Advance reservations (ARs) were introduced for application-level dynamic scheduling of resources in a Grid infrastructure. Advance reservations of resources for a specific time in future not only ensure that all resources would be simultaneously available at the execution time of the application but also ensure that the QoS constraints of the Grid applications would be met. Previous research sh...

CONTEXT The legal tools of health care advance planning have substantially changed since their emergence in the mid-1970s. Thirty years of policy development, primarily at the state legislative level addressing surrogate decision making and advance directives, have resulted in a disjointed policy landscape, yet with important points of convergence evolving over time. An understanding of the evo...

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Although some sellers have practiced advanced selling, the generality of its profit advantage is just now being realized. Further, recent development in technologies such as electronic tickets, smart cards, biometrics, and online prepayments now make it appropriate for nearly all services. Advance selling can improve profits for reasons very different from the traditional price discrimination e...

VASCULAR HEALTH Advances in understanding of the pathology and natural history of non-enhanced communicable disease have contributed to enhanced importance of non-glycemic parameters in diabetes management. The INTERHEART study, for example, revealed that dyslipidemia (odds ratio [3.25]), hypertension (1.91), and obesity (1.62) are as important determinants of the risk of myocardial infarction ...

OF DISSERTATION Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Engineering The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico

BACKGROUND Advance care planning is the process of establishing a patient's goals and preferences for future care. Previous research has demonstrated a need to improve patient-physician communication around advance care planning. A critical time for advance care planning conversations is the day of admission to the hospital. METHODS A survey of internal medicine residents was administered at ...