Advance selling – the practice of selling a product in advance of its consumption date – has received significant attention in the recent operations literature, and has shown to be beneficial in a variety of industries as a tool for implementing price discrimination, reducing demand uncertainty, and managing capacity more effectively. More recently, start-up companies have been exploring the us...

low level of efficiency is a main problem of surface irrigation systems that is due to their poordesign and management. furrow inflow rate and cut off time are the most important design parametersthat affect the efficiency of furrow irrigation. in this study, furrow irrigation condition of amir kabiragro-industry sugarcane fields was simulated with winsrfr3.1 model. then, irrigation performance...

Background: Controlled ovarian stimulation (COS) has been shown to advance endometrial maturation and affect adversely implantation in assisted reproduction technology (ART) cycles. It has been reported that there is a better embryo-endometrium synchrony in frozenthawed embryo transfer (FET) cycles than fresh embryo transfer (ET) cycles. The Background of this study was to compare ongoing pregn...

Testing the comprehension of spoken language is of primary importance. A lot of factors may affect the performance of EFL learners on listening comprehension tests, among which are the use of visual advance organizers, and types of listening passages (dialogues or monologues). As B-Ikeguchi (1997) states a few studies have been carried out on the effects of these factors on EFL learners’ listen...

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INTRODUCTION Huxley, Mayr, Osmond, and Hoffer (1964) presented a hypothesis that schizophrenia is a genetic morphism (see Huxley, 1955). This is in general agreement with the proposition that all genetic characteristics which exist in a population at a frequency higher than can be maintained by mutation alone must be a morphism. The frequency of the morphic gene is the result of a balance betwe...

Resolution of long-standing debates about the role and impact of advance directives - living wills and powers of attorney for health care - has been hampered by a dearth of appropriate data, in particular data that compare the process and outcomes of end-of-life decision making on behalf of patients with and without advance directives. Drawing on a large ethnographic study of patients in two in...

Advance the DNA Computing. (August 2003) Zhiquan Frank Qiu , B.S., University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; M.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Mi Lu It has been previously shown that DNA computing can solve those problems currently intractable on even the fastest electronic computers. The algorithm design for DNA computing...