In prospective memory (PM) research, costs (slowed responding to the ongoing task when a PM task is present relative to when it is not) have typically been interpreted as implicating an attentionally demanding monitoring process. To inform this interpretation, Heathcote, Loft, and Remington (2015), using an accumulator model, found that PM-related costs were associated with changes in a decisio...

We propose an adaptive and domain-specific service monitoring approach to detect partner service errors in a cost-effective manner. Hereby, we not only consider generic errors such as file not found or connection timed out, but also take domain-specific errors into account. The detection of each type of error entails a different monitoring cost in terms of the consumed resources. To reduce cost...

The wireless image monitoring system in pig house was designed to solve the high costs and the low efficiency problem of pig house security management based on the technology of nRF905 and WiFi. The union of wireless multimedia sensor networks and Internet was realized by the WiFi technology. The performance of the wireless multimedia sensor of the pig house monitoring system was analyzed. The ...

BACKGROUND Vitamin K antagonists are commonly used for the prevention of thromboembolic events. Patient self-monitoring of vitamin K antagonists has proved superior to usual care. Dabigatran has been shown, relative to warfarin, to reduce thromboembolic events without increasing bleeding. METHODS We constructed a Markov model to compare vitamin K self-monitoring strategies to dabigatran inclu...

Melanoma incidence is increasing, especially in the younger population. The aim of this study was to investigate the cost of this disease in the Croatian population and to identify costs through types of care and types of costs. The secondary goal was to estimate the prevalence of certain types of melanoma (as well as staging distribution) and to connect each stage and its prevalence in Croatia...

Monitoring is the process by which agents assess their environments. Most AI applications rely on periodic monitoring, but for a large class of problems this is ine cient. The interval reduction monitoring strategy is better. It also appears in humans and arti cial agents when they are given the same set of monitoring problems. We implemented two genetic algorithms to evolve monitoring strategi...

Monitoring the reliability of products in both the manufacturing and service processes is of main concern in today’s competitive market. To this end, statistical process control has been widely used to control the reliability-related quality variables. The so-far surveillance schemes have addressed processes with independent quality characteristics. In multistage processes, however, the cascade...

The calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs), ciclosporin and tacrolimus, are the mainstay of immunosuppression in solid organ transplantation. Generic formulations of these drugs are now available. With increasing pressure on healthcare budgets and the consequent need to match health expectations to available resources, substitution with a generic product appears an attractive option to reduce costs. App...

After detecting an approaching predator, animals make a decision when to flee. Prey will initiate flight soon after detecting a predator so as to minimize attentional costs related to on-going monitoring of the whereabouts of the predator. Such costs may compete with foraging and other maintenance activities and hence be larger than the costs of immediate flight. The drivers of interspecific va...

This paper studies a dynamic information acquisition problem within a regulation framework. Each period, the agent (he) would like to undertake a new project, which may cause social harm. He can acquire costly information about the type of the projects by self-monitoring, but the efforts spent on self-monitoring are only observed by him. Each period, the regulator (she) decides whether to ask t...