Value management of diagnostic equipment with cancelation,no‐show,and emergency patients

Magnetic resonance imaging and other multifunctional diagnostic facilities, which are considered as scarce resources of hospitals, typically provide services to patients with different medical needs. This article examines the admission policies during the appointment management of such facilities. We consider two categories of patients: regular patients who are scheduled in advance through an appointment system and emergency patients with randomly generated demands during the workday that must be served as soon as possible. According to the actual medical needs of patients, regular patients are segmented into multiple classes with different cancelation rates, no‐show probabilities, unit value contributions, and average service times. Management makes admission decisions on whether or not to accept a service request from a regular patient during the booking horizon to improve the overall value that could be generated during the workday. The decisions should be made by considering the cancelation and no‐show behavior of booked patients as well as the emergency patients that would have to be served because any overtime service would lead to higher costs. We studied the optimal admission decision using a continuous‐time discrete‐state dynamic programming model. Identifying an optimal policy for this discrete model is analytically intractable and numerically inefficient because the state is multidimensional and infinite. We propose to study a deterministic counterpart of the problem (i.e., the fluid control problem) and to develop a time‐based fluid policy that is shown to be asymptotically optimal for large‐scale problems. Furthermore, we propose to adopt a mixed fluid policy that is developed based on the information obtained from the fluid control problem. Numerical experiments demonstrate that this improved policy works effectively for small‐scale problems. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 287–304, 2016     

Reserve forces and the transformation of British military organisation: soldiers,citizens and society

In recent years, there has been a sharp growth in political and sociological interest in the British military. Set against the backdrop of the armed forces’ increasing presence in everyday life, alongside the organizations’ ongoing restructuring, the current paper focuses on the MoD’s problematic attempts to recruit 30,000 reservists by 2020; what has become known as the Future Reserves 2020 programme (FR2020). We argue that these changes are driven in part by the need to cut costs in defence. However, we also suggest that they are a reflection of the changing nature of modern military organisation, and the manner in which armed forces engage with the societies of which they are a part, and with the citizens that make up that society. We locate FR2020 programme in the context of a wider narrative about the changing nature of military organisation in contemporary western democracies, identifying structural, circumstantial and normative reasons for change. We also examine the specific challenges of implementing FR2020 in practice, including issues of recruitment and retention, integration and support, and relations with families and employers, drawing on the experience of comparator countries to do so. We conclude by considering the implications of these changes, both for the future of UK armed forces, and for the evolving nature of military-society relations in Britain.     

面向多核网络分组处理系统的线程亲和缓冲区管理机制

基于通用多核架构的网络分组处理系统性能受到诸如分组IO开销高、多核共享内存及进程调度竞争大、页表缓冲表项失效率高等问题的困扰。为此提出一种基于通用多核网络分组处理系统、面向高速分组转发应用的线程亲和缓冲区硬件管理机制,并在网络专用协处理引擎上实现。该机制采用无中断的线程亲和调度策略,将包含控制信息与缓冲区地址信息的描述符和分组数据按照分组处理的线程号链式地对应加载在多个地址连续的共享缓冲区中。基于通用多核和现场可编程门阵列平台进行报文转发测试,实验结果表明,采用线程亲和缓冲区管理机制能使平均报文转发处理性能提升12.4%,有效地降低IO开销和TLB表项失效率。     

消防部队火灾扑救和应急救援心理训练实践与探索

消防部队承担着复杂而危险的火灾扑救和应急救援任务,战斗中常会出现各种不良心理,心理素质是影响部队战斗力的重要因素。开展心理素质训练,提高消防官兵心理素质和心理适应能力是一个亟待解决的问题。阐述了消防部队火灾扑救和应急救援工作实际以及有关心理学知识,研究如何开展火灾扑救和应急救援心理训练,提高消防官兵的心理素质和心理适应能力。     

伪劣消防产品现状及整治对策探讨

消防水带、消防水枪、消火栓箱体、室内消火栓、钢质防火门、应急照明、疏散指示标志、灭火器等多种消防产品,不合格产品很多,存在问题严重。分析了假冒伪劣消防产品的现状,并分析了存在问题的原因,从联合治理、提高执法人员素质、健全法规制度、加大宣传力度等方面提出了整治假冒伪劣消防产品的措施,指出了在具体工作中遇到的难题。     

以科学发展观为牵引实现学员队科学管理

军队院校学员队应坚持以培养人才为中心,坚持理论与实际、学院教育与部队建设相结合,遵循院校教育规律,坚持“解放思想、勇于创新,需求牵引、强化特色,遵循规律、持续发展,突出重点、整体推进,注重质量、讲求效益”的原则,全面推进创新教育和素质教育;加强科学管理、创新管理、从严管理,切实提高学员综合素质。     

转变管理模式注重学员创造性思维能力的培养

学员队管理要注重学员创造性思维能力的培养。在分析传统管理模式对学员创造性思维能力培养的制约因素的基础上,提出了管理者应转变管理模式,注重培养学员创造性思维能力的几最思考。     

基于贝叶斯决策方法的项目管理能力评估研究

项目管理能力是评价科研单位是否具有牵头组织能力的重要指标之一。针对现有评价方法在稳定性、科学性方面的不足,以传统的科研项目管理能力评估方法为基础,引入贝叶斯理论,建立了贝叶斯决策评估模型,并利用实际案例验证了其在科研项目管理能力评估中的有效性。结果表明,该评估方法能够充分利用历史资料和专家意见,对初步评估结果进行再度评估,具有较强的客观性、准确性。     

基于仿真和熵权的VOIP业务网络性能评价权重确定方法

针对目前网络性能评价中多元指标之间权重难以确定的问题,将信息熵理论应用于网络性能评价中.提出采用熵权方法确定指标权重,进而对网络性能进行评价的方法.为了获取反映不同网络状态的性能数据,采用网络仿真方法获得计算熵权所需的样本.实例表明,信息熵能够客观地反映各指标贡献信息量的大小,基于信息熵的熵权能够客观反映各指标的相对重要程度.     

时间管理在实时仿真中的改进

时问是分布仿真中的核心概念;时间管理是分布交互仿真的关键技术.探讨了分布交互仿真中高层体系结构(HLA)的时间管理机制,针对HLA在实时系统仿真方面的不足,分析其原因,提出了时间管理在实时仿真中的改进方法,对HLA在实时系统仿真中的应用有一定的参考价值.