Action description languages, such as A and B [6], are expressive instruments introduced for formalizing planning domains and problems. The paper starts by proposing a methodology to encode an action language (with conditional effects and static causal laws), a slight variation of B, using Constraint Logic Programming over Finite Domains. The approach is then generalized to lift the use of cons...

Surveys conducted in the context of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) programme are an important source of data on health of families in developing countries. Both at the national and international level, DHS surveys provide much-needed data on fertility and family planning, on mortality and nutrition, and on health services utilization. The use of uniform survey instruments allows detai...

This paper discusses the national planning of health policy between 2003 and 2010, in the light of the development of state planning in Brazil and Lula's administration. Firstly an historical overview is presented of the key moments for national planning, regarding its effects on health care. The governmental context is then described with a review of the strategies and instruments in health pl...

This paper is based on the findings from the project funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland. It presents the application of value stream mapping in supply chains and some inadequacy of this method for supply chain integration. Based on the findings, a new Supplier Customer Production process Integration SCPI methodology is proposed. The paper presents problems with int...

This short paper studies a set of ten silver instruments belonging to the New Milton Collection, which are believed to be dental and of Roman date. A brief history of the set is given, also a description of each instrument together with suggested name and function, based upon the accounts of dental procedures recorded in classical medical texts. In an attempt to determine the antiquity of the s...

Library faculty members at the Health Sciences Library at the LSU Health Shreveport campus offer a database searching class for third-year medical students during their surgery rotation. For a number of years, students completed "ten-minute clinical challenges," but the instructors decided to replace the clinical challenges with innovative exercises using The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus to emp...

Intra-articular malunions represent an exceptional technical challenge for the treating surgeon. Multidetector CT scans (MDCT) with three-dimensional (3D) surface rendered images are increasingly used not only for the evaluation of malunions, but also to develop a road map for surgery in patients who have been selected for corrective osteotomy.1,10,12 CTbased virtual pre-operative planning, inc...

I The political development approach of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) II Deficiency of classic evaluation for political cooperation demands the development of new instruments III Political imperative for socio-political approaches on crisis prevention and conflict management IV Answering to deficiency and political imperative: Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCAI) V The pilot phase: ...

Weather • Robust design of emergency response networks. • Design of financial instruments to hedge against weather emergencies to protect individuals, companies and municipalities. • Design of sensor networks and communication systems to manage responses to major weather events. Disease • Models of disease propagation for response planning. • Management of medical personnel, equipment and vacci...

Approximately ten percent of support from the European Union structural funds sources was utilised as financial instruments in 2014-2020 EU budgetary period. The term ‘financial instruments’ represents form loans and capital injections Hungary. Programmes for 2021-2027 have not been finalised yet, but major amounts money are expected to be used instruments. Therefore, one should review changes ...