As the new requirements for wireless sensor networks are emerging, real-time communications is becoming a major research challenge because resource-constrained sensor nodes are not powerful enough to accommodate the complexity of the protocol. In addition, an efficient energy management scheme has naturally been a concern in wireless sensor networks for a long time. However, the existing scheme...

PURPOSE Identifying at-risk adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients and referring them to age-appropriate psychosocial support services may be instrumental in reducing psychological distress and promoting psychosocial adaptation. The purpose of this study is to identify trajectories of clinically significant levels of distress throughout the first year following diagnosis and to distin...

Background & Aims: The most common problem of unsatisfied couples is failure in communication skills and the ability to control emotions. Psychological well-being is one of the most important success factors in marital life. The aim of this study was to compare communication skills, psychological well-being, and alexithymia between female applicants and non-applicants of divorc...

In the previous chapter we assumed that replenishment is instantaneous and no shortage is permitted (shortage cost infinity).In this chapter we assume that replenishment of inventory does not materialize immediately as placement of order ,rather takes a random amount of time for order materialization .Thus we have now a finite shortage cost situation. Another salient feature of this chapter is ...

INTRODUCTION Penile prosthesis implantation is one of the treatment choices that is kept for patients who were not satisfied with other treatments. Although penile prosthesis satisfaction rates are higher, there are some dissatisfied patients. The patients’ reasons are mostly shortness and softness of implanted prosthesis. It was previously demonstrated that penile axial rigidity of more than 5...

This work addresses the visibility of feminist demands for justice on Twitter through a selection 927 tweets generated in Latin American countries, collected and processed using digital techniques. The findings show that 96 cases, most are unsolved femicides few achieve high visibility, characterized by immediacy, popularity, multimedia content. conclusion is there possibilities positioning uns...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to measure knowledge and attitude of undergraduate medical students towards patient safety concepts, and to detect variation by the mode of learning. METHODOLOGY A cross sectional study administrated an anonymous questionnaire to a random sample of 150 medical students graduated from two national medical schools, one follow the traditional lecture based learning (L...