M-health review: joining up healthcare in a wireless world

In recent years, there has been a huge increase in the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to deliver health and social care. This trend is bound to continue as providers (whether public or private) strive to deliver better care to more people under conditions of severe budgetary constraint

Good Politics Is Good Government : The Troubling History of Mayoral Control of the Public Schools in Twentieth-century Chicago

This article looks at urban education through the vantage point of Chicago\u27s mayors. It begins with Carter H. Harrison II (who served from 1897 to 1905 and again from 1911 to 1915) and ends with Richard M. Daley (1989 to the present), with most of the focus on four long-serving mayors: William Hale Thompson (1915--23 and 1927--31), Edward Kelly (1933--47), Richard J. Daley (1955--76), and Harold Washington (1983--87). Mayors exercised significant leverage in the Chicago Public Schools throughout the twentieth century, making the history of Chicago mayors\u27 educational politics relevant to the contemporary trend in urban education to give more control to mayors in hopes that it leads to improved educational attainment and achievement. A look backward to mayoral politics in Chicago suggests that mayoral control is no panacea for urban education: mayors used strategies of patronage and professionalism to maintain political power, and this eclipsed motivations to improve the schools in an educational sense, in spite of recurrent calls for better schools from the civil rights movement, middle-class reformers, and business interests

Disrupting Preconceptions: Postcolonialism and Education

The article reviews the book Disrupting Preconceptions: Postcolonialism and Education, edited by Anne Hickling-Hudson, Julie Matthews and Annette Woods

Disrupting Preconceptions: Postcolonialism and Education

The article reviews the book Disrupting Preconceptions: Postcolonialism and Education, edited by Anne Hickling-Hudson, Julie Matthews and Annette Woods

Good Politics Is Good Government : The Troubling History of Mayoral Control of the Public Schools in Twentieth-century Chicago

This article looks at urban education through the vantage point of Chicago\u27s mayors. It begins with Carter H. Harrison II (who served from 1897 to 1905 and again from 1911 to 1915) and ends with Richard M. Daley (1989 to the present), with most of the focus on four long-serving mayors: William Hale Thompson (1915--23 and 1927--31), Edward Kelly (1933--47), Richard J. Daley (1955--76), and Harold Washington (1983--87). Mayors exercised significant leverage in the Chicago Public Schools throughout the twentieth century, making the history of Chicago mayors\u27 educational politics relevant to the contemporary trend in urban education to give more control to mayors in hopes that it leads to improved educational attainment and achievement. A look backward to mayoral politics in Chicago suggests that mayoral control is no panacea for urban education: mayors used strategies of patronage and professionalism to maintain political power, and this eclipsed motivations to improve the schools in an educational sense, in spite of recurrent calls for better schools from the civil rights movement, middle-class reformers, and business interests

Farmer Satisfaction with Hay and Forage Equipment in Allamakee and Mahaska Counties in Iowa

There are many opportunities for improvement in equipment used in the hay and forage industry. University and industry groups have listed and prioritized these opportunities. A project was undertaken to evaluate the level of satisfaction farmers in Allamakee and Mahaska counties in Iowa have with their hay and forage equipment, and to have them identify any needed changes in that equipment. The information was obtained through mailed surveys and follow-up phone interviews. The surveys included two evaluation matrices, which farmers used to rank their equipment on a satisfaction scale with respect to several criteria

Policy-Directed Certificate Retrieval

Any large scale security architecture that uses certificates to provide security in a distributed system will need some automated support for moving certificates around in the network. We believe that for efficiency, this automated support should be tied closely to the consumer of the certificates: the policy verifier. As a proof of concept, we have built QCM, a prototype policy language and verifier that can direct a retrieval mechanism to obtain certificates from the network. Like previous verifiers, QCM takes a policy and certificates supplied by a requester and determines whether the policy is satisfied. Unlike previous verifiers, QCM can take further action if the policy is not satisfied: QCM can examine the policy to decide what certificates might help satisfy it and obtain them from remote servers on behalf of the requester. This takes place automatically, without intervention by the requester; there is no additional burden placed on the requester or the policy writer for the retrieval service we provide. We present examples that show how our technique greatly simplifies certificate-based secure applications ranging from key distribution to ratings systems, and that QCM policies are simple to write. We describe our implementation, and illustrate the operation of the prototype

User Acceptance of Mobile Payments: A Theoretical Model for Mobile Payments

Mobile payment refers to the use of mobile devices to conduct payment transactions. Users can use mobile devices for remote and proximity payments; moreover, they can purchase digital contents and physical goods and services. It offers an alternative payment method for consumers. However, there are relative low adoption rates in this payment method. This research aims to identify and explore key factors that affect the decision of whether to use mobile payments. Two well-established theories, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT), are applied to investigate user acceptance of mobile payments. Survey data from mobile payments users will be used to test the proposed hypothesis and the model