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 inhalat...

Extant research on service operations has called for investigating the link between e-retailers’ e-business and performance. In addition to this link, study examined whether such links are moderated by an e-retailer’s responsiveness supplier. Since, as previous studies have shown, web store suppliers play essential role in value creation, it is important how cooperation parties works. The data ...

Recently great attention has been posed on the consensus protocols in networks of agents. A widely studied consensus algorithm allows every agent automatically converge to a common consensus state using only local information received from its one hop neighboring agents. We study the problem of reaching a consensus in network of mesh nodes under m-hop protocols where each node-agent can access ...

The software reuse practices of many organizations could be described as “ad hoc,” at best. Some reuse efforts do not consider even basic concepts such as completely specifying or correctly verifying reusable code. Those organizations that do attempt to specify formally their reusable assets often do so at the expense of neglecting issues concerned with performance. The area of Software Perform...

Perceived responsiveness has been described as a “bedrock of intimacy.” For responsive acts to be optimally beneficial, recipients must perceive them responsive. Thus, understanding the factors that influence perceptions is critical for promoting high-quality relationships. To date, little research examined how relationship-specific variables affect people interpret acts. This paper examine one...

BACKGROUND The concept of responsiveness was introduced by the World Health Organization (WHO) to address non-clinical aspects of service quality in an internationally comparable way. Responsiveness is defined as aspects of the way individuals are treated and the environment in which they are treated during health system interactions. The aim of this study is to assess responsiveness outcomes, ...

Understanding the underpinnings of social responsiveness and theory of mind (ToM) will enhance our knowledge of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We hypothesize that higher-order relational reasoning (higher-order RR: reasoning necessitating integration of relationships among multiple variables) is necessary but not sufficient for ToM, and that social responsiveness varies independently of higher...

BACKGROUND Responsiveness is one of the three main goals of the health system introduced by World Health Organization. This study aimed at examining health system responsiveness after Health Sector Evolution Plan in Kermanshah, Western Iran. METHODS A sample of 335 hospitalized patients was selected using proportionate allocation to population size method in the city of Kermanshah (Iran) in 2...