The control system for a municipal water system needs to meet the criteria of maintaining continuity and reliability in the water supply for satisfying the consumer demand while saving the energy costs and maintaining the quality of water. In this paper, we propose an intelligent agent system for a municipal water system. This work shows the benefits of using the agent-based approach in handlin...

The use of generic medicines is widely advocated as a means of reducing healthcare costs. Generic drugs need to meet bioequivalence specifications but, with epilepsy, there is concern that permitted differences in bioavailability may be sufficient to allow loss of seizure control or toxicity in susceptible patients. Where generics are dispensed, whether in response to a generic prescription or ...

Home-based management has many advantages as the children have reduced exposure to hospitalacquired infections and receive continuity of care after discharge. It also benefits by increasing the time available to mothers to spend with family and reduces the risk of possible neglect of siblings. Also, mothers are able to look after other family responsibilities simultaneously(1,2). An essential c...

This method paper addresses an untapped but important type of IT turnover: IT entrepreneurship. We seek to develop a mixed methods research (MMR) design to understand the factors and processes that influence turnover behavior of prospective (nascent) IT entrepreneurs. To do this, we review two prior streams of research: the entrepreneurship literature and IT employee turnover. We incorporate th...

Security Management is a necessary process in order to obtain an accurate security policy for Information and Communication Systems (ICS). Organizations spend a lot of money and time to implement their security policy. Existing risk assessment, business continuity and security management tools are unable to meet the growing needs of the current, distributed, complex IS and their critical data a...

This article reviews progress in adapting addiction treatment to respond more fully to the chronic nature of most patients' problems. After reviewing evidence that the natural history of addiction involves recurrent cycles of relapse and recovery, we discuss emerging approaches to recovery management, including techniques for improving the continuity of care, monitoring during periods of abstin...

Leadership Studies is a new interdisciplinary field of Organization Studies that is growing at a steady rate all over the world. Leadership studies are seen as a branch of Management and Organization Sciences despite its philosophical roots that can be traced back to Plato’s philosophical writings such as Laws, Politics, or The Republic. Starting from Burns’ seminal book, Leadership (1978), and...

Google Meet é um serviço de chamadas por vídeo oferecido pela empresa Google. Essa ferramenta digital foi utilizada Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso Sul (UFMS) como uma das possibilidades para dar continuidade às aulas no Ensino Remoto Emergencial (ERE), vez que, em decorrência da necessidade isolamento físico devido à pandemia covid-19, as atividades presenciais foram paralisadas. Assim, es...

With the population ageing, it is imperative for training practices to provide general practice registrars (GPRs) with sound experience in managing the health problems of older persons, especially chronic conditions. However, it is reported that a significant proportion of these patients will be resistant to consulting registrars, with concerns regarding disruption of continuity of care being a...

in today’s turbulent world, the continuity of criticalactivities in the event of disruptions, and also fast recovery and return tobusiness as usual, are vital for sustainable success of companies. maintainingcontinuous delivery of critical business processes in the event of disruptions isa matter of business continuity. business continuity management system (bcms)is concerned with the developme...