A structured training course on operational research (OR) based on the model created by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and Médecins Sans Frontières was conducted in the South Asian region in 2012. Many innovations were introduced into the administration, structure and content of the course. Of 12 participants, 11 successfully completed all pre-defined milestones. ...

Abstract Integration relies on a series of key change strategies connected by a fundamental dynamic: system capacity has to match demand or it will ultimately result in expanding delay and system failure. A balance of supply and demand is necessary for successful system performance. If demand and capacity are balanced, then delays are not required. Process Improvement and Supply and Demand: The...

BACKGROUND Taking advantage of societal trends involving the "third sector", a social model of philanthropy and the open-source software and educational resource movements, provides the opportunity for online education for capacity building at low cost. The Peoples Open Access Education Initiative, Peoples-uni, aims to help build public health capacity in this way, and this paper describes its ...

Any capacity (i.e., an increasing set function) has been proved to be a lower possibility measure and an upper necessity measure. Similarly, it is shown that any anti-capacity (i.e., a decreasing set function) can be viewed both as an upper guaranteed possibility measure and as a lower weak necessity measure. These results are the basis for establishing that qualitative integrals (including Sug...

The paper asks how a for-profit cable or satellite operator allocates a fixed channel capacity to different program types and how the different channels are bundled and priced. It also addresses the question how channel allocation and bundling decisions made by a for-profit firm differ from the decisions a welfare-maximizing firm would make. It also examines the effect on profits and welfare of...

Abstract—We consider the state dependent channels with full state information with at the sender and partial state information at the receiver. For this state dependent channel, the channel capacity under rate constraint on the state information at the decoder was determined by Steinberg. In this paper, we study the correct probability of decoding at rates above the capacity. We prove that when...

We provide a counterexample to Cover’s conjecture that the feedback capacity CFB of an additive Gaussian noise channel under power constraint P be no greater than the nonfeedback capacity C of the same channel under power constraint 2P , i.e., CFB(P ) C(2P ). Index Terms|Additive Gaussian noise channels, channel capacity, conjecture, counterexample, feedback.

Miriam H. Huntley1,∗, Arvind Murugan1,2,∗ and Michael P. Brenner Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 2 Physics and the James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 and Department of Physics, Harvard University, 17 Oxford St. Cambr...

Soil quality has been defined as the “continued capacity of soil to function a vital living system, within ecosystem and land use boundaries, sustain biological productivity, promote air water environments, maintain plant, animal human health” [...]

background and objective: professional radiation workers are occupationally exposed to long-term low levels of ionizing radiation. occupational health hazards from radiation exposure, in a large occupational segment of the population, are of special concern. biological dosimetry can be performed in addition to physical dosimetry with the aim of individual dose assessment and biological effects....