Background: The PHAR-QA, "Quality Assurance in European Pharmacy Education and Training", project has produced the European Pharmacy Competence Framework (EPCF). The aim of this study was to evaluate the existing pharmacy programme at the University of Tartu, using the EPCF. Methods: A qualitative assessment of the pharmacy programme by a convenience sample (n = 14) representing different pharm...

This article presents the results of mapping the Slovenian pharmacy curriculum to evaluate the adequacy of the recently developed and validated European Pharmacy Competences Framework (EPCF). The mapping was carried out and evaluated progressively by seven members of the teaching staff at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Pharmacy. Consensus was achieved by using a two-round modified Del...

With fast deployment of wireless local area networks (WLANs), the ability of WLAN to support real time services with stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements has come into fore. In this paper, we evaluate the capability of the enhanced point coordination function (EPCF) and enhanced distributed coordination function (EDCF), which are part of the medium access control (MAC) enhancements f...

In this paper, we study dynamic alliance formation among price setting agents in a competitive market. We look at n agents selling substitutable products competing (price) in a market. We propose a two-stage game: in Stage 1, agents form alliances (coalitions), and in Stage 2, coalitions set prices and compete against each other. Stage 2 is modelled as a noncooperative competitive game characte...

Electricity Power Consumption Forecasting (EPCF) plays an essential role in global electricity distribution systems that has a significant impact on the operation, control, and planning for production of electricity. Due to complexity, uncertainty consumption, especially when amount load consumed during different hours is not same, performing forecasting by using classical method inaccurate. To...