Because of the workings of health care systems, new, important, and cost-effective treatments sometimes do not become routine care while well-marketed products of equivocal value achieve widespread adoption. Should policymakers attempt to influence clinical behavior and correct for these inefficiencies? Implementation methods achieve a certain level of behavioral change but cost money to enact....

machining operation is one of the most applicable processes for the manufacturing of industrial parts. usually, the quality of finished part in turning operation is measured in terms of surface roughness. in turn, surface quality is determined by machining parameters and tool geometry specifications. the main objective of this study is to model and optimize machining parameters and tool geometr...

in order to survive in today's competitive world, organizations are looking to increase their efficiency and effectiveness. therefore, they should focus on inputs that are more important than the rest of the inputs in their success. this paper aimed at ranking 7ms (management, man power, marketing, material, machinery, methods and money) and their sub-criteria of production in iran. by imp...

at many circumstances, in heat exchange processes several exchangers were used with different cost laws due to their pressure ratings, materials of construction and exchange3r types. in such circumstances traditional methods of pinch technology can not be led to minimum total annual cost may cause some other disadvantages like more complexity or higher maintenance. in this research work a new a...

Two recognition-mediated reaction processes operating through reactive binary complexes drive resolution of a 24-component dynamic covalent library, assembled from individual aldehydes and nucleophiles. The effectiveness of the library resolution and selective amplification of one recognition-enabled species over another is limited by the difference in the rates of the recognition-mediated reac...

Student-t processes have recently been proposed as an appealing alternative nonparameteric function prior. They feature enhanced flexibility and predictive variance. In this work the use of Student-t processes are explored for multiobjective Bayesian optimization. In particular, an analytical expression for the hypervolume-based probability of improvement is developed for independent Student-t ...

Enzymes are biocatalysts that been used as alternatives to chemicals to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of a wide range of industrial processes. They are currently used in applied and basic areas of research as well as in a wide range of products and manufacturing processes, such food, beverage, detergent, pharmaceutical, leather processing and peptide synthesis industries (Gupta ...

Due to corporate portal playing a major role on organizational knowledge management (KM), this study was conducted to assess the impact of supporting KM processes through a corporate portal on business processes and employees at an academic institution. This paper specifically assesses the impact of knowledge acquisition, knowledge conversion, knowledge application and knowledge protection on b...

background: because of educational responsibilities and direct contact with people, health personnel (known as behvarzes in iran) need to be properly educated. therefore, educating and empowering the instructors of health centers (or behvarzi centers) regarding teaching and learning processes, such as selection of educational objectives and using appropriate educational technology, can positive...