Background Upon graduation, physiotherapists are required to manage clinical caseloads involving deteriorating patients with complex conditions. In, particular, emergency on-call physiotherapists are required to provide respiratory/cardiorespiratory/cardiothoracic physiotherapy, out of normal working hours, without senior physiotherapist support. To optimise patient safety, physiotherapists are...

In designing educational tests, instructors often have access to a question bank that contains a large number of questions that test knowledge on the concepts underlying a given course. In this setup, a natural way to design tests is to simply ask learners to respond to the entire set of available questions. This approach, however, is clearly not practical since it involves a significant time c...

Classification with big data has become one of the latest trends when talking about learning from the available information. The data growth in the last years has rocketed the interest in effectively acquiring knowledge to analyze and predict trends. The variety and veracity that are related to big data introduce a degree of uncertainty that has to be handled in addition to the volume and veloc...

Results Most patients were female (n=13) and had a family history of TRAPS (n=9). Physical functioning was greatly impaired during an attack with most common symptoms including fever, abdominal pain, joint pain, rash, vomiting and diarrhoea. Fever was the most prominent symptom in children and muscle and joint pain in adults. Paediatric patients reported missing school due to attacks or attendi...

Healthcare industry has unique characteristic about human’s life. Any mistake or medical error will cause the irretrievable regret. Patient safety is the most important issue in recent years. Because the uncertainly of disease occur, the demand of healthcare need, location and types are changed frequently. By the presure of “Self Management Plan”, how to make limited healthcare more effectivene...

Autonomous decision making in the presence of uncertainly is a deeply studied problem space particularly in the area of autonomous systems operations for land, air, sea, and space vehicles. Various techniques ranging from single algorithm solutions to complex ensemble classifier systems have been utilized in a research context in solving mission critical flight decisions. Realized systems on ac...

The aim of this paper is to determine the critical factors in successful implementation of a lean healthcare system in a hospital. Despite the recent developments in lean hospitals, there is a long route to traverse in order to get close to the maturity stage of the leanness. We propose an approach in which the most important leanness criteria are determined and the leanness of a given hospital...

Examining the reverse evolution of the universe from the present, long before reaching Planck density dynamics one expects major modifications from the de-coherent thermal equations of state, suggesting a prior phase that has macroscopic coherence properties. The assumption that the phase transition occurs during the radiation dominated epoch, and that zero-point motions drive the fluctuations ...

We study, theoretically and experimentally, alternative mechanisms to allocate assets when the future value of the asset is unknown at the time of allocation because of strategic uncertainty. We compare auctions, or bidding with money, for the right to play the minimum effort coordination game, with bidding with action (effort) proposals, where bidders with the highest proposed actions are sele...

By simulating the sound field of a round piston transducer with the Kirchhoff integral theorem and analyzing the shape of ultrasound beams and propagation characteristics in a metal container wall, this study presents a model for calculating the echo sound pressure by using the Kirchhoff paraxial approximation theory, based on which and according to different ultrasonic impedance between gas an...