rose to be a Lieutenant. In the wilds of Canada these pioneer parents of William Osier laboured under incredible hardships and Rev. Osier used to hold services in 20 different places over a territory of 2000 sq. miles. At some out-of-way places the date of next service would be announced 6 months or more ahead and the congregation would be there without any further notice. William Osier's punct...

Release planning—deciding what features to implement in upcoming releases of a software system—is critical activity iterative development. Many release planning methods exist, but most ignore the inevitable uncertainty estimating development effort and business value. The article’s objective is study whether analyzing during generates better plans than if ignored. To this question, we have deve...

The difficulty of travel for the elderly is a challenge urban management. Quantifying satisfaction public transport services from perspective people-oriented scientific research method. Based on survey data 2019 and 2020 by selecting interview people over retirement age before analyzing non-linear relationship between bus service elements impact-asymmetry analysis gradient boosting decision tre...

We consider queueing systems where a finite number of customers arrive over time to a service system, consisting of either a single or multiple servers. The arrival of customers is driven by appointments, with a scheduled appointment time associated with each customer. However, customers are not necessarily punctual and may arrive either earlier or later than their scheduled appointment times. ...

The essential resilience capabilities – monitoring, responding, learning and anticipating have all in common the need for relevant signals and the ability to transform them into action. However, this transformation is often lacking as seen from accident analyses revealing disturbances that are either not noted or ignored in the process leading up to the undesired result. This paper proposes to ...

It is well known that MTL with integer endpoints is unable to express all of monadic first-order logic of order and metric (FO(<,+1)). Indeed, MTL is unable to express the counting modalities Cn that assert a properties holds n times in the next time interval. We show that MTL with the counting modalities, MTL+C, is expressively complete for FO(<,+1). This result strongly supports the assertion...

Punctual timing constraints are important in formal modeling of safety-criticalreal-time systems. But they are very expensive to express in dense time. Inmost cases, punctuality and dense-time lead to undecidability. E↵orts havebeen successful to obtain decidability; but the results are either non-primitiverecursive or nonelementary. In this paper we propose an interval temporal...

Train traffic in Sweden have increased over the last years and is today at an all time high. At the same time demands for improved punctuality and better predictability are increasing. If it would be possible to improve punctuality and thereby the possibility to use the infrastructural resources more optimally by providing improved systems for controlling train traffic, this could be a very cos...

OBJECTIVE To determine satisfaction with the retinography service among patients with diabetes. METHODS We performed a telephone survey of 64 users from July 2006 to March 2007. The mean age was 65.2 years, 57.8% were men, and 54.7% were from urban primary care centers. The variables analyzed were sex, age, primary care team, retinography/tonometry (normal/pathologic), accessibility, punctual...

The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions among students from three public Universities, particularly students from Universiti Teknologi MARA, Universiti Sains Malaysia, and Universiti Utara Malaysia towards lecturers teaching Quality determinants. A field survey among students from different field of studies (Social Sciences and Pure Sciences) was conducted through a questionnair...