This study sought to identify the psychiatric, physical, and social services needs experienced by older adults with severe mental illness (SMI) and to examine factors influencing their experience of need and service provision adequacy. Seventy-five older adults with SMI were recruited from a community mental health center to participate in the study. The typical client experienced a need for ca...

P2P live streaming applications are becoming more popular each day. In contrast to the client-server model, the P2P model overcomes problems like system scalability and need of powerful resources in a single point. On the other hand, P2P networks may suffer with attacks and opportunistic behavior. In this work we present a decentralized reputation system to fight attacks in P2P live streaming n...

Background. Transitions in care are one of the most important and challenging client safety issues in healthcare. This project was undertaken to gain insight into the practice setting realities for nurses and other health care providers as they manage increasingly complex care transitions across multiple settings. Methods. The Appreciative Inquiry approach was used to guide interviews with sixt...

AIM Client satisfaction gained great importance in health care as a measurement of service quality. One of the most popular methods to evaluate client satisfaction is the SERVQUAL inquiry which measures service quality by evaluating client expectations and services towards a service in five dimensions: Tangibles, Empathy, Assurance, Reliability and Responsiveness. MATERIALS AND METHODS In ord...

The growth in the importance of IT outsourcing arrangements combined with the rate of failure of such arrangements makes it imperative to address issues of contracting in the IS literature. In this work, we examine the contract directly and show how the costs stipulated in the contract affect the nature of the outsourcing relationship. The work develops a mathematical model of IT outsourcing co...

As the number of web services that offer similar functionality increases, more sophisticated techniques for service discovery and selection will be needed. Traditional approaches compare web services based on their description published in service registries which include QoS and price/performance ratios, as well as adaptability. This information is generated by the service developer and may no...

The primary purpose of the paper is to provide an introduction to security related problems in web services implementations, describe approaches used to identify these issues, and provide brief recommendations to resolve these problems. Questions such as the following are important in this respect: • How does the web service authenticate the service consumer or client? • How does the client aut...

This paper draws on Foucault to understand the changing discourse and impact of structured 'health needs assessments' on health visiting practice. Literature about this activity makes little mention of the long-standing social purposes of health visiting, which include surveillance of vulnerable and invisible populations, providing them, where needed, with help and support to access protective ...