conclusions there are a wide range of requirements for disaster aid. proper aid worker selection, frequent and continuous administration of workshops and drills, and cooperation and alignment of different governmental and private organizations are among the suggested initiatives. results four major themes emerged from the data; 1) psychological support, 2) appropriate clinical skills education,...

Many of the general principles that have been learned from open colon and rectal surgery can be applied to laparoscopic and robotic surgery. Patients undergoing minimally invasive colorectal surgery need a full history and physical exam, with particular attention paid to the number and types of previous abdominal surgeries, as well as any history of any signifi cant abdominal infection. This sh...

Agency.?The Uttar Pradesh Government gave a grant of Rs. 10,000 to the State Branch of the Indian Red Cross Society. A Family Planning Sub-Committee has been formed at the Headquarters. It has 10 members, six of whom are ladies. The Chairman of the U.P. Legislative Council was nominated Chairman of the Sub-Committee. The other members comprise of a Lady M.L.C. and 8 doctors representing the Ser...

We are interested in building decision-support software for social welfare case managers. Our model in the form of a factored Markov decision process is so complex that a standard factored MDP solver was unable to solve it efficiently. We discuss factors contributing to the complexity of the model, then present a receding horizon planner that offers a rough policy quickly. Our planner computes ...