BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are a serious problem among the nursing staff. Mental workload is the major cause of MSDs among nursing staff. The aim of this study was to investigate the mental workload dimensions and their association with MSDs among nurses of Alzahra Hospital, affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. MATERIALS AND METHODS This descriptive cross-sec...

Consistency is a qualitative measure of database performance. Consistency Index (CI) is a quantification of consistency of a data unit in terms of percentage of correct reads to the total reads observed on the data unit in given time. The consistency guarantee of a replicated database logically depends on the number of reads, updates, number of replicas, and workload distribution over time. The...

With the development of search engines, more and more web crawlers are used to gather web pages. The rising crawling traffic has brought the concern that crawlers may impact web sites. On the other hand, more efficient crawling strategy is required for the coverage and freshness of search engine index. In this paper, crawlers of several major search engines are analyzed using one six-months acc...

 Background and Purpose: Currently, the high prevalence of COVID-19 and increased workload in hospitals has posed a threat to the physical, mental, and emotional health of nurses. The present study was an attempt to investigate the workload and its relationship with job stress of nurses in COVID-19 reference hospitals in southern Iran. Methods: This descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional s...

We examined factors that may influence the development of arm lymphedema following breast cancer treatment including the specific mode of therapy, patient occupation and life style. Medical record data and a questionnaire were used to collect information after surgery concerning such issues as wound seroma, infection, adjuvant treatment, vessel string (phlebitis), body mass index, smoking habit...

BACKGROUND Fisherwomen contribute significantly to the coastal economy of Eastern India; however, data about their physical fitness and weight status are scant. OBJECTIVES The present cross-sectional study was designed to investigate cardiorespiratory fitness and weight status of fisherwomen, which may be influenced by their occupational workload, using morphometric and anthropometric measure...

In most spatial data management applications, objects are represented in terms of their coordinates in a 2-dimensional space and search queries in this space are processed using spatial index structures. On the other hand, bitmap-based indexing, especially thanks to the compression opportunities bitmaps provide, has been shown to be highly effective for query processing workloads including sele...

OBJECTIVE To quantify midlevel practitioner (MLP) staffing requirements based on the volume and complexity of patient care and the duty-hour constraints of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 80-hour workweek. DESIGN Data extracted from Eclipsys Sunrise Decision Support Manager, the hospital financial budget, and census reports; and MLP, resident, and subspecialty fellow ...

In the world of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) indexes are used to accelerate specific queries. The selection of indexes is an important task in database-tuning which is performed by a database administrator or an index selection tool which suggests a set of suitable indexes. In this paper we transfer the concept of specific indexes to XML Database Management Systems (XDBMS) and...