Each of the Minerva houses has a seminar room that is equipped with a limited amount of technology. In keeping with the President's initiative to build a close relationship between academic and student life, the rooms are available to both students and faculty to use. each room contains a motorized projection screen, a ceiling-mounted data projector, and a DVD/VCR combo unit. A panel in the roo...

This paper presents a multi-period optimization model for high margin and zero salvage products in online distribution channels with classifying customers based on number of products required. Taking hotel customers as an example, one is regular customers who reserve rooms for one day, and the other is long term stay (LTS) customers who reserve rooms for a number of days. LTS may guarantee a sp...

BACKGROUND General practitioners (GPs) often lack time and resources to invest in health education; audiovisual messages broadcast in the waiting room may be a useful educational tool. This work was designed to assess the effect of a message inviting patients to ask for a tetanus booster vaccination. METHODS A quasi experimental study was conducted in a Belgian medical practice consisting of ...

BACKGROUND Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a common and potentially fatal healthcare-associated infection. Improving diagnostic tests and infection control measures may prevent transmission. We aimed to determine, in resource-limited settings, whether it is more effective and cost-effective to allocate resources to isolation or to diagnostics. METHODS We constructed a mathematical mo...