BACKGROUND Operations research (OR) is a discipline that uses advanced analytical methods (e.g. simulation, optimisation, decision analysis) to better understand complex systems and aid in decision-making. Herein, we present a scoping review of the use of OR to analyse issues in global health, with an emphasis on health equity and research impact. A systematic search of five databases was desig...

Organic materials isolated from carbonaceous meteorites provide us with a record of pre-biotic chemistry in the early Solar System. Molecular, isotopic and in situ studies of these materials suggest that a number of extraterrestrial environments have contributed to the inventory of organic matter in the early Solar System including interstellar space, the Solar nebula and meteorite parent bodie...

Incremental view maintenance is a well-known topic that has been addressed in the literature as well as implemented in database products. Yet, incremental refresh has been studied in depth only for a subset of the aggregate functions. In this paper we propose a general in-cremental maintenance mechanism that applies to all aggregate functions, including those that are not distributive over all ...

Using agricultural preservation priorities derived from an analytical hierarchy process by 23 experts from 18 agencies in the State of Delaware, this research uses weighted suitability attributes to evaluate the historical success of the State of Delaware’s agricultural protection fund, which spent nearly $100 million in its first decade. This research demonstrates how these operation research ...

56 Pharmaceutical Technology DECEMBER 2004 Cynthia K. Brown is the head of analytical development in pharmaceutical product research and development at Eli Lilly and Company. Hitesh P. Chokshi, PhD, is a research director in pharmaceutical and analytical R&D at Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. Beverly Nickerson, PhD, is an associate research fellow in analytical research and development at Pfizer Inc., E...