USING COMPUTER SIMULATION MODELING TO REDUCE WAITING TIMES IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS Igor Georgievskiy‚ Alcorn State University Zhanna Georgievskaya‚ Alcorn State University William Pinney‚ Alcorn State University ABSTRACT This paper examines the wide-spread problem of extended waiting times for health services‚ in the context of the Emergency Department (ED) at a regional hospital. In the first phase of the study‚ a field observation was conducted to document the current operation of the ED. The
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stories help to teach future generations and to guide them on the right path. In “Good Will Hunting” and in “Sonny’s Blues” these stories provide a moral that everyone can follow. Below I will discuss the similarities and the differences between the different stories. I will discuss the main moral of the stories. Also‚ I will discuss what the consequences were for both Sonny and Will to use their gifts. Lastly‚ I will describe in detail my own gift. I will explain how my gift is used to benefit me and
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Date: 02/05/2013 Article: Harvard‚ Blue ocean strategy “Competing in high overcrowded industries is no way to sustain high performance. The real opportunity is to create blue oceans of uncontested market place.” This quote that is on the top of the first page just about sums up the article‚ but I will go further in depth in what the article says. What is the best way to drive profitable growth in an industry? Or company? According to the article it is to enter into the market place that
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INTRODUCTION Risk management is the process of thinking systematically about all possible risk‚ problems risks‚ problems or disaster before they happen and setting up procedures that will avoid the risk‚ or minimize the impact. It is basically set up process where you can identify risks and set the strategy to control. My project is to manage risks in an Italian restaurant named “Pedro Pizza Parlour” that located near Wynyard Station. This restaurant provides a delivery services by contactor
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it to stimulate appetite‚ relieve chronic pain‚ and treat asthma and migraines. But is marijuana really a medical miracle? If so‚ do its clinical benefits outweigh its drawbacks? Should we legalize marijuana? Is medical marijuana really worth the risks? These are the issues one needs to think about before making the decision to legalize marijuana. Marijuana is a drug that is derived from the dried and cut leaves of the hemp plant known as "cannabis sativa". Marijuana has a variety of street names
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Risk Financing Risk imposes costs in two broad forms – loss costs and the costs of uncertainty. Risk financing attempts to mitigate the impact of these costs by structuring the availability of funds to pay claims‚ aid recovery and enable the organization to maintain financial stability as it moves forward towards its mission. How risk financing occurs can vary. At one end of the scale‚ fully self-insured entities retain responsibility and‚ if risk-related costs arise‚ the entity directly bears those
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Escaping the Blues Reservation Blues begins with the tortured soul of a musician‚ and his guitar. The blues musician‚ a reanimated form of the late Robert Johnson‚ hands his enchanted instrument to Thomas Builds the Fire. This guitar possesses skill‚ precision and soul‚ no matter who its owner is. Johnson had given his soul to the Devil in order to acquire these powers. When Thomas was given this guitar‚ he too felt the music radiating with its strings. This power‚ compelled Thomas to create
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sk assessment Assessing Risks in football Assignment Contents Task 1- Page 3-9 Task 2- Page 10-16 Task 3- Page 17-20 Task 4- Page 21-26 Task 5- Page 27-29 Introduction I am here to tell you about my log book that I will describe four legislative factors that influence the health and safety in football. This will include * Health and safety at work act(1974) * Work act(Reporting of injuries ‚diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations(RIDDOR) * Health and safety(First aid)
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1. What role could material efficiency play in climate mitigation? How does it relate to other emission reduction options in industry? (SP/T) ERM PAPER - Material efficiency and climate mitigation Introduction The climate change mitigation today is a wide field‚ which it has to be since mostly all of human activity has some kind of impact to the environment. As of today the climate change is a growing subject and has really been taken into attention the last decade (source) as the climate change
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West Nile virus caused a huge outbreak in 2013 ;this is called a mass hysteria. Mass hysteria is when people think of imaginary or real threats from rumors and lies. West Nile virus causes fever‚headaches‚body aches and skin rash. The virus is spread by mosquitos which makes it more likely to get infected. People were constantly worried that they or their children will get the virus . This goes along with The Crucible because several people started talking about witchcraft and then it began to spread
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