Background This study focused on nutritional status of the rickshaw pullers, their dietary energy and nutrients consumption along with intake gap as compared to expenditure. Methods A cross sectional was carried out at 15 different important locations Dhaka city during December-January 2018. In total, 670 pullers from these were randomly selected. Printed predesigned validated semi structured q...

Background: The high prevalence of vaccine booster hesitancy, with the concomitant waning humoral or hybrid immunity, and emergence SARS-CoV-2 variants concern can accentuate COVID-19 morbidity mortality. study objective was to ascertain vaccination coverage, including administration precaution (booster) dose vaccination, among older population in an urban slum resettlement colony Delhi, India....

We characterized the surf-zone fish assemblage structure of an ocean beach on central coast Brazil (Guriri Beach, Espírito Santo) and assessed its diel variability. Like entire Santo coast, Guriri Beach was also affected by ore tailings from Fundão dam, which collapsed November 5, 2015. Monthly samplings were carried out before dam collapse along a year cycle (May 2013-April 2014), during day n...

Recognizing plants from imagery is a complex task due to their irregular nature. In this research, three tree species, Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata Sieb. & Zucc.), Hicks yew (Taxus x media), and eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.), were identified using their textural properties. First, the plants were separated from their backgrounds in digital images based on a combination of textural feat...

Urine has evolved as one of the most important biofluids in clinical proteomics due to its noninvasive sampling and its stability. Yet, it is used in clinical diagnostics of several disorders by detecting changes in its components including urinary protein/polypeptide profile. Despite the fact that majority of proteins detected in urine are primarily originated from the urogenital (UG) tract, d...

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2012.09.003 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 35742653; fax: E-mail address: [email protected] (U.-P. Wen This study considers pricing policies in a supply chain with one manufacturer, who sells a product to an independent retailer and directly to consumers through an Internet channel. In addition to the manu...

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2012.11.040 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +44 (0)1895 266151; E-mail addresses: [email protected] univ-valenciennes.fr (S. Hanafi), nenad.mladenovic@b In this paper we revise and modify an old branch-and-bound method for solving the asymmetric distance–constrained vehicle routing problem suggested b...

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2009.05.009 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +44 (0) 121 2043342 E-mail address: [email protected] (W. Ho). Supplier evaluation and selection problem has been studied extensively. Various decision making approaches have been proposed to tackle the problem. In contemporary supply chain management, the performance of potential suppl...