This paper analyses elements of the legal process of consent to the donation of 'spare' embryos to research, including stem-cell research, and makes a recommendation intended to enhance the quality of that process, including on occasion by guarding against the invalidity of such consent. This is important in its own right and also so as to maximise the reproductive treatment options of couples ...

As additive manufacturing (AM) evolves to become a common method of producing final parts, further study of this computer integrated technology is necessary. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the potential impact of additive manufacturing improvements on the configuration of spare parts supply chains. This goal has been accomplished through scenario modeling of a real-life spare parts...

We study spare parts inventory control for an aircraft component repair shop. Inspection of a defective component reveals which spare parts are needed to repair it, and in what quantity. Spare part shortages delay repairs, while aircraft operators demand short component repair times. Current spare parts inventory optimization methods cannot guarantee the performance on the component level, whic...

With the development of rural power market in our country, how to improve the operation more correctly and timely of power quantity collection, transmission and processing becomes a problem. The requirement of equipment in power quantity collection needs new and higher demands. The advantage of using dual-port RAM and main-spare CPU structure, when main CPU running, spare CPU supply monitoring ...

In the paper, we formulate a novel obstacle-avoiding engineering change ordering (ECO) driven minimal tree construction problem. The objective is to build a better routing tree in the sense of increasing ECO flexibility to force the routing tree pass through regions in which more spare cells are available so that the additional total wirelength compared to a conventional wirelength oriented rou...

In this paper, we consider the design and implementation of SPARE Parts, a C++ toolkit for pattern matching. SPARE Parts is the second generation string pattern matching toolkit from the Ribbit Software Systems Inc. and the Eindhoven University of Technology. The toolkit contains implementations of the well-known Knuth-Morris-Pratt, Boyer-Moore, Aho-Corasick and Commentz-Walter algorithms (and ...