This paper presents a framework for the design of warehouse layout to organize the design process, facilitate the task of designers, and highlight important design issues to help warehouse managers make informed decisions. The framework accounts for several factors and operations of warehousing in the design, and addresses design decisions required to respond to them. It attempts to develop a layout that has several characteristics such as modularity, adaptability, compactness, accessibility, flexibility, and distribution of movement to enable it to respond to changing conditions, improve space utilization, and reduce congestion and movement.

Invasive fungal infections (IFIs) have increasingly been recognized as a serious clinical concern in critically-ill patients admitted to the intensive care units (ICUs). The most abundant pathogens in this population are Candida species. As such, a clear understanding on the epidemiology of this infection seems to be a key step in providing appropriate treatment. Expert input forums are among the practical approaches to defi ne locally-adapted clinicalpathways with regard to debated medical perspectives. To agree upon a shared approach towards IFI management in ICU, an interdisciplinary panel of experts from infectious diseases and intensive care fi elds met up in Shiraz on 28 November 2015 within the IFI-Clinical Forum (IFI-CF).This clinical forum aimed to view the available evidence, taking into consideration the recent practice guidelines on IFIs management in the ICU to arrive at an agreed position in current clinical practice. The aim of this summary is to discuss IFIs in ICU from epidemiology, the range of pathophysiology from colonization to the invasive infections, risk prediction, diagnosis and treatment perspectives.

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to assist facility design practitioners, industrial managers, and expert systems (ES) developers identify important issues to consider and actions to follow in the selection of material handling (MH) equipment, overcome limitations of existing equipment selection approaches, and design complete MH systems. Design/methodology/approach -A framework that specifies the steps that have to be taken in the selection of MH equipment is suggested. It identifies categories of equipment based on all handling-related functions performed in a facility, which allows consideration of various categories of equipment, and selects equipment classes and types from among candidates based on user requirements and objectives. Findings -The suggested framework is capable of producing a wide range of equipment that performs various functions in a facility, and satisfies requirements and objectives without the need for using large data bases. Applying it requires cooperation of facility managers and designers. Research limitations/implications -Some of the steps of the suggested framework require further investigation and research. Practical implications -Facility design practitioners, industrial managers, and developers of ES can make better selection among a large number of MH equipment and design complete systems by relying on functions performed in a facility, requirements, and objectives. Originality/value -A framework for selection of MH equipment is lacking in the literature. This paper fills a gap by presenting design issues and organized steps that practitioners, managers, and expert system developers working on selection of MH equipment have to address and follow in order to design complete MH systems.

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