introduction: pulmonary tuberculosis is major problem worldwide and it is estimated one third the world population are already infected and each year 9 million people develop full blown tuberculosis of these 3 million die of the disease, annually. delay in diagnosis and treatment are major problems that play a significant role in all aspect of the disease from patient treatment to transmission ...

This paper investigates a food supply chain model consisting of the supplier, producer and multi-retailer deteriorating item under fully delay-in-payment partial advance payment scheme. The deterioration rate raw material is dependent on temperature other environmental factors with respect to time. Here, prepares after collecting from supplier then storing it in cold storage. refrigeration cost...

In 1995 a group of 1724 randomly selected Minnesota taxpayers was informed by letter that the returns they were about to file would be ‘closely examined’. Compared to a control group that did not receive this letter, low and middle-income taxpayers in the treatment group on average increased tax payments compared to the previous year, which we interpret as indicating the presence of noncomplian...

Abstract This research conducted in one construction company Indonesia, the was facing several problems, many projects that already ended have delays. Overdue payment of can reach Rp 252.544.148.-. For calculating late save researcher using Critical Path Method (CPM)-Crashing. CPM-Crashing method accelerate project duration by increase resource budget, so doesn’t need to pay overdue payment. Th...

Background: Physiotherapy services constitute a principle part of health care systems, and interest in their use has increased in the recent decades.  This study was conducted to investigate the utilization and OOP payment for physiotherapy services in public hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran.    Methods: This cross-sectional study was c...

Delay/Disruption tolerant networking (DTN) is another class of network communication techniques developed to sustain long link delay and frequent link disruption. Lot of work have been done in evaluating the effectiveness and performance of the different type of DTN Protocols when they are applied on different environment (like the environment where we don’t have continuous path between source ...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES Declining fee schedules, decreasing operating margins, and increasingly stringent compliance regulations create a need for intense scrutiny and optimization of a radiology organization's billing and collection procedures. The authors' goal was to analyze the effectiveness of departmental professional billing procedures, identify controllable factors, and intervene when ...

Results: Using ASQ 18% of children were detected as having developmental disorders. Developmental screening with PDQ showed that developmental delay or doubtful condition was seen in 20% and 19% of children respectively. The estimated consistency coefficient between PDQ II and ASQ for fine and gross motor domains was 0.05 and 0.24, and for language and personal-social issues were 0.18 and 0.06,...

Two experiments were conducted to investigate how individuals evaluate future outcomes. Normative decision models postulate that the value of future outcomes should be discounted as a function of time. The present research obtained discounted values for single outcomes in the future but did not obtain discounted values for outcomes presented in series. In Experiment 1, students evaluated (a) co...