purpose:     methods:     results:     conclusion:     our study suggests that using mpcd method is an effective way to increase clinical reasoning skills of medical students. the attitude of students about the positive effects of mpcd increased significantly from the first day to the last day (p intervention. 120 third-year medical students at our medical university were randomly assigned to 1...

The combination of feedforward control and programmable tooling has emerged as a promising method to reduce product variation in multistage manufacturing systems. Feedforward control allows compensation of deviations on a part-by-part basis using programmable tooling. This paper addresses the problem of designing an optimal feedforward control law that improves quality. The controller design in...

An optimal multistage Kalman estimator (OMSKE) is proposed as a generalization of the optimal two-stage Kalman estimator for the reduction of the computational burden of the Kalman estimator (KE) for discrete-time linear time-varying systems with triangular transition matrices. This new filter is obtained by applying a multistage transformation to decouple the covariances of the KE. It is shown...

Dealing with uncertainty in water resource planning is problematic because insufficient or underused infrastructure can have social and environmental costs. Multistage stochastic optimisation provides a mechanism to deal this challenge supply capacity expansion planning. However, for real systems it be mathematically hard computationally expensive. The ‘Decision-rule’ formulation represents an ...

Maximum likelihood detection of superimposed signals in code-division multiple access (CDMA) communication systems has a computational complexity that is exponential in the number of users, and its implementation is practically prohibitive even for a moderate number of users. Applying the expectation maximization algorithm to this problem, we decompose the multiuser detection problem into a ser...