background decentralisation aims to bring services closer to the community and has been advocated in the health sector to improve quality, access and equity, and to empower local agencies, increase innovation and efficiency and bring healthcare and decision-making as close as possible to where people live and work. fiji has attempted two approaches to decentralisation. the current approach refl...

In this paper, loss probabilities and steady state probabilities of data packets for an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network are investigated under the buffer division and push-out schemes. Data packets are classified in classes k which arrive in Poisson fashion to the service facility and are served with general service rate under buffer division scheme, finite buffer space N is divided in...

Background Decentralisation aims to bring services closer to the community and has been advocated in the health sector to improve quality, access and equity, and to empower local agencies, increase innovation and efficiency and bring healthcare and decision-making as close as possible to where people live and work. Fiji has attempted two approaches to decentralisation. The current approach refl...

introduction one of the critical issues associated with sustainability in the twenty-first century is how cities are growing and developing in the space. rapid urban growth and physical development of cities cause disintegration of the spatial organization of cities and consequently spatial inequality between urban spaces. this phenomenon can be considered as spatial segregation or fragmentatio...

banking and financial services are important parts of the service industry. quality of service in the banking industry has a close relationship with customer satisfaction service system. banks could create competitive advantage by increasing customer satisfaction and reduce costs in today's competitive environment. this paper presents a decision-making model to obtain optimum tasks assigne...

Background Decentralisation in the health sector has been promoted in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) for many years. Inherently, decentralisation grants decision-making space to local level authorities over different functions such as: finance, human resources, service organization, and governance. However, there is paucity of studies which have assessed the actual use of decisi...

Amongst the wide range of parking solutions that can contribute to reduce parking problems or regulate parking activities, e Parking looks at developing and applying an innovative e-business application for parking space optimization. The purpose of this paper is to present the innovative e-business platform that has been deve loped, from a technical point of view, by the University of Zurich. ...