OBJECTIVE To identify the main areas of uncertainty and subsequent research priorities to inform the ongoing debate around assisted dying. DESIGN Two-round electronic modified Delphi consultation with experts and interested bodies. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS 110 groups and individuals interested in the subject of end-of-life care and/or assisted dying were approached to participate. Responden...

The job of a scientist is to make a discovery and then communicate this new knowledge to others. For a scientist to be successful, he or she needs to be able to claim credit or priority for discoveries throughout their career. However, despite being fundamental to the reward system of science, the principles for establishing the "priority of discovery" are rarely discussed. Here we break down p...

Product mix problem (PMP) is one of the most important and complicated problems in production systems. Different approaches have been applied to solve this problem, among them, theory of constraints (TOC) has been widely considered since 1990s. This paper develops a distinguished algorithm to solve product mix prob-lems that is efficient both in single and multi-bottleneck problems. At first, t...

BACKGROUND General Practitioners (GPs) often have to simultaneously tackle multiple health problems of older patients. A patient-centred process that engages the patient in setting health priorities for treatment is needed. We investigated whether a structured priority-setting consultation reconciles the often-differing doctor-patient views on the importance of problems. DESIGN Cluster random...

making decision about capital structure is one of the hardest and challengeable problems for the companies, and also it is the greatest importance decision about their permanence. this paper investigates factors affecting capital structure among 70 samples of small business in ahwaz. data was gathered from accounting evidences and data questioners. parametric and nonparametric statistical techn...

AIM To ascertain health priorities of older patients and treatment priorities of their general practitioners (GP) on the basis of a geriatric assessment and to determine the agreement between these priorities. METHODS The study included a sample of 9 general practitioners in Hannover, Germany, and a stratified sample of 35 patients (2-5 patients per practice, 18 female, average age 77.7 years...

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a method based on teamwork to identify potential failures and problems in a system, design, process and service in order to remove them. The important part of this method is determining the risk priorities of failure modes using the risk priority number (RPN). However, this traditional RPN method has several shortcomings. Therefore, in this paper we p...