this paper considers the fuzzy inventory model for deteriorating items for power demand under fully backlogged conditions. we define various factors which are affecting the inventory cost by using the shortage costs. an intention of this paper is to study the inventory modelling through fuzzy environment. inventory parameters, such as holding cost, shortage cost, purchasing cost and deteriorati...

The difficulty in quantifying the benefit of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) for decision support is one bottlenecks to an extensive adoption SHM on real-world structures. In this paper, we present a framework such quantification value vibration-based SHM, which can be flexibly applied different use cases. These cover SHM-based decisions at time scales, from near-real diagnostics prognosis s...

Abstract Any material or geometric property change that has an impact on structural performance is known as deterioration. Although this phenomenon gradual, if it not evaluated and fixed in a timely manner, will have severe the structure and, some historical occasions, may result collapse. Deterioration variety of causes mechanisms. Some are regarded external, such environment, which critical a...

Two studies examined the associations between life regrets and indicators of quality of life across the adult life span. Given that opportunities to undo regrets decline with age, regret intensity was expected to be inversely associated with subjective well-being and health among older adults. In addition, the research explored protective factors that have the potential to reduce older adults' ...

Abstract In this paper the relationship between the use of abortion and contraception among married women in a society experiencing uronid decline in fertility is analysed using data from the Korean National Fertility Survey of 1974. The level and pattern of abortion before and after modern contraceptives became widely available are described, and the implications of the changing patterns of ...

Gradual Abstract Proof Search (GAPS) is a new 2-player search technique. It has been used to prove that 11x11 Phutball is a win for the first player in 25 plies or less, that 6x6 Atari-Go with a crosscut in the center is a win for the first player in 15 plies or less. I give domain dependent optimizations for the two games. I also describe theoretical and experimental comparisons with other rel...

Gradual typing combines static and dynamic typing in the same program. One would hope that the performance in a gradually typed language would range between that of a dynamically typed language and a statically typed language. Existing implementations of gradually typed languages have not achieved this goal due to overheads associated with runtime casts. Takikawa et al. (2016) report up to 100×...

Since new drinking water regulations were implemented in England and Wales in 2000, cryptosporidiosis has been significantly reduced in the first half of the year but not in the second. We estimate an annual reduction in disease of 905 reported cases and approximately 6,700 total cases.

The results are reported of a trial in which 34 patients receiving a stable dose of levodopa for the treatment of idiopathic Parkinsonism, as well as anticholinergic drugs which they had been taking before the introduction of levodopa, underwent withdrawal of their anticholinergic remedies. Withdrawal was gradual over four weeks in 17 patients (group 1) and abrupt in the remaining 17 (group 2)....

Asexual species accumulate deleterious mutations through an irreversible process known as Muller's ratchet. Attempts to quantify the rate of the ratchet have ignored the role of temporal environmental heterogeneity even though it is common in nature and has the potential to affect overall ratchet rate. Here we examine Muller's ratchet in the context of conditional neutrality (i.e., mutations th...