Schwartz Center rounds were piloted by the King's Fund in 2009 and other hospital trusts have now taken up the concept. The rounds provide a forum for staff to discuss social and emotional issues surrounding patient care, and lead to changes in the workplace.

In this paper we propose a “prediction-correction” framework to model traveler’s perception evolution under network disruption. Distinctive from existing models, the proposed framework assumes drivers make their trip choices according to their predictions on future traffic, since previous daily experiences become invalid when network is disrupted. Drivers predict travel costs after network disr...

But at other moments, the classroom is so lifeless or painful or confused—and I am so powerless to do anything about it—that my claim to be a teacher seems a transparent sham. Then the enemy is everywhere: in those students from some alien planet, in that subject I thought I knew, and in the personal pathology that keeps me earning my living this way. What a fool I was to imagine that I had mas...

There are many situations in daily life when a queue is formed. Queuing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines and it is very useful for analyzing the procedure of queuing of daily life of human being. Queuing theory applies not only in day to day life but also in sequence of computer programming, networks, medical field, banking sectors etc. In this paper, we analyze the basic featu...

So far, various methods have been presented for determining reference crop evapotranspiration in different parts of the world. The most popular and prestigious of them are probably the combined methods of Penman family, modified Blany-Criddle, Hargreaves - Samani and thornthwaite. Due to lack of lysimeter data in many parts of Iran, presenting an equation according to the regional condition wit...

introduction: breathing rehabilitation techniques are designed to reduce symptoms, decrease disability, increase participation in physical and social activities, and improve the overall quality of life for individuals with chronic respiratory disease. however, the role of these techniques remains unclear. this study examined the effects of pursed-lip breathing (plb) education on the respiratory...

introduction: fasting, like islamic ramadan fasting, has been associated with health benefits. islamic ramadan fasting, a form of caloric restriction (cr) or alternate day fasting that. studies suggest a comparable effect of adf and caloric restriction. despite the fact that fasting can be considered as a form of dietary restriction, fasters tend to have difficulty to reduce their food intake d...

literature concerning the effects of ramadan fasting on sports performance presents conflicting results. in this context, some studies reported a significant impairment of sports performance during the month of ramadan. however, other studies suggested that ramadan fasting has no significant effect on physical performance.  the discrepancies between the studies could be explained by time-of-day...