PURPOSE To better understand the environmental constraints on nurse managers that impact their need for and use of decision support tools, we conducted a Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA). A complete CWA includes system analyses at five levels: work domain, decision-making procedures, decision-making strategies, social organization/collaboration, and worker skill level. Here we describe the results...

The Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) framework has recently been applied to the design of patient monitoring systems in amte care medical settings. Work Domain Analysis (WDA), models the problem field in which people act. We argue that the most widely-used form of WDA which uses an abstraction-decomposition space (ADS) may not be the most effective form when applied to ICUs. We propose an approach...

We discuss the most common types of weight functions in harmonic analysis and how they occur in time-frequency analysis. As a general rule, submultiplicative weights characterize algebra properties, moderate weights characterize module properties, Gelfand-Raikov-Shilov weights determine spectral invariance, and Beurling-Domar weights guarantee the existence of compactly supported test functions.

Ranked voting data arise when voters select and rank more than one candidate with an order of preference. Cook et al.[1] introduced data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyze ranked voting data. Obata et al.[2] proposed a new method that did not use information obtained from inefficient candidates to discriminate efficient candidates. Liu et al.[3] ranked efficient DMUs on the DEA frontier with...