this study aimed to identify problems arising from lack of knowledge in interest groups about wastewater reuse and delphi survey was conducted. according to experts, the most important factor that may cause the public resistance against the use of treated wastewaters is “health concerns”. this factor may be resulted from “lack of trust on the responsible organizations” and “ignorance about trea...

i Abstract In hospitals and clinics, medical devices incorrectly assigned to patients may cause various patient safety problems. Moreover, the unknown location of required mobile devices (intravenous pumps, cardiac monitors, etc.) represents additional issues for health providers such as unnecessary search effort, delays, and equipment underuse. To mitigate such issues, a patient-device connect...

Abstract Equipment manufacturers (EMs) exhibit unsustainable operating patterns in linear production models by depleting finite materials. In this context, future business environments industrial markets shift fundamentally and form a new sustainability paradigm stimulated key drivers, e.g., end customer behavior. Considering the market shift, research explores an overview of prerequisites tran...

As modern software grows more and more complex, various techniques are invented or introduced to this field to increase productivity and reliability of software development. Software reuse plays an important role with respect to this goal. This essay tries to summarize popular techniques in software reuse field. Basing on a set of terminologies, we examine the nature of the techniques by clarif...

Introduction :By ever-increasing of population, shortage of water resources and the necessity of wastewater treatment, huge volumes of sludge that is a byproduct of wastewater treatment, requires to be disposed in environmentally secure ways. The target of specifying strategic preferences of reuse of sludge has been to find the correct way of disposal or beneficial use of sludge. Material and ...