The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Step by Step program in which mentors work with parents affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) on a one-to-one basis. Mentors help clients identify and work towards meeting their needs and achieving their goals. Data from 24 closed client files was collected ...

It is currently unclear how effective un-medicated, self-paced alcohol withdrawal is in reducing alcohol consumption in alcohol dependent clients. To address this question, the current study examined the reduction in alcohol consumption, assessed by breath alcohol and drink diary self-report, of 405 alcohol-dependent clients over a ...

It is currently unclear how effective un-medicated, self-paced alcohol withdrawal is in reducing alcohol consumption in alcohol dependent clients. To address this question, the current study examined the reduction in alcohol consumption, assessed by breath alcohol and drink diary self-report, of 405 alcohol-dependent clients over a ...

The Mirrored Server (MS) architecture for network games uses multiple mirrored servers across multiple locations to alleviate the bandwidth bottleneck and to reduce the client-to-server delay time. Response time in MS can be reduced by optimally assigning clients to their mirrors. The goal of optimal ...

Empirical evidence and recent revisions of conventional business doctrine indicate that companies that actively promote social performance and develop their clients' markets and skills as part of business strategy have a better chance of achieving sustainable profitability and growth than those that do not. This article discusses how landmark companies, ...

In the national Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Studies (DATOS), many clients in outpatient methadone treatment (OMT) and outpatient drug-free (ODF) modalities were admitted with multiple sex and needle-risk behaviors, but they reduced these risks significantly during treatment. Using hierarchical linear model regression analysis, we examined ...

In this article we discuss the findings from a series of focus groups conducted as part of a 3-year, mixed-method evaluation of clinical programs in a large mental health and substance use treatment facility in Canada. We examined the perceptions of clinical personnel on the physical design of new treatment units and the impact on service delivery and the work environment. The new physical design ...

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This experiment was designed to determine the relative effectiveness of teacher and counselling approaches in the reduction of disruptive or inappropriate classroom behavior. Inappropriate classroom behavior frequencies of 12 academically low achieving, seventh-grade, black male students, with a reported high rate of inappropriate classroom behavior, were recorded. Three ...

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High bandwidth requirements in multimedia transmission make the efficient use of limited network resource a challenging task, especially when multiple clients make their requests to the server simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a self-adjusted network transmission mechanism for multiple clients. Instead of assigning a fixed bandwidth for each ...

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This paper describes a system that enables the failover of a TCP server endpoint in a manner that is transparent to the clients and to the server applications. The failover can occur at any time during the lifetime of a connection. The failover is achieved by modifying the server�s TCP/IP stack. No modifications are required to the ...

The author explores the applicability of the Transtheoretical Model of Change (TTM) and motivational interviewing (MI) as a collaborative approach in counseling "resistant" or ambivalent clients. The TTM and MI provide an empirically tested framework for employment counselors to assess and empower clients who are often labeled resistant or ambivalent ...

Recent developments in software and hardware changed the way database systems are built and operate. In this paper we present database architectures based on the Client-Server paradigm and study their performance and scalability under different query/update workloads. The architectures are: Standard Client-Server, Client-Server with ...

... actions recommended to clients that will reduce or prevent pest populations, such as habitat manipulation, pest proofing and relocation of pest food ...

This study explored the effects of specific types of substance abuse treatment services on clients remaining arrest free for the year following services. The sample consisted of clients admitted to the Lucas County Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services (LC-ADAS) community service system in calendar year 2000. The findings of the study suggest that ...

areas in multimedia systems, especially their integration aspect. Furthermore, they learn a tool to learn about client and server multimedia communication. This goal was achieved in the clientMultimedia Systems Design Teaching Students How to Design and Build Multimedia Systems Klara

The objectives of this paper are to provide a profile of clients of the East Los Angeles Youth Training and Employment Project (YTEP) and to determine whether participating in YTEP correlates with success later achieved by the client. This paper also disc...

There is little information about how clients attending lifestyle modification programs view the outcomes. This qualitative study examined the clients� experience of a community based lifestyle modification program in Hong Kong. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 clients attending the program. ...

There is little information about how clients attending lifestyle modification programs view the outcomes. This qualitative study examined the clients' experience of a community based lifestyle modification program in Hong Kong. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 clients attending the program. ...

