The present study indicated a significant correlation between the criteria of MS and inflammation on the basis of NLR. Furthermore, there an increase in NLR as the severity of MS increases.

Our study supports the view that a high basal PLR is a poor prognostic factor in NSCLC. However, the validity of the cut-off values for PLR identified in our study needs further prospective trials.

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Pentraxin 3, a novel inflammatory marker, was more tightly associated with the complexity and severity of CAD than hs-CRP and was found to be an independent predictor for high SYNTAX score.

High demand but limited staffs within some services of a hospital require a proper scheduling of staff and patients. In this study, a hierarchical mathematical model is proposed to generate weekly staff scheduling. Due to computational difficulty of this scheduling problem, the entire model is broken down into manageable three hierarchical stages: (1) selection of patients, (2) assignment of patients to the staff, (3) scheduling of patients throughout a day. The developed models were tested on the data collected in College of Medicine Research Hospital at Cukurova University using GAMS and MPL optimization packages. From the results of the case study, the presented hierarchical model provided a schedule that ensures to maximize the number of selected patients, to balance the workload of physiotherapist, and to minimize waiting time of patients in their treatment day.