After the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 in U.S., the container security issue got high attention, especially by U.S. government, which deployed a lot of measures to promote or improve security systems. U.S. government not only enhances its national security system, but allies with other countries against the potential terrorist attacks in the future. For example CSI (Container Security...

Belief-Desire-intention (BDI) agent based systems have been implemented in many business application systems and found to have some limitations in obverting environmental changes, adaptation and learning in making rational decisions. Our paper presents a new hybrid BDI agent architecture which compares all the available intentions in the intention reconsideration process and is able to observe ...

currently available non-invasive clinical methods for diagnosing osteoporosis are mainly associated with ionizing radiation. ultrasonic assessment of bone disease is a more recent technology. a theoretical explanation for the relationship between ultrasonic parameters and bone structure is necessary. thus, two types of bone samples of perspex (hap) and perspex-glass beads were produced. each ty...

conclusions results suggest that these methods cannot be interchanged, and vvi showed significantly lower lv peak twist, peak twisting rate and peak untwisting rate. however, when lv twist and lv twisting rates were normalized to lv length, values were comparable for both imaging techniques. results twist degree was significantly lower in the vvi group than in the tdi group (p = 0.008, r = 0.56...

it is necessary for community health nurses to be aware of children growth velocity as well as their height. this is a report of joan arton’s study on primary schools children. traditionally children health indicators were based on if they gain enough weight or not. although today it is proved that height is a better index for children health, but measuring height alone is not enough and growth...

Abstract The ever increasing demand for container transportation has led to the congestion of maritime terminals in world. In this work, two interrelated problems berth and quay crane scheduling are considered an integrated multiobjective mathematical model. A special character model is that arrival times vessels failure (working) cranes not deterministic can vary based on some scenarios. Hence...