Abstract. Whenever small mobile devices with low bandwidth connections to a server execute transactions on common XML data, then efficient data exchange between client and server is a key problem to be solved. However, a solution should also consider client- side cache management for the XML data, synchronization of concurrent access to the XML data, and ...

This randomized clinical trial (N = 253) evaluated the efficacy of a theory-based intervention designed to reduce both alcohol use and incidence of unprotected sexual behaviors among HIV-positive men who have sex with men with alcohol use disorders. An integrated, manualized intervention, using both individual counseling and peer group education/support, was compared with a ...

In the United States, services (such as education, health care, housing, and transportation) are provided for citizens by a bewildering array of agencies at many government levels. Service organizations must learn to communicate across functional lines, and educators must become familiar with other service providers at various levels. This means perceiving the client as the ...

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In our view, nicotine chewing gum is the most significant single advance achieved so far in the whole field of smoking cessation. It is the only treatment that has yet been shown to have a specific effect over and above that of attention-placebo factors, and this has been demonstrated repeatedly by several research groups in different countries. It is suitable for use as an ...

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The JPEG 2000 image compression system offers significant opportunity to improve imaging over the Internet. The JPEG 2000 standard is ideally suited to the client/server architecture of the web. With only one compressed version stored, a server can transmit an image with the resolution, quality, size, and region custom specified by an individual client. It ...

Abstract While Motivational Interviewing (MI) has demonstrated efficacy, little is known about the mechanisms through which MI achieves beneficial effects or how clients perceive the process of MI. The present study addressed this gap through a qualitative analysis of client accounts following four sessions of MI for generalized ...

This article presents a scheme for enforcing access rights untransferability in a client-server scenario. Assumptions include a central authority and servers which are trusted and hold no access information about clients. For a client sharing none of her rights, usurpation of a right seems as hard as the discrete logarithm. Also, ...

Online content distribution has increasingly gained popularity among the entertainment industry and the consumers alike. A key challenge in online content distribution is a cost-efficient solution to handle demand peaks. To address this challenge, we propose Dandelion, a system for robust cooperative (peer-to-peer) content distribution. Dandelion explicitly addresses two crucial issues in ...

BackgroundOngoing psychiatric symptoms and substance use are common difficulties experienced by clients enrolled in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT). However, little research to date has evaluated if specific types of current substance use are related to specific types of current psychiatric symptoms. The present study investigated these relationships with a sample of ...

The concept of compliance involves the consistency and accuracy with which a client follows the regimen recommended by the veterinarian or other veterinary health care team member. Contrary to common belief, most compliance failures are not the direct result of a client's unwillingness to comply. This article will help the reader better appreciate the ...

Push message delivery, where a client maintains an ``always-on'' connection with a server in order to be notified of a (asynchronous) message arrival in real-time, is increasingly being used in Internet services. The key message in this paper is that push message delivery on the World Wide Web is not scalable for servers, intermediate network elements, and battery-operated ...

Hyperspectral images used in remote sensing can reach hundreds of megabytes due to the large number of components and high spatial and bit-depth resolution. When these images have to be transmitted, interactive transmission is necessary to deliver only those portions of the image that the client has requested. In such a scenario, compression is a useful tool to ...

Today, TLS is widely used for achieving a secure communication system. And TLS is used PKI for server authentication and/or client authentication. However, its PKI environment, which is called as �multiple trust anchors environment,� causes the problem that the verifier has to maintain huge number of CA certificates in the ubiquitous network because ...

The disease management approach to improving health care, at the systems as well as the hospital level, has proved to be very powerful, producing unprecedented results in reducing costs while improving quality of care and patient satisfaction. The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), working with a variety of leading managed care providers and pharmaceutical ...

The disease management approach to improving health care, at the system as well as the hospital level, has proved to be very powerful, producing unprecedented results in reducing costs while improving quality of care and patient satisfaction. The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), working with a variety of leading managed care providers and pharmaceutical ...

This article encourages the incorporation of smoking cessation activities into routine nursing care in the prenatal period. A brief background is given regarding the problem of smoking in women--especially pregnant women and adolescents. A model is suggested that integrates the Stages of Change framework with a program for planning, implementing, and evaluating smoking cessation activities in the ...

