License plate recognition (LPR) by using morphology has the advantage of resistance to brightness changes; high speed processing, and low complexity. However these approaches are sensitive to the distance of the plate from the camera and imaging angle. Various assumptions reported in other works might be unrealistic and cause major problems in practical experiences. In this paper we considered ...

AIM To examine the application of core concepts from Complexity Theory to explain the findings from a process evaluation undertaken in a trial evaluating implementation strategies for recommendations about reducing surgical fasting times. BACKGROUND The proliferation of evidence-based guidance requires a greater focus on its implementation. Theory is required to explain the complex processes ...

BACKGROUND To successfully achieve change in healthcare, a balance between technology and "people ware", the human recourses, is necessary. However, the human aspect of the change implementation process has received less attention than the technological issues. The aim was to explore the factors that characterize the work culture in a hospital unit that successfully implemented change compared...

Little research is done on how socio-political factors intertwine with method implementation. This paper is a follow up of a reported PD method implementation failure four years ago. For branch related reasons, the implementation fell short. This article tells the story of what happened then. To our surprise, the original reason for introducing the PD method called Personas had disappeared duri...

This commentary considers the potential role of patient and public involvement in implementation. Developing an analytical thread from the resource-based view of the Firm, we argue that this involvement may create unique resources that have the capacity to enhance the impact of implementation activity for healthcare organisations.

This paper presents a systematic, schedulability-aware method for automated implementation of complex distributed real-time control systems designed with real-time object-oriented models. Our approach derives tasks in each node of a distributed system by grouping mutually exclusive transactions. It then assigns each task a feasible priority and preemption threshold. To allow for the automated a...

The time-to-collision task is that of estimating the ratio of the distance of an object to the relative velocity in the direction of that object, based on time-varying images resulting from the 3-D motion of a camera with respect to the object. Traditional methods require large amounts of memory and computation time, and are not suited for real time hardware implementations. We used a direct me...

Workflow systems provide support for combining components to achieve a particular outcome. Various approaches from software engineering have been utilized within such systems, such as the use of design patterns to support composition, and the use of a software engineering lifecycle to support workflow construction and execution. As components used within a workflow may be implemented by third p...