547 Increasing Endoscopy Unit Efficiency: It's Time to Take Control

An Audit of Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis: Time to Take Action

Increasing Time-Efficiency and Accuracy of Robotic Machining Processes Using Model-Based Adaptive Force Control

Machining processes in the industry of today are rarely performed using industrial robots. In the cases where robots are used, machining is often performed using position control with a conservative feed-rate, to avoid excessive process forces. There is a great benefit in controlling the process forces instead, so as to improve the time-efficiency by applying the maximum allowed force, and thus...

Evaluation of interventional endoscopy unit efficiency metrics at a tertiary academic medical center.

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS There is an increasing demand for interventional endoscopic services and the need to develop efficient endoscopic units. The aim of this study was to analyze performance data and define metrics to improve efficiency in a single academic interventional endoscopy center. ] PATIENTS AND METHODS The prospective operations performance data (6-month period) of our interven...

Interval Diagrams: Increasing Efficiency of Symbolic Real-Time Verification

In this paper, we suggest interval diagram techniques for formal verification of real-time systems modeled by means of timed automata. Interval diagram techniques are based on interval decision diagrams (IDDs)—representing sets of system configurations of, e.g., timed automata—and interval mapping diagrams (IMDs)— modeling their transition behavior. IDDs are canonical representations of Boolean...

Increasing efficiency through optimal RK time integration of diffusion equations

The application of Runge-Kutta schemes designed to enjoy a large region of absolute stability can significantly increase the efficiency of numerical methods for PDEs based on a method of lines approach. In this work we investigate the improvement in the efficiency of the time integration of relaxation schemes for degenerate diffusion problems, using SSP Runge-Kutta schemes and computing the max...