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Optimizing the operating theatre environment

ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2010
AbstractThe operating theatre is a complex place. There are many potential factors which can interfere with surgery and predispose to errors. Optimizing the operating theatre environment can enhance surgeon performance, which can ultimately improve patient outcomes. These factors include the physical environment (such as noise and light), human factors
Shing W, Wong, Richard, Smith, Phil, Crowe   +2 more
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Global optimization‐preserving operators

Kybernetes, 2003
In this paper, some kinds of operators, defined on a class of real functions depending on a single real variable, preserving some fundamental properties for solving global optimization problems are introduced. These operators allow the transfer of the search of the global extremum of a determined objective function, f into those of its transformed ...
Mora, G., Cherruault, Y., Benabidallah, A.   +2 more
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Optimizing Operator/Contractor Relationships,

Proceedings of SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, 1989
Abstract The paper that we wish to present concerns operator/contractor relationships. Specifically it will define the proper attitudes of both parties towards communications, bidding procedures, pre-spud conferences, contract per-formance, billing procedures and contract eval-uation.
K. B. Burris, C. M. Welter
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Optimally isotropic Laplacian operator

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 1999
Laplacian operators used in the literature for digital image processing are not rotationally invariant. We examine the anisotropy of 3 x 3 Laplacian operators for images quantized in square pixels, and find the operator which has the minimum overall anisotropy.
Kamgar-Parsi, Behzad, Kamgar-Parsi, Behrooz, Rosenfeld, Azriel   +2 more
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Optimizing Endoscopic Operations

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America, 2021
Sunguk N, Jang, John J, Vargo
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Optimizing Ballistic Imaging Operations

Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2017
AbstractBallistic imaging systems can help solve crimes by comparing images of cartridge cases, which are recovered from a crime scene or test‐fired from a gun, to a database of images obtained from past crime scenes. Many U.S. municipalities lack the resources to process all of their cartridge cases.
Can, Wang, Mardy, Beggs-Cassin, Lawrence M, Wein   +2 more
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Sub-Optimization in Operations Problems

Journal of the Operations Research Society of America, 1953
The validity and therefore the usefulness of operations research depend upon the skill with which projects are designed and particularly upon the shrewdness with which criteria (“payoffs,” “objectives functions”) are selected. The criterion problem has been relatively neglected in operations research literature, and has apparently usually been “solved”
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Production optimization for continuously operated processes with optimal operation and scheduling of multiple units

Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2006
A production optimization problem for continuously operated processes is presented and a solution strategy is proposed. The strategy consists of decoupling the complete problem into a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) scheduling problem, including sequencing and allocation, and a multi-stage dynamic optimization (DO) problem, including the ...
Rasmus H. Nyström, Iiro Harjunkoski, Andreas Kroll   +2 more
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Operational Optimization of Multigeneration Systems

2012
Multigeneration (MG) of different energy vectors, such as electricity, heat, cooling, and others, represents a viable alternative to improve energy generation efficiencyand decrease the environmental burden of energy systems. In particular, trigeneration plants can be efficiently deployed to supply complex energy services inurban areas, with typically ...
Mancarella P., CHICCO, GIANFRANCO
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On the optimal approximation of operators

USSR Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, 1977
Abstract We pose the problem of approximating optimally the values of an unbounded operator, using elements which are specified solely by the traces (values) of some operator. Estimates are obtained for the accuracy of the optimal approximation, linear optimal algorithms are found in explicit form, and their structures are examined, and the optimal ...
Grebennikov, A. I., Morozov, V. A.
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