BACKGROUND Reviews of the global response to the 2009 pandemic of influenza A/H1N1 affirmed the importance of assessment of preparedness and response capabilities. DESIGN The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and partners developed the National Inventory of Core Capabilities for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response (http://www.cdc.gov/flu/international/tools.htm) ...

Geographic information systems (GIS) have numerous applications in human health. This chapter opens with a brief discussion of the three dimensions of decision-making in organizations — operational control, management control, and strategic planning. These dimensions are then discussed in terms of three case studies: a practiceimprovement case study under operational control, a service-planning...

This paper discusses the impacts of resource tax reform on the optimal resources extraction in China when the time of resource tax reform and the ways of taxes levy are uncertain. Based on the assumption that the process for accepting resource tax reform follows Poisson process, we first divide resource extraction into two processes by using the idea of dynamic planning. We then apply the optim...

â  background: the relationship between subfertiltiy and celiac disease has been well described and may be the only presenting feature of celiac disease. therefore, this study was designed to show the prevalence of celiac disease in unexplained infertility among iranian patients in tehran, iran. â  methods: this case-control study includes 125 patients with primary unexplained infertility and 1...

The paper describes a knowledge-based control loop as the key feature of a generic control architecture for nodes in a Reconfigurable Transportation Systems (RTSs). In particular, two main aspects are presented: (i) the design of an ontologybased representation of information related to both internal configurations/capabilities of a node and the active connections with its neighbors in the plan...