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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"resource constraint"”.
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RESOURCE CONSTRAINT COOPERATIVE GAME WITH MONTE CARLO TREE SEARCH
A hybrid methodology of game theory and Monte Carlo Tree Search was developed and the hybrid methodology was tested with various case studies through the nurse scheduling problem to show that it was able to form Pareto front dominance solutions, finding feasible solutions that were optimal and …
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Exploring factors influencing competencies of scientific laboratory technicians and recommendations for improvement: A case study of a Scientific Laboratory based in a resource constraint setting
… studies on scientific laboratory technicians in resource constraint settings, handling diverse projects, that focus on understanding underlying factors influencing their competencies. Influences were investigated in a transdisciplinary manner. Learning theories focused on how the adults learn …
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Enhanced knowledge distillation by auxiliary classifiers
… at the cost of high computation and storage resource consumption. These characteristics of deep neural networks have acted as a barrier in resource-constraint environments, e.g., smartphones. Among numerous proposed approaches to mitigate this limitation, knowledge distillation has gained …
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THE INTERNATIONALISATION DECISION OF THE ENDOWED SME
… assumes that SMEs operate under resource-constraint limitations. To some extent, the development of knowledge is hindered by this generally accepted assumption. This research aims to contribute to knowledge by offering an understanding of how resource-abundant rather than …
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Combining caching with a cloud hosted proxy to support mobile consumers of RESTful services
… in terms of information processing and resource storage. This research focuses on enabling mobile devices for consuming RESTful Web services efficiently. The aforementioned problems of network instability are addressed in this research by proposing and implementing a cloud centric proxy …
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Fuel Shortages During Hurricanes: Epidemiological Modeling and Optimal Control
… to effectively reduce the fuel shortages under a resource constraint. The control model estimates the duration and the level of intervention required to mitigate this epidemic. This approach could be useful for emergency management of future hurricanes. A predictive model is then proposed where …
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Clinical profiles and outcomes of patients receiving acute renal replacement therapy in the cardiac intensive care unit at a South African tertiary centre
… and outcomes of CICU patients receiving RRT in resource constraint settings like South Africa is unknown. Objectives The objectives of this study were to determine the clinical profiles and outcomes of patients receiving RRT in the CICU in a South African Tertiary Centre. Methods In this …
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What Drives Defense Spending in South Asia?: An Application of Defense Spending and Arms Race Models to India and Pakistan
… yet each devotes a substantial portion of its resources to defend itself against the other. What drives these expenditures? Are they internally or externally driven? If externally, how do the countries interact with each other? To try to answer these questions, we apply five models widely used …
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Accounting for Computational Expenditures in Bayesian Experimental Design
… expensive. This work focuses on computation as a resource constraint in experimental design and it appears in two very different ways. The first relates to choices in the representation and how they influence the cost of experimental design. We explore this in the sensor planning problem for …
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The use of brachio-basilic arterio-venous fistulae for haemodialysis – a single centre descriptive study
… BBAVFs can successfully be performed in a resource constraint environment by surgeons with limited prior experience with the technique. However, careful monitoring, well-established referral pathways for dysfunctional fistulae and access to surgical or endovascular revision seem to be key …
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A retrospective review of acute liver failure in children admitted at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
… treatment modality not universally available in resource constraint areas. There is paucity of data describing this syndrome in Sub-Saharan Africa in children. Objective This study aims to retrospectively review and determine the clinical presentation, aetiology, complications & outcome of ALF in …
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Cell-Life: a needs assessment study for an HIV/AIDS management tool
… of anti-retroviral therapy is possible in resource-constraint urban settings. But for a provincial or national rollout of the Cell-Life system, the challenge is the lack of the required infrastructure, technology, personnel and logistics for effective operation of the Cell-Life systems …
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Mobile Network and Cloud Based Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation and Processing
… Provider (CSP). On the other hand, MCC allows resource-constraint devices like smartphones to fully leverage services provided by powerful and massive servers of CSPs for data processing. To support the above two application scenarios, this thesis proposes two novel schemes: an Accountable …
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Two Essays on the Unintended Consequences of Sarbanes-Oxley on Small Banks and Small Businesses
… market decisions and may create a long-term resource constraint downstream for dependent small companies, thus suggesting a potential future framework for the evaluation of intended regulation.</p>
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Evaluation of positive expiratory pressure (PEP) devices as an adjunct to cardio-respiratory physiotherapy in patients following open abdominal surgery
… is scant and outdated, and sorely lacking in the resource constraint South African hospital settings.
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The Life of Change Method: Rethinking Change Management in Resource Constrained Organizations through Constructivist Grounded Theory
Resource-constrained organizations (RCOs) operate in environments characterized by continuous change, limited capacity, and heightened risk, yet the change management (CM) discipline continues to rely on fragmented literature along with linear, assumption-laden methods that struggle to reflect how …
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Digital Infrastructure Policy and Small Business Digitalisation: Evidence From the UK Gigabit Broadband Rollout During Covid-19
… frameworks from infrastructure economics, resource-based views of firm capabilities, and policy capture mechanisms, this research develops and tests hypotheses regarding differential policy benefit distribution between small-medium enterprises (SMEs) and large firms. Using a comprehensive …
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Essays in development economics
… total surplus subject to satisfying an aggregate resource constraint and ensuring that both agents truthfully reveal their private information. I first verify that an efficient contract exists and then characterize how the efficient contract incorporates information from the signal. Information …
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Regulation of complex adaptive digital systems: optimizing competition and consumer welfare outcomes in Nigeria's converging telecommunications market
… of competition policy under conditions of constraint, such as in emerging markets. By developing a conceptual framework drawing on these two approaches, the effects of demand-side access and willingness to pay are assessed via an in-depth qualitative analysis to examine the resulting …
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Designing Security Defenses for Cyber-Physical Systems
… any protection has to operate efficiently in resource constraint environments that are dynamic nature. Hence, the existing approaches that require ex- pensive additional hardware, propose a new protocol from scratch, or rely on complex numerical operations such as strong cryptographic …