background iran has a widespread diagnostics and clinical support services (dcss) network that plays a crucial role in providing diagnostic and clinical support services to both inpatient and outpatient care. however, very little is known on the application of quality assurance (qa) policies in dcss units. this study explores the extent of application of eleven qa strategies in dcss units withi...

The objective of this paper is to show the usefulness of multivariate statistical techniques to structure and visualize the information contained in multi-criteria matrixes obtained from the evaluation of control strategies in wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). The performance of sixteen different control strategies is evaluated by measuring their degree of satisfaction for twenty-four environ...

In this paper we present some results concerning the application of timespace domain decomposition methods for reactive transport problems. One of the main objectives of our study is to design local time stepping strategies in order to concentrate numerical efforts on the most reactive part of the domain. This work is a part of the French ANR SHPCO2 project concerning high performance simulatio...

The main objective of the paper is to investigate customer treatment, financial efficiency and supporting customer services with modern banking technology in financial institutions. The customer orientation and business performance of financial institutions targets customer services to maintain long term mutual relationships. The findings of the study has direct practical relevance for the bank...

OBJECTIVE to analyze the answers of parents and health care professionals concerning the involvement of parents in the care provided to hospitalized children. METHOD exploratory study based on the conceptual framework of pediatric healthcare with qualitative data analysis. RESULTS three dimensions of involvement were highlighted: daily care provided to children, opinions concerning the invo...

The proper management of oily sludge from petroleum products storage tanks is necessary because inappropriate methods for dredging of tanks may result in high costs and increased environmental pollution. The purpose of the current study is to rank the strategies outlined by strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis using data envelopment analysis model, which provides enriched i...

background and objectives: patient satisfaction is an important indicator of the quality of health and healthcare services. most relevant studies in iran have been conducted in the nation’s capital, and there is a lack of large-scale studies in other regions of this country. in order to help filling this gap, this study was designed to undertake a relatively large-scale assessment of patient sa...

Cloud computing is the latest evolution of computing where the IT resources are offered as services following the “pay-per-usage” pricing model. Cloud’s scalability feature causes variable price for resources governed by the cloud service providers. Therefore, the cloud customers’ main interest is whether the performance scales to the price for the leased resources in the cloud. In this paper w...