Abstract Background Cancer diagnosis may cause deep emotional and affective problems in patients and their families.Nowadays, however, despite its rising prevalence,cancer is no longer synonymous with death. Given the significance of emotional well-being in cancer patients, we decided to assess the frequency of psychological problems in seven to seventeen yearolds with acute lymphoblastic leu...

Scheduling has become an attractive area for artificial intelligence researchers. On other hand, in today's real-world manufacturing systems, the importance of an efficient maintenance schedule program cannot be ignored because it plays an important role in the success of manufacturing facilities. A maintenance program may be considered as the heath care of manufacturing machines and equipments...

PROSUR and SIAT Programs It is important that document and procedure configuration controls be managed closely to adequately promote reactor safety. The PROSUR and SIAT Programs provide important elements of this control. PROSUR The Prosur program is a single reference program that encompasses all plant system activities, for example: maintenance, operations, chemistry, surveillance tests. The ...

Traceability of requirements through the software development lifecycle (including supporting processes such as risk management and change management) is a difficult and expensive task. The implementation of effective traceability allows organizations to leverage its many advantages, such as impact analysis, product verification and validation, and facilitation of code maintenance. Traceability...

Explaining events by reference to something which did not happen is common in our daily explanatory practice. The world, it seems, is full of the consequences of things which did not happen and things that were left undone. The wound became septic because it was left untreated. The building succumbed to dry rot because maintenance was neglected. The child suffered because she was not removed fr...

In their editorial, Mannion and Braithwaite contend that the approach to solving the problem of unsafe care, Safety I, is flawed and requires a shift in thinking to what they are calling Safety II. We have reservations as to whether by itself the shift from Safety I to Safety II is sufficient. Perhaps our failure to improve outcomes in the field of patient safety and quality lies less in our ap...