Modeling the Reduction of spp. on Chicken Breasts and Wingettes during Scalding for QMRA of the Poultry Supply Chain in China.

The objective of this study was to develop predictive models for describing the inoculated reductions on chicken during the scalding process in China. reductions on chicken breasts at a 100 s treatment were 1.12 ± 0.

Strategic level proton therapy patient admission planning: a Markov decision process modeling approach.

A relatively new consideration in proton therapy planning is the requirement that the mix of patients treated from different categories satisfy desired mix percentages. Deviations from these percentages and their impacts on operational capabilities are of particular interest to healthcare planners. In this study, we investigate intelligent ways of admitting patients to a proton therapy facility that maximize the total expected number of treatment sessions (fractions) delivered to patients in a planning period with stochastic patient arrivals and penalize the deviation from the patient mix restrictions.