The increased focus on the epistemology—the theory of knowledge—that underlies both healthcare improvement and patient safety has brought a fresh vitality to the scholarly healthcare improvement literature. Into this discussion of epistemology come the newly revised guidelines for publication of healthcare improvement reports, SQUIRE (Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence). SQU...

Model predictive control (MPC) is a popular control method that has proved effective for robotics, among other fields. MPC performs re-planning at every time step. Replanning is done with a limited horizon per computational and real-time constraints and often also for robustness to potential model errors. However, the limited horizon leads to suboptimal performance. In this work, we consider th...

Education has been categorized as an intangible service industry based on the characteristics of its service activities by Christopher [3]. In order to enhance the service quality of education it is critical to attain a high degree of satisfaction of teachers, who are the internal customers, which will help to increase the degree of satisfaction of students, who are the external customers of ed...