BACKGROUND In healthcare today, decisions are made in the face of serious resource constraints. Healthcare managers are struggling to provide high quality care, manage resources effectively, and meet changing patient needs. Healthcare managers who are constantly making difficult resource decisions desire a way to improve their priority setting processes. Despite the wealth of existing priority ...

Ramalingam, G. and Reps, T., On competitive on-line algorithms for the dynamic priority-ordering problem. The vertices of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) are said to be correctly prioritized if every vertex v in the graph is assigned a priority, denoted by priority(v), such that if there is an edge in the DAG from vertex v to vertex w then priority(v) < priority(w). The dynamic priority-ordering...

Screening for poverty. 2,3 Providing health care to uninsured migrants.4 Advocating for a national pharmacare program.5 These are but 3 examples of how family physicians are currently actualizing social accountability in Canada at the individual (micro), community (meso), and system (macro) levels. Social accountability is the social contract that medicine has with society.6 For care to be soci...

The ever-growing mobile market and the number of services offered by the network providers, which are increasing with every passing day, has reinforced the need for optimized CAC schemes. The introduction of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) has resulted in extensive reuse of frequency and therefore the birth of microcells has increased the number of handovers especially in metropolitan citi...

Trust in government is a significant factor influencing the public acceptability of environmental tax. Without trust, implementing and sustaining new tax policy challenging due to resistance. However, gaining trust from even more developing countries where corruption common issue. Despite risk rejection, many countries, including Malaysia, are adopting carbon as reduce emissions. This has raise...

Flow control is the dominant technique currently used in communication networks for preventing excess traffic from flooding the network, and for handling congestion. In ratebased flow control, transmission rates of sessions are adjusted in an end-to-end manner through a sequence of operations. In this work, we present a theory of max-min fair, ratebased flow control sensitive to priorities of d...