parcel delivery is a complex logistic service, as it serves many small or medium-sized customers who may send or receive parcels. modeling such delivery system needs to integrate two different research areas of hub location and vehicle routing. as it totally depends on the network and the linkage of the nodes, in this paper, some door-to-door service providers are taken into account to provide ...

The paper describes an approach for recognizing a person entering a room using only door accelerations. The approach analyzes the acceleration signal in time and frequency domain. For each domain two types of methods were developed: (i) feature-based – use features to describe the acceleration and then uses classification method to identify the person; (ii) signal-based – use the acceleration s...

OBJECTIVE Evaluate pre- and intraoperative practices adopted by medical and nursing teams for the prevention of surgical infections. METHOD A prospective study carried out in the period of April to May 2013, in a surgical center of a university hospital in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. RESULTS 18 surgeries were followed and 214 surgical gloves were analyzed, of which 23 (10.7%) had postoper...

Enhancing perception of the local environment with semantic information like the room type is an important ability for agents acting in their environment. Such high-level knowledge can reduce the effort needed for, e.g., object detection. This paper shows how to extract the room label from a small amount of room percepts taken from a certain view point (like the door frame when entering the roo...

INTRODUCTION The burden of stroke has been projected to increase for developing countries, but data are limited, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. This necessitated this study to determine the stroke prevalence in a semi urban community in middle-belt region of Nigeria. METHODS A two-phase door-to-door study was performed in three semi-urban communities of Kwara state; in the first phase 12,9...

Gender and Work Hours Transitions in Australia: Drop Ceilings and Trap-Door Floors We introduce the ideas of “drop ceilings”, that full-time employees who switch to reduced hours thereafter face an hours ceiling such that a return to full-time employment is difficult, and of “trap-door floors”, that full-time employees may be denied the opportunity to reduce their hours and instead face a choic...