Pay-for-performance (P4P) is the provision of financial incentives to healthcare providers based on pre-specified performance targets. P4P has been used as a policy tool to improve healthcare provision globally. However, researchers tend to cluster into those working on high or low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with still limited knowledge exchange, potentially ...

Survival and success in present turbulent times increasingly depends on competitiveness. Competitiveness comes through an integrated effort across different functions and deployment of advanced manufacturing technologies. Advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) plays a major role in quality and flexibility improvements in manufacturing organizations. The automated “factory of the future” is see...

In this study we first propose and compare two frequencydomain motion estimation methods using phase correlation principle. Then, we focus on the particular case of subpixel translational movements, we evaluate the accuracy of these two registration methods and we give some practical hints for their implementation. Finally, we compare the performances of these methods for both an ideal theoreti...

Contemporary approaches to software performance engineering su er from weak integration with the design process and provide little feedback to developers. An approach to software performance modelling is presented, based on annotating design speci cations with performance parameters and operational analysis of queueing networks representing the hardware. Analytical sensitivity analysis is provi...

This paper presents an application for positioning and tracking of a mobile node in a BluetoothBased wireless networks. The addressed experimental real time application is tracking a football player in a match. The places of a player are calculated using triangulation positioning techniques via a small Body-Tag attached to the player. Furthermore, using this new methodology of positioning, the ...

The KM3NeT consortium aims at the construction of a research infrastructure in the Mediterranean deep sea, hosting a neutrino telescope with an instrumented volume of several km3 and an integrated platform for earth and deep sea sciences. The telescope location in the Mediterranean Sea will allow for surveying a large part of the Galactic Plane, including the Galactic Centre, thus complementing...

Solar passive techniques are being used in vernacular buildings throughout the world. Researchers have done extensive study on thermal performance of vernacular buildings in the different parts of the world. Vernacular architecture of North-Eastern India represents the principle of climate-responsive architecture, which still lacks experimental validation and quantitative analysis. Thermal comf...

Knowledge characteristics are the essential step in leveraging knowledge value in the university. Share Document, and contributes knowledge may not be useful without the context provided by experience. This paper focuses on the characteristics of knowledge in applied science private university and its effect on student’s performance, which aim to focus in the nature knowledge and the quality of...