Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: TB: Tuberculosis; NTP: National Tuberculosis Control Program; DOTS: Directly Observed Treatment ShortCourse; DOH: Department of Health; SDF: Single Drug Formulation, FDC: Fixed Dose Combination; MDG: Millennium Development Goals; UN: United Nations; WHO: World Health Organization; NTPS: National Tuberculosis Prevalence Study; NCDPC: N...

INTRODUCTION The goals of this study were to determine U.S. states with Comprehensive Cancer Control plans that include genomics in some capacity and to review successes with and barriers to implementation of genomics-related cancer control initiatives. METHODS This study was conducted in two phases. Phase one included a content analysis of written state Comprehensive Cancer Control plans (n ...

being observed frequently that projects cannot achieve to their plan duration and their budget. utilizing retrospective method is one of the reasons for this problem. in this research two method, earned duration management and risk management, has been used to remove the gap of the plan and the reality; this enable the project to utilize both high accuracy of the first method and prophecy of th...

Autonomy introduces computational complexity, particularly when multiple behaviors are required to handle events that compromise safety. A real-time control plan specifies actions plus a resource schedule to guarantee real-time constraints will be met during plan execution. The Cooperative Real-time Control Architecture (CIRCA) was designed to automatically create and execute real-time control ...

Autonomous operation in a dynamic environment requires accurate and timely response. A real-time control plan specifies actions plus a resource schedule to guarantee real-time constraints will be met during plan execution. The Cooperative Intelligent Realtime Control Architecture (CIRCA-II) employs an integrated planning-scheduling system to create and execute real-time control plans. In this p...

Domain independent planners can produce better-quality plans through the use of domain-speci c knowledge, typically encoded as search control rules. The planning-by-rewriting approach has been proposed as an alternative technique for improving plan quality. We present a system that automatically learns plan rewriting rules and compare it with a system that automatically learns search control ru...

 In this research, a new control policy for the acceptance sampling problem is introduced. Decision is made based on the number of defectives items in an inspected batch. The objective of the model is to find a constant control level that minimizes the total costs, including the cost of rejecting the batch, the cost of inspection and the cost of defective items. The optimization is performed by...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the independent effect of a written action plan vs no plan and to compare different plans to identify characteristics of effective plans in children with asthma. DATA SOURCES We searched the Cochrane Airways Group Clinical Trials Register until March 2006, including MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, for randomized controlle...