Significant efforts in the past decades to teach evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation has emphasized increasing knowledge of EBP and developing interventions support adoption practice. These have resulted only limited sustained improvements daily use clinical most health professions. Many new with evidence effectiveness are readily adopted each year—indicating openness change is not pro...

The development of a data warehouse has been traditionally guided by an in-depth analysis of the underlying operational data sources, thus overlooking an explicit development phase in which information requirements of decision makers are addressed. This scenario has prompted that the deployed data warehouse often fails in delivering the expected support of the decision making process. To overco...

  A novel optimal single machine replacement policy using a single as well as a two-stage decision making process is proposed based on the quality of items produced. In a stage of this policy, if the number of defective items in a sample of produced items is more than an upper threshold, the machine is replaced. However, the machine is not replaced if the number of defective items is less than ...