BACKGROUND To evaluate the smoking habits and social nicotine dependence among dental students, and to find out applicability of the Kano Test in detecting smokers and non-smokers. METHODS The representative sample comprised 223 first-year and sixth-year undergraduate Romanian dental students from the same university, all of whom completed a self-administered questionnaire. Data were collecte...

China’s jewelry sales maintain a good momentum of annual growth, and consumption potential is huge. However, packaging design faced many problems. Even through China has brands, the poorly designed. The fundamental reason lies in lack targeted detailed analysis research, only to meet functional use. Fuzzy front-end suitable for initial stage product determines success or failure design. In view...

Background and Objectives: One of the main concerns of hospital managers is their ability in improving their organization's performance. The use of quality management and decision-making techniques facilitates managers to achieve this goal. In this research, the corrective activities to increase the quality of hospital services are determined and selected using an integration o...