Hospitals outsource several activities of the service support in order to focus on the core healthcare production as maintenance service. Recently, faced to the sophistication and the costs of medical equipment that continue to escalate, governments have implemented new reforms to control costs and improve the efficiency and the quality. Hospitals become interested in minimizing the total opera...

Board and System test can be carried out using PXI technology that maximizes the universal nature of Virtual Instrumentation while protecting investment in capital equipment, eliminating the dedicated test equipment that is made obsolete by new product design. With an ever-increasing base of PXI equipment available to the test engineer, selection of form factor should not be made, predicated on...

As THE PRINCIPLES OF COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT have evolved over the last two decades, most selection activities for electronic resources have developed from criteria established for print materials. For nonprint formats, selection criteria follow a generally standard model, varying only slightly as additional criteria are needed to assure equipment compatibility and storage security. Selection of...

BACKGROUND Access to resuscitation equipment is a critical component in delivering optimal care in pediatric arrest situations. Historically, children's hospitals and clinics have used a standard pediatric resuscitation cart ("standard cart") in which drawers are organized by intervention (eg, intubation module, intravenous module), requiring multiple drawers to be opened during a code. Many em...

MATERIALS Reagents AmpliTaq polymerase (Perkin Elmer) Bovine serum albumin (BSA) (nuclease-free; Boehringer Mannheim; stock 1.6 mg/ml) Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) (Aldrich) DNA in ES PCR Lysis buffer (include positive and negative controls) dNTPs (Pharmacia; stock of the mix 10 mM) ES colonies in G418 selection (see Electroporating DNA into Embryonic Stem (ES) Cells and Selection) Light mineral o...

specified medical condition(s). These criteria are intended to guide radiologists and referring physicians in making decisions regarding radiologic imaging and treatment. Generally, the complexity and severity of a patient’s clinical condition should dictate the selection of appropriate imaging procedures or treatments. Only those exams generally used for evaluation of the patient’s condition a...

In this study, a new optimal design method for buildings and urban energy systems is proposed. Also its applicability is analyzed through a simple case study. Multi Island Genetic Algorithms (MIGA) are adopted for this optimization. This method has two optimization steps, selection of equipment capacity and selection of system operational planning. These optimization steps are calculated simult...

Q.1. What factors govern the selection of a particular cleaning process for metallic surfaces Ans. Selection of cleaning process is mainly influenced by (a) Type of contaminants (b) Degree of cleanliness required (c) Composition of metal (d) Condition of metal (e) Thickness of rust and scale (f) Allowable metal loss (g) Surface finish tolerances (h) Shape and size of workpieces (i) Production r...