Although the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) passed when analog mammography and film processors were used across the United States, now most health care facilities have full-field digital mammography. This article reviews MQSA requirements including qualifications for personnel, the clinical image evaluation process, and components of a quality control program. In light of technologica...

Unlike most other agronomic crops, the selection of a bermudagrass cultivar is a long-term commitment. Bermudagrass is a warm-season perennial grass that can persist and withstand the rigors of grazing and hay production for decades. Establishing it, however, is a significant investment that pays off over the long-term. It is important to understand the characteristics of the different cultivar...

Pork producers in Kansas were surveyed to determine their attitudes regarding on-farm Salmonella testing and to provide estimates of the costs of collecting hide, fecal, or blood samples from live pigs. Veterinarians and Cooperative Extension Service personnel were cited most frequently as the most preferred groups for monitoring and verification. Results of the survey indicate that pork produc...

The anesthesia ex utero intrapartum treatment (EXIT) procedure is a specialized surgical procedure used to deliver babies who have airway compression due to cystic adenomatoid malformation, bronchopulmonary sequestration, cervical teratomas, or other congenital conditions. EXIT is erroneously known as a routine cesarean section (CS), but is rather an extension of CS with discernible differences...

This paper derives optimal policies for when to hire, train and layoff employees in service organization when worker productivity appreciates deterministically or stochastically under constant, monotonic, and cyclic service demand. The model, an extension of the machine replacement problem from the engineering economy literature, uses infinite horizon linear programming to produce optimal perso...

Quantitative QFD (Q2FD) is an extension of conventional Quality Function Deployment (QFD). Q2FD incorporates quantitative requirements decomposition models into the QFD framework. It also rearranges conventional QFD matrices to facilitate quantitative capture and both forward and backward chaining of performance values. The rearranged matrices also allows full representation of QFD matrices wit...

himself, would place too much of a responsible burden on these particular patients. Our experience has shown that the establishment of a multidisciplinary team composed of psychiatrist, nephrological personnel and social workers enables the extension of chronic dialytic therapy to patients with major psychiatric illnesses. Obviously, every such patient will have to be thoroughly evaluated and h...

We motivate and introduce an extension of the well-known cumulative constraint which deals with time and volume dependent cost of resources. Our research is primarily interested in scheduling problems under time and volume variable electricity costs, but the constraint equally applies to manpower scheduling when hourly rates differ over time and/or extra personnel incur higher hourly rates. We ...

INTRODUCTION The influx and efflux of military personnel in the possible endemic areas of leishmaniasis provided the impetus for research on the sandflies on Marambaia Island. METHODS Sandflies were collected with light traps installed in the 3 ecotypes of 3 areas chosen for their particular landscape aspects. RESULTS In 2009, were collected 32,006 specimens of sandflies belonging to 13 spe...