Service quality is a factor for measuring customer satisfaction in hotel industry. Therefore, in order to achieve competitive advantage and maintain customers, improving service quality has become an important tool in hotel industry to achieve customer satisfaction which is lead to customer loyalty. Because companies are developing close relationships with suppliers and customers. Since then th...

In ATM networks, the issue of bandwidth scheduling is critical to satisfying quality-of-service requirements of individual connections. This paper discusses a modiied implementation of a previously proposed scheduler called Hierarchical Round-Robin (HRR). We show this HRR is appropriate for ATM because it can guarantee a minimum rate of service (which is critical for real-time connections), is ...

We consider an uncapacitated stochastic vehicle routing problem in which vehicle depot locations are fixed and client locations in a service region are unknown, but are assumed to be independent and identically distributed samples from a given probability density function. We present an algorithm for partitioning the service region into sub-regions so as to balance the workloads of all vehicles...

BACKGROUND Health service providers can restrict access to contraceptives through their own imposed biases about method appropriateness. In this study, provider biases toward contraceptive service provision among urban Nigerian providers was assessed. METHODS Health providers working in health facilities, as well as pharmacists and patent medical vendors (PMV), in Abuja, Benin City, Ibadan, I...

This paper presents the method to solve the over loading problem and service restoration strategies for affected zones due to fault in a three feeder distribution network which deals with the estimation of load changes through feeder reconfiguration using the heuristic search technique. This method is based on minimum number of switching operations and minimum total IR losses. Software has been...

this prospective longitudinal study deals with the associations between digital disorders and reproduction indices in dairy cattle on a farm in the vicinity of tehran. it was carried out on 225 postparturient holstein heifers. the evaluation of lameness due to digital disorders on postpartum period of heifers were done and after diagnosis of lameness (based on a 5 points lameness scoring system...

The paper covers an overview of image compression methods that are commonly used in digital telecommunication systems. A proposal is made how adaptive optimisation schemes can be applied in order to provide an optimal level of service quality. The criterion of optimality is set by a currently available network bandwidth, while providing a user with best possible quality of service. The problem,...

patient satisfaction is one of the sensitive indicators in determining the effectiveness of service rendered in hospitals. the study focus on comparing the health care services of  two cardiology based corporate hospitals in hyderabad, andhra pradesh, india. the data for the study was collected through a questionnaire consisting of two sections. an attempt has been made to elicit the informatio...

We study admission control mechanisms for wireless access networks where (i) each user has a minimum service requirement, (ii) the capacity of the access network is limited, (iii) the access point is not allowed to use monetary mechanisms to guarantee that users do not lie when disclosing their minimum service requirements, and (iv) the access point wants to admit as many users as possible. To ...

The Minimum Data Set 3.0 has introduced a higher set of expectations for assessment of residents' psychosocial needs, including new interviewing requirements, new measures of depression and resident choice, and new discharge screening procedures. Social service staff are primary providers of psychosocial assessment and care in nursing homes; yet, research demonstrates that many do not possess t...