This paper investigates optimal pricing policies for a service facility modeled as a queueing system. Arriving customers are accepted if they are willing to pay the price charged by the service provider and if there is room in the waiting area. Capacity of the waiting area can be either finite or infinite. We determine expressions for the optimal prices that maximize the service provider’s long...

background: cries of the newborn could be due to pain, thirst, hungry and fear from new environment. in our study we evaluated the effect of the sucrose drops on pacifying the children prior to a painful intervention or procedure with regards to the fasting condition of the children. methods: this triple blind clinical trial was conducted on 60 otherwise healthy children aged less than 1 year w...

Title: Environmental Correlates of Efficiency and Safety in Emergency Departments Funds: Academy of Architecture for Health Foundation (AAHF) Research Grant and Herman Miller Grant Period: January 2010 to October 2012 Collaborators: Herman Miller, Synurgy Healthcare Solutions Location: Four emergency departments in large US hospitals Findings: 16 domains of physical design decisions influence s...

Title: Environmental Correlates of Efficiency and Safety in Emergency Departments Funds: Academy of Architecture for Health Foundation (AAHF) Research Grant and Herman Miller Grant Period: January 2010 to October 2012 Collaborators: Herman Miller, Synurgy Healthcare Solutions Location: Four emergency departments in large US hospitals Findings: 16 domains of physical design decisions influence s...

The MX/G/1 queue with finite waiting room is studied for both the partially rejected model and the totally rejected model. We start by studying the joint distribution of the number of customers at time t and the remaining service time of customer in service. This gives the asymptotic distribution of the number of customers at an arbitrary moment and immediately after a departure. Also the waiti...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of brief therapy dog visits to an outpatient pain management facility compared with time spent in a waiting room. DESIGN The design of this study is open-label. Setting.  This study was conducted in a university tertiary care adult chronic pain outpatient clinic. SUBJECTS The subjects of this study include outpatients, adults...