This paper describes the state of health in Argentina. As in other countries in the Latin American region, the public sector and the role of the state in Argentina are in the midst of structural transformation. Public policy has been formulated with the aim of improving economic efficiency in the long term, often at the cost of basic services, such as health, education and safety. Provision of ...

Decision-theoretic planning with risk-sensitive planning objectives is important for building autonomous agents or decisionsupport agents for real-world applications. However, this line of research has been largely ignored in the artificial intelligence and operations research communities since planning with risksensitive planning objectives is much more complex than planning with risk-neutral ...

We have developed a novel, computer-assisted operation method for minimal-invasive total hip replacement (THR) following the concept of "femur first/combined anteversion," which incorporates various aspects of performing a functional optimization of the prosthetic stem and cup position (CAS FF). The purpose of this study is to assess whether the hip joint reaction forces and patient's gait para...

We consider mixed problems for infinite systems of first order partial functional differential equations. Infinite number of deviating functions is permitted, and the delay of an argument may depend also on spatial variable. A theorem on the existence of a solution and its continuous dependence upon initial boundary data is proved. The method of successive approximations is used in the existenc...

In this paper we study firstand second-order necessary conditions for nonlinear programming problems from the viewpoint of exact penalty functions. By applying the variational description of regular subgradients, we first establish necessary and sufficient conditions for a penalty term to be of KKT-type by using the regular subdifferential of the penalty term. In terms of the kernel of the subd...

In this paper we obtain secondand first-order optimality conditions of Kuhn-Tucker type and Fritz John one for weak efficiency in the vector problem with inequality constraints. In the necessary conditions we suppose that the objective function and the active constraints are continuously differentiable. We introduce notions of KTSP-invex problem and second-order KTSP-invex one. We obtain that t...

For a lower semicontinuous function f on a Banach space X, we study the existence of a positive scalar μ such that the distance function dS associated with the solution set S of f(x) ≤ 0 satisfies dS(x) ≤ μmax{f(x), 0} for each point x in a neighborhood of some point x0 in X with f(x) < for some 0 < ≤ +∞. We give several sufficient conditions for this in terms of an abstract subdifferential and...

The aim of this paper is to study first order optimality conditions for ideal efficient points in the Löwner partial order, when the data functions of the minimization problem are differentiable and convex with respect to the cone of symmetric semidefinite matrices. We develop two sets of first order necessary and sufficient conditions. The first one, formally very similar to the classical Karu...