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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Service models"”.
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Some new localized quality of service models and algorithms for communication networks. The development and evaluation of new localized quality of service routing algorithms and path selection methods for both flat and hierarchical communication networks.
The Quality of Service (QoS) routing approach is gaining an increasing interest in the Internet community due to the new emerging Internet applications such as real-time multimedia applications. These applications require better levels of quality of services than those supported by best effort …
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Distributed libaries: an investigation into the challenge of providing appropriate library services to off-campus users of Brisith university libraries
… therefore, to design and implement appropriate service models and delivery for these users to ensure that their experience of learning support provision is equitable with those of on-campus users and that the academic rigour of off-campus courses is maintained. During the last five years …
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The Factors Contributing to Effective Relationship Management within the Banking Sector
… banking industry. However, their products and services are not largely dissimilar. Therefore it is imperative that they differentiate themselves via their service propositions. Paradoxically however, banks seem to be opting for service models that aim to reduce banker/customer face time so as …
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Rural Parents Mental Health Service Delivery Preferences: Overcoming Barriers to Care.
… in rural areas from seeking mental health services for their children. The implementation of innovative models of service delivery may reduce these barriers' impact on rural parents' treatment seeking.</p><p>The purpose of this study was to determine: 1) parents' willingness to use …
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Graph-based Pattern Matching and Discovery for Process-centric Service Architecture Design and Integration
… large organisations. The increasing adoption of service-based architectures to solve integration problems and the widely accepted practice of utilising patterns as a medium to reuse design knowledge motivated the definition of this work. In this work a pattern-based framework and techniques …
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Enhancing Digital Customer Journeys: A Comparative Analysis of Knowledge Retrieval Approaches
Since its early days in 2003, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has evolved rapidly. From a single service created to support its parent company’s e-commerce business, AWS became a leading cloud services provider. As AWS‘s product offerings and customer base expanded, its support knowledge base grew …
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Impact of product design choices on supply chain performance in the notebook computer industry
… product scalability strategies, or after-sale service models to enable a full transition to BGA processors. SKU levels increase by lOx with a BGA transition resulting in much higher supply chain complexity, management cost, and inventory cost. In addition, simple modeling approaches are …
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Predictors of Intercultural Competence Among International Volunteers
International volunteering and service: IVS) has the potential to promote intercultural competence, or "the ability to communicate effectively and appropriately in intercultural situations based on one's intercultural knowledge, skills, and attitudes": Deardorff, 2008: 33). Although conditions of …
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Exploring the impact of interprofessional taught modules and placement experience on the development of professional identify and understanding of roles in first year mental health students
Mental health services are under continuous pressure to develop multidisciplinary service models in response to government policy. Mental health professionals, however, continue to be trained in isolation with little preparation for working within a multidisciplinary environment. This thesis …
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On-Demand Tutoring in Distance Education: Intrinsically-motivated, Scalable Interpersonal Interaction to Improve Achievement, Completion, and Satisfaction
… with regards to cost-effective, scalable service models. Even when attempts to increase interaction are successful, they are usually achieved by requiring participation in online discussion boards, making them mechanical and frustrating to students. The proposed solution is an on-demand …
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Product service transformation in product-centric firms
… method to accomplish this expansion is through service models that can provide recurring revenues without as much up-front investment for customers. However, in a product-centric firm, the process of transforming a product into a service can be complex, and is the motivation for this research. …
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The genesis of youth services in public libraries in China, 1912-1937
… the flourishing of children’s literature. Youth services at public libraries in China emerged in this environment. Since 1909, pioneering librarians began to address the needs of children in professional settings by introducing Western youth service models and discussing how to establish, …
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An Exploration of Audiologists' Readiness to Adopt Connected Hearing Healthcare for Remote Hearing Aid Fitting
… need for improved access to hearing healthcare services, highlights the growing need for alternative service delivery models. A Connected Health model emerges as a solution for this need, focusing on the use of telecommunication technologies. This model, extended to audiology, can help to better …
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Implementing and Evaluating a New Mental Health and Substance Use Service Model at Island Health: Insights into Organizational Learning and Developmental Evaluation
… of a new mental health and substance use (MHSU) service model at the Western Communities Service Hub (WC Hub), a Colwood, BC-based program and facility, established by Island Health. Open in 2023, the WC Hub brings the integrated, team-based service model to southern Vancouver Island in seeking …
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Burnout Among Rural Special Education Specialists: An Investigation of Selected Variables
… experienced more burnout than other rural service models. (5) Older specialists and those with more years of experience reported significantly less burnout than younger specialists and those with less experience. (6) Significant relationships were found between role conflict and …
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A Psychometric Investigation Of The Family Empowerment Scale
… a critical piece to effective consumer-centered services. Within youth mental health in particular, quality improvement initiatives and flagship service models have been effortfully built with empowerment as a core tenet. Notably, these clinical efforts largely outpaced any consensus on how to …
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Use of Indirect Services by Speech/Language Pathologists in Manitoba Public Schools
… in dealing with time restrictions. Indirect services have been suggested as a means of coping with these concerns. Research has shown that indirect services such as home programs and use of paraprofessionals, volunteers, and classroom and resource teachers have proven to be especially …
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The State and medical care in Britain: political processes and the structuring of the National Health Service
The creation of the National Health Service is treated, analytically and historically, as a planning process involving major changes in the social organisation of health as a part of the larger set of social and economic reconstruction policies undertaken by the wartime Coalition and postwar Labour …
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The anatomy of access: re-imagining essential service provision in complex urban neighbourhoods
… difficult for access by the state for effective service provision in these neighbourhoods. This project looks at this reality of access for people living in Dunoon, a dense residential area that sits immediately south of the junction of the N7 and Malibongwe Drive. Dunoon is investigated in …
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An Environmental and Economic Systems Analysis of Land Use Decisions in the Massachusetts Cranberry Industry
… industry, this thesis applies ecosystem service modeling to geospatial data to quantify environmental outcomes in this decision space and make an economic argument for restoration. In the first section of the thesis, I conduct stakeholder interviews and a literature review to identify …
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