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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"service usage"”.
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Socio-spatial entanglement theory, the I2S2A method, and civil legal service realized accessibility
Most spatial and social service accessibility studies are unidimensional; they examine one dimension of service accessibility in isolation. These unidimensional studies are not responsive to the realities of service usage. This is because unidimensional service accessibility studies implicitly …
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An examination of Mexican descent caregivers' reasons for seeking treatment for relatives with severe and persistent mental illness
… how their relatives engage and disengage with services is a critical undertaking in light of (a) evidence showing that Latino caregivers have high levels of involvement in the care of their diagnosed relatives, and (b) consistent reports of low usage of mental health services by Latinos. Mental …
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On the use of utility billing information for predicting homelessness
… related to homelessness such as income, social service usage, and medical service usage.</p>
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Depression And Health Among American Indian and Alaska Native Elders
… limitations, chronic disease, and community service usage. Additionally, self-rated health, limitations, binge drinking, and chronic disease were predictive of which American Indian elders had depression.</p>
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A framework to provide charging for third party composite services
… been geared towards offering new and innovative services to end users. A decade ago network operators were content with offering simple services such as voice and text messaging. However, they began to notice that these services were generating lower revenues even while the number of subscribers …
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Digital Communication: perceptions of rural communities on the safety of e-commerce transactions
Advances in electronic service technology have created great opportunities as well as threats to organizations in various business and services sectors. As such businesses, either willingly or reluctantly, are increasingly embracing the Internet as distribution channel in order to remain …
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An empirical evaluation of m-health service users’ behaviours: A case of Bangladesh
Mobile health (m-health) services are revolutionising healthcare in the developing world by improving accessibility, affordability, and availability. Although these services are revolutionising healthcare in various ways, there are growing concerns regarding users' service quality perceptions and …
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A qualitative study exploring barriers Black college students experience in utilizing mental health services at a predominantly white institution (PWI)
… black students' utilization of mental health services based on their lived experiences as Black students in a predominately white institution (PWI). The study implemented semi-structured interviews and focus groups with Eighteen students. The students participated in either a two-series …
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Health service utilisation prior to out-of-hospital natural deaths among children under five in Metro West, Cape Town in 2018: a retrospective analysis of data from the Child Death Review
Background In the Metro West geographical service area within the City of Cape Town district the under-five mortality rate in the Metro West GSA decreased from 25 per 1000 live births in 2010 to 22 deaths per 1000 live births in 2013, but the rate of decrease slowed down in part because of the …
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The experience of mesothelioma in Northern England
… families, and for healthcare professionals and service providers. Mesothelioma is experienced as a devastating disease that carries a severe burden in physical, psychological, and social domains. Breathlessness, usually due to recurrent pleural effusions, and/or pain occur in >90% cases and may …
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Semantic Service Description Framework for Efficient Service Discovery and Composition
Web services have been widely adopted as a new distributed system technology by industries in the areas of, enterprise application integration, business process management, and virtual organisation. However, lack of semantics in current Web services standards has been a major barrier in the further …
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The clinical care of patients with lung cancer: identifying and supporting those with unmet care needs
… such needs and identify factors which could aid service provision within Stobhill lung cancer services. Methods Supportive care needs were measured using an adapted Palliative Outcome Scale (POS), incorporated within a larger questionnaire. All lung cancer patients attending the clinic could …
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Associated Factors of Urinary Incontinence among community dwelling women beneficiaries of Long Term Care Service
… women beneficiaries of long term care (LTC) service. The data was collected from 192 elderly women dwelling in community and using LTC service in Seoul and Gyeonggi province from March 1 to April 15. The tools used in this study were Hendrickson's(1981) Urinary Incontinence scale revised by …
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An Investigation of the Benefits of Palliative Care for Patients with Chronic Heart Failure at a Novel Hospital-Based Palliative Care Service.
… theme that emerged focused on issues of high service usage due to recurrent hospitalizations in the group, the second on communication factors in palliative care. The third theme was on information and education, the fourth on the importance of resources in palliative care and the last theme …
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Análise de um serviço de disseminação seletiva da informação como fator de mudança de comportamento e de hábitos dos usuários
… use of a Selective Dissemination of Information Service and on behavior and habit changes caused by this usage, having the Seletive Dissemination of Information Service of the National Agricultural Library as a basic means for analysis. 423 users which responded to the Service were delimitaded …
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Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Electromagnetism and Indoor Wireless Networks
… of bandwidth, throughput, latency, quality of service and reliability. Remarkably, although the preponderance of this traffic is generated in indoor environments, the largest part of the legacy communication systems radio access network is deployed outdoors. As a result, next-generation …
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Exploring the relationship between destination accessibility, cluster formation and employment growth in Kendall Square
… among companies, as well as links to input services and employment. Previous research (Pushkarev & Zupan 1977) demonstrated that high trip density is unsustainable without an efficient public transportation system. This high employment density center fosters a unique kind of industry, …
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Assessment of the impact of community library services: a case study of Khomas region, Namibia
… system aimed at offering free access to library services to equip users with necessary knowledge and skills for lifelong learning and support education. However, community libraries are under scrutiny to demonstrate their value to secure funding and the lack of literature regarding the impact of …
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Overcoming Barriers to Mental Health Service Utilization Among Justice Involved Youth
… barriers to and facilitators of mental health services utilization among youth in the justice setting, and to explore ways to overcome these barriers and expand these facilitators. This qualitative study utilized focus groups as a means to extract themes among the perceptions of social workers …
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User-Centric Power Management For Mobile Operating Systems
… <p>Based on our analysis of 14 users' device usage trace, we found that background applications generate too many activities when the device is either idle or active. These activities are either unimportant or unnecessary for the user. However, a significant amount of CPU time was consumed by …
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