Making Dysphagia Easier to Swallow

Making malaria deaths easier to count.

News Making malaria deaths easier to count Autopsy for medical purposes is illegal in Rwanda, so it is difficult to know how many people die of a specific disease. But a change in the law expected this year has spurred researchers to establish Rwanda's first postmortem programme that would start by helping with one of the most difficult of diagnoses in children: cerebral malaria. As the only Rw...

Making the Right Thing Easier to Do.

Making the Right Thing Easier to Do t the Care Management Institute (CMI), our guiding philosophy is to make the right thing easier to do, and the implementation of KP HealthConnect expands dramatically the possibilities for us to make this philosophy a reality. With the advent of KP HealthConnect, we have at our disposal new tools to answer our perennial question: How can we most effectively s...

Making Life Easier for Firefighters

Being a firefighter is a tough job, especially when tight city budgets do not allow enough firefighters to be on duty when a fire starts. This is formalized in the Firefighter problem, which aims to save as many vertices of a graph as possible from a fire that starts in a vertex and spreads through the graph. In every time step, a single additional firefighter may be placed on a vertex, and the...

Dummy Elimination: Making Termination Easier

Making Even Swaps Even Easier

This paper introduces an approach to support different phases of the Even Swaps process by Preference Programming, which is a framework for modeling incomplete information within multiattribute value theory. In the approach, the Even Swaps process is carried out as usual, but in parallel the preferences of the decision maker are modeled with a Preference Programming model, which is also updated...