This paper documents an Action Research project undertaken to implement a Continuity of Care Model in an Extended Care Centre. System Dynamics modelling and group-modelling techniques were used to examine and improve patient length of stay (LOS). Several indicators of success of the project are noted. They included the reduction of LOS, improvements in teamwork and staff morale, and various sys...

In this paper, we describe a preprocessing system which locates erasures in on-line captured handwritten documents. Our approach is conceived so as to be placed upstream of the handwritten recognition engine. This system classifies each couple of connected strokes using a low level feature set and a multi layer perceptron classifier. One part of this study gives an efficient definition of erasu...