Challenges to implementing NPfIT: Clinicians are becoming increasingly more influential

Becoming Increasingly Reliable

Autonomous mobile robots need to detect potential failures reliably and react appropriately. Due to uncertainties about the robots and their environment, it is extremely difficult to design reliable systems from the start. Instead, we advocate the structured control methodology, in which one starts with plans that work in nominal situations, and then incrementally adds reactive behaviors to han...

Becoming Increasingly Reactive

augmenting its reactive component whenever it is forced to plan. When used to control a laboratory mobile robot, the We describe a robot control architecture which Theo-Agent in simple cases learns to reduce its reaction combines a stimulus-response subsystem for rapid time for new tasks from several minutes to less than a reaction, with a search-based planner for handling second. unanticipated...

Information in practice Challenges to implementing the national programme for information technology (NPfIT): a qualitative study

Objectives To describe the context for implementing the national programme for information technology (NPfIT) in England, actual and perceived barriers, and opportunities to facilitate implementation. Design Case studies and in depth interviews, with themes identified using a framework developed from grounded theory. Setting Four acute NHS trusts in England. Participants Senior trust managers a...

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Are US Industries Becoming More Concentrated?

More than 75% of US industries have experienced an increase in concentration levels over the last two decades. Firms in industries with the largest increases in product market concentration have enjoyed higher profit margins, positive abnormal stock returns, and more profitable M&A deals, suggesting that market power is becoming an important source of value. Lax enforcement of antitrust regulat...