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Achieving optimal technology use: A proposed model for health technology reassessment

open access: yesSAGE Open Medicine, 2017
Background: Healthcare providers, managers and policy-makers in many jurisdictions are focused on a common goal: optimizing value and quality of care provided to their citizens within a resource envelope.
Lesley JJ Soril   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Computation Migration and Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
With the development of 5G technology, the requirements for data communication and computation in emerging 5G-enabled vehicular networks are becoming increasingly stringent.
Hui Wang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Energy security vs. climate change: Theoretical framework development and experience in selected EU electricity markets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Electricity generation in different countries is based on a variety of fuel mixes compromising solid fossil fuels, oil, natural gas, nuclear and renewable energy sources. While in the past, national energy agendas have directed the optimal utilisation of
Chalvatzis, Konstantinos   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Spatial Economic Modeling of the Waste-driven Agricultural Biogas in Lubelskie Region, Poland

open access: yesEnvironmental and Climate Technologies, 2020
In this study, we aim to support the evidence-based policy in agricultural biogas production at regional level in Poland. To do so, we set up a decentralized decision framework, simultaneously taking into account the agricultural sector heterogeneity ...
Bartoli Andrea   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Using graphical models and multi-attribute utility theory for probabilistic uncertainty handling in large systems, with application to nuclear emergency management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Although many decision-making problems involve uncertainty, uncertainty handling within large decision support systems (DSSs) is challenging. One domain where uncertainty handling is critical is emergency response management, in particular nuclear ...
Leonelli, Manuele, Smith, James Q.
core   +2 more sources

Investigating Policy Instrument Adoption in Low-Carbon City Development: A Case Study from China

open access: yesEnergies, 2019
Based on policy instrument theory and a case of low-carbon city development (Qihe County in Shandong), this study examined the policy instruments adopted for low-carbon city development in China and the effectiveness of these instruments.
Qingduo Mao   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Buffering volatility : storage investments and technology-specific renewable energy support [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Mitigating climate change will require integrating large amounts of highly intermittent renewable energy (RE) sources in future electricity markets.
Abrell, Jan   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Health Technology Optimization Analysis: Conceptual Approach and Illustrative Application

open access: yesMDM Policy & Practice, 2018
We present a conceptual approach to determine the optimal solution to delivering a health technology, consistent with the objective of maximizing patient outcomes subject to resources available to a publicly funded health system.
Charles Yan   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of Russia’s Green Hydrogen Demand Potential and Realization Pathways: A Scenario Analysis with Learning Curve Dynamics

open access: yesHydrogen
This study develops an integrated analytical framework to assess Russia’s green hydrogen demand potential and cost-competitiveness pathways across the steel production and road transport sectors.
Svetlana Ratner   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modeling Inventory Policies in Multi Echelon Supply Chain by Beysian Networks [PDF]

open access: yesچشم‌انداز مدیریت صنعتی, 2014
Determining the optimal policy of inventory have been always one of the main challenges in inventory management area in which several research have been conducted to address this issue. A vast majority of proposed approaches are very simple models to the
Amin Jilan Boroujeni   +1 more
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