Trajectory planning for autonomous driving is challenging in unstructured scenarios such as mining sites. Existing studies mainly resort to a heuristic search-based planner to find a feasible ...

Introduction Quality improvement (QI) is aimed at improving care. Equity is one of the six domains of healthcare quality, as defined by the Institute of Medicine. If this domain is ignored, QI ...

This article presents a mathematical formulation to perform temporal parallelization of continuous-time optimal control problems, which can be solved via the Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman (HJB) equation. We ...

Jon Lukomnik discusses how companies can address the risks inequality creates for people, businesses and the broader economy.

Affordable and clean energy, eliminating poverty, and reducing inequality are important goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals ( ...

Life expectancy and years expected to live in "good" health using national indices of deprivation to measure socioeconomic inequalities in England and Wales. Includes estimates of life expectancy ...

New research, presented at the ESOT Congress 2025, reveals persistent inequalities in children's access to life-saving kidney transplants across the UK.

Sheffield Hospitals Charity CEO Beth Crackles and Professor Bola Owolabi, charity ambassador and Director of the National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme at NHS England took to the road ...

Dr Alice James, lead author Researchers set out to examine whether inequalities exist in access to kidney transplantation among children in the UK by analysing the UK Renal Registry and NHS Blood and ...

On gender inequalities seen in the study, she added: “The gender disparity in wait-listing, with girls being less likely to be wait-listed, may reflect implicit gender biases in clinical ...

Jim Parkinson, the designer behind Rolling Stone's iconic logo, has died at 83 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s, his friend confirmed.