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This article presents a novel approach to integrate a throughput prediction model for the ball mill into short-term stochastic production scheduling in mining complexes. The datasets for the throughput prediction model include penetration rates from blast hole drilling (measurement while drilling), geological domains, material types, rock density, and throughput rates of the operating mill, offering an accessible and cost-effective method compared to other geometallurgical programs. First, the comminution behavior of the orebody was geostatistically simulated by building additive hardness proportions from penetration rates. A regression model was constructed to predict throughput rates as a function of blended rock properties, which are informed by a material tracking approach in the mining complex. Finally, the throughput prediction model was integrated into a stochastic optimization model for short-term production scheduling. This way, common shortfalls of existing geometallurgical throughput prediction models, that typically ignore the non-additive nature of hardness and are not designed to interact with mine production scheduling, are overcome. A case study at the Tropicana Mining Complex shows that throughput can be predicted with an error less than 30 t/h and a correlation coefficient of up to 0.8. By integrating the prediction model and new stochastic components into optimization, the production schedule achieves weekly planned production reliably because scheduled materials match with the predicted performance of the mill. Comparisons to optimization using conventional mill tonnage constraints reveal that expected production shortfalls of up to 7% per period can be mitigated this way.

• Quality and outcome of pediatric resuscitation often does not achieve recommended goals.• Quality improvement initiatives with the aim of better survival rates and decreased morbidity of resuscitated children are urgently needed.• These initiatives should include an action framework for a comprehensive, fundamental, and interprofessional reorientation of clinical and organizational structures concerning resuscitation and post-resuscitation care of children.• The authors of this DACH position statement suggest the implementation of 10 evidence-based actions (for out-of-hospital and in-house cardiac arrests) that should improve survival rates and decrease morbidity of resuscitated children with better neurological outcome and quality of life.

Param Cumaraswamy is a Malaysian member of the Regional Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism. He is also the former UN Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers. Together with his colleagues in the Regional Working Group, he worked on proposals and recommendations on the design of the projected human rights body, its principles, composition and powers. The Working Group describes itself as a coalition of national working groups from ASEAN states which are composed of representatives of government institutions, parliamentary human rights committees, academia and NGOs. The interview consists of two parts: a first part was conducted in summer 2009 while the deliberation and negotiation on mandate and power of a to-be institutionalized human rights body was still in process. On October 23, 2009 in Cha-am & Hua Hin, Thailand, the ASEAN heads of states and governments concluded an agreement, i.e. the Terms of References and respectively inaugurated the so-called ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR). This latter part of the interview therefore deals with the final outcome of this strongly politicized process.