This paper is a survey of memory hierarchy optimizations and bit-level optimization, and is submitted in partial fulfillment of the doctoral candidacy requirements. ∗Dept. of Computer Sciences, Florida State University, [email protected]

It is often assumed that negative events elicit a higher level of response than positive events. Therefore, is not surprising that relationship marketers have devoted much attention to transactions leading to customer dissatisfaction – and to the supplier’s response to dissatisfaction (e.g., in terms of complaint management and recovery strategies). The empirical study reported in this paper, h...

This study was undertaken to study the level of job satisfaction of teacher educators, to compare the level of job satisfaction of female and male teacher educators as well as to compare the level of job satisfaction of teacher educators in relation to private teachers’ training institutions of University of Gour Banga and University of Kalyani. The data was collected randomly by using job sati...

background: achieving proper clinical outcomes relies on patient cooperation and patient cooperation relies on their satisfaction; thus patient satisfaction is essential for health care improvement; the aim of this study was to evaluate the satisfaction of patients referred to pediatric department of babol dental school in 2011-2012. methods: in this cross-sectional study, questionnaires contai...

introduction: shahid motahari annual educational festival aims to improve the quality of medical education in the islamic republic of iran, and has held since 2008. the present study was performed to determine the satisfaction level of iranian medical universities’ faculty members about holding shahid motahari annual educational festival during the past six years, from 2008 to 2014. methods: th...

OBJECTIVE To assess the level of patients' satisfaction with primary health care PHC services in health centers affiliated to Riyadh Military Hospital RMH, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in 3 PHC centers, affiliated to Riyadh Military Hospital RMH, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, over 2 months period in 2006, data was collected using a self-adm...

We propose high-level type constructors for constraint programming languages, so that constraint satisfaction problems can be modelled in very expressive ways. We design a practical set constraint language, called esra, by incorporating these ideas on top of opl. A set of rewrite rules achieves compilation from esra into opl, yielding programs that are often very similar to those that a human o...

A considerable amount of recent medical research focuses on factors involving patient satisfaction. This study attempts to examine the role of autonomy in the gynecologist-patient relationship as it relates to patient satisfaction. Fifty-five patients at a women's clinic completed measures assessing autonomy preference (API) before the medical visit and patient-perceived autonomy support (HCCQ)...

BACKGROUND Client satisfaction is an important indicator for assessment of the quality of care provided. Detecting patients dissatisfaction and trying to find the most effective and costly services is the basic way for improvement of service quality. The purpose of this study was to determine the satisfaction level of women in the maternity care centers (hospitals) of Lorestan University of Med...