Introduction Information on the responsiveness of the New Zealand (NZ) health system to Asians to enable navigation of healthcare services is currently lacking.Barriers experienced by Asian patients to enable optimal navigation of, and engagement with, healthcare services are also sparse.Aim This research aimed to: (1) document and analyse resource

Background: Evidence investigating sleep pattern in relation to bone health in elderly participants with osteoporosis remains sparse.We aimed to assess the relationship between sleep pattern incorporating five sleep characteristics (snoring, midnight waking up, insomnia, sleep duration, and daytime napping) and bone mineral density (BMD) in elderly

Transmission expansion planning is a complex problem that deals with the selection of new transmission lines that guarantee meeting future demand/generation and technical limits with the minimal investment cost.The transmission expansion planning problem has been solved through approaches and techniques aimed at reducing the computational effort re

Early modern economic thought is often left out of histories of economic thought, but it was an important inflection point in the development of the modern HAND science of economics.Using network clustering and topic modeling, this research describes the subjects covered in the economic literature of the early modern era and how they change over ti

ABSTRACTIn this research, a dynamic optimization of milk-run system (MRS) managed with an IT-based Kanban (ITK) is performed.The main tasks are to i) explore how artificial intelligence may allow MRS to choose the most efficient path and ii) measure the impact on the main production parameters.The study explores the Kanban signals activating an ant