The Diabetes 2-Month Turnaround

National Diabetes Month — November 2017

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National Diabetes Month — November 2014

Rui Li, PhD1, Sundar S. Shrestha, PhD1, Ruth Lipman, PhD2, Nilka R. Burrows, MPH1, Leslie E. Kolb, MBA2, Stephanie Rutledge, PhD1 (Author affiliations at end of text) Diabetes is a complex chronic disease that requires active involvement of patients in its management (1). Diabetes selfmanagement education and training (DSMT), “the ongoing process of facilitating the knowledge, skill, and abilit...

National Diabetes Month — November 2013

Turnaround Scheduling

This paper concerns the highly complex task of scheduling large-scale maintenance activities during a plants shutdown or turnaround. We model it as a discrete time-cost tradeoff problem with capacity constraints and individual working shifts for different resource types with a cost function regarding a balanced resource consumption. We introduce and model the problem, give an overview on the la...

Onm-2: Gestational Diabetes

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), a common medical complication of pregnancy, is defined as “any degree of glucose intolerance with onset or first recognition during pregnancy. Risk factors for GDM: a previous GDM or prediabetes, a family history revealing a first degree relative with type 2 diabetes, maternal age(>35 y), ethnic background, being overweight, a previous pregnancy ...