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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Quality Attributes - A Research Model

Decoding Water Quality Across the Danube River Basin : Evidence from stressor-based watershed typologies and ecosystem service potential assessments

The Contribution of Civil Society to Quality of Government as Corruption; A cross-country analysis using civil society divided by service and expressive functions

Achieving Teaching Quality: The Balance of Efficiency and Contextual Relevance. A qualitative case study of in-service teacher training in Cambodia

Vulnerable Waters : Watershed human pressures on water quality and freshwater ecosystem services in the central Andes of Bolivia

High-altitude lakes and headwater streams of the Andes provide essential benefits to society, yet they remain among the least studied and most vulnerable freshwater ecosystems. These systems supply drinking water, support agriculture and grazing, regulate floods, store carbon, and hold deep cultural and spiritual value for local communities. However, climate change, land use change, water extracti

Multicast routing for ad hoc networks with a multiclass scheme for quality of service

Freeze-thaw resistance of concrete : destruction mechanisms, concrete technology, test methods, quality control : a contribution to the BRITE/EURAM project BREU-CT92-0591 "The Residual Service Life of Concrete Structures"

Multicast routing for ad hoc networks with a quality of service scheme for session efficiency

Standard-compliant LTE-A Uplink Scheduling Scheme with Quality of Service

Outsourcing Public Services: Contractibility, Cost, and Quality

Projekt FIRE21 - Key individual problem-solving qualities in the fire and rescue services: a survey in Norway

Admission control for multicast routing with quality of service in ad hoc networks

Quality-of-service-aware multicast routing for multimedia applications in mobile ad hoc networks

Ad Hoc quality of service multicast routing with objection queries for admission control

Today's handheld computing devices equipped with novel wireless network technologies can provide their users with features such as mobility, multimedia support and group communication. On the other hand, the administrative effort required to enable all these features increases beyond the level that an ordinary user can manage. Ad hoc networks, being able to quickly organise themselves without user

Quality of life in persons with hearing loss : a study of patients referred to an audiological service

Objective: To investigate the relationship between hearing loss (HL) and general quality of life (QoL) in adults seeking hearing aids (HAs). Design: The patients completed the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire’s general part and a questionnaire measuring self-assessed communication ability (Abbreviated Profile of hearing Aid Benefit—AP

Affordable Quality of Service Assessment for Cellular-Connected UAV Communications

In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)have been used extensively in military and civilian fields, making the research on cellular-connected UAVs a popular topic forFifth Generation (5G) and beyond communications. In order to support the increasing amount of applications, it is essential to evaluate the performance of UAV communications. In this work, the end-to-end delay, packet success

Predictors of clinically important improvements in occupational and quality of life outcomes among mental health service users after completion and follow-up of a lifestyle intervention : multiple regression modelling based on longitudinal data

Importance of personality and coping expectancy on patient-reported hearing disability, quality of life and distress level : a study of patients referred to an audiology service

Purpose: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), hearing loss (HL) affects up to 15% of the world’s adult population. Coping and personality are hypothesized to underlie quality of life (QoL) and distress scores. We aimed to study the importance of personality and coping in persons with HL for self-reported hearing disability, QoL, and distress. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was carr

Outsourcing public sector activities - How is quality maintained when public health care services are subject to contracting out?

In recent years outsourcing of public health care activities has increased in Sweden. Outsourcing of public health care activities involves possibilities of innovation and improvement according to many, but there are difficulties with how to maintain and control quality in the outsourced activities. The focus of this thesis is on how quality is ensured when public activities are subject to contrac

Planning for high-quality bus services : Understanding collaborative dynamics and public resistance