background ghana’s national health insurance scheme (nhis), established by an act of parliament (act 650), in 2003 and since replaced by act 852 of 2012 remains, in african terms, unprecedented in terms of growth and coverage. as a result, the scheme has received praise for its associated legal reforms, clinical audit mechanisms and for serving as a hub for knowledge sharing and learning within...

Smart grid concept is introduced to modify the power grid by utilizing new information and communication technology. Smart grid needs live power consumption monitoring to provide required services and for this issue, bi-directional communication is essential. Security and privacy are the most important requirements that should be provided in the communication. Because of the complex design of s...

A non-malleable code is a variant of an encoding scheme which is resilient to tampering attacks. The main idea behind non-malleable coding is that the adversary should not be able to obtain any valuable information about the message. Non-malleable codes are used in tamper-resilient cryptography and protecting memories against tampering attacks. Many different types of non-malleability have alre...

this study was carried out to evaluate the ekiti state social security scheme (essss) in nigeria. specifically, the study estimated the food security status of the beneficiaries and non beneficiaries of the scheme, assessed the effect of the social security scheme on households’ food security status, and identified the constraints to the implementation of the scheme in the state. a three stage ...

‎in this article‎, ‎we introduce a new type iterative scheme for‎ ‎approximating common fixed points of two asymptotically‎ ‎nonexpansive mappings is defined‎, ‎and weak and strong convergence‎ ‎theorem are proved for the new iterative scheme in a uniformly‎ ‎convex banach space‎. ‎the results obtained in this article‎ ‎represent an extension as well as refinement of previous known‎ ‎resu...

In this paper, a new implicit nonstandard finite difference scheme for conservation laws, which preserving the property of TVD (total variation diminishing) of the solution, is proposed. This scheme is derived by using nonlocal approximation for nonlinear terms of partial differential equation. Schemes preserving the essential physical property of TVD are of great importance in practice. Such s...

This paper proposes an MPC - based (model predictive control) scheme to control active and reactive powers of DERs (distributed energy resources) in a grid - connected mode (either through a bus with its associated loads as a PCC (point of common coupling) or an MG (micro - grid)). DER may be a DG (distributed generation) or an ESS (energy storage system). In the proposed scheme, the set - poin...

In this paper, for the numerical approximation of random partial differential equations (RPDEs) of parabolic type, an explicit higher order finite difference scheme is constructed. In continuation the main properties of deterministic difference schemes, i.e. consistency, stability and convergency are developed for the random cases. It is shown that the proposed random difference scheme has thes...

A novel and robust scheme for radix-4 Booth scheme implemented in Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor (CNTFET) technology has been presented in this paper. The main advantage of the proposed scheme is its improved speed performance compared with previous designs. With the help of modifications applied to the encoder section using Pass Transistor Logic (PTL), the corresponding capacitances o...

Performance assessment is exceedingly considered a key concept in teacher education programs worldwide. Accordingly, in Iran, a national assessment system was proposed by Farhangian University to assess the professional competencies of its ELT graduates. The concerns regarding the validity and authenticity of traditional measures of teachers' competencies have motivated us to devise a localized...