382 research outputs found
Optimization of p-chart for Processes with Multiple Assignable Causes and Random Shift
No full textA Master of Science thesis in Engineering Systems Management by Emad Aldin Mohammed Abdelkreem Mohammed entitled, “Optimization of P-Chart for Processes with Multiple Assignable Causes and Random Shift”, submitted in May 2020. Thesis advisor is Dr. Mahmoud Awad. Soft copy is available (Thesis, Approval Signatures, Completion Certificate, and AUS Archives Consent Form).Attribute control charts are used extensively in many industries to detect assignable causes for many processes. They are particularly useful in the service industries due to difficulty of evaluating services using variable scale. In addition, several critical-toquality characteristics in manufacturing and service can be combined to determine whether to accept or reject the product. The optimization of fraction non-conforming p-chart has been mainly addressed from either statistical or economic prospective or considering only single assignable cause. In this research, we propose an economicstatistical model that considers the process history of the nonconforming units to design a p-chart for processes with multiple assignable causes. The method is demonstrated using a drinking water bottling case and shows improved results compared to existing methods. When comparing the results of the proposed method with traditional methods, the proposed method is expected to reduce poor quality cost by 0.86% per unit. For a mass production company such as the water bottling company with half a million bottles filled every day, the proposed method is expected to provide significant monetary savings along with improved reputation.College of EngineeringDepartment of Industrial EngineeringMaster of Science in Engineering Systems Management (MSESM
2026: Ruth Awad
No full textRuth Awad is a Lebanese-American disabled poet, a 2021 NEA Poetry fellow, and the author of Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024) and Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Her work can be found in The Atlantic, AGNI, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Believer, The New Republic, and elsewhere. She has an MGA in poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and she lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio.https://thekeep.eiu.edu/lionsinwinter_writers/1055/thumbnail.jp
Providing pharmacy services during the coronavirus pandemic in Saudi Arabia
No full textAbstract: On March 2, 2020, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia confirmed its first case of the emerging coronavirus strain that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Shortly thereafter, the number of confirmed cases nationwide began to rise. Since the looming outbreak, all healthcare professionals, including pharmacists, began to work at maximum capacity and effort. The Saudi Society of Clinical Pharmacy (SSCP) recognizes the significant impact pharmacists can have during outbreaks. Based on the scientific evidence available during this outbreak, the SSCP set up an expert working group to conceptualize and draft proposed recommendations that highlight the roles and responsibilities of pharmacists during epidemics and pandemics. The SSCP working group made 28 recommendations. In addition to national and institutional guidelines, these recommendations could serve as guidance for affected entities.
Keywords: Pandemic, COVID-19, Pharmacist, Saudi Arabia.
Title: Providing pharmacy services during the coronavirus pandemic in Saudi Arabia
Author: Saad khalaf alshammari, Ahmed Masoud AL-Qahtani, Ahmed Mazi Alotaibi, Naif Ahmad Alzahrani, Emad Ahmed Alzahrani, Susan Abdulqader Alkhulaif, Waleed farah alharbi, Salem ahmad albraiki, Awad ghalab almuteiri, Nawaf Ateya Alzahrani
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
Vol. 10, Issue 2, October 2022 - March 2023
Page No: 147-153
Research Publish Journals
Website: www.researchpublish.com
Published Date: 28-November-2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7371179
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OCCUPATIONAL BURNOUT AMONG NURSES WORKING IN MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CENTERS IN EL BEHEIRA GOVERNORATE
No full textAbstract: Nurses who are working in maternal and child health care setting suffer from excessive load that makes them more liable for occupational burnout because their work involves many preventive and curative health services that are provided to both women and under-five children. The study aimed to: assess the level of occupational burnout among nurses working in Maternal and Child Health centers (MCH) in El Beheira Governorate. Design: a descriptive study was utilized to meet the aim of this study. Setting: The study was conducted in 9 MCH centers within 5 directorates out of 16 directorates present in El Beheira Governorate including Damanhour, Kafer El dawar, Abo Elmatamer, Etay Elbarod and Shobarqet directorates. These directorates have the greatest number of nurses within MCH centers. Subjects: composed of 300 nursing staff who are working at previously mentioned setting. Tools: two tools were used for data collection; Nurses’ characteristics self –administrated sheet and The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). Results: around two third of the studied nurses had high level of emotional exhaustion, and the majority of them had high level of high depersonalization and personal accomplishment. Moreover, there was a statistically significant negative correlation between emotional exhaustion and personal accomplishment domain and positive correlation between emotional exhaustion and depersonalization. On the other hand, there was no statistically significant correlation between personal accomplishment and depersonalization. Conclusion: based on the results of the present study it can be concluded that, although the current study subjects had high level of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, they still had high level of personal accomplishment. Moreover, emotional exhaustion was negatively correlated with personal accomplishment and positively correlated with depersonalization. On the other hand, there was no statistically significant correlation between personal accomplishment and depersonalization.
