Open online distance learning in higher education has quickly gained popularity, expanded, and evolved, with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as the most recent development. New web technologies allow for scalable ways to deliver video lecture content, implement social forums and track student progress in MOOCs. However, we remain limited in our ability to assess complex and open-ended stude...

The purpose of this study was to develop a method for risk adjusting nursing home quality indicators (QI's). The QI's measure incidence and prevalence of resident-level care processes and outcomes which are indicative of care quality. Risk adjustment was carried out by stratifying residents into risk groups (high and low), calculating QI rates within groups, and then drawing comparisons across ...

In Australia, railway track maintenance costs comprise between 25-35 percent of total freight train operating costs. Track maintenance planning models have been shown to reduce maintenance costs by 5 to 10 percent though improved planning. This paper describes a model which has been developed to deal with the track maintenance planning function at the medium to long-term levels. This model simu...

Abstract Date Presented 04/01/2022 The presentation will provide comprehensive resources about sleep deprivation among fast-track joint replacement surgical patients. It discuss various assessment tools to measure quality and quantity of occupation-based interventions improve occupational performance postsurgical patients in acute care hospitals. Primary Author Speaker: Manisha Sheth

In this paper, we study about a method to optimize the fused track quality in intelligence network of radar target fusion system, considering the role of people in the fusion system; we start to find ways to optimize the quality of the fused track, and adaptive smoothing method is proposed based on fuzzy theory. Tests show that this method can greatly improve the quality of the fused track syst...

the main design criteria of ballasted railway tracks include rail deflections, rail bending stresses, rail wheel contact stresses, sleeper bending moments and ballast sleeper contact pressures. numerous criteria have been defined for the design of ballasted railway tracks owing to the various mechanical properties of track components and their complex interaction. therefore, railway track desig...