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Cost objects: How is your ED performing?

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background The aim of this study is to a propose a standardized methodology to identify a list of cost objects that can be used by any ED to compute costs considering that the resulting data must facilitate unit management by improving the information ...
Verónica Fuentes-Cáceres   +3 more
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A Distributed Hunting Approach for Multiple Autonomous Robots

open access: yesInternational Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2013
A novel distributed hunting approach for multiple autonomous robots in unstructured mode-free environments, which is based on effective sectors and local sensing, is proposed in this paper. The visual information, encoder and sonar data are integrated in
Zhiqiang Cao   +5 more
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Management Control Systems as the Protagonist in Public Sector Reforms: Observations from Worldwide Selected Literature

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Public Administration, 2022
Management control systems are used in private sector in assisting management to achieve the goals of the organizations. In the 1980s the performance of public organizations in industrial economies has been the target of severe questioning and the main ...
Anup Chowdhury, Nikhil C. Shil
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LessNet: Lightweight and efficient semantic segmentation for large‐scale point clouds

open access: yesIET Cyber-systems and Robotics, 2022
With a wide range of applications in autonomous driving and robotics, semantic segmentation for large‐scale outdoor point clouds is a critical and challenging issue.
Guoqiang Feng   +6 more
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Applied Mathematics in the Numerical Modelling of the Electromagnetic Field in Reference to Drying Dielectrics in the RF Field

open access: yesMathematics
The processing of dielectric materials in the radio frequency field continues to be a concern in engineering. This procedure involves a rigorous analysis of the electromagnetic field based on specific numerical methods.
Viorica Spoiala   +2 more
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Design and Control of a Wearable Hand Rehabilitation Robot

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2018
This paper proposes a wearable hand rehabilitation robot for assisting patients to do rehabilitation training such as the flexion and extension of fingers.
Long Cheng, Miao Chen, Zhengwei Li
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamic Modelling of a CPG-Controlled Amphibious Biomimetic Swimming Robot

open access: yesInternational Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2013
This paper focuses on the modelling and control problems of a self-propelled, multimodal amphibious robot. Inspired by the undulatory body motions of fish and dolphins, the amphibious robot propels itself underwater by oscillations of several modular ...
Rui Ding   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Probabilistic Mechanism Design for Online Auctions

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2017
Recently, there has been a rapid growth of the online auctions in e-commerce platforms, in which small and/or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) heavily depend on the advertising systems.
Jie Zhang, Linjing Li, Fei-Yue Wang
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Control and energy management system in microgrids [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
25 pages, 12 figures, Book Chapter in Clean Energy Microgrids, Editors: Shin'ya Obara, Jorge Morel (2017)
Hajir Pourbabak   +3 more
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