Recommendation: frequent workshops about effective coping strategies to be used during time of stress need to be implemented for nurses to protect against occurrence of burnout.
Keywords: nursing staff, occupational burnout, maternal and child health center.
Title: OCCUPATIONAL BURNOUT AMONG NURSES WORKING IN MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CENTERS IN EL BEHEIRA GOVERNORATE
Author: Mona Ali. S, Mariam Soliman H., Amal Awad M., Emad Fayek R.
International Journal of Novel Research in Healthcare and Nursing
ISSN 2394-7330
Vol. 9, Issue 2, May 2022 - August 2022
Page No: 167-186
Novelty Journals
Website: www.noveltyjournals.com
Published Date: 02-July-2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6790438
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Multicomponent image segmentation using a genetic algorithm and artificial neural network
No full textImage segmentation is an essential process for image analysis. Several methods were developed to segment multicomponent images, and the success of these methods depends on several factors including 1) the characteristics of the acquired image and 2) the percentage of imperfections in the process of image acquisition. The majority of these methods require a priori knowledge, which is difficult to obtain. Furthermore, they assume the existence of models that can estimate its parameters and fit to the given data. However, such a parametric approach is not robust, and its performance is severely affected by the correctness of the utilized parametric model. In this letter, a new multicomponent image segmentation method is developed using a nonparametric unsupervised artificial neural network called Kohonen's self-organizing map (SOM) and hybrid genetic algorithm (HGA). SOM is used to detect the main features that are present in the image; then, HGA is used to cluster the image into homogeneous regions without any a priori knowledge. Experiments that are performed on different satellite images confirm the efficiency and robustness of the SOM-HGA method compared to the Iterative Self-Organizing DATA analysis technique (ISODATA). © 2007 IEEE.ARIA EH, 2004, P 20 ISPRS C IST TUR, P117; AWAD M, IN PRESS INT J REMOT; BACAO F, 2005, P ICCS 2005 C, P476; Baker J. E., 1987, P 2 INT C GEN ALG, P14; CHEN Q, 2004, LECT NOTES COMPUT SC, V33, P621; Chun DN, 1996, PATTERN RECOGN, V29, P1195, DOI 10.1016-0031-3203(95)00148-4; Fauzi M., 2003, P BRIT MACH VIS C, P519; HOLLLAND J, 1975, ADAPT NATURAL ARTIFI; HUAPT R, 2004, PRACTICAL GENETIC AL; Jensen J. R., 1996, INTRO DIGITAL IMAGE; Kohavi R., 1998, APPL MACHINE LEARNIN, V30, P271; Levine M. D., 1985, VISION MAN MACHINE; NEVATIA R, 1980, COMPUT VISION GRAPH, V13, P257, DOI 10.1016-0146-664X(80)90049-0; Ng SC, 1996, IEEE SIGNAL PROC MAG, V13, P38, DOI 10.1109-79.543974; PARZEN E, 1962, ANN MATH STAT, V33, P1065, DOI 10.1214-aoms-1177704472; PERKINS S, 2000, FUZZY SYST EVOL COMP, V3, P52; Pina P, 2003, INT GEOSCI REMOTE SE, P3516; PRATT W, 1991, DIGITA IMAGE PROCESS; Tou J.T., 1974, PATTERN RECOGNITION; Wang X., 2004, P IEEE C ROB AUT MEC, P991; Xiaoying Jin, 2003, Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Cat. No.03CH37442); Xu BG, 2002, AATCC REV, V2, P42; Yao KC, 2000, PATTERN RECOGN, V33, P1575, DOI 10.1016-S0031-3203(99)00135-1; YIN HJ, 1995, NEURAL COMPUT, V7, P1178, DOI 10.1162-neco.1995.7.6.117834232
The sorption of ammonia on brown coal
No full text© 1978 Dr. Awad Rizk OussaThis thesis is a report of an investigation carried out by the author between 1st April 1969 to 31st October 1973 on a full time basis and from 1st December 1975 to 31st July 1978 on a part time basis. The research project was conducted by the author in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne, and on the premises of Australian Char Pty. Ltd., Morwell.