PURPOSE: To highlight potentially conflicting roles of the rehabilitation professional in the treatment of clients with persistent pain conditions. In assisting clients requiring rehabilitation, the role of the rehabilitation professional is usually fairly clear and unambiguous. If however questions about the authenticity of the ...

Network resilience is vital for the survival of networks, and scale-free networks are fragile when confronted with targeted attacks. We survey network robustness to targeted attacks from the viewpoint of network clients by designing a unique mechanism based on the undeniable roles of network clients in real-world networks. Especially, the mechanism here is ...

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Abstract Aims: Occupational therapists espouse a client-centred philosophy of practice, yet little attention has been given to pondering the politics or client-centred practices of occupational therapy research. The aim of this paper is thus to foster reflection on occupational therapy's commitment to client-centredness in the practice ...

The purpose of this paper is to project present trends in application development into the next decades. The revolution in information technology has reduced the cost of computer hardware as well as communications. Networks will consist of three kinds of specialized components: clients, servers, and processors. Standardization of component interfaces and ...

Poor nutrition and obesity can directly lead to pathological conditions managed by physical therapists or negatively influence recovery from movement dysfunction. The physical therapist/client relationship provides an opportunity for screening for poor nutrition as well as recommending and supporting better nutrition practices by the clients under their ...

Introduction:Hand splinting after stroke is a common practice despite inadequate evidence. This warrants a better understanding of the therapists� splinting practice, to develop clinically meaningful treatment options.Aims:The study examined the nature and prevalence of the factors associated with therapists� hand splinting practice and their perceived splinting efficacy.Settings and Design:A ...

Background: There is an increase in people with learning disabilities with offending and other disturbed behaviour who are placed in the local community and out of their area of origin. Aims: To compare clients placed locally and out of area. Method: All authorities in an English region were surveyed and interviewed about their clients placed locally and ...

This study evaluates the incorporation of Multi-Family Psycho-education Group (MFPG) to an Assertive Community Treatment Team developed to serve culturally diverse clients who suffers from severe mental illness. Participants included Chinese and Tamil clients and their family members. Family members' well-being, perceived burden, and acceptance of ...

This study evaluates the incorporation of Multi-Family Psycho-education Group (MFPG) to an Assertive Community Treatment Team developed to serve culturally diverse clients who suffers from severe mental illness. Participants included Chinese and Tamil clients and their family members. Family members� well-being, perceived burden, and acceptance of ...

Although many studies have shown that motivational interviewing (MI) is effective in reducing problem behaviors, few have investigated purported causal mechanisms. Therapist interpersonal skills have been proposed as an influence on client involvement during MI sessions and as a necessary precursor to client commitment language. Using ...

Although many studies have shown that motivational interviewing (MI) is effective in reducing problem behaviors, few have investigated purported causal mechanisms. Therapist interpersonal skills have been proposed as an influence on client involvement during MI sessions and as a necessary precursor to client commitment language. Using ...

In systems that support disconnected operations, shared objects must be cached at client sites to ensure that the objects are accessible while the client is disconnected. It is desirable that objects cached at a client site are mutually consistent with respect to the level of consistency provided by the system. We present a new ...

BackgroundPrior research suggests that arrest, compared with no police detection, of some types of offenders does not decrease the chances they will reoffend.Methodology/Principal FindingsWe assessed the specific deterrent effect of arrest for patronizing a street prostitute in Colorado Springs by comparing the incidence of arrest for clients of prostitutes first detected ...

The success of work-centered welfare programs depends on clients connecting to the workforce and sustaining employment. Engaging employers in welfare and workforce development policies and programs is critical to achieving positive labor market outcomes for clients. Employer involvement in welfare-to-work activities can benefit public ...

Available in abstract form only. Full text of publication follows: Accelerated decommissioning projects of the type underway at the former gaseous diffusion plant at BNG Capenhurst, UK, involve characterisation and radiochemical fingerprinting of a variety of unusual materials derived from legacy wastes. The project management and technical challenges that can occur during such a program can be ...

This study examined rates of improvement in psychotherapy as a function of the number of sessions attended. The clients (N = 1,868; 73.1% female; 92.4% White; average age = 40), who were seen for a variety of problems in routine primary care mental health practices, attended 1 to 12 sessions, had planned endings, and completed the Clinical Outcomes in Routine ...

