Objective: Family Planning is often taken as one of the "Magic Bullet" interventions owing to its high impact and wide reaching nature in achieving multiple goals. This study aimed to assess the current status and the factors associated with health post level Implanon service provision through trained health extension workers in Wolaita zone, southern Ethiopia. Materials and methods: A cross se...

This article describes a framework for extended service descriptions based on OWL-S (Web Ontology Language for Services) focusing on nonfunctional criteria. Necessary service management tasks will be introduced and extended by corresponding data elements and statements for its automated support. After a short comparative description of several existing approaches to semantic service description...

Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service Manhattan, Kansas 66506 SRL 134 June 2002 It is the policy of Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service that all persons shall have equal opportunity and access to its e...

Independent innovation is the core of the national development strategy. After twenty years, Extenics made great progress in innovation theory, formal method and real application. Developing and manufacturing innovation software to help people develop intelligence, inspire creation is key for Extenics further developing. Now software model cannot meet the requirements of flexible alternate in i...

Manual deployment of an application usually requires expertise both about the underlying system and the application. To support on demand service deployment or self healing services this paper describes an extension the Globus Workspace Service [12]. This extension includes creating virtual appliances for Grid services, service deployment from a repository, and influencing the service schedules...

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to investigate the benefits and limitations of using radio to communicate agricultural information to peasant farmers, and how radio can be successfully incorporated into agricultural extension service programmes. Design/methodology/approach Quantitative and qualitative research techniques were used and applied to gather, analyse and interpret data. Twen...