evaluation and improvement of drug management process is essential for patient safety. the present study was performed whit the aim of assessing risk of drug management process in women surgery department of qeh using hfmea method in 2013. a mixed method was used to analys failure modes and their effects with hfmea. to classify failure modes; nursing errors in clinical management model, for cla...

the need to establish power plants to supply the required electricity of the country has been rising due to increasing demand levels as well as the lack of governmental resources. furthermore, the available traditional attitude in performing and conducting power plant projects has made government seek a modern attitude. this paper tries to use the topics that have been employed in automotive in...

failure mode and effects analysis (fmea) is a method based on teamwork to identify potential failures and problems in a system, design, process and service in order to remove them. the important part of this method is determining the risk priorities of failure modes using the risk priority number (rpn). however, this traditional rpn method has several shortcomings. therefore, in this paper we p...

4 This study considers the influence of the knowledge of existing mode shares on travelers 5 mode choice. This contrasts with traditional mode choice models, where the main objective 6 is to predict the overall mode shares as the aggregate of individual mode choices according 7 to variables encompassing attributes of the modes, and characteristics of the travelers. In this 8 study, a computer-a...

Remotely sensed nighttime lights (NTL) datasets derived from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP/OLS) have been identified as a good indicator of the urbanization process and have been widely used to study such demographic and economic variables as population distribution and density, electricity consumption, and carbon emission. However, one issue m...

Energy efficiency policies are pursued as a way to provide affordable and sustainable energy services. Efficiency measures that reduce energy service costs will free up resources that can be spent in the form of increased consumption—either of that same good or service or of other goods and services that require energy (and that have associated emissions). This is called the rebound effect. The...

The transportation system has a number of adverse environmental impacts. The effects can be direct, indirect and both. Indirect effects may have greater consequences than direct effects, but are not generally well known. Transportation system and the operation of vehicles can affect rural and urban community. Emission and road crashes have a significant impact on health, and the form of the tra...

Abstract In this paper, we propose a bounded DEA based model to measure the overall risk of failure modes. In the proposed model risk is measured within the range of an interval, whose performance is definitely superior to any one. The risks, obtained from bounded DEA models, turn out to be all intervals and are referred to as interval risk, which combine the best and the worst relative risk in...