Moving beyond questions about “services” and “the services economy,” this panel considers fresh ways of thinking about service innovation in the era of pervasive digitization. Panelists will argue that our understanding of digital services and products is radically transformed if we consider all exchanges to be service-for-service exchanges in which customers and suppliers co-create value in ex...

This article proposes the XGOP-B deterministic traffic model for MPEG video services requiring strict bounds on the quality of service provided by the network. The XGOP-B model takes advantage of two characteristics of MPEG video traffic by performing a two-level analysis of such sources. In our scheme, the traffic parameters are directly obtained by a single-input single-output parameter extra...

Abstract Background In sub-Saharan Africa, the material and human capacity to diagnose patients reporting with fever healthcare providers is largely insufficient. Febrile are typically treated presumptively antimalarials and/or antibiotics. Such over-prescription can lead drug resistance involves unnecessary costs health system. International funding for malaria currently not sufficient control...

this paper examines the accuracy of valuation models in providing reasonable estimation of the market values of listed companies in tehran stock exchange (tse). six valuation models including gordon growth model, two stage dividend discount model, adjusted present value, price to earning ratio and residual income were examined in this study. in addition, three proxies represent the market value...

BACKGROUND The development of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) forms an integral part of the information strategy for the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, with the aim of facilitating health information exchange for patient care and secondary use, including research and healthcare planning. Implementing EHR systems requires an understanding of patient expectations for consent mechanisms...

Scientific digital library systems are a very promising application area for value-added expert advice services. Such systems could significantly reduce the search and evaluation costs of information products for students and scientists. This holds for pure digital libraries as well as for traditional scientific libraries with online public access catalogs (OPAC). In this contribution we first ...

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