background different strategies for addressing the challenge of prioritizing elective patients efficiently and fairly have been introduced in norway. in the time period studied, there were three possible outcomes for elective patients that had been through the process of priority setting: (i) high priority with assigned individual maximum waiting time; (ii) low priority without a maximum waiti...

Safety analysis of the roads through the accident rates which is one of the widely used tools has been resulted from the direct exposure method which is based on the ratio of the vehicle-kilometers traveled and vehicle-travel time. However, due to some fundamental flaws in its theories and difficulties in gaining access to the data required such as traffic volume, distance and duration of the t...

Case prioritization is a concerted effort to achieve high data quality during collection by reallocating scarce resources the sample cases that need them most. Our research, conducted as part of Survey Income and Program Participation (SIPP), examines effect case over changing landscape this survey. findings suggest since instituting prioritization, field interviewers exert more on higher prior...

OBJECTIVES To outline the methods used to build a discrete-event simulation model for use in decision-making in the context of waiting list management strategies for cataract surgery by comparing a waiting list prioritization system with the routinely used first-in, first-out (FIFO) discipline. METHODS The setting was the Spanish health system. The model reproduced the process of cataract, fr...

trous 2007–2008 food price crisis, it was that it prompted governments and international donors to re-examine their priorities for agricultural development. They committed to invest in agriculture and food security in a manner that prioritizes small-scale producers (especially women), enhances the environment and contributes to the development of rural economies. While their promises to spend m...

There are many requirements prioritization techniques and selecting the most appropriate one is a decision problem in its own rights. This paper takes a closer look at the six requirement prioritization techniques and put them in a controlled experiment with the objective of understanding differences regarding ease of use, total time taken, scalability, accuracy, and total number of comparisons...

Flexible case-base maintenance (FCBM) and adaptation-guided feature deletion (AGFD) extend case-base maintenance (CBM) research. FBCM examines superficial properties of cases and their features such as the size of a case or the rarity of a feature. Then it deletes either entire cases, or components of cases, measuring competence by the number of problems solved and measuring size by the number ...

Ravigopal Vennelakanti Anshuman Sahu, Ph.D. Umeshwar Dayal, Ph.D. OVERVIEW: Disruptive innovation in an unconventional oil and gas industry such as the shale industry offers a promise to change the world’s economies. Advances in technologies such as horizontal directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing have fueled growth in the industry. However, oil and gas industry operators are facing tou...

due to increasing rate of flood risk throughout the world, including iran, it is necessary to identify and prioritize flood-contributing areas for flood control activities. in this study, a new approach on unit flood response method called “flood reduction method” was introduced which is applicable to prioritization of sub-basins for flood control activities. it was used to prioritize upstream ...

BACKGROUND This study aims to rank policy concerns and policy-related research issues in order to identify policy and research gaps on access to medicines (ATM) in low- and middle-income countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), as perceived by policy makers, researchers, NGO and international organization representatives, as part of a global prioritization exercise. METHODS Data co...