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Quality in home care for older people: factors to pay heed to [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
23 home care providers were interviewed concerning what promotes or impedes quality aspects of service-giving, as defined by older customers – like service from familiar staff or flexible help.
Patmore, C
core   +1 more source

NRASQ61R Expression in Lymphatic Endothelial Cells Causes Enlarged Vessels, Hemorrhagic Chylous Effusions, and High Mortality in a Mouse Model of Kaposiform Lymphangiomatosis

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Kaposiform lymphangiomatosis (KLA) is an aggressive complex lymphatic anomaly. Patients exhibit malformed lymphatic vessels and often develop hemorrhagic effusions and elevated angiopoietin‐2 (Ang‐2) levels. A somatic NRAS p.Q61R (NRASQ61R) mutation has been associated with KLA.
C. Griffin McDaniel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating brand equity of third-party service providers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Purpose: This research applies theory and techniques from the services and marketing literature to a supply chain context consisting of a shipper or seller, a customer or buyer, and a third-party logistics service provider (3PL) to investigate corporate ...
Grant, David   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Turning Point? Responses to COVID-19 Within the Homelessness Industrial Complex

open access: yesInternational Journal on Homelessness, 2022
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affected the homeless serving sector in significant ways, including impacts on service users and service providers.
Benjamin Roebuck   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Providing dependability for web services [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing, 2008
Web services have been widely employed to allow interoperability among applications and/or technologies. However, the standard technologies and protocols which provide the foundation for Web Services do not address issues such as fault tolerance and dependability of services.
Jeferson L. R. Souza, Frank Siqueira
openaire   +1 more source

Bridging or Maintaining Distance: A Matched Comparison of Parent and Service Provider Realities (SUMMARY REPORT) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
When service providers and parents engage with each other to improve family circumstances, do they have similar impressions of what is important and what is helpful?
Cameron, Gary, Frensch, Karen
core   +1 more source

A Game-theoretic Framework for Revenue Sharing in Edge-Cloud Computing System

open access: yes, 2018
We introduce a game-theoretic framework to ex- plore revenue sharing in an Edge-Cloud computing system, in which computing service providers at the edge of the Internet (edge providers) and computing service providers at the cloud (cloud providers) co ...
Cao, Zhi   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Offensive and Defensive Marketing in Spatial Competition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
While it is well-established that travel costs impact on customer preference toward local service providers, research about how this situation affects competitive marketing strategies remains sparse.
Martín Herrán, Guiomar   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

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