Business processes and their implementation as Web Service Compositions are not only dependent on Web Services and partners all over the Internet, but also on their failsafe execution. Service providers have to obligate their services to perform according to negotiated Quality of Service (QoS) parameters. For example, response time and throughput are important parameters to achieve fast and eff...

BACKGROUND In England, prostate cancer patients report worse experience of care than patients with other cancers. However, no standard measure of patient experience of prostate cancer care is currently available. This paper describes an evaluation of the reliability, validity and acceptability of the PCQ-P, a newly developed instrument designed to measure patient experience of prostate cancer c...

The issues of research structural changes as applied to welded joints steam pipelines are considered. results metallographic analysis in the metal presented. There was carried out for a number samples cut from different sections line at operating time under creep and low-cycle fatigue conditions. In analyzing process images micro sections, relative content structural-phase components their dist...

introduction: patients' satisfaction (ps) is one of the important indicators of emergency care quality and outcomes of health care services. some researchers believe that improve the work processes and hospital quality are not possible without caring to comments, requirements, expectations, and satisfaction of patients. the percent study was aimed to assess the emergency department (ed) ps of p...

IEEE Transactions onServicesComputing and INFORMSService Science issued a joint call for papers targeting the bridging of service perspectives from business (e.g., service science, servicesmarketing and information systems) to services computing. The intent was to advance transdisciplinary research agendas that could generate advances that go beyond the sum of independent research streams. Aswi...

Under Section 20 (2) of the National Health Service Act, Local Authorities are required to serve copies of their Schemes for carrying out the duties imposed on them, to every voluntary organization providing in their areas services of the kind concerned. Copies of the Schemes dealing with the Mental Health Service (Sections 28 and 51) were therefore submitted to the National Association for Men...

this commentary explores some of the issues raised by gilbert et al.short communication, morality and markets in the nhs. the increasing role of market mechanisms and the changing types of healthcare providers together with the use of choice and competition to drive improvements in quality in the national health service (nhs), all have important ethical implications. in order for the nhs to con...

introduction: using pan or selective computed tomography (ct) scan in management of multiple trauma patient is a matter of debate. therefore, the present study was designed aiming to compare the findings of pan and selective ct scans in management of multiple trauma patients. method: this is a prospective cross-sectional study, on patients presented to the emergency department (ed) of shohadaye...

this paper describes a study that starts with an analysis of typical energy demand profiles in a hospital setting followed by a case study of a combined cooling, heating, and power (cchp) generation system.cchp is an autonomous system that combines the generation of electrical, heating, and cooling energy.the driving units are two high-efficiency gas engines that produce electrical and heat ene...