The social files and medical records of 98 acutely battered wives who attended a surgical emergency department were studied. Although all women had been hospitalized during the decade preceding the present incident, wife battering was documented in the records in only 18%. The majority of the women (73%) were also known to the social services, but battering was documented in less than half of t...

This paper presents a multi-periodic, multi-echelon blood supply chain network consisting of blood donors, mobile collection units, local blood centers, main blood centers and demand points in which the local and main blood centers are subject to random failure in dispatching blood products to demand points. The problem has two objectives including minimization of the total chain costs and maxi...

color metallography is a useful method for characterizing microstructures of steels with multiple phases. in this paper, application of three different color etching techniques for a bainitic-martensitic steel is reported. comparisons between the results showed that 10% na2s2o5 aqueous solution was the best etchant for distinguishing martensite, bainite and ferrite phases. the obtained microgra...