We consider a single-stage hybrid manufacturing system where jobs arrive according to a Poisson process. These jobs undergo a deterministic process which is controllable. We define a stochastic hybrid optimal control problem and decompose it hierarchically to a lower-level and a higher-level problem. The lower-level problem is a deterministic optimal control problem solved by means of calculus ...

OBJECTIVES: In 2013, the American Academy of Pediatrics published a policy statement calling for pediatricians to be informed about the need for specific pediatric medical necessity language because children deserve “the intent embedded in Medicaid.” This study aims to explore the definitions and determinations of medical necessity in Medicaid Managed Care (MMC), document the relevant language ...

This research shows that the principle of good continuation can predict forced-choice detection of an element imbedded in a briefly presented visual array. The present experiments show the configurational effect in a manner that is difficult for feature-analytic theories to explain. The research adds good continuation to good form as Gestalt-like organizational principles affecting detection pe...

This paper shows that the Grassmann Manifolds GF(n,N) can all be imbedded in an Euclidean space MF(N) naturally and the imbedding can be realized by the eigenfunctions of Laplacian △ on GF(n,N). They are all minimal submanifolds in some spheres of MF(N) respectively. Using these imbeddings, we construct some degenerate Morse functions on Grassmann Manifolds, show that the homology of the comple...

We present a new linear sampling method for determining the shape of scattering objects imbedded in a known inhomogeneous medium from a knowledge of the scattered electromagnetic field due to a point source incident field at fixed frequency. The method does not require any a prior information on the physical properties of the scattering object and, under some restrictions, avoids the need to co...