Results A total of 290 PI were reported during a cumulative total of 1797 average daily census. Steady reduction observed from 20.5/100 occupied beds in 2005 to 10.6 in 2009. The average rate in six years was 16.2. Even though PI rate increased to 18.1 in 2010 due to the safety culture survey conducted in 2009 to increase reporting by Medical Doctors (MD) still these rates were comparable to EP...

BACKGROUND The present study was conducted to scrutinize Public- Private Partnership (PPP) models in public hospitals of different countries based on performance indicators in order to se-lect appropriated models for Iran hospitals. METHODS In this mixed (quantitative-qualitative) study, systematic review and expert panel has been done to identify varied models of PPP as well as performance i...

We present simulation results for the likely pension outcomes for different defined-contribution (DC) pension plan members distinguished by occupation and gender. While our results suggest that key differences between outcomes depend on the strategic asset allocation strategy chosen (and hence on the rate of return on assets in relation to the growth rate in salaries), we also find that DC plan...

due to high applicability of the fixed bed catalytic naphtha reforming reactors, hydrodynamic features of this kind of reactors with radial flow pattern are improved in this work by utilising computational fluid dynamics technique. effects of catalytic bed porosity, inlet flow rate and flow regime through the bed on the flow distribution within the system are investigated.it is found that the f...

In this research, an experimental study to evaluate nutrient removal from synthetic wastewater by a lab-scale moving bed biofilm process was investigated. Also, kinetic analysis of the process with regard to phosphorus and nitrogen removal was studied with different mathematical models. For nutrient removal, the moving bed biofilm process was applied in series with anaerobic, anoxic and aerobic...

Different control strategies of bed temperature and moisture were investigated using various inlet air temperatures and air fluxes in both the ordinary packed bed bioreactor (without cooling water in the jacket) and the bioreactor with cooling water in jacket. The experiments were carried out within a 1-L solid-state packed bed bioreactor in which Aspergillus niger was cultivated on wheat bran....

Spirals as internals are utilized to reduce the axial mixing of solids in fluidized beds, by routing the solids flow in a predetermined route or by localizing the solids mixing. The drying kinetics of continuous fluidized bed with and without internals has been compared and modeled using batch drying kinetics and residence time distribution analysis. The batch drying experiments were conducted ...