One of the main objectives of robotic researches has been the use of autonomous agents to make “mundane” tasks. A typical task common in literature is fetching a document from an initial point local and deliver to a specified destination. In this work, a fuzzy system has been developed to manage a number of requests that a robot has to deliver, which are requested in real time. This system uses...

Women with placenta previa are at increased risks for complications related to obstetrical hemorrhage and the need for emergent delivery. Some will remain asymptomatic without preterm labor or vaginal bleeding, and thus the clinician must decide when to schedule cesarean delivery in a "stable" patient. Decision-making for the optimal timing of delivery across the late preterm and early-term per...

Future health care systems will involve a network of heterogeneous resources providing different levels of service and will comprise of a physical and a virtual decision and control layer. The initial results presented here will lead to health care delivery with on-line decision making in order to meet QoS requirements and management targets.

This mixed method study investigated the extent to which women used emancipated decision making when selecting a birth method, whether they perceived they had a choice, and if they were satisfied with their decision. Findings suggest that vaginal birth is still the preferred method of delivery for these study participants.

Background Decentralisation in the health sector has been promoted in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) for many years. Inherently, decentralisation grants decision-making space to local level authorities over different functions such as: finance, human resources, service organization, and governance. However, there is paucity of studies which have assessed the actual use of decisi...

Bayesian networks are formal graphical languages for representation and communication of decision scenarios requiring reasoning under uncertainty. We will analyze Bayesian networks and outline their advantages and disadvantages. Based on these assumptions we discuss transport decision scenarios under uncertainty. A transport planning approach like the postal delivery demonstrates a good framewo...

One important task of the emergency anaesthesia service is to Background: provide rapid, safe and effective anaesthesia for emergency caesarean sections (ECS). A Decision to Delivery Interval (DDI) <30 minutes for ECS is a quality indicator for this service. The aim of this study was to assess the DDI and the impact of chosen anaesthetic technique (general anaesthesia (GA), spinal anaesthesia (...

RCOG/NICE guidelines recommend that, for fetal compromise in labour, delivery should be accomplished ideally within 30 minutes. In this study, we investigated the factors which affect the decision-to-delivery (DD) intervals for emergency caesareans. To achieve this, prospective data were collected for all grade 1 and 2 caesareans performed on a busy labour ward over 12 months. We found that the...

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Abstract—Scheduling often involves, in addition to optimization, continuous decision makingwherecontinuity in thesolutions produced is important. Furthermore, substantial diversity in the nature of different scheduling problems exists. In this paper we present a view of scheduling as decision support for continuous planning, and introduce a ...