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Open AccessHow individuals’ opinions influence society’s resistance to epidemics: an agent-based model approach
Protecting public health from infectious diseases often relies on the cooperation of citizens, especially when self-care interventions are the only viable tools for disease mitigation. Accordingly, social aspe...
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Open AccessDemand sensing and digital tracking for maternal child health (MCH) in Uganda: a pilot study for ‘E+TRA health’
Thirteen essential maternal child health (MCH) commodities, identified by the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children, could save the lives of more than 6 million women and children in ...
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Physical and information workflow map** of vancomycin therapeutic drug management: A single site case study revealing potential gaps in the process
Vancomycin is one of the most prescribed antibiotics in pediatric intensive care units (PICU) in US hospitals. However, a detailed understanding of workflow and information flow among various stakeholders rega...
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Open AccessAssessing the impact of Indiana legislation on opioid-based doctor shop** among Medicaid-enrolled pregnant women: a regression analysis
States have passed various legislative acts in an attempt to reduce opioid prescribing and corresponding doctor shop**, including prescription drug monitoring programs. This study seeks to determine the asso...
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Crowd-Ranking: a Markov-based method for ranking alternatives
Many ranking algorithms rank a set of alternatives based on their performance in a set of pairwise comparisons. In this study, a special scenario is observed in which the objective is to rate and rank a set of...
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Tracking the Progress of Wireless Infusion Pump Drug Library Updates– A Data-Driven Analysis of Pump Update Delays
Modern smart infusion pumps are wirelessly connected to a network server for easy data communications. The two-way communication allows uploading of infusion data and downloading of drug library updates. We ha...
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Robust Platelet Logistics Planning in Disaster Relief Operations Under Uncertainty: a Coordinated Approach
Resource sharing, as a coordination mechanism, can mitigate disruptions in supply and changes in demand. It is particularly crucial for platelets because they have a short lifespan and need to be transferred a...
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Properties of sports ranking methods
Ideally, the ranking of sports teams should incorporate information (comprehensiveness) obtained from the outcome of a match, such as the strength of the opponent and schedule. In addition, the ranking method ...
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A column generation-based heuristic algorithm for an inventory routing problem with perishable goods
An inventory routing problem is a variation of the vehicle routing problem in which inventory and routing decisions are determined simultaneously over a given time horizon. The objective is to minimize the sum...
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Fuzzy Logic-Based Approach to Detecting a Passive RFID Tag in an Outpatient Clinic
This study is motivated by the observations on the data collected by radio frequency identification (RFID) readers in a pilot study, which was used to investigate the feasibility of implementing an RFID-based ...
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Trace-driven knowledge acquisition (TDKA) for rule-based real time scheduling systems
Expert scheduling systems, which develop the schedule automatically on a real time basis, are able to respond to the changes of product demand in Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS). While develo** an exper...