context appropriate management of neonates, tested positive for congenital hypothyroidism (ch), in particular, the initial dosage of levothyroxine and the time of initiation of treatment is a critical issue. the aim of this study was to assess all current evidence available on the subject to ascertain the optimal initial dose and optimal initiation time of treatment for children with ch. eviden...

In [9], Maniezzo and Mingozzi study a project scheduling problem with irregular starting time costs. Starting from the assumption that its computational complexity status is open, they develop a branch-and-bound procedure, and identify special cases that are solv-able in polynomial time. In this note, we review three previously established, related results which show that the general problem is...

A modiied predictor-corrector algorithm is proposed for solving monotone linear complementarity problems from infeasible starting points. The algorithm terminates in O(nL) steps either by nding a solution or by determining that the problem is not solvable. The complexity of the algorithm depends on the quality of the starting point. If the problem is solvable and if a certain measure of feasibi...

[if gte mso 9]> The purpose of this paper is to consider the problem of scheduling a set of start time-dependent jobs in a two-machine flow shop, in which the actual processing times of jobs increase linearly according to their starting time. The objective of this problem is to minimize the makespan. The problem is known to be NP-hardness[ah1] ; therefore, there is no polynomial-time algorithm...

In this paper, we deal with a drug delivery problem in a French homecare. The carriers are assigned to specific areas and must visit each patient once a day while minimizing the total travelled distance. In this context, we propose to explore four strategies of delivery: (i) starting deliveries when a specified number of deliveries is achieved, (ii) starting deliveries if a specified distance i...

Epistemic justification has been claimed to be a special case of argument by philosophers such as Accordingly for each attempt, epistemic justification is the occasion of the arguer making a case for some conclusion based on other premises, when the audience and the arguer are the same person. The dialectical model of argument is used to inform how it is that a subject could come to justify her...

This note adds three annexes to my previous paper math/9904044 Annex 1. A sufficient condition for self-adjointness Annex 2. Invariant closed operators on locally compact abelian groups Annex 3. The trace of Connes for quaternions This last item is a minor variation on the evaluation of Connes’s trace (math/9811068), which is explained here in the setting of quaternions and can be applied also ...