background: tuberculosis (tb) is still a major cause of morbidity and mortality in both developed and developing countries. delay in accessing tuberculosis care is associated with the highest densities of mycobacterium tuberculosis (m. tuberculosis) bacilli on sputum smears. objectives: the current study aimed to determine the extent of delay, and the major health system contributing factors to...

The digitization of physical wallets into mobile applications is a promising trend, namely for payments, personal identification, and for grouping marketing items or digital tickets. Mobile digital services emerge on these areas promising to bring ease and convenience for wallet owners and, for place owners, lower costs on payment processing fees, increased service efficiency and a closer relat...

The 1993 production sharing contract (PSC) in Nigeria specifies different royalty rates for oil and gas investment. were fixed. This makes the fiscal arrangement to be regressive nature. Royalty rate of 20% is paid onshore investment using PSC. Hence, there a need make progressive. delayed framework was incorporated into the1993 PSC as progressive measure it dynamic. Two economic models develop...

Purpose: To identify the dispensing procedure at a pharmacy, investigate the possible operational problems that may lead to excessive patient waiting times as prescriptions are filled and to examine patient disposition to perceived delays at the pharmacy. Methods: The study was carried out in a 574-bed university teaching hospital in Ile – Ife, Nigeria. The subjects were out-patients who gave t...

A delay-locked loop (DLL) based built-in self test (BIST) circuit has been designed with a 0.18 μ m TSMC process (CM018) to test chip I/O speeds, specifically, the setup and hold times of I/O registers or buffers. The frequency lock range of the DLL is 150-600 MHz (4x). The DLL uses a combined phase detector and charge pump circuit (PD+CP) for increased speed and reduced jitter. The DLL also em...

In the era of 5G and beyond, advanced network technologies will be adopted along with providing high, diverse Quality Service (QoS) levels services. such a context, it is necessary to have more flexible responsive provisioning system than existing ones in 4G. This paper addresses issue fine-grained QoS payment, which benefits users providers. As solution, we propose Software Defined Networking ...

Nowadays, space missions display communication needs shifting away from the pure telecommunication standpoint. Present (Martian exploration, formation flying) and future (Moon, inhabited flights to Mars) missions give clear indications that the era of space networks in its widest sense is dawning. Interplanetary Internet (IPN) was proposed to define the architecture and protocols necessary to p...

This study aims to examine differences in the financial performance of Financial Institutions. The measured is Non Performing Loan (NPL), Return On Asset (ROA), and Current Ratio. population this research a institution listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). sampling method used purposive technique with criteria companies that have businesses consumer finance sector complete information proce...