Calling rates, phone

Originally introduced in the mid-late 1990s, mobile telephone networks have become well established in South Asia with access costs well below the rates in industrialised countries. At the time of writing, calling rates vary between US 0.05 per hour and 0.02 per minute of talk time in Pakistan, whereas in Australia the cost is between 0.05 and 0.10 per minute. Most adults and many younger people carry internet-enabled phones with them at all times, even in some of the remotest areas of the Himalayan Mountains. Mobile phone networks have eclipsed public landline telephone monopolies and have such a reliable reputation that mobile phone credits often serve as an informal payment settlement system. 

In his fee calculations, he adds the amount of time he will be spending directly with patients into the cost analysis. In addition to using his hourly salary rate, he includes the cost of his fringe benefits into these salary calculations. Because he also anticipates that his pharmacy technician will assist him with paperwork and phone calls, he considers adding a small percentage of a technician s time into the salary calculations. 

The study recorded the medical history, medications, symptom details, examination findings, final diagnosis, treatment plans and one-year outcomes (assessed by phone calls) of all referrals. In the first report of all 629 consecutive patients with definite TIA seen from January 2003 to December 2005, there were three strokes within seven days and 12 strokes within three months of follow-up, giving risks of 0.3% and 1.9%, respectively. The expected risk of stroke at three months as calculated by the ABCD score (Johnston et al. 2007) was 6%. Although there was no formal comparison arm of the study, the considerable reduction in observed rates of stroke compared with those expected by the ABCD score was reasonably attributed to urgent access to and treatment in a dedicated specialist neurovascular unit. However, it should be noted that this study only assessed stroke risk among patients referred to the clinic and not all those within the population. 

Firms that used to compete with Sandler for deals now put the crippled firm in their deals to get it some money. Just as important, they gave it information— market color, as traders like to call it. What was the spread on the A-rated trust preferred bonds What was the last bid How big were the blocks That kind of crucial information is what Sandler s traders used to see on their computer screens now, with the traders dead and the computers destroyed, the firm needed its rivals to convey the market color over the phone. Its competitors went one step further. They made sure we weren t being taken advantage of, says Joel Comer, the bond salesman turned trader partner and, once again, fixed income salesperson. ... 

Bluetooth (Bluetooth, 1999) is a wireless protocol using the license-free ISM band to connect mobile and desktop devices such as computers and computers peripherals, handheld devices, cell phones, etc. The aim is to produce low-cost, low-power, and very-short range devices able to convey voice and data transmissions at a maximum gross rate of 1 Mb/s. Bluetooth uses frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) with 1600 hops/s. For voice, a 64 kb/s full-duplex link called synchronous connection oriented... 

Externally paced activities—Work activities for which the worker does not have direct control of the rate of work. Externally paced work activities include activities which (1) the worker must keep up with an assembly line or an independently operating machine, (2) the worker must respond to a continuous queue (e.g., customers standing In line, phone calls at a switch). 

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