Theoretical Issues and Conceptual Framework for Physical Facilities Design in Hospital Buildings

A Conceptual Framework for Smart Hospital towards Industry 4.0

Background: The fourth industrial revolution consists of combining network devices with cloud computing methods and analyzing large data and artificial intelligence, which makes it possible to call such an infrastructure smart. In a Smart Hospital, all things and devices are designed to be connected and integrated, thus achieving better patient care, increasing efficiency and reducing time wast...

Prompt Conceptual and Theoretical Framework

a framework for identifying and prioritizing factors affecting customers’ online shopping behavior in iran

the purpose of this study is identifying effective factors which make customers shop online in iran and investigating the importance of discovered factors in online customers’ decision. in the identifying phase, to discover the factors affecting online shopping behavior of customers in iran, the derived reference model summarizing antecedents of online shopping proposed by change et al. was us...

Codification conceptual framework of education for students in architecture Primary design studios: A qualitative content analysis

Coordination of education categories and activities of novice students in architectural primary design studios is indispensable and can lead to the designing ability development and transition towards professionalism and proficiency. The objective is a conceptual framework for architectural education based on the categories of architectural education and novice studentschr('39') activities in a...

Some Power Quality Issues in Hospital Facilities

The present approach focuses on some specific power supply and power quality issues in hospital environment. This environment is always a special one and changes dramatically one day after another, due to the last decade boom of biomedical engineering. The authors’ opinion is that in medical facilities, one should go beyond the standard EN 50160, on voltage characteristics of electricity suppli...