INTRODUCTION In order to improve health, hospital sources such as beds and staffing should be properly allocated and used. The aim of this study is reallocation of Shafa hospital beds in Kerman using a goal-programming model. METHODS This study was an applied cross-sectional study, which used the goal programming model and software WinQSB to optimize bed allocation. By review of the literatur...

BACKGROUND Equitable distribution of health system resources has been a serious challenge for long ago among the health policy makers. Conducted studies have mostly ever had emphasis on equality rather than equity. In this paper we have attempted to examine both equality and equity in resources distribution. METHOD This is an applied and descriptive study in which we plotted Lorenz and concen...

A total of 69 soil samples from 20 community gardens in New York City (New York, USA) were collected and analyzed for 23 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and black carbon. For each garden, samples were collected from nongrowing areas (non-bed) and from vegetable-growing beds, including beds with and without visible sources of PAHs. The sum of the US Environmental Protection Agency's 16 p...

Marine communities face anthropogenic pressures that degrade ecosystems. Because underwater soundscapes carry information about habitat quality, we explored whether destructive impacts of fishing could be evaluated via the soundscape. Maerl beds are recognized as biodiversity hotspots and they experience major worldwide degradation owing to fishing. We collected field acoustic recordings in mae...

In Switzerland the holiday-home-market is a major pillar in the accommodation sector as there are more holiday apartment beds than hotel beds. While the number of hotel beds decreases for economic reasons a positive trend of holiday apartment beds exists, but only a limited number of second homes are on the market. This study investigates the barriers-to-rent on an economical, social and psycho...

Conservation agriculture in its version of permanent raised bed planting with crop residue retention has been proposed as an alternative wheat production system of western Uttar Pradesh.Therefore the present work was undertaken during 2008-2011 to compare permanent and tilled raised beds with different residue management under irrigated conditions. Permanent beds with residue retention resulted...

[1] We describe laboratory experiments of granular material flowing over an inclined plane covered by an erodible bed, designed to mimic erosion processes of natural flows travelling over deposits built up by earlier events. Two controlling parameters are the inclination of the plane and the thickness of the erodible layer. We show that erosion processes can increase the flowmobility (i.e., run...

The quest to noninvasively identify vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques that pose an increased risk of heart attack and stroke may have gained another tool in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Vulnerable plaque imaging remains a challenging field for many reasons: from the spatial resolution needed to identify thin cap fibroatheroma in the coronary arteries, to quantifying the amount of lipid co...

Introduction: South Polar Layered Deposits (SPLD) have been analyzed by several authors [1,2,3, 4] in order to describe mayor layers sequences using visible images [1,2,3,4] and sounding radar datasets (Mars Express MARSIS and MRO ShaRAD [1,2]), defining different units. [1] mapped three main SPLD units through several distinctive erosion-resistant marker beds or packets of layers. In particula...

The demand for nursing facility (NF) beds has been growing with the aging of the population and many other factors. As the need for nursing home care grows, the Nation's capacity to provide such care is the subject of increasing concern. This article examines licensed NFs and beds, presenting data on trends from 1978-93. Measures of the adequacy of NF beds in States are examined over time, incl...