Directory Service Research Articles

Server Temperature Monitoring System Using Web Based Censor And SMS Gateway

Server is computer that act as servant in network. Server manage data traffic and provide resource for user in the network. Some roles of server are file server, database server, print server, directory server, and web server. Performance of the server must be monitor. Censor is a device that can transform a value from one form to another form. The data for Server temperature monitoring system collected using DS1621 censor. Steps in design of server temperature monitoring systems are using waterfall methods that is problem identification and data collection in the planning process, requirement analysis, hardware and software integration design, database design, menu design, STD, coding with flowchart, testing, summary and maintenance. Censor in the server temperature monitoring will send temperature data using sms gateway to the administrator. Administrator will be informed as soon as possible if the server having upper limit temperature and can act immediately to resolve the problems.

187 Capturing the Providers of Services to Older Persons – An Exercise in Integration of Care

Abstract Background There is much focus on the dearth of resources within healthcare systems, with a focus on health services. In 2018, we held a speed networking event for two local areas of a HSE Community Healthcare Organisation. This highlighted the vast array of supports available to assist older people to live well. This, alongside a Listening to Older Person’s Workshop, highlighted the need for a local directory of services. Methods In considering potential networking attendees, a social determinants of health approach (Dahlgren and Whitehead, 1991) was adopted to scope all supports available across community, acute, voluntary and statutory health and social care services within the area. This was expanded on further to develop the directory. Results The directory provides details of 358 organisations, individuals and groups available to support older persons within a catchment area with a population of 13,833 older persons (CSO Census, 2016). Hospital services comprised 27 of these while community HSE and GP health services made up 130. The remaining 201 were local and national NGOs and community groups ranging in service provision, a sample of which as follows: 39 provided some level of social/education engagement, three befriending, 18 counselling, five housing specific, 11 substance dependency, 12 provided supports to persons impacted by abuse. A further 20 national NGOs provided a local service or helpline with a focus on a particular health diagnosis. Conclusion This exercise shows the vast number of services available within just one small region, to support older persons to live well at home. The directory has been approved as a template for other networks in the CHO. It is being adapted into an online version by an interagency group. Using this template nationally has the potential to overcome gaps in health service resources, and support true integration, in line with the ICPOP (2016) 10 step framework.

Authentication and Authorization Mechanism for Cloud Security

Cloud Computing is a most widespread and popular form of computing, promising high reliability for customers and providers both at the same point of time for many fields, where cloud storage security is based on Authentication and Authorization in cloud computing. Data is uploaded into a cloud and stored in a datacenter, Authentication and authorization are the major concerns to access the data stored in cloud by users from the data center. Security is a major issue; these are mainly deal with identity and access management, prevention of data loss and malware attack control management. In this paper we majorly concentrated on Authentication and Authorization to cloud access, we focused on identity management mechanism as cloud security solution that provides directory services for application access management. We discussed the protocols that support authorization and allows the communication across applications with the help of tokens instead of credentials. We even concentrated on the different mechanisms which plays a major role in designing a secured cloud computing architecture from malicious intrusions and attacks, it is a step to verify the presence and functioning of the cloud customers and cloud providers through security mechanisms to protect from different risks, threats and attacks. In this paper we discussed different security Algorithms and Authentication architecture along with the proposed algorithm, where analysis is done along with the computational evaluation with output

Automatic Speech Recognition Systems for Regional Languages in India

Speech recognition systems has made remarkable progress in last ¬few decades such as Siri, Google assistant, Cortana. For improving the automation in services of all sectors including medical, agriculture, voice dialling, directory services, education, automobile etc., ASR systems must be built for regional languages as most of the Indian population in not familiar with English. Lots of work is done for English language but not for regional languages in India. Developing ASR and ASU systems will change the scenario of current service sector. There are many challenges in building ASR system, Noise reduction is a one of the challenging and still unsolved parameters which affects a lot on performance of any ASR system. Basically, three models required for building any ASR systems- Language model, acoustic model and pronunciation model. In this paper, discussed various parameters affecting on building ASR systems, development of ASR systems, Tools and Techniques used for building an ASR system and research on regional languages ASR system. Deep Neural network (DNN) provides a better way of recognising a speech and accuracy is high.

