Cassava value addition efforts suffer a serious setback in Nigeria despite huge production potentials due to weak linkage between producers and processors. Psaltry cassava out-grower scheme thus emerged as model facilitate the needed boost farmers' productivity. The need understand how has encouraged increased productivity informed this study on effects of enhancing smallholder Oyo State, Niger...

Abstract The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was established in 2003, Act, 2003 (Act 650), but later replaced with the 2012 852) to get rid of then “cash and carry” system paying for healthcare. aim scheme reduce cost healthcare provision increase access This paper investigates effect on utilization out-of-pocket payment, from providers’ perspective. study uses data seventh round ...

In 2004, W. C. Ku and S. M. Chen proposed an efficient remote user authentication scheme using smart cards to solve the security problems of Chien et al.’s scheme. Recently, Hsu and Yoon et al. pointed out the security weakness of the Ku and Chen’s scheme Furthermore, Yoon et al.’s scheme also proposed a new efficient remote user authentication scheme using smart cards. This paper analyzes the ...

This article examines the asymmetric volatility spillover effects between Bitcoin and alternative coin markets at disaggregate level. We apply a frequency connectedness approach to daily data of 11 major cryptocurrencies for period from 1 September 2017 2 March 2022. try uncover existence “fear missing out” psychological effect “pump-and-dump schemes” in crypto markets. To do that, we estimate ...

In this paper, we propose and investigate a spectrum sharing scheme in two cellular wireless networks. This scheme specifies various considerations of how to share the licensed radio spectrum of one network with another, including how to rent out the spectrum to another network and how to withdraw the original spectrum from the renting network. For each network, we figure out explicit expressio...

In 2002, Chien–Jan–Tseng introduced an efficient remote user authentication scheme using smart cards. Further, in 2004, W. C. Ku and S. M. Chen proposed an efficient remote user authentication scheme using smart cards to solve the security problems of Chien et al.’s scheme. Recently, Hsu and Yoon et al. pointed out the security weakness of the Ku and Chen’s scheme Furthermore, Yoon et al. modif...