This transfer thesis presents a novel, probabilistic approach to scheduling applications on computational Grids based on their historical behaviour, current state of the Grid and predictions of the future execution times and resource utilisation of such applications. The work lays a foundation for enabling a more intuitive, user-friendly and effective scheduling technique termed deadline schedu...

BACKGROUND Health anxiety is associated with high distress, disability and increased health service utilisation. However, there are relatively few epidemiological studies examining the extent of health anxiety or the associated sociodemographic and health risk factors in the general population. AIMS To provide epidemiological data on health anxiety in the Australian population. METHOD Lifet...

The rate of skeletal muscle anaerobic A TP resynthesis is rapid when compared with aerobic resynthesis, however a high rate of anaerobic resynthesis can only be maintained for short periods of time. Table 1 shows the rates of A TP resynthesis from phosphocreatine (pCr) and glycolysis during 30s of near maximal isometrie contraction in man. Af ter only 1.3s of contraction the rate of PCr utilisa...

E-Government increases transparency and improves communication between the government and the users. Providing e-Government services to business sector is a fundamental mission of governmental agencies in Saudi Arabia. However, the adoption of e-Government systems is less than satisfactory in many countries, particularly in developing countries. This is a significant factor that can lead to e-G...

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BACKGROUND Currently, there is growing interest in developing ante and post mortem meat inspection (MI) to incorporate measures of pig health and welfare for use as a diagnostic tool on pig farms. However, the success of the development of the MI process requires stakeholder engagement with the process. Knowledge gaps and issues of trust can undermine the effective exchange and utilisation of i...

BACKGROUND This article discusses the design of a study on the prevalence of health problems (both physical and mental) and the utilisation of health care services among asylum seekers and refugees in the Netherlands, including factors that may be related to their health and their utilisation of these services. METHODS/DESIGN The study will include random samples of adult asylum seekers and r...

An important problem for forestry in-field chipping operations is the efficient daily truck transportation of chips from different coupes being harvested, with known supplies, to customer destinations with known daily demands. This paper presents initial results from a trial with FastTRUCK, a software tool that uses a simulated annealing approach to optimise truck schedules. The software was de...

In the UK public policy in relation to the deployment of new graduates within SMEs has been running blind in terms of a sound evidence base. This paper reviews research on the recruitment of graduates within SMEs since 2002. Weaknesses remain both in relation to information about the SME graduate labour market as a whole and comparative evidence of the utilisation of graduates within SMEs. A sh...

As the National Health Service (NHS) of England continues to face tighter cost saving and utilisation government set targets, finding the optimum between costs, patient waiting times, utilisation of resources, and user satisfaction is increasingly challenging. Patient scheduling is a subject which has been extensively covered in the literature, with many previous studies offering solutions to o...