The operational management of healthcare services is expected to directly touch patient experiences. Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MoHME) for the first time, as such, has sought to improve the operational management of healthcare delivery within a reform agenda by setting benchmarks for ‘number of visit per hour’ and waiting time in outpatient clinics of about 700 affiliated...

FOX.TEMPLE.EDU/BIGDATA Many businesses track repeat transactions on a discrete-time basis. These include (1) companies for whom transactions can only occur at ﬕxed regular intervals, (2) firms that frequently associate transactions with specific events (e.g., a charity that records whether supporters respond to a particular appeal), and (3) organizations that choose to utilize discrete repor...

We consider reactive probabilistic labelled transition systems (rplts), a model where internal choices are refined by probabilistic choices. In this setting, we study the relationship between linear-time and may-testing semantics, where an angelic view of nondeterminism is taken. Building on the model of dtrees of Cleaveland et al., we first introduce a clean model of probabilistic maytesting, ...

The effects of agenda setting and priming are well established in regards to the news media. Considerably less attention has been paid to these phenomena in entertainment media, in spite of the fact that entertainment media make up a much larger portion of television programming. This paper argues that agenda-setting and priming effects generalize to entertainment media. It develops a theory of...

This study investigates the effects of the social setting on prospective time estimation, how time is perceived when a task is performed (i) alone, (ii) with a collaborative, or (iii) with a competitive partner. N=90 participants were tested (30 in each condition). Participants performed a concurrent Simon task for three different durations (15, 30 and 45 seconds) which was followed by a time r...

This paper is endeavored to motivate the use and further research of dissipative and passive discrete-time systems exploiting their frequency-domain characteristics. Some important features and implications of the dissipativity property in the discretetime setting are collected. These properties are mainly referred to the stability analysis (feedback stability systems and study of the zero dyna...