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    • A comprehensive and integrated hospital decision support system for efficient and effective healthcare services delivery using discrete event simulation 

      Ordu, Muhammed; Demir, Eren; Tofallis, Chris; Gunal, Murat (2023-12-31)
      The difficulty that hospital management has been experiencing over the past decade in balancing demand and capacity needs is unprecedented in the United Kingdom. Due to a shortage of capacity, hospitals cannot treat all ...

    • Comprehensive Flood Early Warning Systems: From Modelling to Policy Making Perspectives 

      Behzadian, Kourosh; Piadeh, Farzad; Razavi, Saman; C. Campos, Luiza; Gheibi, Mohamad; S. Chen, Albert (2024-04-19)
      Todays, early warning systems are widely applied in real-time flood forecasting operations as valuable non-structural tools for mitigating the impacts of floods [1]. Although many research works have perfectly could review ...

    • A comprehensive guide to research protocols for collecting and coding involuntary past and future thoughts 

      Barzykowski, Krystian; Ilczuk, Ewa; Kvavilashvili, Lia (2024-04-23)
      The paper presents a comprehensive guide for researchers investigating mind-wandering and related phenomena such as involuntary past and future thinking. Examining such spontaneous cognitions presents a challenge requiring ...

    • Comprehensive Management of Production Line Stops System 

      School of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science; Asef, Pedram (2012-07-21)

    • A comprehensive modelling framework to forecast the demand for all hospital services 

      Ordu, Muhammed; Demir, Eren; Tofallis, Christopher (2019-03-22)
      Background: Because of increasing demand, hospitals in England are currently under intense pressure resulting in shortages of beds, nurses, clinicians, and equipment. To be able to effectively cope with this demand, the ...

    • A Comprehensive Phylogenomic Platform for Exploring the Angiosperm Tree of Life 

      Kim, Jan T; Baker, William J; Bailey, Paul; Barber, Vanessa; Barker, Abigail; Bellot, Sidonie; Bishop, David; R Botigué, Laura; Brewer, Grace; Carruthers, Tom; Clarkson, James J; Cook, Jeffery; Cowan, Robyn S; Dodsworth, Steven; Epitawalage, Niroshini; Françoso, Elaine; Gallego, Berta (2022-03-31)
      The tree of life is the fundamental biological roadmap for navigating the evolution and properties of life on Earth, and yet remains largely unknown. Even angiosperms (flowering plants) are fraught with data gaps, despite ...

    • A comprehensive review on design, monitoring, and failure in offshore platforms, 

      Amiri, Nima; Shaterabadi, Mohammad; Kashyzadeh, Kazem Reza; Chizari, Mahmoud (2021-11-30)
      Offshore platforms have had diverse applications in the marine industry, for example, oil or gas platforms are places where temporarily store oil and gas to be transported to refineries. Offshore wind turbines are another ...

    • A comprehensive study of the Cd-106(alpha, gamma)Sn-110 reaction at energies relevant to the p-process 

      Gyurky, Gy.; Fulop, Zs.; Kiss, G.; Mate, Z.; Somorjai, E.; Gorres, J.; Palumbo, A.; Wiescher, M.; Galaviz, D.; Kretschmer, A; Sonnabend, K.; Zilges, A.; Rauscher, T. (2005-07-25)
      In order to test the reliability of reaction rate calculations in the framework of the Hauser-Feshbach statistical model, the cross sections of Cd-106(alpha,gamma)Sn-110 radiative capture reaction were determined in the ...

    • A Comprehensive Study on the Expansion of Electric Vehicles in Europe 

      Razmjoo, Armin; Ghazanfari, Arezoo; Jahangiri, Mehdi; Franklin, Evan; Denai, Mouloud; Marzband, Mousa; Astiaso Garcia, Davide; Maheri, Alireza (2022-11-16)
      There has been a rapid increase in government efforts to expand electric vehicle markets by deploying fast-charging stations, promoting uptake through greater investment, and by enacting supportive policies. Government ...

    • Comprehensive Study on Tool Wear During Machining of Fibre-Reinforced Polymeric Composites 

      Ismail, S. O.; Sarfraz, S.; Niamat, M.; Mia, M.; Gupta, M. K.; Pimenov, D. Y.; Shehab, E. (Springer Nature, 2021-02-18)
      The use of fibre reinforced polymeric (FRP) composites has increased rapidly, especially in many manufacturing (aerospace, automobile and construction) industries. The machining of composite materials is an important ...

