These top performers have catapulted their operations to new levels by accessing – and then leveraging – data from the ORBC, a vendor-neutral benchmarking service provided by McKesson in partnership with OR Manager Inc. The ORBC provides monthly trend data on 20 key performance indicators including starttime accuracy for the first case of the day and subsequent cases, estimated case-duration ac...

Because current remote monitor systems can’t deal with problems of real-time transmissions in the bad condition of network very well, this article presents a study which is combined with the evaluation of video streams, adjustment and sealing user-defined data pockets and discarding useless data pockets. The goal of this solution is to transmit video information of national grain depot. And its...

BACKGROUND Self-report remains the most practical and cost-effective method for epidemiologic sleep studies involving large population-based samples. Several validated questionnaires have been developed to assess sleep, but these tools are lengthy to administer and may be impractical for epidemiologic studies. We examined whether a 3-item sleep questionnaire, similar to those typically used in ...

Agricultural system models have become important tools to provide predictive and assessment capability to a growing array of decision-makers in the private and public sectors. Despite ongoing research and model improvements, many of the agricultural models today are direct descendants of research investments initially made 30-40 years ago, and many of the major advances in data, information and...

ing " hospitals, but four were small hospitals with fewer than 30 recruits a year. It would be interesting to know how these four had reached this enviable level of student morale. The interesting part about the hospitals with " high " wastage rates was that the students who went to them after attaining high levels in the school-leaving certificate were less successful than would have been expe...

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