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Life Sciences
University of Maryland details research in life sciences
October 15th, 2008
"When public health officials requested OR models to help county health departments across the United States create plans for dispensing medications and vaccines during emergencies, we developed capacity planning and queueing network models. We then faced the challenge of distributing these models to people with minimal experience with OR techniques and no resources for acquiring and learning new software," scientists in the United States report. "To eliminate the most significant obstacles, we decided to use spreadsheets. We created a spreadsheet application that runs Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros to generate customized analytical models without the...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-10-15)
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