BACKGROUND The benefit of primary percutaneous coronary interventions (P-PCI) for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has been well documented. However, controversy still exists as to whether PCI should be expanded to hospitals without coronary artery bypass graft surgery. METHODS AND RESULTS Patients who were discharged after PCI for STEMI between January 1, 2003, and De...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: urban living and transition of illnesses, today has led hygienic centers for dedicating services to serious challenge management of an outpatient center is very difficult. worse is that the patient advice and service time is much less than waiting time. many people to avoid long waiting go to private treatment ...

Cloud Computing is a paradigm to provide the services like Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). Virtualization technology plays an important role to provide these services. Due to lack of finance as well as requirement, data center providers are unable to establish data centers all over the world. To provide better Quality of Service...

* Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel ABSTRACT A course on Service Engineering has been taught at the Technion for over ten years [ 19]. Some unique aspects of the course are the incorporation of state-of-the-art research and real-world data in lectures, recitations and homework. Currently, the application focus of the course is telephone call center...

The positive effects of customer integration in corporate innovation activities are undisputed. Further, several concepts for an improved cooperation with customers have already been developed and even implemented in many cases. Most of these methods target a special group of customers, the so-called lead-users. Besides being proven as beneficial, this selected integration neglects the majority...

With the rise of Internet-scale systems and cloud computing services, there is an increasing trend towards building massive, energy-hungry, and geographically distributed data centers. Due to their enormous energy consumption, data centers are expected to have major impact on the electric grid and potentially the amount of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint. In this regard, the locat...

As the number of users of cloud services increase all over the world, cloud service providers keep deploying geographically distributed data centers more. Since resource capacity of a data center is limited, cloud service providers need to distribute load to data centers. However, when the provider distributes load, SLAs (service level agreements) established with consumers should be guaranteed...

A Local Sanitary Agency – LSA operating in an Italian region can be described as a multi-stage multi-service-center chain, such that it can be modeled by a Collaborative DEmand and Supply NETwork (CO-DESNET). Such network consists of an organization of service centers which operate in the same health care-dedicated line and interact together to facilitate the patients’ flows along the chain of ...

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Today, methadone maintenance treatment (MMT), is one of the most common treatments for opioid dependence, and Governments are making great efforts to expand MMT service centers. With Increase the number of these centers, their problems are more pronounced. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the performance and characteristi...

Recent advances in Cable TV networks and multimedia technologies open the possibilities for network/service/content providers to offer residential customers with video-on-demand services. However, the mass storage system in supporting such services demands proper organization and management. In this paper we present a three-level hierarchical network storage architecture for the video-on-demand...