Declaration of interest None. Psychiatric advance directives are legal instruments that allow competent individuals to appoint proxies and specify how treatment decisions should be made in the event they become incompetent. These directives have been hailed as instruments for honouring patient autonomy, improving communication and ensuring participation in treatment decisions, and providing pra...

This paper focuses on the development and validation of an optimal motion planning method for computer-assisted surgical training. The context of this work is the development of new-generation systems that combine artificial intelligence and computer vision techniques in order to adjust the learning process to specific needs of a trainee, while preventing a trainee from the memorization of part...

CARVALHO, Beatriz Nozari Ribeiro. Um Sistema de Informações para a Prática do Gerenciamento e Planejamento Urbano. Florianópolis, 2000. 149f. Tese de Doutorado em Engenharia de Produção – Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção, UFSC, 2000. In our specific case of urbanistic control, the instruments thought of, but almost non-applicable, have been a hindrance to any urbanistic set o...

Nowadays, planning is no longer considered merely a scientific and technical career nor agovernment responsibity. It rather functions as a bridge connecting the planners to institutional changes. In otherwords, the planning theory does not develop in a social, economic and political vacuum, but is formulated byindividuals in social situations with the aim of clarifying the enviroment recommendi...

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is one of the key instruments for implementing sustainable development strategies in planning in general; in addition to being used in sectoral planning, it can also be used in other areas such as waste management planning. SEA in waste management planning has become a tool for considering the benefits and consequences of the proposed changes in space, a...

At a time when many companies are embarking on enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations, despite the belief among CEOs that approximately two-thirds of such systems are said to be failures, Texas Instruments’ (TI) multi-stakeholder ERP system offers many lessons for future adopters. A constancy of vision, providing visibility of the ERP system to external constituents via Web linkages...

This paper describes a system for planning and scheduling science observations for fleets of Earth observing satellites. Input requests for imaging time on an Earth observing satellite are specified in terms of the type of data desired, the location to be observed, and an objective priority of satisfying the request. The problem is to find a sequence of start times for observations and supporti...

Aging populations, especially in industrialized nations, place increased demands on health care services. Because of their diverse and complex health problems, older persons consume a greater proportion of health care services than the young. Rising health care costs attributed largely to older persons, coupled with financial constraints, have become a major focus of concern in Canada and other...

This paper describes a system for planning and scheduling science observations for fleets of Earth observing satellites. Input requests for imaging time on an Earth observing satellite are specified in terms of the type of data desired, the location to be observed, and an objective priority of satisfying the request. The problem is to find a sequence of start times for observations and supporti...