Development of the Pan African burn services directory

BackgroundInternational burn societies in many parts of the world have created electronic registries of burn centers in their region. No such directory exists for the continent of Africa. ObjectiveTo create the first electronic directory of burn care providers in Africa. MethodologyEmails were sent out to attendees of the Pan African Burn Congress and members of the Pan African Burn Society (PABS) asking if they would like to participate in the directory. Basic information about each burn site were obtained from respondents and compiled into the directory. An online interactive map was created and made available to the public. Results40 burn sites were identified across 14 different countries. The majority of burn sites are located in only 5 countries. The most common language spoken is English, followed by French, Amharic, and Afrikaans. ConclusionThis is the first known online directory of burn sites in Africa. Significant challenges exist identifying burn care providers in large portions of the continent.

ConsenSGX: Scaling Anonymous Communications Networks with Trusted Execution Environments

AbstractAnonymous communications networks enable individuals to maintain their privacy online. The most popular such network is Tor, with about two million daily users; however, Tor is reaching limits of its scalability. One of the main scalability bottlenecks of Tor and similar network designs originates from the requirement of distributing a global view of the servers in the network to all network clients. This requirement is in place to avoidepistemic attacks, in which adversaries who know which parts of the network certain clients do and do not know about can rule in or out those clients from being responsible for particular network traffic.In this work, we introduce a novel solution to this scalability problem by leveraging oblivious RAM constructions and trusted execution environments in order to enable clients to fetch only the parts of the network view they require, without the directory servers learning which parts are being fetched. We compare the performance of our design with the current Tor mechanism and other related works to show one to two orders of magnitude better performance from an end-to-end perspective. We analyse the requirements to actually deploy such a scheme today and conclude that it would only require a small fraction (<2.5%) of the relays to have the required hardware support; moreover, these relays can perform their roles with minimal network bandwidth requirements.

OpenLDAP directory service structure as a search filter

OpenLDAP directory service structure as a search filter

Software tools for web mapping systems

Technologies and software components developed for geoinformation web systems and geoportal services are considered. The program and user interfaces, implementation features, the general architecture of the projected systems are discussed. In particular, we consider a subsystem for visualizing the web map data, a CSW directory service, a style editor for geoportal maps and layers. Examples of completed developments and experience of implementation are given.

Cross-Network Directory Service: Infrastructure to enable collaborations across distributed research networks.

IntroductionExisting large‐scale distributed health data networks are disconnected even as they address related questions of healthcare research and public policy. This paper describes the design and implementation of a fully functional prototype open‐source tool, the Cross‐Network Directory Service (CNDS), which addresses much of what keeps distributed networks disconnected from each other.MethodsThe set of services needed to implement a Cross‐Directory Service was identified through engagement with stakeholders and workgroup members. CNDS was implemented using PCORnet and Sentinel network instances and tested by participating data partners.ResultsWeb services that enable the four major functional features of the service (registration, discovery, communication, and governance) were developed and placed into an open‐source repository. The services include a robust metadata model that is extensible to accommodate a virtually unlimited inventory of metadata fields, without requiring any further software development. The user interfaces are programmatically generated based on the contents of the metadata model.ConclusionThe CNDS pilot project gathered functional requirements from stakeholders and collaborating partners to build a software application to enable cross‐network data and resource sharing. The two partners—one from Sentinel and one from PCORnet—tested the software. They successfully entered metadata about their organizations and data sources and then used the Discovery and Communication functionality to find data sources of interest and send a cross‐network query. The CNDS software can help integrate disparate health data networks by providing a mechanism for data partners to participate in multiple networks, share resources, and seamlessly send queries across those networks.

