selecting an effective project plan is a significant area in the project management. the present paper introduces a technique to identify the project plan efficient frontier for assessing the alternative project plans and selecting the best plan. the efficient frontier includes two criteria: the project cost and the project time. besides, the paper presents a scheme to incorporate directed acyc...

background:  pregnancy in a woman's life is a unique experience. but due to high risk pregnancy and the need to rest in bed, the women and her family are faced with different challenges and needs. the inability to manage these needs will result in crisis and understanding the needs of pregnant women during bed rest is essential to provide comprehensive health care for them. so this qualita...

the failure mode and effects analysis (fmea) is a widely used analytical technique that helps to identify and reduce the risks of failure in a system, component, or process. one important issue of fmea is the determination of the risk priorities of failure modes. risk ranking is produced in order to prioritize the focus on each of the failure modes that are identified. in this study, we applied...

background: a few studies have addressed the impact of stoma on patients’ social life. this study aimed to understand the problems leading to social isolation of patients undergoing ostomy. methods: a conventional qualitative content analysis by unstructured interviews was conducted on 27 patients with intestinal or urinary diversion ostomy recruited from the iranian ostomy association (ioa) wi...

Background Foot involvement in rheumatoid arthritis has detrimental and far reaching implications for the lives of patients. Qualitative studies investigating this phenomenon have identified specific aspects of the lived experience pertaining to the foot. However, no studies have attempted to provide a holistic overview of this phenomenon or investigate the potential relationships between diffe...

OBJECTIVE To develop an empirically based framework of the aspects of randomised controlled trials addressed by qualitative research. DESIGN Systematic mapping review of qualitative research undertaken with randomised controlled trials and published in peer-reviewed journals. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, Health Technology Assessment, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Brit...

As Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly important to the competitive position of firms, managers have grown more sensitive to their organization's overall IT risk management. Recent publicity concerning losses incurred by companies becauseofproblcms with their sophisticated information systems has focused attention on the importance of these systems to the organization. In an att...

The reform of the energy sector in Republic Belarus, which last few years has moved to stage active implementation, will bring significant changes management enterprises. introduction risk for enterprises become a necessary stage, is justified by transition market relations. In this regard, it consider main issues assessment paper proposes method qualitative and quantitative analysis all risks ...