Government websites are the repository of information where citizens can timely access substantial and reliable information. It is normal to find antagonism between formulators users e-government virtual services (EGS). This study designed assess quality provided by Pakistani government websites. Data collected from 278 university graduates using simple random sampling technique. Results Smart ...

Governments and non-governmental organizations worldwide are promoting the transition to improvedcookstoves (ics), which aim reduce household air pollution decrease use of biomass. This article follows a case-study approach characterize assess design practices applied in Colombian government-led program foster ics rural households between 2010-2018 department Nariño. Data was collected from dir...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established a new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to identify and address research priorities for comparative effectiveness research. Among its many responsibilities, the institute has been charged with setting priorities, developing methodological standards, and communicating research results to decision makers. In this paper we consi...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act created the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), a nonprofit corporation that is neither an agency nor an establishment of the U.S. government. PCORI's mission is to support the production of well-validated scientific evidence to assist the nation in making informed decisions about a broad range of health care-related issues. In th...

Effective provision of government services implies that, besides being provided online, services become available through other channels, are organized according to citizen’s expectations, are accessible to everyone, anytime and anywhere, and include information from unstructured sources. It is also essential to provide the tools that allow citizens to correctly identify the services they need....

Workflows centered around data have become pervasive in a wide variety of applications, including health-care management, ecommerce, business processes, scientific workflows, and e-government. Such workflows are often very complex and involve numerous interacting actors. They are prone to costly bugs, whence the need for static analysis in order to verify critical properties. Analysis tools are...

With the evolution of linked open data sources, question answering regains importance as a way to make data accessible and explorable to the public. The triple structure of RDF-data at the same time seems to predetermine question answering for being devised in its native subject-verb-object form. The devices of natural language, however, often exceed this triple-centered model. But RDF does not...

This article describes the Collective Prenatal Consultation as a new healthcare methodology, which is performed according to government standards, but collectively. Relaxation and sensitization techniques are used, as well as group dynamics, including a collective exam of the pregnant women. The Collective Consultation is carried out in a welcoming environment, which provides clarification and ...