A significant amount of economic activity takes place within the home. Unfortunately, it is difficult to assess the cyclical properties of home production because the available data are too sporadic. Using a Real Business Cycle model, we construct quarterly data on three variables that are unobservable at a quarterly frequency: hours worked in the home sector, hours spent in leisure, and the co...

Buildings play an important role in the energy demand sector. Due to the increase of environmentalconcerns and renewable energy sources restriction, lighting control systems will play an important role in the reductionof energy consumption of the lighting without impeding comfort goals. Lighting control systems can control lightingconsumption according to the type of building, adequate luminanc...

ARTHROTOMY of the knee joint for the removal of a torn or degenerate meniscus is a common orthopaedic procedure. Demands on bed occupancy are usually high. Different methods of management have been advocated in the early post operative period ranging from weight bearing and knee bending within twenty four hours after operation ' to ten days bed rest in hospital and non weight bearing with the k...

Despite control efforts, the burden of health-care-associated infections in Europe is high and leads to around 37,000 deaths each year. We did a systematic review to identify crucial elements for the organisation of effective infection-prevention programmes in hospitals and key components for implementation of monitoring. 92 studies published from 1996 to 2012 were assessed and ten key componen...

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Dot immunablot assay was used for determination of nodules produced on soybean. french bean. pigeon pea and urdbean by Bradyrhizobiumjaponicum USDA-I 10; R. leguminosarum bv. phaseoli FB-77 and N-3; Rhizobium sp. A-3 and U-I. respectively. Nodule occupancy by inoculated strains as determined by the test ranged between 73 to 93%. Replica inmrunoblot assay reduced the time required for enumeratio...

For a number of reasons, hospitals appoint fulltime and part-time physicians to practice medicine within the hospital or its outlying divisions. Such physicians provide a wide variety of primary, specialty, and subspecialty services. Among other advantages for hospitals are a potentially tighter rein on quality control and an increased bed occupancy and revenue at a time when financial issues h...

abstract: background: when organization managed by experienced, competent and well performed managers, the organization will be succeeded in achieving their goals and it will be more effective. objective: this study was designed with the purpose of determining the relationship between managers competency and hospital efficiency in teaching hospital of tehran university of medical sciences durin...

On dense railway networks –such as in Belgium– train travelers are frequently confronted with overly occupied trains, especially during peak hours. Crowdedness on trains leads to a deterioration in the quality of service and has a negative impact on the well-being of the passenger. In order to stimulate travelers to consider less crowded trains, the iRail project wants to show an occupancy indi...