Aims and method To compare admission rates and bed occupancy before and after the introduction of community treatment orders (CTOs) in 37 assertive outreach service patients. The effect of CTOs on treatment adherence and illicit drug use were also evaluated. The views of patients and care coordinators were obtained through a focus group. Results When CTOs were introduced, admission rates fell f...

Abstract. Kumar PR, Deepak D, Kumara HN, Babu A. 2023. The occupancy of Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) using local people’s knowledge in the Deccan Plateau, Karnataka, India. Biodiversitas 24: 1400-1407. (GIB) is a critically endangered species that went extinct most its geographical range and facing global extinction risk. southernmost population this bird at present Siruguppa taluk...

The number of hospital beds per head of population has fallen by more than 2% a year since 1980. Levels of bed occupancy have risen during this period. Appropriate bed occupancy is crucial to the NHS, as occupancy rates exceeding 85% in acute hospitals are associated with problems in dealing with emergency and elective admissions. We aimed to develop a valid instrument for the objective assessm...

The present paper investigates the advantages of a new class of composite grid structures over conventional grids. Thus far, a known grid structure such as orthogrid or isogrid has been used as an orthotropic layer with at most in-plane anisotropy. The present laminated grid is composed of various numbers of thin composite grid layers. The stiffness of the structure can be adjusted by choosing ...

Autonomous micro-UAV navigation requires techniques that allow for the accurate mapping of unstructured 3D environments such as stairwells, tunnels, and caves. As a step towards that goal, this paper presents a system to build three-dimensional maps of rectilinear environments, where the horizontal cross-section of the world is invariant at different heights. The assumption that the environment...

One of the basic tasks of automotive collision avoidance and collision mitigation systems is the robust and reliable detection of objects as well as the prediction of future trajectories. This paper presents a system which uses a distance camera as range sensor to solve this task. The underlying algorithms uses an innovative Polar occupancy grid, which supports the segmentation of the distance ...

This paper presents the advanced sonar sensor model capable of building an underwater terrain map based on the Bayes filter in the manner of the occupancy grid. The proposed sonar sensor model basically considers the losses of received ultrasound intensity according to the underwater absorption and reflection on a terrain surface. The Bayes filter including the advanced sonar sensor model is ap...

introduction: the important of comparing performance of hospitals using hospital indicators, has been made the necessary of utilizing of the application model inevitable. this study aimed to compare hospital performance key indicators simultaneity. methods: in this descriptive cross sectional and retrospective study, 31 hospitals of isfahan university of medical sciences were evaluated in 2007....

We study the problem of finding a short path from a start to a goal within a twodimensional continuous and isotropic terrain that has been discretized into an array of accessible and blocked cells. A classic approach obtains a grid path where each step is along the edge of an accessible cell or diagonally across one. Grid paths suffer from ‘digitization bias’ – even if two locations have line-o...

We present algorithms that allow an intelligent system to dynamically convert between two representations of spatial occupancy, namely, certainty grids and object boundary curves. These algorithms can be used to accomplish many real-time tasks of a mobile robot such as mapping, navigation, object recognition, and robot localization. For conversion from certainty grid to object boundaries, an ed...