Operating rooms have become the most important areas in hospitals because of the scarcity and cost of resources. The present study investigates operating room scheduling and rescheduling considering the priority of surgical patients in a specialized hospital. The ultimate purpose of scheduling is to minimize patient waiting time, surgeon idle time between surgeries, and penalties for deviations...

abstract introduction: one major undertaking of universities is educating professionals required by the community. since academic institutes are willing to know about the fate of their graduated students and how they are using their expertise, the present study was performed to have a look at the employment status and the pursuit of higher education among the graduate students of operation room...

phenolic resins are synthetic low molecular weight thermoset resins which are polymerized and cured to higher molecular weights by condensation method. these resins have high weathering resistance, high oxidative thermal properties and good chemical resistance. phenolic resins can be cured thermally or by acid curing. the most common method of curing phenolic resin is by thermal curing that tak...

the cross-coupling reaction between phenylboronic acid and various types of aryl halides (suzuki reaction) was carried out using a catalytic amount of a new palladium catalyst (1-benzyl-3-(1-benzyl-1-methylpyrrolidin-1-ium-2-yl) pyridin-1-ium palladium chloride [dbnt][pdcl4]) in poly (ethylene glycol) (peg-200) in the presence of koh as the base. this new catalyst was synthesized and characteri...

1024x768 normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa background : heart failure is a common health problem with poor prognosis. the gold standard for diagnosis is echocardiography but it is not always reachable, especially in emergency conditions. nt-pro-brain natriuretic peptide (nt-probnp) is a novel indicator for the diagnosis of heart failure and is being used in routine tests in emergency r...