A course titled, “Process Design and Improvement – Computer Based Tools” was developed and offered by the authors in Fall 2000 and 2001 for part-time graduate students in Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Technology Management programs at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, . The objective of the course is to introduce students ...

The problem of providing effective and appropriate healthcare to elderly and disable people home has been increasingly talked around. Information and communication technology (ICT) is believed to enable home healthcare management to mitigate some problems. This paper is to contribute IoT (Internet of things) architecture to achieve connectivity with the patient, sensors and everything around it...

Computing a numerical solution to a periodic optimal control problem can be difficult, especially when the period is unknown. A method of approximating a solution to a stochastic optimal control problem using Markov chains was developed in [Krawczyk, J. B. (2001). A Markovian approximated solution to a portfolio management problem. Information Technology for Economics and Management, 1, http://...

Improving healthcare service quality for illness of treatment, illness prevention and patient service is difficult for most hospitals because the hospitals are lack adequate resources and labor. In order to provide better healthcare service quality for patients, mobile technology can be used to manage healthcare in a way that provides the optimal healthcare service for patients. Pursuing utiliz...

The underlying conflict resolution policy plays a vital role in the performance of most Transactional Memory (TM) systems and there is not a commonly accepted policy. Work carried out in this field contains a wide choice of conflict resolution ideas and authors tend to make their choices according to their workload characteristics. The conflict resolution policy is especially critical in eager-...

Due to the development of information technology (IT), it has been applied to various fields such as the smart home, medicine, healthcare, and the smart car. For these fields, IT has been providing continuous prevention and management, including health conditions beyond the mere prevention of disease, improving the quality of life. e-Healthcare is a health management and medical service to prov...

PURPOSE Elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) is a risk factor for glaucoma. The principal outflow pathway for aqueous humor in the human eye is through the trabecular meshwork (HTM) and Schlemm's canal (SC). The junction between the HTM and SC is thought to have a significant role in the regulation of IOP. A possible mechanism for the increased resistance to flow in glaucomatous eyes is an incre...

This study identified why students in China, Taiwan, and Korea at both undergraduate and master’s level want to major in hospitality and tourism management (HTM), why they prefer to study abroad, and their preferred concentration of study in the HTM major. Three Asian national student groups were selected at both the undergraduate and master’s student level. In a comparison of motivations for H...

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Traditional technology adoption models identified ‘ease of use’ and ‘usefulness’ as the dominating factors for technology adoption. However, recent studies in healthcare have established that these two factors are not always reliable on their own and other factors may influence technology adoption. To establish the identity of these additional factors, a mixed method approach was used and data ...