The Cloud computing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model has changed the sales model for software providers. The SaaS model transforms the traditional license based model to a subscription model, which allows customers to access applications over the Internet without software and hardware upfront costs and provides reduced maintenance costs. However, the key for sales is still customer satisfacti...

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME) IS A MULTIbillion-dollar industry. In 2006, the CME providers accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) had a total income of $2.38 billion. In 1998, the income was $889 million, and most had come from the registration fees of participants or sponsoring organizations. Since 2003, however, most of the income for CME provid...

This paper studies distributed formation of femto-clouds in a UMTS LTE network. Femtocell access points (FAPs) are equipped with computational resources. They share their resources with neighboring FAPs and form local clouds with the aim to avoid the remote cloud costs while improving the user quality of experience (QoE) in terms of handling latency. In exchange for sharing their excess resourc...

BACKGROUND The private medical care sector is expanding in urban cities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, people's health-care-seeking behaviors in this new landscape remain poorly understood; furthermore, distinguishing between public and private providers and among various types of private providers is critical in this investigation. This study assessed, by type, the healthcare providers ...

The exponential growth of the Web of Linked Data (WoD) has so far primarily been funded using subsidies, where new datasets are financed through public funding or via research programs. Relying on (public) subsidies, however, may eventually limit the growth of the WoD, focus on areas decided by committee rather than true demand, and could hamper data quality due to the lack of clear incentives ...

In Sub-Saharan Africa private voluntary health care providers are mostly Church-related or social not for profit organizations. They provide between 40% and 60% of health care services. In the context of Health Care Reforms, the World Bank and others have (re)discovered these non governmental providers. The World Bank document 'Better Health for Africa', promotes prominent roles for them in the...

INTRODUCTION Ownership of healthcare providers has been considered as one factor that might influence their health and healthcare related performance. The aim of this article was to provide an overview of what is known about the effects on economic, administrative and health related outcomes of different types of ownership of healthcare providers--namely public, private non-for-profit (PNFP) an...