Advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) are perceived by companies to be an important element in surpassing competitiveness. However, excelling in today’s market is not as simple as the acquisition of new technologies alone. To achieve the desired benefits, the structure and infrastructure of organizations must match to ensure that the implementation of technologies lead to the expected bene...

Much has been written and spoken in tribute to Sir Gordon Arthur Ransome (G.A. R. to those who know him well) ; none of these have done adequate justice to the greatness of this Man. My tribute here would befall the same fate. Nevertheless, I shall try to pay tribute to G.A.R. -a tribute to the man I knew. G.A.R. was a humble man. He treated his students and junior staff as his equal. He talked...

Introduction: The health cheque system is a prepayment mechanism aimed at reducing neonatal and maternal mortality through improving the management of pregnant women. woman with that she pays six thousand francs XAF (African financial community) covered free charge for all care provided by in facilities accredited to project. We did study, objective determine hospital outcome newborns (HCS) com...

We live in a world which is increasingly electronic, particularly in terms of the global economy. However, the development of information and communication technology is also affecting personal finances. Far more people than ever before now have bank accounts, use cheque cards, credit cards, debit cards and ‘smart’ cards, and pay their bills by direct debit or standing order. Their accounts are...

This list is based upon a reading list produced from its holdings by the Library and Information Service at the Stirling Dementia Services Development Centre. The Christian Council on Ageing Dementia Group has now added further material to the list which includes material on spirituality, on dementia and on the links between the two. Items are listed under types of material in chronological ord...

We describe the cursive script recognition module of a cheque processing system currently under development at the Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (CENPARMI). Common systems perform recognition either on a character by character basis, or on a word level. The present study investigates the recognition at a higher level of abstraction, at the sentence level. Our computati...

Information security is not just to provide an authenticity and integrity to the data, but there is also a need to seek identity, rights of use and origin of information, which may require some degree of process re-engineering. Rarely security technologies like digital signatures can be simply “plugged in” without streamlining the process. In this paper we address the problem of information sec...

Mobile crowdsensing systems employ crowd smartphones to collect data using these device-embedded sensors. The increase in the number of users and volume has limited possibility cellular networks. In this regard, collector need be able send their publishers with less delay device-to-device (D2D) communication. This paper proposes an incentive mechanism for improving transmission rate multiple mo...