This work focuses on the B2B interaction between a service requester and a service provider in a healthcare environment. The requester is the primary caregiver responsible for managing the health of a population of patients. When a patient requires advanced care outside the requester’s expertise, the requester refers the patient to a provider and pays for the referral services. Treatment may su...

To achieve the most energy-efficient operation, this brief presents a circuit design technique for separating the power supply voltage (VDD) of flip-flops (FFs) from that of combinational circuits, called the higher voltage FF (HVFF). Although VDD scaling can reduce the energy, the minimum operating voltage (VDDmin) of FFs prevents the operation at the optimum supply voltage that minimizes the ...

PURPOSE As an alternative to the existing fee-for-service (FFS) system, a diagnosis-related group (DRG)-based payment system has been suggested. The aim of this study was to investigate the early results of pediatric appendicitis treatment under the DRG system, focusing on health care expenditure and quality of health care services. PATIENTS AND METHODS The medical records of 60 patients, 30 ...

the present study was conducted in the central region of khyber pakhtunkhwa (kpk), pakistan comprising seven districts: peshawar, charsadda, nowshera, mardan, swabi, kohat and hangu, during 2010. the objective was to analyze the perceived effect of farmer field school (ffs) approach on farmers’ capacity in controlling pre- and post- harvest losses. descriptive statistics were used to analyze th...

We propose radiation-hardened flip-flops (FFs) based on the adaptive coupling FF (ACFF) with low dynamic power and short delay overheads in a 65 nm Fully Depleted Silicon On Insulator (FDSOI) process. We designed four FFs composed of the master latch with PMOS pass-transistors to reduce delay time overheads and the slave latch with stacked transistors for high soft-error tolerance. We evaluated...

In this paper, we discuss solving the DLP over GF (36·97) by using the function field sieve (FFS) for breaking paring-based cryptosystems using the ηT pairing over GF (3 ). The extension degree 97 has been intensively used in benchmarking tests for the implementation of the ηT pairing, and the order (923-bit) of GF (3 6·97) is substantially larger than the previous world record (676-bit) of sol...

professor naoki ikegami’s “fee-for-service payment – an evil practice that must be stamped out” summarizes many of the failings of alternatives to fee-for-service (ffs) payment systems. his article also offers several suggestions for improving ffs systems. however, even powerful arguments against many of the alternatives to ffs, does not make a convincing argument for ffs systems. in addition, ...

A new interpretation of the basic vector of the free Fock space (FFS) and the FFS is proposed. The approximations to various equations with additional parameters, for n-point information (n-pi), are also considered in the case of non-polynomial nonlinearities.

We measured neutron-induced SEUs (Single Event Upsets) and MCUs (Multiple Cell Upsets) on FFs in a 65 nm bulk CMOS process. Measurement results show that maximum MCU / SEU ratio is 30.6% and is exponentially decreased by the distance between latches on FFs.

BACKGROUND To a) compare risk categories in patients selecting a capitation payment (CP) model with those in fee-for-service (FFS), b) determine the 3-year caries increment in the two groups, and c) compare the amount of delivered preventive care in the two groups. METHODS A comprehensive risk assessment was carried out in 1295 young adults attending eight Public Dental Clinics in the Scania ...