition is most impressing method for development and deployment of e-business. Modeling and analysis of the behavior requirements of compositional Web service plays an important role in behavioral verification. Traditional methods are expressing requirements as LTL like logic specifications which are based on activities or as MSC like graph forms which are based scenarios. In t...

A growing interest in third generation wireless IP network and service technologies, push up the demand on IPv6 transition. Most of these services require mobility, multicast and multimedia service supports. However, the transition to such a NG IP networks and services is slowed down because of the richness and complexity of the applications and the integration of legacy systems. Existing IETF ...

Analysis of performance is crucial in the redesign phase of business processes where bottlenecks are identified from the average waiting and service times of activities and resources in business processes. However, such averages of waiting and service times are not readily available in most event logs that only record either the start or the completion times of events in activities. The transit...

Total service solutions may reduce 30-40% of the total product lifecycle cost for a customer. The installed base of capital goods frequently exceeds the annual flow of new products by 10 to 100 times which indicates that total service solutions, also late in long lifecycles have a huge potential for providers, customers and society. The paper identifies 23 possible challenges when a provider of...

An historical generalization about forest cover change in which rapid deforestation gives way over time to forest restoration is called "the forest transition." Prior research on the forest transition leaves three important questions unanswered: (1) How does forest loss influence an individual landowner's incentives to reforest? (2) How does the forest recovery rate affect the likelihood of for...

AIM Ensuring a seamless transition from child to adult mental health services poses challenges for services worldwide. This is an important process in the ongoing care of young people with mental illness; therefore, it is incumbent on all countries to probe their individual structures to assess the quality of mental health service delivery to this vulnerable cohort. To date, there have been no ...