Engineering Systems Division: Recent submissions
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GDP-Based Productivity in Ambulatory Healthcare: A Comparison with other Industry Segments, 1998-2005
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2008-02)Few studies have focused on productivity in healthcare, let alone in ambulatory healthcare. Measurement of productivity in various healthcare segments has generally shown that productivity has either decreased (over some ... -
Revisiting R[subscript 0], the Basic Reproductive Number for Pandemic Influenza
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2008-02)This paper focuses on a fundamental input parameter for most existing mathematical models of pandemic influenza, the ‘basic reproductive number R[subscript 0],’ defined to be the mean number of new influenza infections ... -
Auto ID Paradigm Shifts from Internet of Things to Unique Identification of Individual Decisions in System of Systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2008-02)Return on investment (ROI) from radio frequency (RF) based tools of identification may increase with the diffusion of frequency agnostic modes of radio frequency identification (RFID), such as, ultrawideband (UWB). Similarly, ...
