in this paper, the study deals with the lead time and setup reduction problem in the vendor-purchaser integrated inventory model. the cost of capital (i.e., opportunity cost) is one of the key factors in making the inventory and investment decisions. lead time is an important element in any inventory system. the proposed model is presents an integrated inventory model with controllable lead tim...

conclusions the results showed that heart failure had a negative impact on the quality of life for patients. therefore, evaluation and improvement of quality of life for these patients should be considered one of the duties of nurses. background currently, examining the quality of life is considered an important aspect of the study of chronic diseases. heart failure affects the quality of life ...

objectives: quality of life, when referring to an individual’s health, is called health-related quality of life. the purpose of this study is to assess self-perceived hearing loss related quality of life of adolescents with hearing loss and its relationship with sex, age sub-groups or school settings with domains of quality of life. methods: a school based survey was conducted in tehran city. u...

the current study aims to investigate the relationship between stock liquidity risk and financial information quality criteria (i.e. the timely dividends announcement, accruals quality and the percentage of profitability prediction error) of companies listed on the tehran stock exchange. for this purpose, 148 cases of data from listed companies, collected from 2007 to 2012, were employed in ord...

the karkheh dam reservoir with a capacity of more than 5 billion cubic meter is the largest dam in iran with both agricultural and drinking usages. its hydrodynamics and water quality were modeled and simulated to analyze the total maximum daily load (tmdl) of total dissolved solids (tds). the simulation was supported with measurements of temperature and tds measurements during two years. a lat...

among abundant image denoising methods proposed so far, the use of patchbased algorithms have attracted a lot of attention from image processingcommunity. although these methods are very powerful in presentation of highquality results, the impact of human visual system (hvs) is ignored in sole of them.in this paper the human visual geometry is used in preparation of a new method forimage denois...

quality function development (qfd) is a planning tools used to fulfill customer expectation and qfd is a systematic process to translating customer requirement (whats) into technical description (hows). qfd aims to maximize customer satisfactions related to enterprise satisfaction. the inherent fuzziness of relationships in qfd modeling justifies the use of fuzzy regression for estimating the r...