Physician scheduling is the assignment of physicians to perform different duties in the hospital timetable. In this paper, the goals are to satisfy as many physicians’ preferences and duty requirements as possible while ensuring optimum usage of available resources. We present a mathematical programming model to represent the problem as a bi-objective optimization problem. Three different metho...

Using computer-generated data calculated with set amounts of random error (E = 1, 5 & 10%) associated with calculated qPCR cycle number (C ) at four jth 1:10 DNA dilutions, we found that the “efficiency” (ε) associated with each population distribution of n = 10,000 measurements varied from 0.95 to 1.05 for E = 1% (ε average = 1.00 ± 0.0132; ε coefficient of variation or CV ~ 1%), 0.85 to 1.2 f...

in this research, efficiency of iranian forest and rangeland decision making unit was assessed using non-parametric method. inputs and outputs determined by field research and with applying a delphi method the final input and output variables selected. forty five wood-producing units (forestry plans) in three northern iranian province were studied using data envelopment analysis. the efficiency...

We establish a uniform error estimate of a finite difference method for the Klein-Gordon-Schrödinger (KGS) equations with two dimensionless parameters 0 < γ ≤ 1 and 0 < ε ≤ 1, which are the mass ratio and inversely proportional to the speed of light, respectively. In the simultaneously nonrelativistic and massless limit regimes, i.e., γ ∼ ε and ε → 0, the KGS equations converge singularly to th...

The linear Schrödinger equation with periodic potentials is an important model in solid state physics. The most efficient direct simulation using a Bloch decomposition based time-splitting spectral method [18] requires the mesh size to be O(ε) where ε is the scaled semiclassical parameter. In this paper, we generalize the Gaussian beam method introduced in [23] to solve this problem asymptotica...