OBJECTIVE A growing strategy to enhancing healthy decision making is to modify behavioral options to an "opt out" (i.e., if you do not want to participate, you must act) as opposed to an "opt in" (i.e., if you want to participate, you must act) default system (Choi, Laibson, Madrian, & Metrick). The current study, however, proposes that this growing trend may not always be strategic and examine...

With the rapid development of copyright industry, people’s awareness their own creation software and works is constantly improving, number applications for registration increasing. Therefore, how to make business becomes more convenient efficient imminent. Existing system need first fill through PC then an appointment phone deal with relevant business. This model not only complicated operations...

Background: Random truck arrivals at maritime container terminals are one of the primary reasons for gate congestion. Gate congestion negatively affects terminal’s and drayage firms’ productivity surrounding communities in terms air pollution noise. To alleviate congestion, more USA utilizing a appointment system (TAS). Methods: This paper proposes novel approach to modeling problem. Unlike pre...

Designing the appointment scheduling is a challenging task for the development of healthcare system. The efficient solution approach can provide high quality of healthcare service between care provides (CP)s and care receivers (CR)s. In this paper, we consider the healthcare system with the heterogeneous CRs in terms of urgent and routine CRs. Our suggested model assumes that the system gives t...

BACKGROUND Chlamydia is the most common reportable sexually transmitted disease (STD) in Norway, and its incidence in the two northernmost counties has been disclosed to be nearly the double of the Norwegian average. The latest publicly available rates showed that 85.6% of the new cases were diagnosed in people under 29 years old. The information and communication technologies are among the mos...

practice appointment rates could have a significant impact on national health care costs and services offered by doctors. in this respect a study was designed to determine the relationship between practice appointments and possible predictors in high-risk asthmatics. an observational retrospective analysis of the predictors for the practice appointments in asthmatic patients with at least one h...