Americans are increasingly turning to hospice services to provide them with medical care, pain management, and emotional support at the end of life. The increase in the rates of hospice utilization is explained by a number of factors including a "hospice movement" dating to the 1970s which emphasized hospice as a tool to promote dignity for the terminally ill; coverage of hospice services by Me...

Network goods and platform-enabled marketplaces are a dominant part of industry and entrepreneurship today. Firms selling these products task selling agents to recruit network participants. This creates a novel agency problem, distinct from one encountered with traditional goods because of externalities created by network effects. We analyze this managerial problem within a principal-agent fram...

introduction the main goal of this study was to perform quality control test on all radiography units operating in golestan province of iran. materials and methods forty-four x-ray units were examined based on general accepted programs for quality control. eight parameters including kvp accuracy, kvp reproducibility, ma-time reciprocity, exposure linearity, exposure reproducibility, timer accur...

Introduction The main goal of this study was to perform quality control test on all radiography units operating in Golestan province of IRAN. Materials and Methods Forty-four X-ray units were examined based on general accepted programs for quality control. Eight parameters including kVp accuracy, kVp reproducibility, mA-time reciprocity, exposure linearity, exposure reproducibility, timer accur...

Maintenance is one of the important activities in any industry. In a large industry, in order to prioritize the maintenance action, we need to identify the critical equipments. The present paper has explored to identify the critical equipments of a coal based power plant and rank them accordingly. Multiple criteria like: environmental impact (EI), customer inconvenience (CI) and maintenance cos...

This paper describes a micro-grid system and its monitoring system. This micro-grid system consists of generation systems, consumer electrical equipments, auxiliary equipments and the monitoring system. All the equipments have 485 communication interfaces. In order to monitor and manage this micro-grid system, we built a monitoring system, which contains modular instrument system and industrial...