Application model for privileged account access control system in enterprise networks

Directory applications are utilized to centrally manage the high number of computers, user accounts, printers, servers, etc. While using the directory service, privileged accounts are used to execute the operation of components and network services within the network infrastructures. These privileged accounts have wide authorizations on all the components within the directory service. One of the objectives of cyber-attacks on such systems is to obtain the passwords of such accounts. Thus, a model is designed and presented in this study in order to enable the privileged accounts to be controlled, managed, and followed at minimum cost. This application model enabled the determination of passwords of privileged user accounts in accordance with the fundamental IT security principles, establishment of stronger passwords, clarification of the limits of duties of IT personnel, a decrease in their work load, and an increase in the awareness of managers about IT security.

CERNBox: the CERN cloud storage hub

CERNBox is the CERN cloud storage hub. It allows synchronizing and sharing files on all major desktop and mobile platforms (Linux, Windows, MacOSX, Android, iOS) aiming to provide universal access and offline availability to any data stored in the CERN EOS infrastructure. With more than 16000 users registered in the system, CERNBox has responded to the high demand in our diverse community to an easily and accessible cloud storage solution that also provides integration with other CERN services for big science: visualization tools, interactive data analysis and real-time collaborative editing. Collaborative authoring of documents is now becoming standard practice with public cloud services, and within CERNBox we are looking into several options: from the collaborative editing of shared office documents with different solutions (Microsoft, OnlyOffice, Collabora) to integrating mark-down as well as LaTeX editors, to exploring the evolution of Jupyter Notebooks towards collaborative editing, where the latter leverages on the existing SWAN Physics analysis service. We report on our experience managing this technology and applicable use-cases, also in a broader scientific and research context and its future evolution with highlights on the current development status and future road map. In particular we will highlight the future move to an architecture based on micro services to easily adapt and evolve the service to the technology and usage evolution, notably to unify CERN home directory services.

Consistent Registration and Discovery Scheme for Devices and Web Service Providers Based on RAML Using Embedded RD in OCF IoT Network

The Internet of Things (IoT) is comprised of connected devices which are equipped with sensors, actuators, and applications to provide services for enabling those objects to connect and exchange data. For these connected devices and the IoT network environment, heterogeneous protocols and frameworks have been published and applied to provide novel IoT services in our daily life. On the Internet, most of the services are provided by existing web service providers which are based on the high-performance processor, storage, and stable power supply. However, devices of the IoT are developed for constrained environments using the small size of equipment to provide seamless services ubiquitously. For accessing the constrained devices and existing web service providers using the clients in the IoT networks such as smart homes, the services of servers from the devices and web service providers shall be discovered by the clients using a consistent discovery service. In this paper, a consistent registration and discovery scheme is proposed for the devices and web service providers in the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF)-based IoT network. For supporting the proposed scheme, an embedded resource directory (RD) server is proposed to provide a consistent registration service that is used for publishing information of devices and web service providers. For the registration, a unified profile format is used that is based on the RESTful API Modeling Language to describes the information of devices and web service providers. Furthermore, the discovery service provides the consistent interface to discover the registered devices and web service providers by the client using the unified user interface. Accordingly, the client can access the resources of devices and web service providers based on the discovered information.

Simplifying Caregiver Resources in Eldercare: Identifying the Support Needs of Caregiving Employees

