BACKGROUND Health, fair financing and responsiveness to the user's needs and expectations are seen as the essential objectives of health systems. Efforts have been made to conceptualise and measure responsiveness as a basis for evaluating the non-health aspects of health systems performance. This study assesses the applicability of the responsiveness tool developed by WHO when applied in the co...

Dynamically-dispatched calls often limit the performance of object-oriented programs since object-oriented programming encourages factoring code into small, reusable units, thereby increasing the frequency of these expensive operations. Frequent calls not only slow down execution with the dispatch overhead per se, but more importantly they hinder optimization by limiting the range and effective...

methodology for performance-tuning a virtual storage system is discussed. This methodology encompasses Performance measurement , workload characterization, performance evaluation, and planned experimentation. Use of the methodology is illustrated by describing results of a case study involving the IBM Research Division's T S S l 3 6 0 system. The performance objectives of different computer ins...

BACKGROUND Ulcerative colitis disease activity indices have not been formally validated. AIM To analise quantitatively the psychometric and performance validity of two non-endoscopic indices for ulcerative colitis, the Simple Clinical Colitis Activity Index and the Seo Index. METHODS In 66 patients with ulcerative colitis, the measurement of disease activity was repeated with the two non-en...

Purpose: This study examine how BIS implementation affects the agile efficiency of supply chain with logistics industry's responsiveness. As a variable for assessing relationship and effect on efficiency, business intelligence competence (managerial competence, technological cultural competence) responsiveness will be investigated.
 Methodology: A survey questionnaire comprised 39 question...

in asthmatic subjects there is a pronounced diurnal variation in bronchial responsiveness. if this phenomenon is due to variation in factors that control drug delivery, then it should be paralleled by a similar variation in competitive antagonist blockade. in order to study this possibility, we performed the methacholine challenge test and after 45 minutes, administered atropine by inhalation. ...

the aim of this research is to consider the quality of services provided by kerman telecommunication company (ktc) from different perspective in order to keep and attract clients. in this research, the quality of services by kerman province telecommunication company in different parts such as: phone, mobile phone, data service and also the quality of presented services by serving offices due to...

To better understand the characteristics of athletes who tend to underperform under pressure, we investigated how (a) working memory (WM) capacity and (b) responsiveness of the dopamine system shape real-life performance under pressure. We expected that athletes with smaller WM capacity or a more responsive dopamine system (as operationalized with a risk-taking measure) are especially prone to ...

Background Considering patients’ needs and expectations in the process of healthcare delivery improves the quality of services. This study aimed to investigate the responsiveness of general public and private hospitals in Mashhad, Iran.   Methods In this cross-sectional and explanatory study, hospitalized patients (with at least 2 days of stay) in general private and public hospitals in Mashhad...