background equity of access to health and provider payment mechanism in healthcare is a worldwide debated. healthcare reforms are primarily designed to improve productivity, economic efficiency and quality of care; however, an appropriate reimbursement of healthcare providers for services offered to patients and marinating a robust payment mechanism are not elucidated yet. conclusions no single...

Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners: Fraud can be well-hidden, and limited reputation systems reduce accountability. But partners are not paid until after their work is complete, and advertisers can extend this delay both to improve detection of improper partner practices and to punish partners who turn out to be rule-breakers. ...

The purpose of this study is to identify the underlying causes of late payment from the contractors’ perspective in the Malaysian construction industry and to recommend effective solutions to mitigate late payment problems. The target groups of respondents in this study were Grades G3, G5, G6 and G7 contractors with specialization in building works and civil engineering works registered with th...

The present study was carried out to investigate Goyal’s model (1985) and Teng’s model (2002) using the algebraic method to determine the optimal cycle time under delay payments. This paper provides algebraic approach that must be considered as a pedagogical advantage for explaining the inventory concept to students that lack knowledge of derivatives. This algebraic approach could therefore be ...

In IEEE 802.11 based WLANs, nodes sharing an access point (AP) have the equal opportunity to access the link (or channel) through a random access MAC protocol. In consequence, a node sending more packets observes longer delay than other nodes sending less packets. It would be fair enough for best-effort service since the communication cost is not determined by the amount of traffic sent. In a c...