We present a computationally eeective approach to representing and reasoning about actions with many qualiications. The approach involves treating actions as qualiied not by speciic facts that may or may not hold when the action is executed, but instead as potentially qualiied by general constraints describing the domain being investigated. Speciically, we suggest that the result of the action ...

One of the most time consuming activities in new product development is associated with reliability assessment and qualification. This is defined as a process to verify whether the anticipated reliability is indeed achieved under actual life cycle loads for some specified length of time. Reliability assessment and qualification is usually accomplished by testing under accelerated loads to achie...

In this paper, we propose a solution to McCarthy’s qualification problem [lo] based on the notion of possible worlds [3, 61. We begin by noting that existing formal solutions to qualification seem to us to suffer from serious epistemological and computational difficulties. We present a formalization of action based on the notion of possible worlds, and show that our solution to the qualificatio...

INTRODUCTION The clean bedding and clean clothes installs psychological confidence in the patients and the public and enhances their faith in the services rendered by the hospital. Being an important Component in the management of the patients, a study was carried out to find out the current quality status and its conformity with the known standards and identify the areas of intervention in ord...

Safety in aviation has often been compared with safety in healthcare. Following a recent article in this journal, the UK government set up an Independent Patient Safety Investigation Service, to emulate a similar well-established body in aviation. On the basis of a detailed review of relevant publications that examine patient safety in the context of aviation practice, we have drawn up a table ...

This paper presents a study of the use of e-learning in education and training of hospital staff in Denmark, in particular in relation with the implementation of electronic patient records (EPR). The study consists of a survey mapping the dissemination and main experience from using e-learning in Danish hospitals. The study shows a widespread use and a considerably agreement on the potentials o...

Coordinate metrology aims to answer two questions: whether a manufactured part meets design tolerance specifications and how well the manufactured part meets the specifications. Existing methods for analyzing measured coordinate data are not adequate or effective for parts of complex tolerance zones. This paper presents a new approach to dimensional qualification of manufactured parts. In this ...

When epidemic cholera appeared in Haiti in October 2010, the medical community there had virtually no experience with the disease and needed rapid training as the epidemic spread throughout the country. We developed a set of training materials specific to Haiti and launched a cascading training effort. Through a training-of-trainers course in November 14-15, 2010, and department-level training ...

This article considers that the National Plan of Workers’ Qualification – Planfor established too audacious general objectives: democratization of access to professional qualification; the search of a sustainable development model; and new State’s performance. It also considers that the Plan succeeded in the first and third objectives, while its limits have had great impact on the second one.