Adolescence and andrologist: An imperfect couple

An EPQ model for an imperfect production process with fuzzy cycle time and quality screening

This study has developed a production inventory model where the cycle timeis fuzzy, the existence of defective products is assumed in each batch andproduct screening is performed both in-production and after-production.Triangular fuzzy numbers serve to model uncertainties in the cycle time, anda fuzzified total inventory profit function is created by thedefuzzifica...

Fat and Bone: An Odd Couple

In this review, we will first discuss the concept of bone strength and introduce how fat at different locations, including the bone marrow, directly or indirectly regulates bone turnover. We will then review the current literature supporting the mechanistic relationship between marrow fat and bone and our understanding of the relationship between body fat, body weight, and bone with emphasis on...

Aging: Cancer – an unlikely couple

MEMS packaging and reliability: An undividable couple

0026-2714/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2012.06.029 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (H.A.C. Tilmans). This paper reviews various approaches to package MEMS, illustrated mainly with examples from imec. Wafer-level or 0-level packaging is mostly dealt with. The role the package plays in achieving the required performance and r...

Nuclear receptors and chromatin: an inducible couple.

The nuclear receptor (NR) family comprises 48 transcription factors (TFs) with essential and diverse roles in development, metabolism and disease. Differently from other TFs, NRs engage with well-defined DNA-regulatory elements, mostly after ligand-induced structural changes. However, NR binding is not stochastic, and only a fraction of the cognate regulatory elements within the genome actively...