The project was based on the premise that useful information on the brown coal-ammonia system can be obtained from sorption isotherms. The author designed and assembled the apparatus with this in mind, and developed a method of obtaining a self-consistent and meaningful interpretation of the sorption isotherms. Thermodynamic data for the ammonia sorption process was derived and used to develop a preliminary model for the ammonia-brown coal system.
No separate literature review has been presented in the thesis, though frequent reference to the literature has been made in the discussions in each chapter.
Finally, the experimental details have been included in the appendices at the end of the thesis
Superconducting properties of zinc substitution in Tl-2223 phase
No full textThe effect of partial replacement of copper by zinc in Tl2Ba2Ca2Cu3O10-δ superconductor phase is studied. Superconducting samples of the nominal composition Tl2Ba2Ca2Cu3-xZnx O10-δ with x ranging from 0 to 0.6 are prepared under normal pressure by a one step of solid-state reaction technique. The samples are characterized by using X-ray powder diffraction, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and EDX. The X-ray data indicate that the partial replacement of Cu2+ions by Zn2+ions does not influence the tetragonal structure of the samples, and the lattice parameters a and c vary according to the difference in the ionic radii of Cu and Zn. The superconducting parameters, such as superconducting transition temperature Tc, critical current density Jc and irreversibility field Bir are calculated from electrical resistivity and AC-magnetic susceptibility measurements. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Abou-Aly A.I., 2002, INT C RES TRENDS SCI, V91; ADACHI S, 1990, PHYSICA C, V111, P543; Awad R, 2000, PHYSICA C, V341, P685, DOI 10.1016-S0921-4534(00)00650-X; Awad R, 2007, SUPERCOND SCI TECH, V20, P401, DOI 10.1088-0953-2048-20-4-017; Awad R, 2001, PHYSICA B, V307, P72, DOI 10.1016-S0921-4526(01)00971-1; Batista-Leyva AJ, 2003, SUPERCOND SCI TECH, V16, P857, DOI 10.1088-0953-2048-16-8-305; BEAN CP, 1964, REV MOD PHYS, V36, P31, DOI 10.1103-RevModPhys.36.31; BERKLEY DD, 1993, PHYS REV B, V47, P5524, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevB.47.5524; CHEN DX, 1990, PHYSICA C, V167, P317, DOI 10.1016-0921-4534(90)90349-J; Chu SY, 2000, PHYSICA C, V337, P229, DOI 10.1016-S0921-4534(00)00107-6; Fradina IA, 1999, PHYSICA C, V311, P81, DOI 10.1016-S0921-4534(98)00563-2; Glowacki BA, 1997, CRYOGENICS, V37, P609, DOI 10.1016-S0011-2275(97)00053-2; HAZEN RM, 1988, PHYS REV LETT, V60, P1657, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevLett.60.1657; Isber S, 2005, SUPERCOND SCI TECH, V18, P311, DOI 10.1088-0953-2048-18-3-018; Isber S, 2006, J PHYS CONF SER, V43, P450, DOI 10.1088-1742-6596-43-1-112; Kayed TS, 2003, CRYST RES TECHNOL, V38, P946, DOI 10.1002-crat.200310118; Kuhberger M, 2003, PHYSICA C, V390, P263, DOI 10.1016-S0921-4534(03)00706-8; LEE MW, 1995, PHYSICA C, V245, P6, DOI 10.1016-0921-4534(95)00100-X; Mezzetti E, 2000, PHYSICA C, V332, P115, DOI 10.1016-S0921-4534(00)00008-3; MOHAMMED NH, 2005, ARAB INT C REC ADV P, P9; Nishida A, 2003, PHYSICA C, V392, P349, DOI 10.1016-S0921-4534(03)00848-7; Pavard S, 1999, PHYSICA C, V316, P198, DOI 10.1016-S0921-4534(99)00259-2; Ravi S, 2000, PHYSICA C, V330, P58, DOI 10.1016-S0921-4534(99)00611-5; REN ZF, 1991, PHYSICA C, V184, P24, DOI 10.1016-0921-4534(91)91496-Q; RUCKENSTEIN E, 1989, MATER LETT, V8, P421, DOI 10.1016-0167-577X(89)90065-7; Tang H, 1997, PHYSICA C, V282, P2111, DOI 10.1016-S0921-4534(97)01171-4; Triscone G, 1996, PHYSICA C, V264, P233, DOI 10.1016-0921-4534(96)00262-6; VANDERAH TA, 1992, CHEM SUPERCONDUCTOR, P90; WANG YB, 1993, J LOW TEMP PHYS, V15, P169; WESTERHOLT K, 1989, PHYS REV B, V39, P11680, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevB.39.11680; Wisniewski A, 2000, PHYS REV B, V61, P791, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevB.61.791; XU YW, 1990, PHYSICA C, V169, P205, DOI 10.1016-0921-4534(90)90177-G; Yamauchi H, 1998, SUPERCOND SCI TECH, V11, P1006, DOI 10.1088-0953-2048-11-10-022; Yang Li, 1994, Physics Letters A, V18543
What is in a Nickname? Nicknames and Identity in the 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa
No full textThis study is an analysis of the nicknames of the football teams that participated in the 2010 football World Cup which took place in South Africa. The objective is to explore how countries and nations emphasize and substantiate their identity using nicknames. Concepts like audience design and mask theory are employed to account for how nicknames are formed. The Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) provides a theoretical as well as empirical basis for the analysis of the data.Keywords: Nicknames; Sports language; Audience design; CD
