methods in this study, 150 children diagnosed with liver disease and ascites upon admission to nemazee teaching hospital (shiraz, iran) were examined. patients were divided into spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and sterile ascetic fluid groups according to the pmn count ≥ 250/mm3 in the ascetic fluids. routine laboratory tests were conducted and quantitative c-reactive protein (crp) levels wer...

This research investigated the simulation model behaviour of a traditional and combined discrete event as well as agent based simulation models when modelling human reactive and proactive behaviour in human centric complex systems. A departmental store was chosen as human centric complex case study where the operation system of a fitting room in WomensWear department was investigated. We have l...

A key problem for shared-memory systems is unpredictable performance. A critical innuence on performance is page placement: a poor choice of home node can severely degrade application performance because of the increased latency of accessing remote rather than local data. Two approaches to page placement are the simple policies \\rst-touch" and \round-robin", but neither of these policies suits...

In the last few years, increasing attention has been paid to the development of health policies. But side by side with the presumed benefits of policy, many analysts share the opinion that a major drawback of health policies is their failure to make room for issues of human resources. Current approaches in human resources suggest a number of weaknesses: a reactive, ad hoc attitude towards probl...

This paper presents the design, implementation, performance analysis and applications of Java sensors based on the reactive system model. A Java sensor constantly monitors the state of an entity. Other entities can subscribe to a Java sensor and therefore are noti ed whenever the monitored state changes. The main advantage of using sensors is the ability to separate policies from mechanisms, pr...