COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORKS FOR DECISION MAKING SUPPORT IN MEDICAL EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT

Throughout medical equipment life cycle, hospitals need to take decisions on medical equipment management based upon a set of different criteria. In fact, medical equipment acquisition, preventive maintenance, and replacement are considered the most important phases, accordingly a properly planned management for these issues is considered a key decision of medical equipment management. In this thesis, a set of frameworks were developed regarding acquisition, preventive maintenance, and replacement to improve management process of medical equipment. In practice, quality function deployment was proposed as a core method around which the frameworks were developed

Data management tools for NFFA-EUROPE project

This thesis discusses and presents some developments toward new data services within the EU NFFAEUROPE project. The work performed originates by the need to rationalize and organize large scientific data-sets using a FAIR approach. The activity leverages on results obtained in previous MHPC work and tackle some of the issues about FAIR principle that are coming out due to an increase in size of variety of the original datasets. More specifically the overall goal of the thesis is to setup well organized data services to manage all the SEM images coming from different sources and partner within the NFFA-EUROPE project. The specific goals within this thesis are the following; \u2022 Creation of python application to collect and enrich metadata for SEM images coming from different sources. \u2022 Develop a massive parallel processing approach to be able to reduce time in collecting metadata on a large amount of images. \u2022 Plan and develop of an easy to setup and portable computational ecosystem to accomplish the above goal based on Kubernetes and Spark, with the idea to easily deploy in on different computational infrastructure. \u2022 Measure performance on different computational infrastructure of the massive data processing

Comparison of prospective and retrospective memory in addicted men, have left addicts, and healthy individuals

زمینه و هدف: اعتیاد یک بیماری جسمی، روانی، اجتماعی و معنوی است و یکی از آسیب های جدی به دنبال سوء مصرف مواد، آسیب مغزی است. هدف اصلی پژوهش حاضر مقایسه حافظه آینده نگر و گذشته نگر در مردان معتاد، معتاد ترک کرده و سالم بود. روش بررسی: در این مطالعه توصیفی- تحلیلی (مقطعی) تعداد 35 نفر معتاد، 32 نفر معتاد ترک کرده و 35 نفر غیر معتاد، به طور هدفمند انتخاب شدند. برای گردآوری داده ها از پرسشنامه حافظه گذشته نگر و آینده نگر استفاده گردید. برای تحلیل آماری از آزمون تحلیل واریانس چند متغیره (مانوا) و آزمون تعقیبی توکی استفاده شد. یافته ها: نتایج پژوهش نشان داد که بین معتادان، معتادان ترک کرده و افراد سالم در عملکرد حافظه آینده نگر تفاوت معنی داری وجود دارد (05/0>P)؛ اما در عملکرد حافظه گذشته نگر تفاوت معنی داری وجود ندارد؛ همچنین نتایج آزمون تعقیبی توکی نشان داد که میانگین حافظه آینده نگر در معتادان بیشتر از معتادان ترک کرده و افراد عادی است (05/0>P). نتیجه گیری: بنابراین افزایش طول مدت اعتیاد باعث تخریب بیشتر حافظه آینده نگر شده و در نتیجه ترک اعتیاد را مشکل تر می سازد

The phenomenon of individual tourism marketing communication of chef Burak and its role in increasing tourism demand - Istanbul's city restaurant model

Information and communication technology is one of the essential products of the technology and information revolution. You have made a significant and noticeable contribution to the transition from the stereotypical nature of production, work, marketing, supply, and demand. In addition, the significant changes that have followed in social life and the means of communication have become an (automated) nature because technology has added to them the color of scientific and cognitive development. During these significant changes, the method of trading goods between the producer and the consumer has become more transparent and fast due to the characteristics of the means of communication used. The importance of this matter was addressed in the research, which deals with the extent of modern technology, especially social media, its role in tourism marketing, and its importance in the changes in demand levels. Here, it relied on a unique marketing phenomenon by the Turkish chef Burak, how he managed the marketing method based on social media, and his departure from the stereotypical marketing of his products

Utilization of idle time slot in spectrum sensing under noise uncertainty

Spectrum sensing in cognitive radio (CR) is a critical process as it directly influences the accuracy of detection. Noise uncertainty affects the reliability of detecting vacant holes in the spectrum, thus limiting the access of that spectrum by secondary users (SUs). In such uncertain environment; SUs sense the received power of a primary user (PU) independently with different measures of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Long sensing time serves in mitigating the effect of noise uncertainty, but on the cost of throughput performance of CR system. In this paper, the scheme of an asynchronous and crossed sensing-reporting is presented. The scheme reduces energy consumption during sensing process without affecting the detection accuracy. Exploiting the included idle time () in sensing time slot; each SU collects power samples with higher SNR directly performs the reporting process to a fusion center (FC) consecutively. The FC terminates the sensing and reporting processes at a specific sensing time that corresponds to the lowest SNR (). Furthermore, this integrated scheme aims at optimizing the total frame duration (). Mathematical expressions of the scheme are obtained. Analytical results show the efficiency of the scheme in terms of energy saving and throughput increment under noise uncerainty

Rare case of combined small cell lung cancer with adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma

AbstractCombined small cell lung cancer (cSCLC) is relatively unusual. We report a case of cSCLC in a 78-year-old man with no prior medical history who presented for evaluation of right upper lobe (RUL) lung mass. A CT scan showed a 3.0×2.5×2.3cm RUL lung mass with mildly prominent mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy. A right thoracotomy with right upper lobectomy and lymphadenectomy was performed. Histological examination and immunohistochemical stains confirmed the diagnosis of combined small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) with adenocarcinoma (AC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) components.While there are available guidelines for treating SCLC, the optimal treatment for cSCLC which will improve prognosis has not been adequately determined. We report a very rare category of primary lung malignant neoplasm to represent our institution's experience in diagnosing and managing this type of rare case

Polymorphic characterisation of gallinacin candidate genes and their molecular associations with growth and immunity traits in chickens

1.Four gallinacin (GAL) genes were assessed by Polymerase Chain Reaction-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) to characterise these genes in Fayoumi (F) and Rhode Island Red (R) breeds and their crosses of Rhode Island Red × Fayoumi (½R½F) and Fayoumi × Rhode Island Red (½F½R). 2.Genes examined were GAL2, GAL3, GAL4 and GAL5. The molecular associations between the SNPs of the gallinacin genes and body weight, caecal bacterial count and the serum antibody titres of IgA, IgG and IgM were determined. In the R breed, the frequency of TC genotype was higher than TT and CC genotypes for the GAL3 gene. The GG genotype frequency was higher than AA and AG genotypes for the GAL4 gene in the other genetic groups, and the CA genotype frequency was higher than CC and AA genotypes in crosses for the GAL5 gene. 3.In all populations, the frequency of the C allele was higher than the T allele for the GAL3 gene, the G allele was higher than the A allele for the GAL4 gene and the C allele was higher than the A allele for the GAL5 gene. The observed heterozygosity in R, ½R½F and ½F½R was 0.476, 0.375 and 0.158 for the GAL3 gene, 0.458, 0.615 and 0.250 for the GAL4 gene and 0.053, 0.792 and 0.739 for the GAL5 gene, while the expected heterozygosities were 0.490, 0.430 and 0.145 for the GAL3 gene, 0.430, 0.348 and 0.219 for the GAL4 gene and 0.229, 0.478 and 0.496 for the GAL5 gene, respectively. 4.On a molecular level, the genotype TT was significantly higher for body weight than TC and CC genotypes in the GAL3 gene. Birds with the GG genotype had a significantly lower Salmonella typhimurium count than birds with AA genotype in the GAL4 gene. Birds with the genotype AA had higher significant body weights than those with CC and CA genotypes in the GAL5 gene. 5.The results indicated that the GAL3, GAL4 and GAL5 genes are potential candidates for selection programmes to improve S. typhimurium resistance and body weight in chickens

Pemanfaatan Internet sebagai Media Komunikasi oleh Pengelola Sekretariat Dewan Ketahanan Pangan Provinsi

This research work was carried out to analyze the utilization of internet as a communication media by Staff of Provincial DKP Secretariat. The population of the study is Staff of Provincial DKP Secretariat in 34 province in Indonesia. Survey method of the research and stratified random sampling were used to select 68 Staff for the study. The data was presented and analyzed in tables and average scores. The research found that internet exposure of Staff of Provincial DKP Secretariat is high. However, its utilization is still low. The research also showed that: (1) individual characteristics (age, period of work, and training) are significantly correlated with internet exposure (frequency and channel variety); (2) motivation (intrinsic motivation) is significantly correlated with internet exposure (duration and the situation of exposure); (3) internet exposure (duration, frequency, and the situation of exposure) are significantly correlated with utilization of internet (communication and coordination)

Assessing Practice and Criteria for Green Roof Maintenance on High-rise Residential Building in Malaysia

Urbanisation inevitably shows a positive sign in increasing the economic reputation of a country. Nevertheless, it has led to several problems including the deficit in green spaces and destruction of the natural environment, therefore green building is introduced as an alternative to overcome crucial environmental issues. Numerous approaches were also adopted to reduce other environmental issues such as urban heat island, air pollution and lack of green spaces. One of the sustainable approaches that help to minimise the environmental problems is by using the means of vegetation or plant material on rooftops or also known as the green roof. The implementation of the green roof on top of buildings is becoming a trend in the urban cities as it provides numerous benefits to the green development. The green roof is also part of criteria in green building and among the benefits, implementing green roofs will reduce heat flux, optimise energy efficiency and improve stormwater management. However, despite the benefits, enhancement on the green roof installation and maintenance consideration are two factors which are still largely unexplored as the main significant factor in the viability of the green roof installation. Hence, this paper is aimed to determine the vital criteria of maintenance and its ranking towards the establishment of best practice maintenance for the green roof, by focusing on high-rise residential. Questionnaires were distributed by email and through an online survey to 30 maintenance managers of green roof of high-rise residential in Kuala Lumpur and the samples are drawn by using purposive sampling technique. The results showed that the most significant maintenance criteria of the green roof are drainage, followed by waterproofing, irrigation, water retention, and roof slab. The outcome of this study has provided a significant contribution to the current maintenance practice of green roof by prioritising the criteria of maintenance and key address of green roof, where it may help to standardise the maintenance practice of the green roof in the tropical climate of Malaysia