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Health Care Optimization by Maximizing the Air-Ambulance Operation Time

  • Melhim, Loai Kayed B.
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.357-361
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    • 2022
  • Employing the available technologies and utilizing the advanced means to improve the level of health care provided to citizens in their various locations. Citizens have the right to get a proper health care services despite the location of their residency or the distance from the health care delivery centers, a goal that can be achieved by utilizing air ambulance systems. In such systems, aircrafts and their life spans are the essential component, the flight duration of the aircraft during its life span is determined by the maintenance schedule. This research, enhances the air ambulance systems by presenting a proposal that maximizes the aircraft flight duration during its life span. The enhancement will be reached by developing a set of algorithms that handles the aircraft maintenance problem. The objective of these algorithms is to minimize the maximum completion time of all maintenance tasks, thus increasing the aircraft operation time. Practical experiments performed to these algorithms showed the ability of these algorithms to achieve the desired goal. The developed algorithms will manage the maintenance scheduling problem to maximize the uptime of the air ambulance which can be achieved by maximizing the minimum life of spare parts. The developed algorithms showed good performance measures during experimental tests. The 3LSL algorithm showed a higher performance compared to other algorithms during all performed experiments.

Segmentation of the Compensation Packages for Doctors by Mixture Regression Model (혼합회귀모델을 이용한 의사의 선호보상체계 분석)

  • Paik, Soo-Kyung;Kwak, Young-Sik
    • Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.75-97
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    • 2005
  • The research objective is to empirically investigate the compensation packages maximizing the utilities of internal customers by applying the market segmentation theory. Data was collected from four Korean hospitals in Seoul, Busan and Gyunggi-do. The research is designed to seek the compensation package maximizing the utility of doctors by mixture regression model, which has been applied as latent structure and other type of finite mixture models from various academic fields since early 1980s. The mixture regression model shows the optimal segments number and fuzzy classification for each observation by EM(expectation-maximization algorism). The finite mixture regression model is to unmix the sample, to identify the groups, and to estimate the parameters of the density function underlying the observed data within each group. The doctors were segmented into 5 groups by their preference for the compensation package. The results of this study imply that the utility of doctors increases with differentiated compensation package segmented by their preference.

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On the Design of the Linear Phase Lapped Orthogonal Transform Bases Using the Prefilter Approach (전처리 필터를 이용한 선형 위성 LOT 기저의 설계에 관한 연구)

  • 이창우;이상욱
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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    • v.31B no.7
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    • pp.91-100
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    • 1994
  • The lapped orthogonal transform(LOT) has been recently proposed to alleviate the blocking effects in transform coding. The LOT is known to provide an improved coding gain than the conventional transform. In this paper, we propose a prefilter approach to design the LOT bases with the view of maximizing the transform coding gain. Since the nonlinear phase basis is inappropriate to the image coding only the linear phase basis is considered in this paper. Our approach is mainly based on decomposing the transform matrix into the orthogonal matrix and the prefilter matrix. And by assuming that the input is the 1st order Markov source we design the prefilter matrix and the orthogonal matirx maximizing the transform coding gain. The computer simulation results show that the proposed LOT provides about 0.6~0.8 dB PSNR gain over the DCT and about 0.2~0.3 dB PSNR gain over the conventional LOT [7]. Also, the subjective test reveals that the proposed LOT shows less blocking effect than the DCT.

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Maximizing the Efficiency Lifetime Product for Phosphorescent OLEDs

  • Adamovich, Vadim;Kwong, Raymond C.;Weaver, Michael S.;Hack, Mike;Brown, Julie J.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.272-276
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    • 2004
  • Great strides in organic light emitting device (OLED) technology have resulted in a number of commercial products. To continue this growth into large area displays, for example televisions, an understanding of the mechanisms that drive the OLED device efficiency and lifetime performance is critical. In this work, we consider maximizing the efficiency lifetime product based on phosphorescent OLED ($PHOLED^{TM}$) technology. We report green PHOLEDs with luminous efficiency of 82 cd/A, 5.7 V and 10,000 hours lifetime at 1,000 cd/$m^2$,red PHOLEDs with CIE of (0.67,0.33), 11 cd/A and 35,000 hours lifetime at 500 cd/$m^2$ and recent progress in blue demonstrating efficiencies of 18 cd/A at 200 cd/$m^2$.

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An Optimal Missile Allocation Problem for Maximizing Kill Probability (격추확률 최대화를 위한 미사일 최적배치 문제)

  • Jung, Chi-Young;Lee, Jae-Yeong;Lee, Sang-Heon
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.75-90
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, we proposed new solution procedure of the air defense missile allocation problem. In order to find the optimal location of missile, we formulated a simple mathematical model maximizing the kill probability of enemy air threat including aircraft and missile. To find the Kill probability, we developed a new procedure using actual experimental data in the mathematical model. Actual experimental data mean real characteristic factor, which was acquired when the missile had been developed through missile fire experiment. The result of this study can offer practical solution for missile allocation and the methodology in this study can be used to the decision making for the optimal military facility allocation.

A New Scheme for Maximizing Network Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks (무선 센서네트워크에서 네트워크수명 극대화 방안)

  • Kim, Jeong Sahm
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.47-59
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, I propose a new energy efficient clustering scheme to prolong the network lifetime by reducing energy consumption at the sensor node. It is possible that a node determines whether to participate in clustering with certain probability based on local density. This scheme is useful under the environment that sensor nodes are deployed unevenly within the sensing area. By adjusting the probability of participating in clustering dynamically with local density of nodes, the energy consumption of the network is reduced. So, the lifetime of the network is extended. In the region where nodes are densely deployed, it is possible to reduce the energy consumption of the network by limiting the number of node which is participated in clustering with probability which can be adjusted dynamically based on local density of the node. Through computer simulation, it is verified that the proposed scheme is more energy efficient than LEACH protocol under the environment where node are densely located in a specific area.

Traffic Grooming Algorithm for Maximizing Throughput in WDM Multi-Ring Networks (WDM 멀티링에서 전송효율을 최대화하기 위한 트래픽 그루밍 알고리즘)

  • Yoon, Seung-Jin;Lim, Chul-Soo
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.157-163
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, novel traffic groomming algorithms are proposed with a primary goal for maximizing throughput in WDM Multi-ring networks. To achieve this goal, we design four network topologys that are ITG, STG, MTG, PMTG and simulate the throughput in uniform traffic environments. From this methods, we proposed novel traffic groomming algorithms to maximize throughput in WDM Multi-ring networks.