introduction: as the elderly population increases, chronic diseases and disabilities also become more prevalent. home care programs as hospital services supplement, not only can prevent elderly from get worse in their disabilities but also make it easier for governments to manage elderly people's needs therefore, we aimed to determine the home visit services provided for elderly residing i...

to either of the others, or wherever they were required,(1) such transfers have, for nearly a century past, rarely been made. The names of the officers in these three Services were combined in one list, for the first time, in the Indian Army List of 1st October 1906. But they still remain on separate lists for promotion, lo these three Services, thirteen years ago, was added a fourth, the junio...

this study had two main steps. the first one was introducing and examining the long’s model of needs analysis (na) for distinguishing the general language needs. by doing the first step, we tried to recognize the shortages of long’s model, in the second step to realize the general language needs of persian language learners and find out what language functions are needed to be learned for gener...

In this paper, loss probabilities and steady state probabilities of data packets for an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network are investigated under the buffer division and push-out schemes. Data packets are classified in classes k which arrive in Poisson fashion to the service facility and are served with general service rate under buffer division scheme, finite buffer space N is divided in...

OBJECTIVE To find out if the cost of health services was artificially increased because of a delay in surgery due to a lack of resources. DESIGN A retrospective cohort study. SETTING Three urban hospitals in Calgary, Alta. PATIENTS The study cohort comprised 4441 patients (1 index procedure for each patient). INTERVENTIONS Cholecystectomy, discectomy, hysterectomy, total knee and total ...

This list is based upon a reading list produced from its holdings by the Library and Information Service at the Stirling Dementia Services Development Centre. The Christian Council on Ageing Dementia Group has now added further material to the list which includes material on spirituality, on dementia and on the links between the two. Items are listed under types of material in chronological ord...

This paper considers an on-line scheduling problem occurred in a service system with two classes (ordinary and special) of customers and two types (dedicated and flexible) of servers. The customers line up with a list according to the order of their arrivals. All customers are assumed to be in the system when service starts and no preemption is allowed. The objective is to complete all services...

A selective disclosure attribute-based credential system (SDABCS) can provide a communication mechanism to protect both security and privacy in electronic communication, by issuing a kind of credential with attributes, which the user can disclose parts of attributes. We present a general framework for formally verification of SDABCS with applied Pi calculus, and provide three definitions of rel...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of medical symptoms in aviators has not been described in the medical literature. METHODS An anonymous questionnaire was handed to all Israeli Air Force aviators who went through the routine yearly examination. Because only two women filled the questionnaire, we excluded them. The questionnaire contained a list of 49 symptoms and the aviators were asked to mark sympt...