Despite decades of effort to improve quality and safety in health care, this goal feels increasingly elusive. Successful examples of improvement are infrequently replicated. This scoping review synthesizes 76 empirical or conceptual studies (out of 1208 originally screened) addressing learning in quality or safety improvement, that were published in selected health care and management journals ...

Improved environmental accounting is increasingly seen by corporate managers and environmental advocates alike as a necessary complement to improved environmental decision-making within the private sector. This paper develops an economic approach to the evaluation of environmental accounting's benefits and derives the value, and determinants, of improved accounting information in several produc...

management model desirable to establish the life cycle of various commodities in different organizations is a closed-loop supply chain. in this paper, according to classic models in white and brown goods, a unified framework is used to implement in a military logistics company. it seems that using this model, improved lifecycle management, environmental conservation and improvement of services ...

rural sustainable development will be obtained through sound exploitation of environmental resources with an appropriate theoretical emphasis with protection and improvement of them for next generations. rural people behavior has important role in quality of these resources. this study was designed to develop a model of rural people environmental behavior. this study implemented in the west pro...

A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy. This paper investigates the relationship among current consumption, sacrifice and sustainability improvement in a general context and in two canonical, stylized economies. We argue that the maximin value of utility measures what is sustainable and provides the limit to growth. ...

at recent year improvement towns of country are considered for reason much accumulation, increase price of field, decrease dimension family and security cheap dwelling, natural structure khorramabad, economical changes accompanied by natural improvement population and change family from spread to nuclear increased necessity to dwelling and finally consider to vertical improvement. the method th...

To understand ecological systems and environmental impact, techniques can be used which combine thermodynamics with environment and ecology. Most assessments consider thermodynamics via energy, but it many feel that ecological and environmental factors are better understood through exergy. One rationale is that exergy, not energy, is often a measure of the potential for ecological and environme...

With an increasingly technological improvement, sensors infrastructure actually supports many current and promising environmental applications. Environmental Monitoring Systems built on such sensors removes geographical, temporal and other restraints while increasing both the coverage and the quality of real world understanding. However, a main issue for such applications is the uncertainty of ...

fly ash is one of the most plentiful and versatile of the industrial by-products. at present, nearly 150 million tonnes of fly ash is being generated annually in india posing dual problem of environmental pollution and difficulty in disposal. this calls for establishing strategies to use the same effectively and efficiently. however, it is only in geotechnical engineering applications such as t...