Despite emerging interest in congregations as social service providers in communities across the U.S., recent studies have offered troubling critiques of congregation-based social services, namely that they exhibit limited participation from community members and consist largely of short-term programs. In response to these critiques, this paper will suggest Paul R. Dokecki’s framework for refle...

In a world where the most used sentences is: "I haven’t got the time...” Information Technologies (IT) plays an important role in supporting our daily work, including in everyday educational settings. Such technologies can aid a complete educational system to function successfully so to help the whole school educational life. For this to prove, we present the “Coaching for Teacher” system, a pe...

Differing from other traditional question-centric CQA services, professional social-network based CQA services lay a lot of emphasis on the quality of the content and social interactions within community. Besides questioning and answering, people pay more attention to authoritativeness and social reputation, especially some leading users. Others appreciate their contributions, and would like to...

Companies have to adapt to changing environments and business requirements in short cycles. They seek to address their customers via various channels involving new (net-based) technologies. This poses an interesting question: How can we support multiple channels with various user front ends without at the same time duplicating business functionality? We present an elegant solution in the form o...

Geographic environment is a combination of natural and cultural environments under which humans survive. Virtual Geographic Environment (VGE) is a new multi-disciplinary initiative that links geosciences, geographic information sciences and information technologies. A VGE is a virtual representation of the natural world that enables a person to explore and interact with vast amounts of natural ...

Understanding the changes in procedure use and total cost associated with the care of patients is important to the practice of neurosurgery. This information helps guide policies regarding workforce, training, continuing education, and research. Previous work detailing neurosurgical practice has been limited by focusing on specific procedures (e.g., craniotomy, carotid endarterectomy, etc.) or ...

In this study, we assess business managers’ perception of alcoholism effects in the working environment. This quantitative, descriptive and cross sectional study was conducted through questionnaires addressed to 36 companies service manufacturing industries. Main findings revealed that, although considered as a problem by investigated companies, only 22% implemented policies help alcoholic work...

A number of real-time multimedia services are being designed to operate over mobile end-to-end IP networks. Such services require the use of the Real Time Transport protocol (RTP) in order to provide acceptable Quality of Service at the receiver. The resulting RTP/UDP/IP headers however constitute a significant overhead, particularly at low-bitrate speech applications. This paper examines curre...

Road networks are important for modelling the urban geographic environment. It is necessary to determine the spatial relationships of road intersections when using maps to help researchers conduct virtual urban geographic experiments (because a road intersection might occur as a connected cross or as an unconnected bridge overpass). Based on the concept of using different map layers to organize...