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International Journal of Public Health, 2023 Objective: This study assesses a multi-period capacitated maximal-covering location-allocation model for healthcare services, taking interservice referral as well as equity access into account.Methods: A two-stage optimization strategy is used to ...
Azadeh Salami +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Oral mucositis is a common and debilitating side effect of childhood cancer and stem cell transplant treatments. It affects the quality of life of children and young people (CYP) and places a strain on services. Photobiomodulation is recommended for oral mucositis prevention in international guidance but is poorly implemented in UK ...
Claudia Heggie +4 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common pediatric ocular cancer, yet population‐based data on survival and risk factors remain limited. This study aimed to describe survival in a large national RB cohort and identify predictors of death and complications.
Samuel Sassine +14 more
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Dynamic Surgery Assignment of Multiple Operating Rooms With Planned Surgeon Arrival Times [PDF]
, 2014 International audienceThis paper addresses the dynamic assignment of a given set of surgeries to multiple identical operating rooms (ORs). Surgeries have random durations and planned surgeon arrival times.
Geng, Na, Xie, Xiaolan, Zhang, Zheng
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A genetic programming-based ensemble method for long-term electricity demand forecasting [PDF]
PeerJ Computer ScienceThis study introduces a novel genetic programming-based ensemble method for forecasting long-term electricity consumption in Ethiopia. The technique utilizes a two-stage ensemble approach to project Ethiopia’s electricity consumption through 2031. In the
Hayat Ahmed Issa +3 more
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Multi-Objective Stochastic Programming in Microgrids Considering Environmental Emissions [PDF]
Journal of Operation and Automation in Power Engineering, 2020 This paper deals with day-ahead programming under uncertainties in microgrids (MGs). A two-stage stochastic programming with the fixed recourse approach was adopted.
K. Masoudi, H. Abdi
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Nurses are central to cancer care for children and adolescents, yet no comprehensive synthesis has defined essential core competencies for pediatric oncology nursing (PON) practice internationally, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Luís Carlos Lopes‐Júnior +7 more
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On three soft rectangle packing problems with guillotine constraints
, 2018 We investigate how to partition a rectangular region of length $L_1$ and height $L_2$ into $n$ rectangles of given areas $(a_1, \dots, a_n)$ using two-stage guillotine cuts, so as to minimize either (i) the sum of the perimeters, (ii) the largest ...
Bui, Quoc Trung +2 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright +13 more
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Two-stage optimisation of the multiphase production [PDF]
, 1999 Two approaches to the optimisation of the multiphase production process are presented in this paper. The first model - model I is a static one, using enterprise input/output modelling and linear programming simultaneously.
J. Artenjak, P. Tominac
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