The offshore oil industry in Norway has for decades required advanced special purpose equipment for its operations. Norwegian shipbuilders have supplied the offshore industry and specialized in producing customized and technologically advanced ships. Shipbuilding is a typical Engineer-to-Order (ETO) industry. While the ship concept and design continues to be developed in Norway, ship production...

Design is a process of producing a description of a system or process to satisfy a set of requirements. To suppoit the designer in the identification and composition of components of design solutions requires both synthesis and evaluation methods. Such methods can provide a systematic approach to design, allowing the designer to pursue more alternatives and to evaluate the alternatives based on...

Electric mobility is at the forefront of innovation. Cutting down greenhouse gases when low-carbon electricity sources are maintained has answered concerns skeptics switching to electric mobility. This paper presents a life-cycle-based comparative study between and conventional gasoline vehicles with respect their environmental performance, taking case Qatar. A well-to-wheel life cycle assessme...

Anthropoid primates are distinguished from other mammals by having relatively large primary visual cortices (V1) and complex facial expressions. We present a comparative test of the hypothesis that facial expression processing coevolved with the expansion of V1 in anthropoids. Previously published data were analysed using phylogenetic comparative methods. The results of our study suggest a patt...

To address this research possibility, the present empirical study undertakes assessment of usable-security healthcare software system. The attributes considered for are: four factors at first level; thirteen sub-factors second level with six Hospital Management Software Systems (HMSS) as alternatives. Fuzzy Analytic Network Process (F-ANP) has been applied evaluating weights and their relations...

The disk approximation method, Etest (AB Biodisk, Solna, Sweden), and VITEK 2 system (bioMérieux, Marcy l’Etoile, France) were used to study 399 extended-spectrum h-lactamase (ESBL)-producing (115 strains) and non-ESBL-producing (284 strains) clinical isolates of Escherichia coli after recommended procedures. Comparative study of the phenotypic findings yielded data on the sensitivity, specific...

Natural selection rejects with variable strength, mutations reducing the individual’s capability to survive and reproduce. Evolutionary theory predicts that mutations producing disease will be under strong selective constraints. Selective strength at the codon level will determine if mutation frequency will increase, decrease or change randomly during evolution. This strength finally serves in ...