The ubiquity of cellphones has lead to the introduction of location-based services, which are services tailored to the current location of cellphone users. For example, a cellphone user can retrieve a list of interesting, nearby places, or parents are notified when a child (i.e., her cellphone) leaves a boundary area. Location is a sensitive piece of information, so location-based services rais...

the present study aimed to explain the factors affecting the usage of electronic insurance in iran insurance company and its operating strategies in khuzestan province. the research method is descriptive-survey method, and data collecting instrument is questionnaire. the study population is consisted of 480 people of all staff and experts the sales network in iran insurance company in khuzestan...

PURPOSE There are some epidemiological studies on pilots and cabin staff, but we found few health studies on aviation ground employees. The aim was to study associations between digestive symptoms in airline ground employees and diet, insomnia and lifestyle factors. METHODS A standardized questionnaire was mailed to all Stockholm ground employees in a Scandinavian airline company, 201 service...

In this paper, we present a mathematical model to design the service network, that is the set of origin-destination connections. The resulting model considers both full and empty freight car movements, and takes into account handling costs. More specifically, the model suggests the services to provide, as well as the number of trains and the number and type of cars traveling on each connection....

Coordination and harmony between different departments of a company can be an important factor in achieving competitive advantage if the company corrects alignment between strategies of different departments. This paper presents an integrated decision model based on recent advances of geometric programming technique. The demand of a product considers as a power function of factors such as produ...

BlackLight Power, Inc. (the Company), a Delaware corporation based in its 53,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Cranbury, New Jersey, believes it has developed a new hydrogen chemical process that generates power, plasma (a hot ionized glowing gas), and a vast class of new compositions of matter. Specifically, the Company has designed and tested a new proprietary energy-producing chemical process. The...