    • A comprehensive view of a strongly lensed planck-associated submillimeter galaxy 

      Fu, Hai; Jullo, E.; Cooray, A.; Bussmann, R. S.; Ivison, R. J.; Perez-Fournon, I.; Djorgovski, S.G.; Scoville, N.; Yan, L.; Riechers, D. A.; Aguirre, J.; Auld, R.; Baes, M.; Baker, A. J.; Bradford, M.; Cava, A.; Clements, D. L.; Dannerbauer, H.; Dariush, A.; De Zotti, G.; Dole, H.; Dunne, L.; Dye, S.; Eales, S.; Frayer, D.; Gavazzi, R.; Gurwell, M.; Harris, A.I.; Herranz, D.; Hopwood, R.; Hoyos, C.; Ibar, E.; Jarvis, M.J.; Kim, S.; Leeuw, L.; Lupu, R.; Maddox, S.; Martinez-Navajas, P.; Michalowski, M. J.; Negrello, M.; Omont, A.; Rosenman, M.; Scott, D.; Serjeant, S.; Smail, I.; Swinbank, A.M.; Valiante, E.; Verma, A.; Vieira, J.; Wardlow, J. L.; van der Werf, P. (2012-07-10)
      We present high-resolution maps of stars, dust, and molecular gas in a strongly lensed submillimeter galaxy (SMG) at z = 3.259. HATLAS J114637.9-001132 is selected from the Herschel-Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey ...

    • Compromised Credibility: the Problems of Trading Debt at the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England 

      Murphy, Anne L. (Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique, 2017-05-04)

    • Compulsive sexual behavior disorder in 42 countries: Insights from the International Sex Survey and introduction of standardized assessment tools 

      Liverpool John Moores University's research team; Ponce, Fernando P.; Quintana, Gonzalo R.; Quintero Garzola, Gabriel C.; Ramos-Diaz, Jano; Rigaud, Kévin; Rousseau, Ann; De Tubino Scanavino, Marco; Schulmeyer, Marion K.; Sharan, Pratap; Shibata, Mami; Shoib, Sheikh; Sigre Leirós, Vera L.; Sniewski, Luke; Spasovski, Ognen; Steibliene, Vesta; Stein, Dan J.; Strizek, Julian; Štulhofer, Aleksandar; Ünsal, Berk C.; Vaillancourt-Morel, Marie-Pier (2023-06-29)
      Background and aims Despite its inclusion in the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases, there is a virtual paucity of high-quality scientific evidence about compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD), ...

    • Compulsivity Reveals a Novel Dissociation between Action and Confidence 

      Vaghi, Matilde M.; Luyckx, Fabrice; Sule, Akeem; Fineberg, Naomi A.; Robbins, Trevor W.; De Martino, Benedetto (2017-10-11)
      Confidence and actions are normally tightly interwoven—if I am sure that it is going to rain, I will take an umbrella—therefore, it is difficult to understand their interplay. Stimulated by the ego-dystonic nature of ...

    • Compulsory separation of women prisoners from their babies following childbirth: Uncertainty, loss and disenfranchised grief 

      Abbott, Laura; Scott, Tricia; Thomas, Hilary (2021-12-26)
      There is growing evidence to show increased mental ill health in women compulsorily separated from their babies at birth (Cantwell et al., MBRRACE‐UK, 2018:56). For imprisoned women, the risk of self‐harm and suicide may ...

    • Computation of Empowerment for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle 

      Catenacci Volpi, Nicola; De Palma, Daniela; Polani, Daniel; Indiveri, Giovanni (2016-02-25)
      The paper addresses the computation of the information-theoretic empowerment measure for a simplified vertical plane dynamic model of an eFolaga autonomous underwater vehicle. Empowerment can be used to measure how much ...

    • Computation of forces exerted on a microparticle by a laser beam 

      Dorizzi, Reto Rodolfo (University of Hertfordshire, 2004)
      A mathematical description of the electromagnetic fields of non-paraxial laser beams is derived and used to calculate the trapping forces on spherical particles. The fields are exact solutions to the wave equation. A set ...

    • A Computational Account of Phonologically Mediated Free Recall 

      Lovatt, Peter; Bairaktaris, Dimitrios (Springer Nature, 1995)
      This paper investigates, by means of experimentation and simulation, Phonological Mediation in Immediate Free List Recall. It consists of two parts. The first part presents novel experimental evidence on Phonological ...

    • Computational analysis of a car chassis frame under a frontal collision 

      Montalvão, Diogo; Moore, Magnus (2014-02)
      This paper aims at studying the frontal collision of a car frame using non-linear FEA (Finite Element Analysis). Three frontal crash situations are evaluated: a full frontal impact against a rigid barrier and two frontal ...

    • Computational Analysis of Facial Expressions 

      Shenoy, A. (2010-03-22)
      This PhD work constitutes a series of inter-disciplinary studies that use biologically plausible computational techniques and experiments with human subjects in analyzing facial expressions. The performance of the ...