The lack of evidence to support formal annual screening of all older people does not weaken arguments for a preventive and anticipatory component to primary care. A number of short screening schedules for use by nurses or volunteers or for self-completion by patients have been developed. Patients 'failing' the screening stage are then fully assessed. This paper describes the design and pilot st...

This scoping study investigated the role that personal computers play in supporting undergraduate study practice. Monitoring software was installed on the personal computers of five third year students undertaking a summer school course at the University of Otago in 2012. The data showed students’ daily academic use of their personal computers was significantly lower compared with their non-aca...

Background: Advocates practise for long hours with hectic work schedules. Work pressure, changing legallandscapes, uncertainty of legal cases is a great challenge to lawyers. They are unable concentrate on their healthrelated activities. Physical inactivity causes obesity leading risk hypertension. In view above issues oneof the main objectives study evaluate relationship between physical activ...

Discovering whether children prefer reinforcement via a contingency or independent of their behavior is important considering the ubiquity of these programmed schedules of reinforcement. The current study evaluated the efficacy of and preference for social interaction within differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA) and noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) schedules with typically d...

In the chemical-pharmaceutical industry, production stages are often assigned to different locations, even different countries. A key issue is the co-ordination of campaign schedules at different production stages in the various plants. In practice, it is almost impossible to determine exact optimal solutions to the corresponding complex supply network problem with respect to overall logistics ...

A refined heuristic for computing schedules for gossiping in the telephone model is presented. The heuristic is fast: for a network with n nodes and m edges, requiring R rounds for gossiping, the running time is O(R n log n m) for all tested classes of graphs. This moderate time consumption allows to compute gossiping schedules for networks with more than 10,000 PUs and 100,000 connections. The...

A sizable part of the theoretical literature on simulated annealing deals with a property called convergence, which asserts that the simulated annealing chain is in the set of global minimum states of the objective function with probability tending to 1. However, in practice, the convergent algorithms are considered too slow, whereas a number of nonconvergent ones are usually preferred. We atte...

Cardiac implantable electronic devices are increasing in prevalence. The post-implant follow-up is important for monitoring both device function and patient condition. However, practice is inconsistent. For example, ICD follow-up schedules vary from 3 monthly to yearly according to facility and physician preference and availability of resources. Recommended follow-up schedules impose significan...

We optimise the production line of a manufacturing company in southern Germany order to improve throughput. While optimisation problem is NP-hard general, analysing data we find that practice can be solved very efficiently by aggressive generation random machine schedules.