BACKGROUND Part of delivering quality care means providing it in a timely, efficient manner. Improving the efficiency of care requires measurement. The selection of appropriate indicators that are valid and responsive is crucial to focus improvement initiatives. Indicators of operational efficiency should be conceptually simple, generated in real time, calculated using readily available hospita...

Observations from two freeway bottlenecks in and near Toronto, Canada indicate that the average rate vehicles discharge from a queue can be 10% lower than the flow measured prior to the queue’s formation. Absent any influences from downstream, the queue discharge flows exhibited nearly stationary patterns that alternated between higher and lower rates. These alternating flow patterns were espec...

The discharge rate is critical to the performance of lithium/oxygen batteries: it impacts both cell capacity and discharge-phase morphology, and in so doing may also affect the efficiency of the oxygen-evolution reaction during recharging. First-discharge data from tens of Li/O2 cells discharged across four rates are analyzed statistically to inform these connections. In the practically signifi...

In Energy Constrained Wireless Sensor Network, maximizing network lifetime is an important issue. The challenge is to find out the optimal schedule of duty cycle for nodes while maintaining the sufficient number of active nodes for network coverage. In this paper we propose the Energy Efficient Battery Discharge Rate Based (E 2 BDRDC) Asynchronous Duty Cycling Protocol for WSN which consider th...

In the experiments a stream technique has been used and it has been shown that the main product of аC:H film gasification in an afterglow region of a direct current glow discharge was methane (hydrogen discharge). A hard а-C:H film erosion rate in the afterglow region decreased exponentially with distance from an atomic hydrogen source. The disadvantage of the hydrogen discharge is low erosion ...

AIM The objective of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a discharge plan in hospitalized elderly patients with hip fracture due to falling. BACKGROUND Hip fractures are an important cause of morbidity and mortality among older people. Hip fracture patients require ongoing medical and long-term care services. Discharge plan services can play a very important role for these patients...