Public discussion and debate concerning legal, ethical, philosophical, and emotional aspects of death and dying have slowly gained prominence over the past decade. However, parallel discussions among physicians regarding their perspectives toward their dying patients have remained more subdued and less visible, repressed within a culture of hi-tech medical care that often perceives patient deat...

in the present century, which is the age of rapid growth of technology and knowledge, in addition to the development of formal teaching, increasing attention has been paid to distant education by various organizations and societies. this paper is a report of a research entitled “a study of the success and obstacles of distant education services project of khorassan province literacy organizatio...

Is Europe a train on track, moving from past to future, pulled by an engine called development, or rather, sustainable development (to be politically correct)? Are there no sidings or optional routes? Is the speed of this train accelerating? Is the engine driver however facing squarely ahead, concentrating solely on the future within the narrow scope of his floodlights, and thus ignoring the pa...

Crowdsourcing consists in engaging a community of people in solving complex problems. Collaborative problem solving is affected by many variables (e.g., group size, difficulty of the task, tendency to cooperate) in a complex way. In this study, we extend the results of Guazzini et al. (2015) by means of a numerical simulation exploring the impact of the cost of cooperation in collaborative prob...

Scheduling of large number of jobs/tasks is a tedious and time taking work. With the increase is demand of products, the manufacturing industries have been facing a lot of trouble in fulfilling those demands while optimizing the production. Job shop scheduling problem (JSSP) is a well known combinatorial optimization problem with NP hard difficulty. Job shop scheduling (JSS) is the efficient al...

Does it sound familiar? Resources are scarce, competition is tough, and government regulations and a balanced budget are increasingly hard to meet at the same time. This is not the automobile or oil industry but the health care industry, and hospital managers are facing the same problems. And, maintains the author of this article, they must borrow some proven marketing techniques from business ...

The design of robust controllers that guarantee prescribed hard bounds on the control signal when facing model uncertainty is considered. Our approach to avoid a conservative design is to describe the external signals quite accuratly by means of “admissible sets”, hard bounded in amplitude and rate. The core problem to solve is the calculation of the maximum output amplitude of a set of systems...