Introduction: If the patients are not satisfied with the hospital, this results in switching behavior of patients. In this situation, among different hospitals, the patients choose the hospital with higher level of service quality. So, the main aim of this paper is investigating the effect of hospital's service quality on switching behavior of inpatients in Shahid Sadoughi Hospital of Yazd. Me...

The Pharos/Spring 2007 The author is a member of the Class of 2009 at Duke University School of Medicine. This essay won honorable mention in the 2006 Alpha Omega Alpha Helen H. Glaser Student Essay competition. All images are reprinted courtesy of the Duke University Medical Center Library, Trent Collection, History of Medicine Collections, and were photographed by the author with permission.

This paper describes an effort toward building Arabic cheque databases for research in recognition of handwritten Arabic cheques. Databases of Arabic legal amounts, Arabic subwords, courtesy amounts, Indian digits, and Arabic cheques are provided. This paper highlights the characteristics of the Arabic language and presents the various steps that have been completed to achieve this goal includi...

From the *Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation (by courtesy), University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, and xDepartment of Surgery, University of Vermo...

a PDF file, allowing easy navigation within the document through its bookmarks and hyperlinks. In this document references of the author's publications are marked in boldface type. The kitchen scene model used for the front page image is courtesy and copyright of LightWork Design Ltd.

The study aims to provide insight into the lives of parents adult children with drug addiction. We focus on how parents’ social life and interactions were affected by feelings guilt shame, they dealt stigma that often accompanies 32 semi-structured interviews conducted (age 46–70) 18–47) addiction in Sweden. Three themes emerged (1) Experiences guilt, courtesy stigma, (2) Impact relationships a...

Abstract The literature on civility navigates the gravitational pulls of binary camps: sceptics tend to emphasize how it operates as an instrument power; optimists its emancipatory potentials. While some scholarship has attempted reconcile these perspectives by showing can be both negative and positive, such theorization tends describe this relation in terms ambivalence. approaches rightly indi...

•The first step in advanced diagnostics and virtual surgical planning is the generation of a patient model.•Information can be added to model through image manipulation for diagnostic purposes.•The used preoperatively, but also intraoperatively postoperatively. The principles limitations orbital reconstruction have triggered technological developments past 2 decades. Because complex anatomy orb...