PURPOSE LIFEspan is a service delivery model of continuous coordinated care developed and implemented by a cross-organization partnership between a pediatric and an adult rehabilitation hospital. Previous work explored enablers and barriers to establishing the partnership service. This paper examines healthcare professionals' (HCPs') experiences of 'real world' service delivery aimed at support...

F inding ways to deliver drugs to specific, hard-toreach areas of the human body remains a major challenge in drug development. Drug molecules that enter the body via a pill or an injection circulate in the blood until they reach the target locationa process that can be slow and imprecise. For years, many chemists have been building synthetic nanomotorsnanoparticles that propel themselvesto ...

The expansion in distributed computing capabilities has led to a need to deliver services at different locations in networks, where demand is unpredictable. Giving all nodes in a distributed system the potential to deliver any service is likely to be a waste of resources, while extreme specialization on the part of individual nodes is likely to incur large overheads in terms of messaging and se...

The significance of aligning usability and interactivity of web portals with government service delivery strategy is widely recognized, but the lack of appropriate methodologies prevented government units and their constituents from integrating web portal projects with e-government service delivery performance. This paper addresses the issue of delivering electronic government services using th...

This reprint of a journal article focuses on the use of computers and other personal assistive devices by disabled persons. Topics covered include: a perspective on the use of advanced technology; distinction between technological appliances which provide benefits to the individual independent of the individual's skill level, versus tools which require development of special skills to gain full...

In this paper we explore the potential of recommendation systems in an environment where users can access a variety of services from different locations. In particular we explore the use of adaptive technologies to recommend new services to users based on context, which we define in terms of four factors: time, location, user behaviour and user profile. A multi-agent service delivery architectu...

The literature on the effectiveness of e-government in developing countries towards improving public service delivery is littered with failure stories. Notwithstanding, the failures have not stopped most governments in developing countries from increasingly turning to ICT, most notably internet based models, as the preferred channel for citizen-centered service delivery. This paper investigated...

the purpose of the study was to examine compliance of extension personnel in imo state agricultural extension service delivery system of nigeria. a purposive and multi-stage random sampling was used to select 105 extension personnel from the three agricultural zones of the state. data generated were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequencies and percentages, as well as mean score...

Enterprises and service providers are increasingly looking to global service delivery as a means for containing costs while improving the quality of service delivery. However, it is often difficult to effectively manage the conflicting needs associated with dynamic customer workload, strict service level constraints, and efficient service personnel organization. In this paper we propose a dynam...

The study was carried out to assess the implication of the use of selected Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for extension service delivery in Nigeria. The simple random technique was used to select fifty percent of the total extension agents which equivalent to forty-two respondents as sample size for the study. Frequency counts, percentages, mean and standard deviation were us...