Patient-initiated partner notification of sexually transmitted infection (STI), i.e. patients informing their sexual partners of a diagnosis, is a cornerstone of STI prevention. Growing evidence suggests that women exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) may fear such notification, or face negative consequences in response to STI disclosure. The current study assessed associations of IPV wit...

Software failures in wireless sensor systems are notoriously difficult to debug. Resource constraints in wireless deployments substantially restrict visibility into the root causes of node-level system and application faults. At the same time, the high cost of deployment of wireless sensor systems often far exceeds the cumulative cost of all other sensor hardware, so that software failures that...

With the growing popularity of CORBA as a distributed computing infrastructure standard, the need for a reliable CORBA messaging solution is being increasingly felt. The Event Service, which is the first such solution, provides inadequate event delivery guarantees and lacks many important features such as configurable quality of service and filtering. A Notification Service has since been speci...

Malware, short term for malicious software, is a software which is developed to penetrate computers in a network without the user’s permission or notification. Malware is a common term for a variety type of malicious software. In general, Malwares include Worm, Botnet, virus, Trojan horse, Backdoor, Rootkit, Logic bomb, Rabbit and Spyware. Despite many works that have been done in the area of M...

Software failures in wireless sensor systems are notoriously difficult to debug. Resource constraints in wireless deployments substantially restrict visibility into the root causes of node-level system and application faults. At the same time, the high cost of deployment of wireless sensor systems often far exceeds the cumulative cost of all other sensor hardware, so that software failures that...

Component-based software is a major design trend in robot software. It brings many benefits to system design, implementation and maintenance. One step in using component-based methods in designing the structure of a robot program is managing the components and the connections between them over time, known as coordination. In this paper we present a framework for coordinating component networks ...

P. Niblett S. Graham The OASIS Web Services Notification (WSN) family of specifications defines a standard interoperable protocol through which Web services can disseminate events. We present here a summary of three WSN specification documents that are currently available: WS-Base Notification, WS-Topics, and WS-Brokered Notification. We conclude with a brief discussion on the use of the notifi...

When admission control is used, an online scheduler chooses whether or not to complete each individual job successfully by its deadline. An important consideration is at what point in time the scheduler determines if a job request will be satisfied, and thus at what point the scheduler is able to provide notification to the job owner as to the fate of the request. In the loosest model, often se...

BACKGROUND The Government of India declared TB as a notifiable disease in 2012. There is a paucity of information on the government's mandatory TB notification order from the perspective of private medical practitioners (PPs). OBJECTIVE To understand the awareness, perception and barriers on TB notification among PPs in Chennai, India. METHODS Total of 190 PPs were approached in their clini...