This paper studies methods for managing a fleet of trucks providing container pickup and delivery service (drayage) to a port with an appointment-based access control system. Responding to growing access congestion and its resultant impacts, many U.S. port terminals have implemented appointment systems, but little is known about the impact of such systems on drayage fleet efficiency. To address...

Rabies is an important fatal neurological infection. The infection is due to the animal bite, especially dog bite. There is no specific treatment. It is suggested that vaccination is the best method for prevention rabies in the patients getting animal bite. Generally, the rabies vaccine is given in divided dosage and there must be the strict date for getting vaccine in vaccine schedule. In Thai...

JANUS is a multi-lingual speech-to-speech translation system, which has been designed to translate spontaneous spoken language in a limited domain. In this paper, we describe our recent preliminary e orts to expand the domain of coverage of the system from the rather limited Appointment Scheduling domain, to the much richer Travel Planning domain. We compare the two domains in terms of out-of-v...

JANUS is a multilingual speech-to-speech translation system, which has been designed to translate spontaneous spoken language in a limited domain. In this paper, we describe our recent preliminary eeorts to expand the domain of coverage of the system from the rather limited Appointment Scheduling domain, to the much richer Travel Planning domain. We compare the two domains in terms of out-of-vo...

The human element is the main resource in different organizations, especially banks, because it based on providing services to customers, which turn depends performance of its employees. Human management (HRM) practices play an important role raising This paper aims identify HRM (planning, polarization, selection and appointment, training, compensation) their impact enhancing employees Jordan I...

Modeling the scheduling of patient appointments is an important issue in simulating a health care delivery facility. A simulation model must include the control logic of appointment scheduling software and the explicit and implicit decision rules used by the human scheduler in selecting an appointment time. Expert systems provide one way of modeling such control logic and decision rules. We des...

Some patients have difficulty in achieving an appointment to see a doctor in a university teaching practice. Only five per cent of patients indicated serious difficulty. Patients who discriminate in favour of seeing a particular doctor have greater difficulty. It is suggested also that some patients have the same difficulty if they are making an appointment to see a particular doctor.Clearly th...

Appointment systems try to achieve a balance between the time the doctor waits for patients to arrive and the time patients spend waiting to be seen. Mathematical analysis reveals that the time a patient can expect to wait increases exponentially as the appointment interval is reduced. An appointment interval that is less than the median consultation length can result in long waits for patients...

Abstract Following the advances in mobile communication and information technology, smart phones have been used in a wide variety of commercial, social, entertainment, file sharing and health transactions and applications. The current procedures in healthcare environment for patient registration, appointment scheduling and payment are time consuming and somehow tiresome. Traditionally, patie...