This paper aims at determining the optimal number of new facilities besides specifying both the optimal location and design level of them under the budget constraint in a competitive environment by a novel hybrid continuous and discrete firefly algorithm. A real-world application of locating new chain stores in the city of Tehran, Iran, is used and the results are analyzed. In addition, several...

1- Department of Bacteriology and Virology, Faculty Medicine, Shiraz University Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 2- Biochemistry, Kerman Kerman, 3- 4- , [email protected]

It is now a norm in the convenience store supply chain that a logistics company (or companies) provides logistics services to both chain stores and their suppliers. The coverage rate of stores has become the major factor for winning in the marketplace of chain store businesses. Logistics companies need to establish a logistics center for each market area to provide quick response to the stores ...

1 Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. 2 Industrial Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran. 3 Institute of Advanced Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. 4 Department of Industrial Engineering, Islamic Azad University of Kerma...

Corresponding Author: Dr. Arsham Borumand Saeid, Department of Mathematics, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran, email: [email protected] 1446 Ideal Theory of BCH-Algebras 1A. Borumand Saeid, 2A. Namdar and 3R.A. Borzooei Department of Mathematics, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University Zarin Dasht Branch, Iran Depar...

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT BY CLINICAL RISK MANAGEMENT: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON IRANIAN NURSES’ EXPERIENCES Jamileh Farokhzadian, Fariba Borhani, Batool Poorchangizi, Nahid Dehghan Nayeri. Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran; Department of Nursing Ethics, Medical Ethics and law Research Center, Shahid Beheshti Univ...

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*Corresponding author: Mahdieh Rezaei, Department of Clinical Science, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran. Tel: +989133431675 E-mail: [email protected] All experimental procedures involving animals were conducted in accordance to the Guide for Care and use of Laboratory Animals published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH publication No. 85–23,...