The results of acceptability curves are shown in Figure 3.
We simulated 10,000 trials and plotted the results on cost-effectiveness acceptability curve stratified by cost-effectiveness thresholds to determine which treatment to use under different budgetary restraints.
Voters: Voters are based on a relative judgement on result acceptability by comparison of variant results (Pullum [2001]).
Regarding fault tolerance based on software diversity, three major design issues need to be considered, namely, selection of variants; variant execution schemes; and judgement on results acceptability.
Design issue II - judgement on result acceptability: Adjudicators, or decision mechanisms, generally come in two flavours, voters and Acceptance Tests (ATs).
Second, we graphed results on a cost-effectiveness acceptability curve, which starts from the assumption that cost-effectiveness ratios are considered attractive if the estimates are less than the amount society would be willing to pay for an additional unit gain in health.
This result is consistent with research on acceptability of Kato's device for cervical cancer screening [ 6] and low perceived risk of cervical cancer as a major reason for Malaysian women never having a Pap smear [ 31].
Additionally the solutions that were targeted supported one or more issues identified in the taxonomy (Figure 4), i.e., selection of variant services, execution of variants and judgement on result acceptability.
Thus, this paper not only presents results on the safety, feasibility, and acceptability of CHW provision of DMPA in the Zambian context, but it also focuses on the impact and costs of adding DMPA to an established community-based family planning program.
Presented in the Results section are findings from the Phase 1 focus groups on acceptability of oral health education generally, acceptability of curriculum content, preferred activities and lesson format.
