Background and Objectives: Patient discharge process starts from the point of the initial order of the physician order and continues to the discharge time of a patient and the release of the bed that was allocated to him/her. Lengthening the patient discharge process is regarded as a negative factor in the management of beds; this lengthy process leads to delay...

This paper first reviews different types of uncertainty. In order to construct fuzzy counterparts of Brownian motion and stochastic calculus, this paper proposes some basic concepts of fuzzy process, including fuzzy calculus and fuzzy differential equation. Those new concepts are also extended to hybrid process and uncertain process. A basic stock model is presented, thus opening up a way to fu...

several processes have been proposed for natural gas liquefaction due to the vast utilization of lng as a reliable and relatively easy to use fuel. even though the merits and demerits of different process have been studied, a dearth of comprehensive technical and economical comparative investigation of these methods makes further broad examination a necessity. this article is presented to addre...

a real-time optimization (rto) strategy incorporating the fuzzy sets theory is developed, where the problem constraints obtained from process considerations are treated in fuzzy environment. furthermore, the objective function is penalized by a fuzzified form of the key process constraints. to enable using conventional optimization techniques, the resulting fuzzy optimization problem is then re...

the aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of coupling an electrochemical process with a biological treatment in order to degrade phosmet, an organophosphorous pesticide. the absence of biodegradability of phosmet by pseudomonas fluorescens and activated sludge was verified in our operational conditions. so, a conventional biological treatment is not appropriate for phosmet polluted...

process mining includes the automated discovery of petri nets from event logs. these event logs are the starting point for various discovery and analysis techniques of the process.  in this paper process model is developed using colored petri nets (cpns) and the supporting software package cpn tools. the restaurant process model is represented for the analysis using a combination of process min...

uncertainty inherent in the financial market was usually consid- ered to be random. however, randomness is only one special type of uncer- tainty and appropriate when describing objective information. for describing subjective information it is preferred to assume that uncertainty is fuzzy. this paper defines the expected payoof trading strategies in a fuzzy financial market within the framewor...

Preparations are prepared, using completely clean slides and aqueous suspensions of young bacterial agar cultures. A drop of the suspension is placed on one end of the slide; the slide is then tipped, making the suspension drain down to the opposite end (Society of American Bacteriologists, Manual of Microbiological Methods, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1957). Both the mordanting and the sta...