To comply with clinical agency agreements, nursing administrators and faculty need to be attentive to the management of immunization requests, especially those that are divergent from CDC or state recommendations. As nursing students usually bear the cost of additional immunizations and testing, immunization requirements may represent a barrier in using all available clinical sites. Medical ins...

This paper describes the development of the Measure to Manage Performance (M2P) method for preparing Service Level Agreements for IT outsourcing contracts in the Australian Government sector. This method links the payment for the provision of services that support business applications with an assessment of penalties or bonuses that reflect the quality of these services in business terms. The m...

Scholarly Contributions [Data Provided by ] A lightweight secure mobile Payment protocol for vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) Balancing energy consumption with mobile agents in wireless sensor networks Impact of denial of service solutions on network quality of service Service level agreements (SLAs) parameter negotiation between heterogeneous 4G wireless network operators (2011) Pervasive an...

Advanced business applications typically involve well-defined standard business functions such as payment processing, shipping and tracking, managing market risk and so on, which apply to a variety of application scenarios. Although such business functions drive transactional applications between trading partners they are completely external to current Web services transaction mechanisms as the...

in business format franchising agreements, franchisee, while dependent to other party of the contract (franchisor), follows the method of business belonging to franchisor. franchisee use of the system leads to many obligations such as payment of franchise fees, secrecy of know how, non competition and making available all necessary factors to use the system. irrespective of the law which govern...

The increasing intensity of resource traffic within distributed environments requires powerful instruments for controlling the system. Accessing computing resources can have varying requirements in accordance with specific user parameters and profiles. Service Level Agreements have been validated by the research community as being useful instruments for regulating the exchange of resources. Ser...

about its effectiveness will have to be high, and payers will need to be concerned about inappropriate use. Their four-year-old analysis of the factors needed for risk-sharing arrangements to succeed still rings true. Earlier this year, Aetna and Cigna signed deals with Novartis that link payments for its new heart failure medication, a valsartan–sacubitril combination (Entresto), to the hospit...

Complex Event Processing describes the problem of timely and continuous processing of event streams. The load of Complex Event Processing systems can vary (e.g., event rates). Static resource provision leads to higher monetary costs because enough resources have to be provided to efficiently handle peak loads. Therefore, most of the time the resources will not be fully utilized. One way to achi...

The article focuses on the ongoing economic processes associated with conclusion of concession agreements in Perm and Territory. It is noted that two dozen such have been concluded over past year. Based study information concessions Perm, it shown not all are beneficial. notes analysis relevance agreements. Despite fact closely monitored by various structures, or social effect does always manif...