Decentralization occupies an important space in debates over public-sector reform in doi moi Vietnam. This paper assesses the changing distribution of roles, responsibilities and resources across levels of government over the past decade. Vietnam is incrementally transfering greater administrative and fiscal responsibilities to the provincial level. In addition, the Communist Party is attemptin...

BACKGROUND Increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has been observed in Ghana as in other developing countries. Past research focused on NCDs among adults. Recent researches, however, provide evidence on NCDs among children in many countries, including Ghana. Beliefs about the cause of NCDs among children may be determined by the socioeconomic status of parents and care givers...

One of the most vital construction project aspects is to complete a in minimum time restricted time–cost trade-off. Overlapping activities’ planning and their impact on under limited resource constraints should be considered. This study aims develop model for optimizing schedule cost regarding overlap activities impacts. reviews previous studies changes past likely produce additional reworking ...

The growing amount of available information and the growing importance given to the access to technical information enhance the potential role of NLP applications in enabling users to deal with information for a variety of knowledge domains. In this process, lexical resources are crucial. Using and comparing already existent wordnets for common and technical lexica, we set up a basis for integr...

In the conditions of military aggression, resource limitation, actual transition to weapons, equipment and standards NATO member countries, issue centralization existing defense management system security sector Ukraine is becoming more urgent. A constellation scientists was engaged in researching management, but new challenges are not taken into account construction mechanism, which determines...

today, the country's banking system, according to the discussions to join the world trade organization is encountered with new challenges such as entry of foreign banks, emerging private banks and increasing the activities of financial and credit institutions. therefore, in order to survive and compete in this dynamic environment banking organizations require paying more attention to human...