Crit Care Med 2016 • Volume 44 • Number 12 (Suppl.) more AHP participating in social media during 2016 CCC compared to 2015 (34% vs 14% of the top 50 accounts; p=0.047). The number of followers of AHP accounts were significantly fewer than the number of followers of the physician accounts (800 ± 626 followers vs 1,608 ± 2,282 followers; p=0.02), but there was no significant difference in number...

the aim of this study was to assess the relative efficiency of the iranian forest management plans using the non-parametric method – data envelopment analysis (dea) as a well-known and robust technique for measuring the relative efficiency of organizations. the relative efficiency of forest management plans was calculated using the most frequency dea models such as global technical efficiency (...

This work focuses on developing domain-independent heuristics for probabilistic planning problems characterized by full observability and non-deterministic effects of actions that are expressed by probability distributions. The approach is to first search for a high probability deterministic plan using a classical planner. A novel probabilistic plan graph heuristic is used to guide the search t...

Medicare is the principal payer for medical services for those in the U.S. population suffering from end-stage renal disease (ESRD). By law, beneficiaries diagnosed with ESRD may not subsequently enroll in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, however, the potential benefits of managed care for this population have stimulated interest in changing the law and developing demonstration plans. We describe...

As the world's population ages, countries must prepare for the significant impact Alzheimer's disease will have on their health systems, their economies, and their citizens. In anticipation of major global demographic changes, many countries in the G-20 since 2000 have begun to develop and enact plans to address Alzheimer's disease as a national priority. However, even with nearly half of these...

We are developing autonomous control systems for mission-critical domains that require hard real-time performance guarantees. To automatically build reac-tive plans that meet these requirements, we use formal veriication (model checking) techniques to assess the quality of plans as they are built. The veriica-tion process uses precise timed automaton models of the executive that will run the re...

Basketball is constantly booming with China’s material and cultural levels development. And basketball reserve personnel quantity and quality stand for a nation basketball level. On the current all countries basketball levels rapidly development situation in the world, cultivation of basketball reserve personnel has become an indispensible condition to be in an invincible position in intense ba...

in less developed or developing countries like iran, the developing plans, due to the governance of non-scientific approaches in the feasibility study phase, provoke destroying environment, nonsustainably development and ruining the land use planning of districts. countless experiences show that usually the solutions to solve the problems do not function properly as these unpleased consequences...

from ancient times, governments have laid emphasis – albeit with varying degrees – on large-scale plans and their impact on society and have thus resorted to them. the iranian government is of course no exception; both before and after the 1979 revolution, the different administrations of the country maintained that employing large-scale plans was fruitful and applied them accordingly. although...