Background Different strategies for addressing the challenge of prioritizing elective patients efficiently and fairly have been introduced in Norway. In the time period studied, there were three possible outcomes for elective patients that had been through the process of priority setting: (i) high priority with assigned individual maximum waiting time; (ii) low priority without a maximum waitin...

Customer service level is of prime importance in today competitive world and has various dimensions with delivery quality being one of the most important ones. Delivery quality has several parameters such as deliver time window options, time window size, etc. In this paper we focus on one of these parameters, namely time window setting. It has a direct impact upon customer satisfaction and busi...

introduction:  laser  interstitial  thermotherapy  (litt)  is  an  internal  ablation  therapy  method  consisting of a percutaneous or intraoperative insertion of laser fibers directly into the liver tumor with  maximum diameter of 5 cm. in this treatment method, there isn’t any general information about the  relationship  between  increasing  the  exposure  power,  coagulation  and  carboniza...

One of the mainly popular consumed colloid protein materials in pharmaceutics, medical, food and military industries is Gelatin. Especially from warm-water fish gelatin report poss similar characteristics to mammalian’s gelatin .Yellow fin tuna (Thunnus albacares) gelatin skin, lots of waste in form of skin and bones of the fish are produced every day. Analysis factors were extracted alkaline g...

Introduction:  Laser  interstitial  thermotherapy  (LITT)  is  an  internal  ablation  therapy  method  consisting of a percutaneous or intraoperative insertion of laser fibers directly into the liver tumor with  maximum diameter of 5 cm. In this treatment method, there isn’t any general information about the  relationship  between  increasing  the  exposure  power,  coagulation  and  carboniza...

background priority setting in healthcare is a key determinant of health system performance. however, there is no widely accepted priority setting evaluation framework. we reviewed literature with the aim of developing and proposing a framework for the evaluation of macro and meso level healthcare priority setting practices.   methods we systematically searched econlit, pubmed, cinahl, and ebsc...

Current Findings in the Literature: A potential benefit of health IT in inpatient settings is decreased medication turnaround time. Many advocate that electronic processes for medication ordering and pharmacy verification and dispensing are more efficient than paper­based systems because they may be: (1) instantly delivered to the pharmacy as opposed to manually written by the physician, delive...

Current Findings in the Literature: A potential benefit of health IT in inpatient settings is decreased medication turnaround time. Many advocate that electronic processes for medication ordering and pharmacy verification and dispensing are more efficient than paper­based systems because they may be: (1) instantly delivered to the pharmacy as opposed to manually written by the physician, delive...

A standard approach to analyzing tunneling processes in various physical contexts is to use instanton or imaginary time path techniques. For systems in which the tunneling takes place in a time dependent setting, the standard methods are often applicable only in special cases, e.g. due to some additional symmetries. We consider a collection of time dependent tunneling problems to which the stan...

Weisberg for guidance during this project. We would also like to extend our gratitude to Erin MacDonald and Joe Lyons for invaluable assistance in coding data. All data are available by request. 2 All duties on this paper were shared equally by the authors. Name order is presented alphabetically.