Few studies have been conducted on the quality of service provided by the organizations responsible of providing dial-a-ride services for people with reduced mobility. In order to study quality in such contexts, the paper first defines what is meant by “quality” in the service sector. The difference between quality and satisfaction is then discussed, and the most well-known scales of measuremen...

The aim of this study is to conduct a cross-sectional analysis of broadband’s impact on a consumers time use on daily life activities. Specifically, this paper aims to achieve the following two objectives: first, to examine and compare the online habits of both broadband and dial-up users; and second, to examine and compare the impacts of both broadband and dial-up on a consumer’s use of time u...

A major goal of aging research is to identify interventions that prolong lifespan in distantly related organisms. In recent years, genetic studies in both nematodes and rodents have reported that moderate inactivation of genes important for mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC) function can promote longevity. We performed an RNAi screen to probe the role of ETC components in modulating l...

2353–2362. 13. Yeates K, Zhu N, Vonesh E et al. Hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis are associated with similar outcomes for end-stage renal disease treatment in Canada. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2012; doi:10.1093/ ndt/gfr674. 14. van de Luijtgaarden MW, Noordzij M, Stel VS et al. Effects of comorbid and demographic factors on dialysis modality choice and related patient survival in Europe. Neph...

Many applications of tunneling protocols such as PPTP [5] and L2TP [4] involve dial-up network access. Some, such as the provision of secure access to corporate intranets via the Internet, are characterized by voluntary tunneling: the tunnel is created at the request of the user for a specific purpose. Other applications involve compulsory tunneling: the tunnel is created without any action fro...

This paper details a user study to investigate serial digit entry on analogue and digital input platforms and the errors associated with them. We look specifically at the case of entering eleven-digit telephone numbers without a decimal point. The telephone is used as a platform for comparison, due to its clear evolution from a rotary dial to a pushbutton keypad and more recently, touch-based i...

In this paper we present a formulation of the Integrated Dial-a-Ride Problem (IDARP). This problem is to schedule dial-a-ride requests, where some part of each journey may be carried out by a fixed route service. The IDARP is a generalization of the Dial-a-Ride Problem. An arc-based formulation is proposed, and it is shown how the model can be made easier to solve by arc elimination, variable s...

In this paper, we analyze algorithms for the online dial-a-ride problem with request sets that fulfill a certain worst-case restriction: roughly speaking, a set of requests for the online dial-a-ride problem is reasonable if the requests that come up in a sufficiently large time period can be served in a time period of at most the same length. This new notion is a stability criterion implying t...

The transcriptional regulatory network that controls the determination and differentiation of skeletal muscle cells in the embryo has at its core the four myogenic regulatory factors (MRFs) Myf5, MyoD, Mrf4 and MyoG. These basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors act by binding, as obligate heterodimers with the ubiquitously expressed E proteins, to the E-box sequence CANNTG. While all skel...