Background: The majority of long-term care provided to older adults and persons with disabilities is provided by unpaid family caregivers and friends. Employers have a stake in long-term care services as well since 60% of caregivers are employed outside the home, 49% have gone in late, left early, or taken time off during the day to deal with caregiving issues, and 15% have taken a prolonged leave of absence. Additionally, 87% of employed caregivers make telephone calls for caregiving from work. Presentism, the state of being on-the-job, but because of caregiving not fully functioning, can greatly reduce individual productivity. Caregivers emphasize the need for information to assist in their tasks with the major barriers to utilization of caregiver resources identified as lack of awareness of available services, challenges accessing community services, and understanding eligibility criteria. Context: Roobrik is an online decision support tool which uses branching tree questions about caregiver and dependent characteristics to help identify caregiver needs, matching these to local community services. The Council on Aging of Middle Tennessee’s (COA) Directory of Services provides a comprehensive online community resource guide. The human resources department of four Nashville-based employers previously supportive of COA’s work were contacted and agreed to provide information to employees experiencing caregiver concerns. Volunteer employed caregivers willing to utilize the Roobrik Tool and the COA directory and contribute to a focus group discussion were invited to participate. Methods: Phase I. Focus group responses from 19 participants were recorded by an experienced journalist and primary themes categorized by the focus group leader according to questions posed to the participants. Phase II. Secondary themes were developed by expert consensus following review of individual responses by three investigators guided by categories of the 2015 National Alliance for Caregiving’s National Caregiver Survey. Results: Caregivers spent less than 15 minutes to research and determine the most appropriate local care options. Half of caregivers contacted later planned to act on these recommendations. Based on focus group questions, primary themes were identified: 1) utilization of automated decision support tools, 2) how decision support tools help caregivers understand the caregiver role, 3) ways to improve decision support tool function, and 4) recommendations for improvement of decision support resources. Based on the content of specific caregiver responses, these secondary themes were identified: 1) information needs-medical, legal, quality of life, and the processes involved in obtaining services, 2) needs for specific community support services, 3) need for informal and professional emotional support to reduce caregiver stress, and 4) ways the workplace can support employed caregivers. Workplace policies including flexible time, caregiver support groups, and working remotely may be beneficial to caregivers as well as the workplace. Conclusion: Our experience implementing a demonstration of the Roobrik tool coupled with the online COA Directory of Services suggests these may be useful and accessible caregiver resources that simplify care navigation. Some caregiver needs are beyond the capability of online decision support and may require personal guidance.

Assemblages of altruism in urban service delivery: Seamful designs and cities

ABSTRACTLack of access to services is one of the chief difficulties faced by marginalized urban communities. The proximity of digital technologies and data promises to remove a key constraint to greater access: the unequal distribution of information. However, issues of digital literacy and affordability and the local specificity of services make opportunities for achieving well-being both a technical and ethical concern. We discuss 2 community-based projects—one in Western Sydney, Australia, and the other in Dhaka, Bangladesh—that sought to unpack this interface through prototyping a combination of offline and online service directories. Through these, we explore what we have termed altruistic assemblages—circulations of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), researchers, local communities, service providers, hackathons, co-design events, and technology devices. The contributed time, resources, hopes and care of these assemblages do not presuppose a finite solution to urban service delivery but rather offer a prefigurative politics for the more equitable cities to come.

Exploring the power of social hub services

Given the diverse focuses of emerging online social networks (OSNs), it is common that a user has signed up on multiple OSNs. Social hub services, a.k.a., social directory services, help each user manage and exhibit her OSN accounts on one webpage. In this work, we conduct a data-driven study by crawling over one million user profiles from about.me, a representative online social hub service. Our study aims at gaining insights on cross-OSN social influence from the crawled data. We first analyze the composition of the social hub users. For each user, we collect her social accounts from her social hub webpage, and aggregate the content generated by these accounts on different OSNs to gain a comprehensive view of this user. According to our analysis, there is a high probability that a user would provide consistent information on different OSNs. We then explore the correlation between user activities on different OSNs, based on which we propose a cross-OSN social influence prediction model. With the model, we can accurately predict a user’s social influence on emerging OSNs, such as Instagram, Foursquare, and Flickr, based on her data published on well-established OSNs like Twitter.

