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DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM TO SUPPORT INTERVENTION IN NEWBORN HEALTHCARE
(2017-11-27)
One of the most vulnerable populations in healthcare is the newborn infant. As hospitalization for childbirth is the largest cause for entry into a healthcare facility, the population of newborns each year is extensive as ...
Probability of Success in Program Management
(2017-11-16)
The field of Program Management is subject to high program failures. The Project Management Institute (PMI) states that 74% of programs are executed unsuccessfully (Mulcahy, Rita). The high rate of program failures is ...
Some New Results for Equilibria of N-Person Games
(2017-11-28)
In this dissertation, we present four journal articles in the area of game theory. In the first article, we define a generalized equilibrium for n−person normal form games. We prove that the Nash equilibrium and the mixed ...
Predicting a Quarterback's Fantasy Football Point Output For Daily Fantasy Sports Using Statistical Models
(2017-04-24)
In the new age of daily fantasy sports (DFS), fantasy football has become an enormous revenue generator for DFS sites, such as DraftKings and FanDuel. Both companies are valued over \$1 billion. However, previous analysis ...
Risk Assessment and Analysis of Pharmaceutical Industry due to Recalls
(2017-05-04)
In the past five years, there have been 5900 recalls of drugs by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which created distraught consumers and shareholders of pharmaceutical companies. In addition, recalls cause ...
MULTI-OBJECTIVE TWO-STAGE STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING FOR ADAPTIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY PAIN MANAGEMENT WITH PIECE-WISE LINEAR NETWORK TRANSITION MODELS
(2017-08-16)
Pain is the most common symptom when a patient visits a physician. People experience pain throughout their lifetime at different degrees. If short term pain is not treated properly, then it can become long term pain, ...
Using Approximate Dynamic Programming to Control an Electric Vehicle Charging Station System
(2017-08-11)
Dynamic programming (DP) as a mathematical programming approach to optimize a system evolving over time has been applied to solve the multi-stage optimization problems in a lot of areas such as manufacturing systems and ...
Productivity Improvement and Cost Optimization of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises
(2017-05-11)
Productivity improvement and cost optimization have been a topic of discussion for at least a century. The publication of Fredrick Taylor’s book ‘The Principles of Scientific Management’ in 1911 can be considered as the ...
A Hybrid Simulation Modeling Framework for Regional Food Hubs
(Springer, 2017-02-06)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: As demand for regionally-produced food has increased, regional food hubs have helped to facilitate connections between consumers and small-scale food producers. ...
A Survey Paper of Protecting Critical Infrastructure: Applying High Reliability Theory to Advance Organizational Resilience
(Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2017)
After the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant meltdown, a claim was made that “accidents happen,” suggesting that such catastrophes were inevitable. That concept was eventually labeled normal accident theory (NAT). Soon ...