Network coding generalizes network operation beyond traditional routing, or storeand-forward, approaches, allowing for mathematical operations across data streams within a network. This thesis considers a number of theoretical and practical networking issues from network coding perspectives. We describe a new distributed randomized coding approach to multi-source multicast network scenarios, in...

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...

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...

Although financial management is a significant issue for children, few studies offer empirical findings concerning the influences of game-based environments on children’s learning. Thus, this study investigates how digital games can serve as a favorable environment to help children learn about financial management. We first develop a digital game, and then conduct a case study with 29 fifth-gra...

Most operations models assume that individuals have perfect beliefs about random variables or stochastic processes. In reality, however, individuals make judgment errors and are subject to predictable biases. We leverage two fundamental psychological principles bounded cognition and representativeness to model individuals' forecasting errors and biases in a way that is portable to operations mo...

In this paper we address the management of sensor faults in an intelligent environment. Our proposed approach aims to introduce self-healing as a method of fault management. This approach is based on the use of adaptive finite state machine automata which handle suspicious sensor behavior. These state machines communicate with a mobile robot which investigates the error states detected through ...

BACKGROUND Little is known about which self-management behaviors have the highest potential to influence exacerbation impact in COPD patients. We aimed to reach expert consensus on the most relevant set of self-management behaviors that can be targeted and influenced to maximize reduction of exacerbation impact. MATERIALS AND METHODS A 2-round Delphi study was performed using online surveys t...

present research studies the relationship between leader empowering behaviors and employee stress in qom agricultural jihad organization. to measure leader empowering behaviors, hoy’s (1994) leader empowering behaviors model and for measure employee distress, rondelof and blackburn questionnaire (1990) have been used. statistical sample consists of 70 employees of qom agricultural jihad organiz...