BACKGROUND Provider-dependent practice variation in children hospitalized with bronchiolitis is not uncommon. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) can streamline practice and reduce utilization however, CPG implementation is complex. METHODS A multidisciplinary team developed and implemented CPGs for management of bronchiolitis for children <2 years old. Children with comorbidities, ICU admiss...

E cient resource usage is a key to achieve better performance in parallel database systems. Up to now, most research has focussed on balancing the load on several resources of the same type, i.e. balancing either CPU load or I/O load. In this paper, we present oating probe, a strategy for parallel evaluation of pipelining segments in a shared-everything environment that provides dynamic load ba...

The task of supporting integrated multi-rate multimedia traffic in a bandwidth poor wireless environment poses a unique and challenging problem for network managers. In this paper we propose a novel bandwidth allocation strategy which partitions the available bandwidth amongst the different traffic classes in a manner that ensures quality of service (QoS) guarantees for digital video while mini...

The purpose of this study was to explore how three different human resource variables affect employment growth of small-scale enterprises: Human capital of business owners, human capital of employees, and human resource development and utilization. The literature suggests different models how these human resource variables affect business outcomes. Longitudinal data from 119 German business own...

Grid computing is the key technology of next generation Internet. A promising way of solving the problem of resource allocation in a grid environment is a procedure based upon resource pricing. In Grid Computing Environment, it is very important how to allocate resources for achieving the goal of high effective utilization of resources. This paper targets the problem of resource allocation on t...

TRIZ is used to resolve invention problems. ARIZ is the most powerful systematic method which integrates all of TRIZ heuristics. Definition of ideal final result (IFR), identification of contradictions and resource utilization are main lines of ARIZ. But resource searching of ARIZ has fault of blindness. Alexandr sets up mathematical model of transformation of the hereditary information in an i...

Embedded networked systems are increasingly complex, requiring development effort that spans a team of designers and implementers. Resource utilization budgets must be carefully specified and enforced to ensure the expected behavior of a composite system. In this paper, we present early results of a project aimed at specifying and enforcing time, space, and power utilization constraints. Our ap...

We have examined the technologies required to enable Mars In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) because our understanding of Mars resources has changed significantly in the last five years as a result of recent robotic missions to the red planet. Two major developments, (1) confirmation of the presence of near-surface water in the form of ice in very large amounts at high latitudes by the Phoenix...

Power management is an expensive and important issue for large computational infrastructures such as datacenters, large clusters, and computational grids. However, measuring energy consumption of scalable systems may be impractical due to both cost and complexity for deploying power metering devices on a large number of machines. In this paper, we propose the use of information about resource u...

BACKGROUND The high risk behavior of intoxicated drivers, impaired reaction time, lack of seat belt use, and increased incidence of head injury raises questions of whether pre-hospital use of alcohol leads to a higher injury severity score and worse clinical outcomes. We therefore compared intoxicated and non-intoxicated drivers of motor vehicle crashes with respect to outcome measurements and ...