Many U.S. metro cities’ municipal wireless projects have been delayed or canceled. Cost forecasting, market penetration rates, and changing technologies are factors that contribute launch failure. Although larger cities have tried, smaller towns are more successful due to the lack of commercial competition. This paper takes the issues of price, cost, and market share of WiFi municipal wireless ...

1College of Medicine, Tikrit, Iraq. 2Public Health Laboratory, Al-Tameem, Iraq. 3Directorate of Health, Al-Tameem, Iraq. Received: 12/02/2002; accepted: 14/05/2002 ABSTRACT To determine the rates of malarial infection in different areas of Al-Tameem province, we conducted a cross-sectional study from 1991 to 2000. We found an overall infection rate of 0.76% by Plasmodium vivax. Infection rates ...

OBJECTIVE to assess the predictive validity of the Manchester Triage System implemented in a municipal hospital in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. METHOD cohort prospective and analytical study. The sample of 300 patients was stratified by color groups. The outcome measured was the scores, obtained by patients in each classification group in the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System--28, 24 hou...

This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of Peste des Petits Ruminant (PPR) in sheep herds different areas Iraq - Kirkuk region by using ELISA test technique. According clinical findings, presence seropositive samples PPR kit and method revealed sera obtained from blood lambs suspected disease. results, 47% antibodies against virus all used were positive. Presence antibody detecte...

Abstract During the war with Islamic State in northern Iraq (2014–17), a notable number of Kurdish women joined Peshmerga (Iraqi-Kurdish fighters), military forces Regional Government (KRG) an effort to prevent State’s advance into oil-rich city Kirkuk. Besides causing international resonance, presence fighters was publicized by KRG as sign modernity and gender equality. However, once ended, pe...

This paper analyses the problem of sub-national revenue mobilization in Peru and proposes several policy reforms to improve collection performance while maintaining a sound revenue structure. We analyze the current revenues of regional and municipal governments and identify the main priorities of reform. Among the most important problems are the acute inequalities and inefficiencies associated ...

WiFi offloading has been recently proposed as a cost-effective solution for coming up against the unprecedented increase in the mobile data traffic volume. However, apart from reducing the operational costs of a network operator, WiFi offloading can be also promoted as an alternative low-cost access service for users with low willingness-to-pay. In this paper, we consider a monopolistic scenari...