Modeling of ethical reasoning has been a matter of discussion and research among distinct scientific fields, however no definite model has demonstrated undeniable global superiority over the others. However, the context of application of moral reasoning can require one methodology over the other. In areas such as medicine where quality of life and the life itself of a patient may be at stake, t...

This paper analyzes a renewal input  working vacations queue with change over times and Bernoulli schedulevacation interruption under (a,c,b) policy.The service and vacation times are exponentially distributed.The server begins service if there are at least c units in the queue and the service takes place in batches with a minimum of size a and a maximum of size b (a

This study examines the productivity changes of decision making units in situation whereinput price vectors are varying between them and inputs are heterogeneous; that is a noncompetitivemarket. We present a directional measure of cost Malmquist productivity indexwhere incorporates the decision maker's preference over productivity change over time. Asimple numerical example is designed to illus...

OBJECTIVE To describe variability of pain intensity experienced by youths with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and examine factors related to within-day patterns of pain and the relationship between magnitude of pain variability and quality of life. METHODS Pain intensity was self-reported on a visual analog scale (VAS; range 0-100) by 112 youths with JIA ages 8-18 years using electronic ...

in the literature of life-testing, general progressive censoring has been studied extensively. but, all the results have been developed under the key assumption that the units undertest are independently distributed. in this paper, we study general progressively type-ii censored order statistics arising from identical units under test which are jointly distributed according to an archimedean co...

BACKGROUND National guidelines on MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) screening policy in England have changed on a number of occasions, but there is limited data on its influence at a local level. The aim of this study was to determine if changes in National policy influenced preoperative screening of cataract patients for MRSA. METHODS A structured telephone survey was conduc...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to find the correlation between the number, type, and placement of symmetric functional tooth units and the nutritional status using body mass index (BMI) and Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) in patients with both maxillary and mandibular removable partial dentures. MATERIALS AND METHODS A randomized study was conducted at the Clinic for Prosthodontics, Scho...

BACKGROUND We report baseline data on the organisation of COPD care in UK NHS hospitals participating in the National COPD Resources and Outcomes Project (NCROP). METHODS We undertook an initial survey of participating hospitals in 2007, looking at organisation and performance indicators in relation to general aspects of care, provision of non-invasive ventilation (NIV), pulmonary rehabilitat...

BACKGROUND Changes in structure may affect outcome after intensive care in various ways. Both closed (as opposed to open) units and the number of nurses have been shown to affect outcome. OBJECTIVE To study the effects of temporarily moving an intensive care unit (ICU) on various indicators of outcome and quality of care. METHODS Because of rebuilding, over a period of 8 months our ICU was ...