In recent years, Japan has assisted in technique and capacity development for bridge maintenance management developing countries worldwide. Such projects are aimed at formulating plans, which include inspection repair techniques. However, because the current conditions of bridges to be managed not well understood, most have no effective data available plans. To this end, authors introduce a dat...

The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control's National Comprehensive Cancer Control (CCC) Program oversee CCC programs designed to develop and implement CCC plans via CCC coalitions, alliances, or consortia of program stakeholders. We reviewed 40 up-to-date plans for states and the District of Columbia in order to assess how capacity building and sustainability, two evidence-based practices ...

OBJECTIVE To develop meal plans using grain-based foods demonstrating how to incorporate wholegrain foods into a balanced diet for weight maintenance for different cuisines. The present study examines the ability of meal plans with ≥4 grain-based servings daily to meet nutrient recommendations using lacto-ovo vegetarian and rice-based cuisines. DESIGN Eighteen plans from each cuisine for thre...

Within the pede project we investigate the generation and execution of plans in distributed environments. Multiple, communicating agents perform tasks like generating process plans and machine schedules and controlling their execution. A general problem in such environments is how to handle unexpected events like high priority jobs and machine breakdowns. A cooperative approach, where agents co...

The United States Government does not endorse products or manufacturers. Trade or manufacturers' names appear herein solely because they are considered essential to the objective of this report. The Federal Aviation Administration plans to consolidate the present Maintenance Control Centers (MCCs) into three Operations Control Centers (OCCs). This consolidation should increase efficiency and se...

Efficiency dictates that plans for large-scale distributed activities be revised incrementally, with parts of plans being revised only if the expected utility of identifying and revising the subplans improve on the expected utility of using the original plan. The problems of identifying and reconsidering the subplans affected by changed circumstances or goals are closely related to the problems...

Our project aims at the automatic generation of multilingual text for product maintenance and documentation from a structured knowledge representation formalized by means of plans in a description logic. These plans consist of one or more actions or other plans. This language independent representation is also designed to support the qualitative simulation of the documentation steps and to supp...

As the Nation's largest managed-care purchaser, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) is working to develop a uniform data and performance-measurement system for all enrollees in managed-care plans. This effort will ultimately hold managed-care plans accountable for continuous improvement in the quality of care they provide and will provide information to consumers and purchasers to m...

We seek to understand the relationship between employer decisions regarding which health plans firms choose to offer to their employees and the performance of those plans. We measure performance using data from the Health Plan Employer Data Information Set (HEDIS) and the Consumer Assessment of Health Plan Survey (CAHPS). We use a unique data set that lists the Health Maintenance Organizations ...

Even in the most well-designed systems, some modules are difficult to maintain due to tangling of multiple concerns within a single monolithic codebase. Software plans have been proposed as an alternative multi-dimensional representation of software in which the programmer can implement independent concerns in separate views of the code. This reduces the difficulty of maintenance by allowing th...