There is considerable evidence that humans can benefit both physically and emotionally from a relationship with companion animals, a phenomenon known as the human-animal bond (HAB). This has not only increased the demand for veterinary services to meet the needs of these non-human family members and their owners, but it has also transformed the nature of those services from reactive medicine and ...

The Tennessee Outcomes for Alcohol and Drug Services (TOADS) in collaboration with the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services at the Tennessee Department of Health evaluated the effectiveness of publicly funded substance abuse treatment programs in Tennessee by collecting and analyzing data from clients treated between 1998 and 2000. Using a structured questionnaire, TOADS ...

for the treatment of opioid dependence. The alternative is a drug called Buprenorphine. Buprenorphine, like of the risks is accompanied by the reduced effectiveness. Buprenorphine works best for clients who are addicted to a lower dose of opiates, meaning it is not suited for all opiate addicts. One benefit to Buprenorphine

Associate degree nursing students in a community setting apply self-efficacy theory while helping clients with chronic health problems take personal responsibility for health-related behaviors. Students meet weekly with clients in an apartment complex for seniors and use the telephone to work toward achieving desired short-term health ...

This article explores customer service in equine veterinary medicine. It begins with a discussion about the differences between customers and clients in veterinary medicine. An overview of the nature of the veterinary-client-patient relationship and its effects on the veterinarian's services sheds light on how to evaluate your customer service. The author ...

C-CORE is a global corporation providing engineering solutions to clients, with 60 plus staff, mainly engineers, that work together on projects for national and international clients. They develop and apply advanced technologies to address production and market issues faced by natural resource sectors such as oil and gas, pipeline, mining, pulp and paper, ...

The purpose of the research was to determine the effects of academic optimism on student academic achievement through measuring the individual and collective effects of academic emphasis, collective efficacy, and faculty trust in clients. Data for this study were obtained from the School Academic Optimism Scale and the reading section of the Alabama ...

A challenging problem in multi-band multi-cell self-organized wireless systems, such as multi-channel Wi-Fi networks, femto/pico cells in 3G/4G cellular networks, and more recent wireless networks over TV white spaces, is of distributed resource allocation. This involves four components: channel selection, client association, channel access, and client ...

The client-provider relationship is increasingly evaluated as an active ingredient in the delivery of substance abuse treatment services. This study examines gender differences in client-provider relationship as an important treatment ingredient affecting retention in treatment and reduced post-treatment substance use. The study uses ...

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Alcohol is the most widely used and abused drug in the United States. Each year, 17 million adults experience a serious problem with alcohol, but only 3 million get help. Risky or problem drinking can jeopardize the health and safety of not only those who drink but also their families, coworkers, and communities. Because of their collaborative approach to helping clients ...

This article discusses the utilization of Imogene M. King's (1981) theory of goal attainment with a group of elderly clients who were living in a nursing home and experiencing many of the chronic health problems frequently associated with advanced age. Group members met weekly for 10 weeks to explore methods to promote continuous health restoration. Application of King's ...

ABSTRACT- Earlier performance studies of client-server data-base systems have investigated algorithms for caching locks and data at client worhxtations to reafuce latency and offload the server. These studies have been restricted to algorithms in which d&abase pages that were not in the local client buffer pool or the server buffer ...

Vocational rehabilitation (VR) clients who leave the system prematurely experience worse employment outcomes than clients who stay in services. The authors conducted this study to learn about factors leading to premature exit by rural VR clients. Results will inform survey development for a large longitudinal study on this topic. The ...

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Interviews conducted with Arab women in Israel who sought treatment from traditional women healers show that such women undergo a change of both a personal and a social nature after the visit. This study enumerates and analyzes the aspects of this change and concludes that visiting traditional Arab women healers constitutes a coping path that empowers clients. Such ...

What-you-should-be-when-you-grow-up need not and should not be planned in advance. Instead career counselors should teach their clients the importance of engaging in a variety of interesting and beneficial activities, ascertaining their reactions, remaining alert to alternative opportunities, and learning skills for succeeding in each new activity. Four propositions: (1) The ...

