The State Government in California has recognized the value of Electronic Commerce (EC) and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) technologies in reducing the cost and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of purchasing and contracting transactions, as well as furthering its other social and economic goals [5]. The State was also encouraged by the successful implementations of EC by the State ...

The Born-Oppenheimer Approximation (BOA) forms the basis for calculating electronically adiabatic potential energy surfaces, thus providing the framework for developing a molecular level understanding of a variety of important chemical problems. For surface chemistry at metal surfaces, it is now clear that for some processes electronically nonadiabatic effects can be important, even dominant; h...

dear editor computer is one of the fundamental tools in applying most electronically-based teaching methods. many studies on the students of university of medical sciences have been focused on their computer and internet skill levels. the skill levels in using computers and internet in isfahan university of medical sciences (iums) were estimated 14.87 and 12 (from 20), respectively (1) and this...

Background Obesity continues to be a serious public health challenge. Rates are increasing worldwide, with nearly 70% of the US adults overweight or obese, leading to increased clinical and economic burden. While successful approaches for achieving weight loss have been identified, techniques for long-term maintenance of initial weight loss have largely been unsuccessful. Financial incentive in...

This Case Study will be used in order to investigate and establish the importance of role of Management Information System in time saving during the payment of automobile tax in Sindh through e-filling methods. Moreover it will also highlight the important factors which are involved as barriers and limit the role of MIS in time saving techniques. The approach which is used in this case study is...

The Payments System Board of the Reserve Bank has responsibility for, among other things, promoting stability, efficiency and competition in the payments system. In respect of retail payment systems, the Board’s work has focused on: establishing clearer price signals to cardholders; removing restrictions on merchants that limit their choices in accepting payment instruments; improving access to...

1. The authors state that they study the impact of a pay-for-performance payment system on quality of care of hip fracture. However, they report that not all hospitals in the study are paid according the DRG payment system linked to performance (page 4). What they compared is the performance of hospitals according to different payment systems. The payment system changed only for a small part of...