Background: Nurses have a major role in continued care and health promotion. Thus, their productivity is very important. Although many factors affect productivity, but evaluating the personnel's perception about it has a pivotal role in productivity improvement. Moreover, evaluation is a factor that can facilitate or impede productivity. Materials and Methods: This study was done in qualitati...

1 What Is Meant by Productivity? 1 The Productivity Dilemma: Balancing Revenues and Costs 2 Shortcomings of a Manufacturing-Oriented Productivity Concept 3 The Interrelationships Between Productivity, Quality, Customer Participation and Demand 6 A Service Productivity Model 8 Is Service Productivity a Productivity Concept? 10 Service Productivity as a Learning Relationship 10 Measuring Service ...

one of the most popular approaches to measuring productivity changes is based on using malmquist productivity indexes. in this paper we propose a method for obtaining interval malmquist productivity index (impi). the classical dea models have been before used for measuring the malmquist productivity index. the current article extends dea models for measuring the interval malmquist productivity ...

Investigation of factors affecting total and partial productivity with applying these factors for reforming producers' economical/ technical management may provide a proper base for enhancing productivity and profitability as well, and then leading a more sustainable situation for Pistachio orchards in the future. In this paper with respect to scattering type of statistical population, a multi ...

This paper presents a few of the studies preformed to test the electronic equipment on the MicroBooNE detector at FermiLab. The aspects of the electronics that are being checked include the gain and linearity of the output data pulse, the cross talk between wires, and the effects of a change in the trigger time on the pulse. This analysis is done at every stage of the set up, thus the compariso...

Instructional technology can enhance the learning process for post secondary students. Colleges and universities have adopted computing initiatives that require every student to acquire their own portable computing device. Yet for such initiatives to improve students’ learning and teaching effectiveness, such technology-based initiatives must be accepted by students and faculty alike. This rese...

To define whether the beta diversity of stream invertebrate communities in New Zealand exhibits geographical variation unexplained by variation in gamma diversity and, if so, what mechanisms (productivity, habitat heterogeneity, dispersal limitation, disturbance) best explain the observed broad-scale beta diversity patterns. We sampled 120 streams across eight regions (stream catchments), spann...

With the rapid increase of data volume, more and more applications have to be implemented in a distributed environment. In order to obtain high performance, we need to carefully divide the whole dataset into multiple partitions and put them into distributed data nodes. During this process, the selection of partition key would greatly affect the overall performance. Nevertheless, there are few w...

Table partitioning is usually applied for distributing data. It may also be considered for performance issues, since it allows full scans involving only those partitions that satisfy the queries predicates. This work presents heuristics that select a partitioning strategy for each table and estimate their workload benefits. We also present some studies on the use of our proposed heuristics with...