A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MUTIPLE TRASACTIONS FOR A SINGLE PAYMENT

Present disclosure provides a system and method for providing multiple transactions by tapping multiple cards consecutively on a Point of Sale (PoS) device (104) for a single payment. The system may include a PoS device (104) and a network server (109). The PoS device (104) receives merchant input for a payment. The merchant (102) input includes total transaction amount and payment split input into the PoS device (104). The payment split input indicates the total number of customers who desire to divide the total transaction amount within themselves. The PoS device (104) splits the total amount by the number input by the merchant (102). The PoS device (104) then receives payment card information related to each of the at least two customers (105, 106) based on the split calculation. After receiving all the payment card details, the PoS device (104) sends the card details to the network server (109) for authorisation. The network server (109) sends authorization requests related to each of the at least two customers (105, 106) to a respective acquirer entity via the communication network (108). Upon receiving authorization responses from the network server (109), the PoS device (104) generates a single receipt to the merchant including the multiple payment transactions details related to each of the at least two customers (105, 106). This reduces the idling time on the PoS device (104). Thereby, a quicker and efficient payment process may be achieved

Developing a rheumatology team to meet a growing need in Africa: Let’s not forget to feed the cow

In many African countries the burden of preventable communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, lower respiratory infections, malaria and diarrhoeal diseases is overwhelming

Cervical Cancer Health Literacy Among Female Librarians in Imo State, Nigeria

Abstract Purpose: to assess the cervical cancer knowledge of female librarians in Imo State. The assessment was in terms of the risk factors; signs and symptoms, screening and control. Design: It was a descriptive survey of female librarians in Nigeria. Findings: Female librarians have very poor knowledge of cervical cancer health in all its ramifications. And up-take was abysmally low (5%). Urgent intervention is needed to raise their awareness. Originality/Value: It is the first survey of librarians’ cervical cancer health literacy in Nigeria. Data collected provides good bases for intervention and policy. Keywords: Librarians, cervical cancer, health literacy, cervical cancer literacy, health information, female librarians. Paper Type: Original research article

Where there is no toilet: water and sanitation environments of domestic and facility births in Tanzania.

BACKGROUND: Inadequate water and sanitation during childbirth are likely to lead to poor maternal and newborn outcomes. This paper uses existing data sources to assess the water and sanitation (WATSAN) environment surrounding births in Tanzania in order to interrogate whether such estimates could be useful for guiding research, policy and monitoring initiatives. METHODS: We used the most recent Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) to characterise the delivery location of births occurring between 2005 and 2010. Births occurring in domestic environments were characterised as WATSAN-safe if the home fulfilled international definitions of improved water and improved sanitation access. We used the 2006 Service Provision Assessment survey to characterise the WATSAN environment of facilities that conduct deliveries. We combined estimates from both surveys to describe the proportion of all births occurring in WATSAN-safe environments and conducted an equity analysis based on DHS wealth quintiles and eight geographic zones. RESULTS: 42.9% (95% confidence interval: 41.6%-44.2%) of all births occurred in the woman's home. Among these, only 1.5% (95% confidence interval: 1.2%-2.0%) were estimated to have taken place in WATSAN-safe conditions. 74% of all health facilities conducted deliveries. Among these, only 44% of facilities overall and 24% of facility delivery rooms were WATSAN-safe. Combining the estimates, we showed that 30.5% of all births in Tanzania took place in a WATSAN-safe environment (range of uncertainty 25%-42%). Large wealth-based inequalities existed in the proportion of births occurring in domestic environments based on wealth quintile and geographical zone. CONCLUSION: Existing data sources can be useful in national monitoring and prioritisation of interventions to improve poor WATSAN environments during childbirth. However, a better conceptual understanding of potentially harmful exposures and better data are needed in order to devise and apply more empirical definitions of WATSAN-safe environments, both at home and in facilities

Design of Suspension System for an All-Terrain Vehicles

The main agenda of this paper is to study the different parameters or characteristics of suspension system of an ATV. It is very much important for the suspension system that the wheel should be in contact with road surface, because there are some forces acting on the vehicle from downside, is referred as ground forces or road forces. We have designed front suspension as an A-Arm type and that of rear as an H-Arm type. Both the suspension systems are independent suspension systems. For these types of suspension systems, we required to calculate the important parameters like ride rate, roll rate, natural frequency, wheel rate, motion ratio, spring rate, damping ratio and factor of safety. By calculating all the parameters further we have done analysis of this parameters by solid work software and LOTUS Shark

The problem of shot selection in basketball

In basketball, every time the offense produces a shot opportunity the player with the ball must decide whether the shot is worth taking. In this paper, I explore the question of when a team should shoot and when they should pass up the shot by considering a simple theoretical model of the shot selection process, in which the quality of shot opportunities generated by the offense is assumed to fall randomly within a uniform distribution. I derive an answer to the question "how likely must the shot be to go in before the player should take it?", and show that this "lower cutoff" for shot quality $f$ depends crucially on the number $n$ of shot opportunities remaining (say, before the shot clock expires), with larger $n$ demanding that only higher-quality shots should be taken. The function $f(n)$ is also derived in the presence of a finite turnover rate and used to predict the shooting rate of an optimal-shooting team as a function of time. This prediction is compared to observed shooting rates from the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the comparison suggests that NBA players tend to wait too long before shooting and undervalue the probability of committing a turnover.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures; comparison to NBA data adde

Why not? Understanding the spatial clustering of private facility-based delivery and financial reasons for homebirths in Nigeria.

BACKGROUND: In Nigeria, the provision of public and private healthcare vary geographically, contributing to variations in one's healthcare surroundings across space. Facility-based delivery (FBD) is also spatially heterogeneous. Levels of FBD and private FBD are significantly lower for women in certain south-eastern and northern regions. The potential influence of childbirth services frequented by the community on individual's barriers to healthcare utilization is under-studied, possibly due to the lack of suitable data. Using individual-level data, we present a novel analytical approach to examine the relationship between women's reasons for homebirth and community-level, health-seeking surroundings. We aim to assess the extent to which cost or finance acts as a barrier for FBD across geographic areas with varying levels of private FBD in Nigeria. METHOD: The most recent live births of 20,467 women were georeferenced to 889 locations in the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. Using these locations as the analytical unit, spatial clusters of high/low private FBD were detected with Kulldorff statistics in the SatScan software package. We then obtained the predicted percentages of women who self-reported financial reasons for homebirth from an adjusted generalized linear model for these clusters. RESULTS: Overall private FBD was 13.6% (95%CI = 11.9,15.5). We found ten clusters of low private FBD (average level: 0.8, 95%CI = 0.8,0.8) and seven clusters of high private FBD (average level: 37.9, 95%CI = 37.6,38.2). Clusters of low private FBD were primarily located in the north, and the Bayelsa and Cross River States. Financial barrier was associated with high private FBD at the cluster level - 10% increase in private FBD was associated with + 1.94% (95%CI = 1.69,2.18) in nonusers citing cost as a reason for homebirth. CONCLUSIONS: In communities where private FBD is common, women who stay home for childbirth might have mild increased difficulties in gaining effective access to public care, or face an overriding preference to use private services, among other potential factors. The analytical approach presented in this study enables further research of the differentials in individuals' reasons for service non-uptake across varying contexts of healthcare surroundings. This will help better devise context-specific strategies to improve health service utilization in resource-scarce settings