Doctors in poll position

Do doctors position defibrillation paddles correctly? Observational study.

Doodle Poll Games

In Doodle polls, each voter may approve a subset of the available alternatives according to his preferences. While such polls can be captured by the standard models of Approval voting, Zou et al. [17] analyse reallife Doodle poll data and conclude that poll participants’ behaviour seems to be affected by considerations other than their intrinsic preferences over the alternatives. In particular,...

Patients' Opinion Poll

Physical treatment is only one aspect of the therapeutic process in a psychiatric hospital. Personal relationships between patients and members of the staff and between patient and patient in the wards are also important but little is known about the extent to which they favour recovery. In this article Dr. F. T. Thorpe describes a Patients' Opinion Poll held at Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield t...

Poll-before-Data Multiple Access

We introduce a new medium access control (MAC) protocol named PDMA (Poll-before-Data Multiple Access). Most prior MAC protocols aimed at avoiding collisions of data packets in networks with hidden terminals are senderinitiated, in that the sender transmits a short request to send (RTS) asking the receiver for permission to transmit. In contrast, in PDMA, when a data packet arrives at the receiv...

Poll Sourcing for Crisis Response

During large scale crisis response operations there is an acute and continuous need to efficiently and quickly allocate a dynamically changing supply of resources. In this paper we are proposing a system, which uses polls to seamlessly discover, request, collect and aggregate information from engaged resource providers using the web or mobile devices. At the same time we aim to integrate inform...