Roya Safari Faramani, Armita Shahesmaeili, Samira Hosseini Hooshyar, Razieh Khajehkazemi, Maryam Nasirian, Hamid Sharifi, Kianoosh Kamali. Modeling in Health Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran; HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health...

1. Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran 2. Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Research Center for Modeling in Health, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran 4. Dept. of Health Management and Economics, Sc...

CLINICAL RISK MANAGEMENT IN HOSPITALS Jamileh Farokhzadian, Batool Poorchangizi, Fariba Borhani. Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran; MSc student of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery and surgical ward nurse in Shahid Bahonar Hospital, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran; Department of...

Samira Hosseini Hooshyar, Armita Shahesmaeili, Roya Safari Faramani, Razieh Khajehkazemi, Maryam Nasirian, Hamid Sharifi, Kianoosh Kamali. HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran; Modeling in Health Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health...

The Stahl model is one of the most applied consumer search models, with many applications and an empirical background. The present paper explores an extension where sellers have asymmetries, which is mostly excluded by the literature. Sellers with heterogeneous numbers of stores are introduced, reflecting a typical market structure. As in the original Stahl model, a market consists of several s...

An area supervisor managing an area chain of local urban retail stores faces the problem of determining the number of employees and allocating them to retail stores (workforce size and its allocation). We propose a model to maximize the overall expected profit rate of a coordinated area chain where employee absenteeism is uncertain. Retail stores operate as a Markovian loss queueing system. An ...

BACKGROUND Mycoplasma synoviae is an important avian pathogen which can cause both respiratory disease and synovial joint inflammation (synovitis) in poultry. Mycoplasmas spp. may cause the respiratory system infection in ostriches with symptoms such as inflammation of the nose, trachea and also damages of lungs. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to use the M. synoviae specific Polymerase Ch...