The experiences of new immigrants seeking emergency healthcare in the city of Kelowna
No full textSeveral studies acknowledge that immigrants encounter barriers when accessing health care in large Canadian cities. Little is known about new immigrants’ access to emergency health care in mid-sized cities. This study explores the barriers faced by new immigrants when accessing emergency health care in the city of Kelowna, a mid-sized Canadian city, and the strategies new immigrants use to deal with these barriers. The data for this study were collected between April and August of 2015 through a survey of 40 new immigrants in Kelowna and follow-up interviews with a subsample of eight of the survey respondents. The results indicate that new immigrants face several barriers when accessing emergency health care in Kelowna: long wait times, perceived inadequacy of care, language barriers, lack of knowledge about the emergency care system, culturally incongruent care and perceived discrimination, and financial burdens. Additionally, the study demonstrates that a large proportion of new immigrants are not prepared to obtain health care during their first three months in Kelowna, primarily because they are unfamiliar with the emergency care services and provincial insurance policies. The province of British Columbia does not extend its health insurance coverage to immigrants during their first three months of residency and a large proportion of immigrants do not enroll in private medical insurance. Depending on the nature of the barriers to accessing emergency care, new immigrants use three main coping strategies: silence, help-seeking, and personal initiatives. Silence or non-action is a common response to system related barriers, while help-seeking is a common coping technique for non-system related barriers. Personal endeavors, such as using alternative care are commonly used by medically uninsured immigrants during their first three months in Canada while waiting for provincial insurance coverage. The results of this study yield policy and practice recommendations aiming at improving new immigrants’ access to emergency health care. Recommendations derived from the findings of this study are to reduce the wait time in emergency departments, reevaluate the policy of a three-month wait for provincial insurance coverage, educate new immigrants about the emergency care system, and improve the quality of care provided in emergency departments.Graduate Studies, College of (Okanagan)Graduat
Anomalous Thermally Induced Deformation in Kelvin–Voigt Plate with Ultrafast Double-Strip Surface Heating
No full textThe Jeffreys-type heat conduction equation with flux precedence describes the temperature of diffusive hot electrons during the electron–phonon interaction process in metals. In this paper, the deformation resulting from ultrafast surface heating on a “nanoscale” plate is considered. The focus is on the anomalous heat transfer mechanisms that result from anomalous diffusion of hot electrons and are characterized by retarded thermal conduction, accelerated thermal conduction, or transition from super-thermal conductivity in the short-time response to sub-thermal conductivity in the long-time response and described by the fractional Jeffreys equation with three fractional parameters. The recent double-strip problem, Awad et al., Eur. Phy. J. Plus 2022, allowing the overlap between two propagating thermal waves, is generalized from the semi-infinite heat conductor case to thermoelastic case in the finite domain. The elastic response in the material is not simultaneous (i.e., not Hookean), rather it is assumed to be of the Kelvin–Voigt type, i.e., σ=Eε+τεε˙, where σ refers to the stress, ε is the strain, E is the Young modulus, and τε refers to the strain relaxation time. The delayed strain response of the Kelvin–Voigt model eliminates the discontinuity of stresses, a hallmark of the Hookean solid. The immobilization of thermal conduction described by the ordinary Jeffreys equation of heat conduction is salient in metals when the heat flux precedence is considered. The absence of the finite speed thermal waves in the Kelvin–Voigt model results in a smooth stress surface during the heating process. The temperature contours and the displacement vector chart show that the anomalous heat transfer characterized by retardation or crossover from super- to sub-thermal conduction may disrupt the ultrafast laser heating of metals
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