Introduction to Program-based Defense Resource Management

Introduction to Suarez Defense

A. Biographical Note 1. Francisco Suárez (5 January 1548 – 25 September 1617) was a Spanish Jesuit Priest, one of the leading figures of the School of Salamanca movement. He was born at Granada, in southern Spain. He entered the Society of Jesus at Salamanca, and studied philosophy and theology there from 1565 to 1570. He was ordained in 1572, and taught theology at Ávila and Segovia (1575), Va...

Introduction to Set Constraint-Based Program Analysis

Evaluating disease management program effectiveness: an introduction to survival analysis.

Currently, the most widely used method in the disease management industry for evaluating program effectiveness is the "total population approach." This model is a pretest-posttest design, with the most basic limitation being that without a control group, there may be sources of bias and/or competing extraneous confounding factors that offer plausible rationale explaining the change from baselin...

Air medical resource management: our last line of defense.

Air Medical Journal 34:2 Since helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) took to the skies of America in the early 1970s, the accident rate has remained disproportionately high when compared with other segments of helicopter aviation. According to the Air Medical Memorial website, to date 374 people have lost their lives in air medical accidents, leaving more than 600 crash survivors who mus...

Introduction to Resource-Oriented Computing

Executive Summary This white paper introduces Resource-Oriented Computing (ROC) and explores the reasons why it provides an economically compelling and technically elegant computing platform. The paper presents the axioms of ROC, discusses historical examples and examines a complete resource-oriented computing platform. This paper makes statements about performance and the economics of system e...