Computer simulation is today used in airports to simulate a variety of scenarios from potential pinch points in a new cargo building, to the level of standby cabin crew required. So when British Airways (BA) was about to move into the new Terminal 5 building, it was the job of the Operational Research Department to use computer simulation to find out how much infrastructure, such as check-in de...

This review presents a comprehensive overview on selected synthetic routes towards commercial drug compounds as published in both journal and patent literature. Owing to the vast number of potential structures, we have concentrated only on those drugs containing five-membered heterocycles and focused principally on the assembly of the heterocyclic core. In order to target the most representativ...

D e s c r i p t i o n o f t e s t s a n d d i a g n o s t i c s t a n d a r d Before being seen by a physician, patients completed 3 screening questionnaires: the depression module of the Brief Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), the General Health Questionnaire, and the World Health Organization (WHO) Wellbeing Index (WHO-5). Physicians treating the patients completed an encounter form to re...

In this article, a new algorithm that takes the truth vector of a 5-valued function as its input and proceeds to generate all of the function’s fixed polarity Reed-Muller (FPRM) spectral coefficient vectors one by one in a certain sequence is presented. The experimental results for this algorithm are compared with other methods and it was found that it is more efficient than other methods for s...

We p r e s e n t an algorithm for determining the next best position of a range sensor in 3D space for incrementally recovering an indoor scene. The method works in ve dimensions: the sensor navigates inside the scene, and can be placed at any 3 D position and oriented by a pan-tilt head. The method is based on a mixed exhaustive search and hill climbing optimisation, and outputs the next posit...