in today’s competitive word, it is so important to offer a new way in the cycle of production and supply by which the maximum efficiency will be achieved. the problem of applying cross-docking operations in logistics and supply chain network design, as a new and applicable approach, has attracted much attention in both academic and industrial areas. the matter making this strategy be highly wel...

T paper examines the link between a supplier’s marketing and service operations and its business customers’ subsequent repatronage behavior. We develop a dynamic model of service contract renewal for an individual firm, at the contract level, recognizing interdependencies among service contract renewal decisions due to the firm’s purchase of multiple contracts from the same supplier. The decisi...

PURPOSE LIFEspan is a service delivery model of continuous coordinated care developed and implemented by a cross-organization partnership between a pediatric and an adult rehabilitation hospital. Previous work explored enablers and barriers to establishing the partnership service. This paper examines healthcare professionals' (HCPs') experiences of 'real world' service delivery aimed at support...

This research paper aims to evaluate to what extent the service delivery processes can be improved in the Judicial Service Domain, in particular for developing countries. This report evaluates existing service delivery processes to identify drawbacks with them. It then proposes an improved Judicial Service Domain by incorporating the i* modelling framework into existing organisational model of ...

Business-to-Consumer e-commerce has not only increased the demand for package delivery services, such as those offered by Federal Express and UPS, but has also led to the development of new home delivery service models and activities such as grocery delivery services. By bringing goods “the last mile” to the customer’s front door, home delivery is seen by many as the ultimate value-added servic...

BACKGROUND Kenya abolished delivery fees in all public health facilities through a presidential directive effective on June 1, 2013 with an aim of promoting health facility delivery service utilization and reducing pregnancy-related mortality in the country. This paper aims to provide a brief overview of this policy's effect on health facility delivery service utilization and maternal mortality...

Policy measures for preventive and promotive services are increasingly reliant on contracting of NGOs. Contracting is a neo-liberal response relying on open market competition for service delivery tenders. In contracting of health services a common assumption is a monolithic NGO market. A case study of HIV control in Pakistan shows that in reality the NGO market comprises of parallel NGO networ...

An Ad-hoc network has a Provision of Quality of Service(QoS) to support multimedia applications. One of the most challenging tasks in Ad-hoc Network(MANET &VANET) is Quality of Service (QoS) which is determined by numerous parameters such as bandwidth and delay constraints, varying channel conditions, power limitations, node mobility,dynamic topology, packet delivery ratio, end-to-end delay and...

F inding ways to deliver drugs to specific, hard-toreach areas of the human body remains a major challenge in drug development. Drug molecules that enter the body via a pill or an injection circulate in the blood until they reach the target locationa process that can be slow and imprecise. For years, many chemists have been building synthetic nanomotorsnanoparticles that propel themselvesto ...

The expansion in distributed computing capabilities has led to a need to deliver services at different locations in networks, where demand is unpredictable. Giving all nodes in a distributed system the potential to deliver any service is likely to be a waste of resources, while extreme specialization on the part of individual nodes is likely to incur large overheads in terms of messaging and se...