The aim of this study was to highlight the advantages and contributions brought by the point of care exams, pointing out the current consensus on this topic. A literature review was carried out, elaborated through data collection from secondary sources, through a bibliographic survey. The search for primary documents was carried out through the Scielo database, the Virtual Health Library (VHL) and PubMed. As in...
A new approach for the problem of optimal task scheduling in flexible manufacturing systems is proposed in this work, as a combination of metaheuristic optimization techniques with the supervisory control theory of discrete-event systems. A specific encoding, the word-shuffling encoding, which avoids the generation of a large number of infeasible sequences, is employed. A metaheuristic method based on a Variabl...