The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) in Afghanistan has developed a balanced scorecard (BSC) to regularly monitor the progress of its strategy to deliver a basic package of health services. Although frequently used in other health-care settings, this represents the first time that the BSC has been employed in a developing country. The BSC was designed via a collaborative process focusing on tra...

The present paper focuses on the application of the base station cooperation (BSC) technique in fractional frequency reuse (FFR) networks. Fractional frequency reuse is considered to be a promising scheme for avoiding the inter-cell interference problem in OFDMA cellular systems, such as WiMAX, in which the edge mobile stations (MSs) of adjacent cells use different subchannels for separate tran...

‘VR’ instead of a mark indicates that a student has been exempted from an examination or practical exercise. The board of examiners may decide to exempt students from an examination or practical exercise on the grounds of a previous examination, degree audit or practical exercise completed within the higher education system that corresponds with the subject for which exemption is sought, as reg...

INTRODUCTION The indiscriminate use of different diagnostic criteria for the definition of dyslipidemia may result in inaccurate interpretations, which could compromise diagnosis and therefore the therapeutic and prophylactic actions to be taken. OBJECTIVE To analyze possible differences in prevalence rates of dyslipidemia in adolescents based on three diagnostic definitions. METHODS A cros...

Abstract • We assess the recovery of microbial networks underneath crust to repeated rainfall. The network fragmentation after second heavy rain was milder than at first one. Cohesive were related high enzyme activity involved in C, N, and P cycles. Loose Ca, K, Mg, NH 4 organic N. dry-crusted soils collapsed rain. Biological soil crusts (BSCs) are an important multi-trophic component arid ecos...

This study examines the influence of the social networks of the board of directors on the use of Balanced Scorecard (BSC) practices. Combining insights from research on social networks in management and literature on organizational innovativeness and accounting, our theoretical framework suggests that interlocking directorates influence the likelihood of BSC use. Modelling variation in the rela...

It is still a challenging problem to characterize uncertainty and imprecision between specific (singleton) clusters with arbitrary shapes sizes. In order solve such problem, we propose belief shift clustering (BSC) method for dealing object data. The BSC considered as the evidential version of mean or mode seeking under theory functions. First, new notion, called shift, provided preliminarily a...