S ources of biohazardous waste include not only large hospitals and laboratories, but also physicians’ offices, dental offices, clinics, research facilities, surgery centers, veterinary offices, funeral homes, and a growing number of settings where home health care is delivered. State and local municipality definitions and regulations on biohazardous waste vary widely. Most regulations exempt h...

The aim of this study was to design a development Strategy for the Public Sport in Mazandaran province. A sample of 73 individuals who were the physical education teachers of higher education institutions, senior managers of the department of the youth and sports, senior experts, heads of the state offices, provincial and municipal authorities and bodies of sports participated in this study. ...

BACKGROUND Vaccination coverage for influenza in the elderly remains low when the physician is the only person responsible for immunization. Integration of other health care workers may improve the coverage rate of at-risk groups. OBJECTIVES To estimate vaccination coverage rate by using a strategy based on the systematic intervention of a health care professional proposing vaccination before...

This project was undertaken to compare the opinions of private and public dental school students' perceptions concerning extramural programming, which is defined as any aspect of the curriculum in which undergraduate dental students provide dental care outside the main dental facility. A survey instrument was used to collect data from undergraduate students at a private (N = 267; 88.4 percent r...

We realized single-mode hole-assisted optical fiber (HAF) cord whose fiber has a superior bending loss characteristic that complies with ITU-T Recommendation G. 657 for use in highly reliable optical fiber distribution facilities in central offices. The cord has an excellent anti-shock characteristic, and can be detected with a conventional optical fiber cord identifier despite its very low ben...

The paper briefly outlines the business modeling language GRAPES-BM and the CASE tool GRADE-BM based on it. The business modeling language GRAPES-BM is a semiformal graphic language for modeling and simulation of complicated business systems (production processes, offices, information systems). GRAPES-BM relies on such basic concepts as task, event, performer, triggering condition etc. and cont...

Beginning in 1984, the long-term trend of increasing utilization of inpatient hospital care by Medicare enrollees reversed. As Medicare patients increasingly received care in outpatient hospital facilities, ambulatory surgical centers, and physicians' offices, the structure of charges for physicians' services changed significantly. Medical services by physicians in inpatient hospitals declined ...

The corridor allocation problem is one of assigning a given set of facilities in two rows along a straight corridor so as to minimize a weighted sum of the distances between every pair of facilities. This problem has practical applications in arrangements of rooms in offices and in hospitals. The problem is NP-hard. In this paper, we present two population based metaheuristic implementations fo...