Adapting services for autism: Recommendations from a specialist multidisciplinary perspective using freelisting

The guidance available for tailoring mental health services for autistic people is limited and dispersed. Practitioners attempting to appropriately adapt mental healthcare and therapy provision report low confidence and inconsistency in their approach. This study contributes to the guidance by providing a shortlist of usable and priority adaptations for diagnostic and therapy services as described by multidisciplinary staff members responsible for the design and delivery of a specialist autism service in the UK. Individual freelisting interviews were conducted with 15 staff, who were asked to list the ways that they adapt their practice individually, within therapy, and collectively as a service. Salience and cultural consensus analyses demonstrated the following agreed priority service adaptations: ensuring the suitability of the service environment with consideration of sensory demands, adapting communication, knowing individual gender identity preferences and minimising client uncertainty. Detailed examples are given for flexibly adapting therapy to individual needs to inform general and specialist services. The findings require replication and evaluation.

Discount Schemes for the Preemptible Service of a Cloud Platform with Unutilized Capacity

Rapid growth in the cloud industry not only provides tremendous opportunities to cloud providers who have invested heavily in computing capacities, but also leads to low utilization of capacities at times. To alleviate this problem, some providers have launched a low-priority service with the so-called preemptible or spot instances, which allows them to reclaim capacities when necessary. This study focuses on an emerging market segment of customers with fault-tolerant computing jobs, who are the potential users of the preemptible instances. Through an analytical model that captures the underlying supply-demand dynamics, we examine a prevalent discount scheme, which provides all users the same discount, and its impact on key performance measures. Having realized that this is a relatively new market segment and there is room for improvement in discount-scheme designs, we propose an interruption-based discount scheme, which provides compensation to users based on the frequency of interruptions encountered by each of them. Our study suggests that the proposed scheme is fairer than the prevalent scheme from the customers’ perspective and that, in the presence of risk-averse customers, the cloud provider could be better off by adopting the proposed scheme when the supply of the surplus capacity is highly uncertain.

Comparative Content Analysis of Hotel Reviews by Mass Tourism Destination

This article examines user-generated content (UGC) related to hotels in three different mass tourism destinations (Antalya, Majorca, and Sharm El Sheikh) that offer services with the all-inclusive system (AIS) to comparatively analyses tourists' evaluations and emotions about service components. While the study was designed with the content analysis method, text mining and sentiment analysis were used together. Customer reviews (UGC) of top hotels in three different mass tourism destinations were collected from an on-line travel review site. A total of 3588 English hotel reviews were analysed by the R program. Analysis of the reviews for famous mass tourism destination hotels in the Mediterranean region has also clearly revealed the priority service characteristics (rooms, staff, and food) and dominant emotions for hotels in all destinations in comparison. Moreover, the multiple correspondence analysis results clearly show how the emotions about the services of the hotels in three different regions diverge. Analysis results provide important clues for mass tourism destination hotels working with AIS.

Analytical and Simulation Models of Dynamic Priority Service System (DPSS)

In Differentiated Services (DiffServ) architecture, Priority Service System (PSS) plays a vital responsibility to provide Quality-of-Service (QoS) for the applications based on networks. Priority queuing systems has always been a subject of interest for analytical modelling and evaluating the performance. However, previous works have mainly focused on performing priority queuing under range dependent traffics, namely Short Range Dependent (SRD) or Long Range Dependent (LRD). Recent studies revealed that realistic traffic demonstrates a heterogeneous nature for the modern networks that provide multiple services. In this paper, the results of analytical and simulation models of dynamic priority service systems is reviewed to study the heterogeneous traffic impact on designing and performance of the systems based on networks. In this paper, the results of analytical and simulation models of dynamic priority service systems is reviewed to investigate the impact of heterogeneous traffic on the design and performance of network-based systems. Here, the time of presence of requests in limited and unlimited buffer system is restricted. If the restriction is violated, the requests will be lost. The results of experiments conducted on both models are compared and it is identified that they differ in the allowable limit (2-9) %.

KEBUTUHAN LAYANAN TRANSPORTASI UMUM BAGI PENGGUNA KURSI RODA DI JABODETABEK

Public transportation is a service for transporting large quantities of passengers, managed with a specific schedule, having a fixed route, and charged a certain amount of cost on each trip. The most commonly used public transportation in Jabodetabek is KRL, MRT, and Transjakarta. Passengers using public transportation consist of disabled and non-handicapped. Wheelchair users use public transportation to support their daily activities. If there is a wheelchair users, public transportation company demanded to provide priority service. However, after a wheelchair-prioritized service is provided, a complaint from a wheelchair users appears. This article aims to anylize existing condition of public transportation service needs for wheelchair users with one sample T-Test method. The results defined the priority area and the presence of officers are less satisfy for wheelchair users. The Infrastructure such as lift, toilet, counter, corridor, access doos/exit, ramp, also gap for wheelchair users according to both respondents of wheelchair users are not satisfactory enough. Non-disability users are also not much provide assistance for wheelchair users. ABSTRAKTransportasi umum adalah layanan untuk mengangkut penumpang dalam jumlah banyak, dikelola dengan jadwal tertentu, memiliki rute yang tetap, dan dikenakan sejumlah biaya pada setiap perjalanan. Transportasi umum yang paling sering digunakan di Jabodetabek adalah KRL, MRT, dan Transjakarta. Penumpang yang menggunakan transportasi umum terdiri dari penyandang disabilitas dan non-disabilitas. Penyandang disabilitas pengguna kursi roda menggunakan transportasi umum untuk menunjang aktivitasnya sehari-hari. Terdapatnya pengguna kursi roda, membuat perusahaan transportasi umum dituntut untuk memiliki layanan priortias transportasi umum. Namun setelah diberikan layanan prioritas pengguna kursi roda, muncul keluhan dari pengguna kursi roda. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis kondisi eksisting kebutuhan layanan transportasi umum bagi pengguna kursi roda dengan metode One Sample T-Test. Hasil yang didapat menyatakan area prioritas dan keberadaan petugas kurang memuaskan bagi pengguna kursi roda. Infrastruktur seperti lift, toilet, loket, koridor, pintu akses masuk/keluar, ramp, juga celah untuk pengguna kursi roda menurut kedua responden pengguna kursi roda tidak cukup memuaskan. Pengguna non-disabilitas juga belum banyak yang memberikan bantuan untuk pengguna kursi roda.

Pemilihan Daerah Pelayanan Sampah di Bandung Utara Berdasarkan Parameter Daerah Prioritas SNI-19-2454-2002

The North Bandung Service Area (WP) is a waste WP which has a service level in 2017 of 79.5%, there are still some unserved areas. Each North Bandung WP has different regional characteristics, so according to previous research, service areas were formed using the cluster analysis method to classify regions based on regional characteristics in order to support the target service level of 90%. The purpose of this planning is for the development of previous research by planning the existing priority service area waste management system as an effort to achieve the target of waste services in WP North Bandung. The selection of priority areas is based on the parameters for determining priority areas for SNI 19-2454-2002. This research is expected to solve the problem of waste management system in WP North Bandung.