We present the case of a patient with severe postoperative scarring from surgical treatment for gastroschisis, with the intestine located immediately under the dermal scar. Although many patients are unsatisfied with the results of scar repair treatment, few reports exist regarding severe or difficult cases involving the surgical repair of postoperative scar contracture. We achieved an excellen...

In this paper, we present efficient trap-escaping strategies in a search based on discrete Lagrange multipliers to solve difficult SAT problems. Although a basic discrete Lagrangian method (DLM) can solve most the satisfiable DIMACS SAT benchmarks efficiently, a few of the large benchmarks have eluded solutions by any local-search methods today. These difficult benchmarks generally have many tr...

This paper proposes a cooperation framework for multiple role-based case-based reasoning (CBR) agents to handle the product recommendation problem for e-commerce applications. Each agent has different case structure with intersecting features and agents exploit all information related to the problem by cooperation, which is accomplished through the merge of distributed cases. The role-based CBR...

An order level inventory model for seasonable/fashionable products subject to a period of increasing demand followed by a period of level demand and then by a period of decreasing demand rate three branches ramp type demand rate is considered. The unsatisfied demand is partially backlogged with a time dependent backlogging rate. In addition, the product deteriorates with a time dependent, namel...

background and objective : poor sleep, poor quality of sleep and sleepiness are among the common problems as-sociated with learning, memory and educational performance in children and adolescents. considering the lack of pre-vious literature in this field, especially in the city of yazd, iran, a number of high-school students of the city participat-ed in a study to assess sleep problems and inf...

We examine the component procurement problem in a single-item, make-to-stock assembly system. The suppliers are uncapacitated and have independent but non-identically distributed stochastic delivery lead times. Assembly is instantaneous, product demand follows a Poisson process and unsatisfied demand is backordered. The objective is to minimize the sum of steady-state holding and backorder cost...