The purpose of this study was to describe the lived experience of midwifery clients throughout the life span. A qualitative study using a phenomenological approach was employed. In-depth interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 12 midwifery clients. The research question was: What has been your experience with midwifery care? Interviews were ...

The purpose of this study was to describe the lived experience of midwifery clients throughout the life span. A qualitative study using a phenomenological approach was employed. In-depth interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 12 midwifery clients. The research question was: What has been your experience with midwifery care? Interviews were ...

Information superiority is a strategic goal of the US Air Force. To achieve this goal the Air Force aims to produce a battlespace infosphere that will provide an unprecedented degree of connectivity and availability of raw data and value-added information...

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We present simple algorithms for achieving self-stabilizing location management and routing in mobile ad-hoc networks. While mobile clients may be susceptible to corruption and stopping failures, mobile networks are often deployed with a reliable GPS orac...

SRS applications development organizations are under pressure to increase system quality and productivity, achievable in large part from taking advantage of emerging computing technologies. Client/server (C/S), information warehouse (IW), and object orien...

constitutes green building. A building project can achieve LEED Certified, Silver, Gold, or Platinum status Governments L. Requiring certain county projects to incorporate LEED green building measures is necessary (capital project management staff, senior management, design consultants, green consultants, our client

This final technical report presents a novel protocol to achieve invariability of nested method invocations. This protocol tolerates Byzantine faulty clients, as is necessary when methods are invoked from other distributed objects that themselves must wit...

The development of a proposed comprehensive human service delivery system for residents of Racine County, Wisconsin, is described. Service providers, clients, and interested citizens participated in system development to achieve five objectives: (1) incre...

server storing the requested page. As an alternative, we propose to perform the redirection as close by the request. Redirection is, in most cases, achieved only after a client's request has reached the home server disadvantage of centralized redirection is the induced latency. Another is that the home server may become

Three Pennsylvania social service systems with varying degrees of service integration are compared with respect to the achievement of three objectives: offering a client a single location for all services, providing continuing service as his needs change ...

American farmers are now being asked to produce food, feed, fiber, and fuel. My goal is to provide you, as soil and crop consultants, information that will help your clients achieve these multiple goals in an economically and environmentally sustainable manner. We will review the potential unintende...

The types of persons receiving services in three alternative programs of the Palm Beach, Fla., Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center and the outcomes achieved in the program are assessed. The programs encompass structured day treatment in problemso...

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Despite the complex nature of the project, the clients brief of a 14 month design and installation period was achieved within the approved budget of 2.5 million pounds. Early performance figures indicate that the scheme is on target to achieve the original payback of under four years. Queen Elizabeth Hospital: installation of ...

The Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability (HPAC) has been re-engineered from a Windows application with tight binding between computation and a graphical user interface (GUI) to a new distributed object architecture. The key goals of this new architecture are platform portability, extensibility, deployment flexibility, client-server operations, easy integration with ...

Individual recognition has been attributed a crucial role in the evolution of complex social systems such as helping behaviour and cooperation. A classical example for interspecific cooperation is the mutualism between the cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus and its client reef fish species. For stable cooperation to evolve, it is generally assumed that partners interact ...

BACKGROUND: The number of pet cats is increasing in most countries, often outnumbering pet dogs, yet cats receive less veterinary care than their canine counterparts.(1) Clients state the difficulty of getting the cat into a carrier at home, driving to the clinic, and dealing with the fearful cat at the veterinary clinic as reasons for fewer visits.(2) Educating and preparing ...

Today's society is characterized by a desire to achieve and maintain youthful appearance, and both men and women are increasingly seeking for cosmetic enhancement. Corrective dermatology is one of the fields dealing with such clients. Corrective dermatology interventions include chemical peels, fillers, botulinum toxin, laser treatments, mesotherapy, etc. ...

Identification and control of hypertension are important public health concerns. Lack of regular health care makes diagnosis and control difficult in some populations. Community health nursing services in settings where clients regularly congregate promote identification and control of hypertension. This study focused on the effects of community health nursing screening and ...

We describe anew framework for resource allocation that unifies the well-known proportional share and resource reservation policies. Each client is characterized by two parameters: a weight that represents the rate at which the client 'pays' for the resource, and a share that represents the fraction of the resource that the client ...