What should governments in mineralrich states do about the gap between rich and poor populations (vertical in e qual ity), and the gap between mineralrich and mineralpoor regions (horizontal in e qual ity)? This chapter looks at how mineral wealth can affect vertical and horizontal in e qual ity, and what governments can do about it. It also explores the advantages and disadvantages of the dece...

BACKGROUND Users of hospital information system (HIS) use these systems dur-ing working day and know its problems better than others know. Studying their views is very important and can be espe-cially effective in the development of the in-formation system. The aim of this study was to investigate the users' views to-wards the qual-ity of hospital information system in the training hospitals of...

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A simple tool is proposed to aid in the development of op erational semantics The tool supports publication qual ity rendering using LTEX execution and animation us ing a functional programming system and derivation tree browsing using Netscape The tool has been implemented and it has been used on a large subset of the Java Vir tual Machine as well as a number of relatively small lan guages The...

The low degree of mixing is due to the large quantity components in batch, irregular supply coal concentrates, fluctuations their physical and chemical parameters. Research results indicate that increasing homogeneity batch through introduction organized will improve mechanical properties coke. It should be noted smallest effect from use units achieved with preparation scheme, which involves gr...

The objective of this paper is to implement a reverse engineering process to inspect the geometry of a flow meter rotor and make recommendations to improve the performance of the rotor. The process includes utilizing a laser scanner arm and Geomagic software to generate a three-dimensional (3D) computer model of the flow meter rotor and compare it with the original Computer Aided Drafting (CAD)...

The rapid growth of the Internet as an environment for information exchange and the lack of enforceable standards regarding the information it contains has lead to numerous information qual ity problems. A major issue is the inability of Search Engine technology to wade through the vast expanse of questionable content and return "quality" results to a user's query. This paper attempts to addres...

This research presents a re engineering workbench and ar chitecture that allows for legacy systems written in proce dural languages to be migrated to new object oriented plat forms This methodology allows for speci c design and qual ity requirements of the target migrant system to be consid ered during the re engineering process through an iterative and incremental process The migration process...

For regular patient transportation and emergency transportation with ambulance vehicles a dy-namic dial-a-ride (DARP) problem has to be solved. We analyze two scheduling strategies for theregular dial-a-ride orders in order to minimize routing costs and to maximize transportation qual-ity. Furthermore, we review practical requirements and suggest a conceptual architecture for a<...