Background: Emergency department performance can be evaluated in quantitative and qualitative criteria. Some quantitative criteria are considered such as length of stay, patient waiting time, the percentage of patients that treat in a specific time and etc. In this paper the performance of emergency department was evaluated in terms of these criteria. Then four scenarios by using simulations w...

this study investigated the effects of manipulating the cognitive complexity of tasks along +/- few elements and the time limits on l2 learners writing performance. to conduct the study, 60 iranian efl learners with two levels of proficiency, low and high intermediate, were selected and assigned to three groups based on the time devoted to task completion. the participants performed both a simp...