0377-2217/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2009.11.021 * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (A. Me (R. Lahdelma), [email protected] (P. Salmin The geographical location of Morocco places it at the heart of important sea, air, rail and motorway transport routes between four continents. In this study we evaluate different alternatives to cen...

In 2001, analysis of Swiss data collected since 1993 included 1001 treatment cycles with IVF, 2217 treatment cycles with intracytoplasmic sperm injection and 2160 treatment cycles with frozen-thawed embryos or zygotes. IVF cycle number has remained constant over the past 10 years, now representing only 18% of the total. ICSI treatment cycles have plateaued since 2001. Altogether, patients recei...

During herpes simplex virus infection, expression of the viral DNA polymerase (pol) gene is regulated temporally as an early (beta) gene and is additionally down-regulated at late times at the level of translation (D. R. Yager, A. I. Marcy, and D. M. Coen, J. Virol. 64:2217-2225, 1990). To examine the role of viral DNA synthesis in pol regulation, we studied pol expression during infections in ...

The Jamunapari goats are reared as dairy animals in semi-arid conditions, therefore it is necessary to evaluate the genetic potential for the genetic improvement of milk production traits. The data comprised of 2217 phenotypic records for milk yield at 90 days (MY90) and 140 days (MY140), total milk yield (TMY) and lactation length (LL) obtained from the progeny of 173 sires and 446 dams during...

BACKGROUND & AIMS While a diet rich in anti-oxidant has been favorably associated with coronary disease and hypertension, limited data have evaluated the influence of such diet on subclinical disease. Thus, we sought to examine whether chocolate consumption is associated with calcified atherosclerotic plaque in the coronary arteries (CAC). METHODS In a cross-sectional design, we studied 2217 ...

We apply bond order and topological methods to the problem of analysing the results of radiation damage cascade simulations in ceramics. Both modified Steinhardt local order and connectivity topology analysis techniques provide results that are both translationally and rotationally invariant and which do not rely on a particular choice of a reference structure. We illustrate the methods with ne...

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2011.10.039 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Department of Ra of Washington, Box 356043, Seattle, WA 98195-6043 598 8133; fax: +1 206 598 6218. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Kim State-of-the-art methods for optimizing cancer treatment over several weeks of external beam radiotherapy take a static–deterministic vie...

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2010.03.039 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (P.J. Korho 1 The term ‘‘radial” in the traditional DEA-literature reach the efficient frontier by proportionally increasi outputs or decreasing the values of the current inputs We develop an approach to efficiency analysis to enable us to incorporate in...

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2008.06.029 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 1 7166452357; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (R. Batta). In this paper, we consider the integration of facility placement in an existing layout and the configuration of one or two connecting sub-aisles. This is relevant, for example, when placing a new machine/department ...