s from Research Forums Presented at the American College of Nurse–Midwives’ 58th Annual Meeting The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) Division of Research, Division of Global Health, and the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health are pleased to present the abstracts from the 2013 Research Forum podium presentations. The podium presentations were selected in a blinded peer review proces...

preemptively scheduling a set of independent jobs with release time on one processor is a historical problem. in this paper, the same problem has been considered in which objective is to minimize the mean flow time. to prepare a perfect branch-and-bound, some optimality conditions have been represented and they have been compared with the optimality conditions which have been proposed before. o...

The total quality index (TQI) proposed in this study is an information technology-supported benchmarking tool that helps managers assess a total quality management program by enabling the cost-effective measurement of key organizational processes. TQI utilizes the analytic hierarchy process and the Delphi technique to measure ideal and actual quality management along eight critical factors synt...

In dose response studies, the dose range is often restricted due to concerns over drug toxicity and/or efficacy. We present restricted and unrestricted interval locally optimal designs with respect to a very general class of optimality criteria for estimating the underlying dose response curve. The underlying curve belongs to a diversified set of link functions suitable for the dose response st...

In this paper,we consider the restless bandit problem, which is one of the most well-studied generalizations of the celebrated stochastic multi-armed bandit problem in decision theory. However, it is known be PSPACE-Hard to approximate to any non-trivial factor. Thus the optimality is very difficult to obtain due to its high complexity. A natural method is to obtain the greedy policy considerin...

——In this paper we study an optimal server allocation problem, where a single server is shared among multiple queues based on the queue backlog information. Due to the physical nature of the system this information is delayed, in that when the allocation decision is made, the server only has the backlog information from an earlier time. Queues have different arrival processes as well as differe...

We consider a generalization of the model of stochastic search in an out-forest, introduced and studied by Denardo, Rothblum, and Van der Heyden [1]. We provide a simple proof of the optimality of index-based policies.

in the present study, we examined the antioxidative activities of satureja khuzestanica essential oil (ske) and possible protective effect of ske on lipid profile, atherogenic index and liver enzyme markers in alloxan-induced type 1 diabetic rats. thirty male rats were randomly divided into three groups; group one as control, group two diabetic untreatment, and group three treatments with ske b...

In this work, a three-node, two-way relaying network (TWRN) over a multi-carrier system is considered. The aim is to minimize total energy usage of such a multi-carrier TWRN with the constraint of rate requirements on both sides, with both the transmit energy usage as well as the receive energy usage into account. For comparison, two strategies including digital network coding (DNC) and physica...