Change in neonatal response to optimizing and non-optimizing sucking stimulation

Optimizing Stimulation and Analysis Protocols for Neonatal fMRI

The development of brain function in young infants is poorly understood. The core challenge is that infants have a limited behavioral repertoire through which brain function can be expressed. Neuroimaging with fMRI has great potential as a way of characterizing typical development, and detecting abnormal development early. But, a number of methodological challenges must first be tackled to impr...

Optimizing Oracle performance - a practitioner's guide to optimizing response time

Change Management Optimizing Organizational Change

Anyone in a leadership position is well aware that any type of change within their organization is never easy but is a normal part of progress; such change is especially commonplace in the dynamic nature of the current health care landscape. Despite that knowledge, how best to manage change is often unclear and/or ill-defined. This is particularly troublesome when one considers that a given cha...

Optimizing Outcomes in Neonatal Cardiac Surgery

In the past, many children born with complex congenital heart defects (CHDs) underwent palliative procedures to avoid the use of cardiopulmonary bypass, which typically is required for prolonged corrective procedures. The risk of mortality was prohibitive, especially in newborns; therefore, efforts were directed toward palliative procedures until the children grew big enough for a definitive re...

A Fuzzy Goal Programming Approach for Optimizing Non-normal Fuzzy Multiple Response Problems

In most manufacturing processes, each product may contain a variety of quality characteristics which are of the interest to be optimized simultaneously through determination of the optimum setting of controllable factors. Although, classic experimental design presents some solutions for this regard, in a fuzzy environment, and in cases where the response data follow non-normal distributions, th...