The impact of GDPR on WHOIS: Implications for businesses facing cybercrime

To protect privacy rights, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been effectively blocking access to the personal information of individuals who register Internet domains. Prior to the May 2018 GDPR enforcement deadline, this information was available through WHOIS, the directory service maintained by the ICANN, the organisation that manages the global domain system. By preventing access to this information, GDPR is depriving cyber security professionals of data that is vital for fighting a variety of Internet-based crimes. ICANN and European authorities have been engaged in high-stakes negotiations over who may legally access the data in the future, and how. To address the concerns of security professionals and others, ICANN has proposed creating a tiered system to allow accredited users, including security professionals, to continue accessing personal data. However, how that tiered system would work is unclear, complicated and mired in controversy. Corporate security officials should take note, as it could speed up the already rapidly escalating problem of cybercrime.

Does haste always make waste? Service quantity, service quality, and incentives in speed-intensive service firms

Research demonstrates a tradeoff between service quantity and service quality that creates a tension for firms who wish to incentivize both aspects of service performance. We propose a category of speed-intensive services in which prompt responsiveness is the primary driver of service quality. In these firms, service quantity and quality should exhibit a positive interrelationship. Daily data on service quantity and quality performance were collected for 24 months, for a total of 1414 observations, from a telephone directory service firm, an affiliate of major telecommunication firm in an Asian country. We use a generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation to test their interrelationship and the effect of financial incentives on service performance. Contrary to the typical tradeoff effect, the results reveal that service quantity positively affects service quality performance and vice versa. In addition, we surprisingly find that incentives have no effect on service quantity performance and decrease service quality performance, and that overall performance declines with employee experience. This suggests that these firms do not face a tradeoff between service quantity and quality, but may face a long-term tradeoff between customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction.

The LinkVan Project: Participatory Technology Design in Vancouver

This article tells the story of “LinkVan,” a project that explores approaches to participatory technology design to forge more equitable digital and social relations in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) community of Vancouver, British Columbia. LinkVan began as a project to create a literacy-friendly online service directory for low-income and homeless citizens. We trace the experiences and patterns of digital inequality that led to the formation of the project and describe the evolving approach to technology design oriented to “the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use” (Simonsen & Robertson, 2013 p. 2). We consider insights from 58 user experience interviews that suggest the precariousness of access, the centrality of digital literacy education in participatory technology design, and the potential of side-by-side ‘conversations at the interface’ (Attar, 2005; Barbatsis, Comacho, & Jackson, 2004) to imagine new digital landscapes and new social relations.

Disability concentration and access to rehabilitation services: a pilot spatial assessment applying geographic information system analysis

Purpose: Due to geographical disparities, many people with profound or severe disabilities experience considerable delays in rehabilitation treatment, resulting in threats to quality of life. This pilot study aims to identify areas in Greater Brisbane, Australia, with a higher concentration of people with profound or severe disabilities and to evaluate access to rehabilitation services in these areas.Methods: Data came from the 2016 Australian Census of Population and Housing and the National Health Services Directory. Four frequently used rehabilitation services by individuals with profound or severe disabilities (i.e., occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech pathology and psychology) were the focus of the analysis. The data were analyzed using geospatial analysis methods (e.g., spatial scan statistic and network analysis).Results: A higher concentration of rehabilitation services was found in the regions with lower disability prevalence and lower potential demand for rehabilitation services. In contrast, the regions with higher disability prevalence and higher potential demand for rehabilitation services experienced poorer access to rehabilitation services.Conclusion: The findings are expected to inform policy decisions about the prioritization of rehabilitation resources and derive evidence for planning more responsive service delivery.Implications for rehabilitationThe current study has demonstrated the utilization of geographic information system methods to facilitate rehabilitation service planning.Identification of disability concentration may inform locally responsive rehabilitation service delivery.Spatial assessment of mismatch between supply and potential demand may assist policy makers and service providers in the prioritization of rehabilitation resources.The current study contributes to the World Health Organization’s call for action to ensure adequate access to rehabilitation services by people with profound or severe disabilities.

The E-Health Experience in Australia: The National Health Services Directory (NHSD) and National Healthmap

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