Staff scheduling is a complex combinatorial optimisation problem concerning allocation of staff to duty rosters in a wide range of industries and settings. This thesis presents a novel approach to solving staff scheduling problems, and in particular nurse scheduling, by simplifying the problem space through information granulation. The complexity of the problem is due to a large solution space ...

health and wellbeing has always been an important concept of relevance for concerned health specialists and workers. the present study envisages to look at the nature of occupational stressors and mental health problems in a group of hospital employees at the zahedan university of medical sciences. the study was carried out on 130 employees chosen from various hospitals in zahedan. results reve...

Objective: Family physicians order laboratory, imaging, and diagnostic tests on a significant portion of their patients. Problems with the testing process, including the steps of ordering tests, tracking and responding to results, notifying patients, and following up with patients, and potential improvement strategies have not been well described. Our objective is to assess problems with the te...

BACKGROUND Mental health problems such as depression are common in primary care settings and patients with chronic medical problems are at an increased risk. This co-morbidity suggests that district nursing services are particularly likely to encounter psychological problems in their patients. Mental health problems are poorly recognised and inadequately treated in primary care. In part this ma...

The practical experience of forming the e-library network environment of St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI” library is discussed. The major related problems are considered: managing library applications, managing user data, development and replication of software program configuration of library staff and users workstations, managing Internet access for library staff and users. T...