Diagnosis is one of the most important concepts in medicine, correctness which determines many respects success treatment, prevention and, ultimately, quality and life expectancy patient. Currently, medical science practice, there a great diversity both understanding essence form diagnosis, approaches to its establishment. However, practice doctors, what formulated as diagnosis does not even me...

We extend the literature on exclusive dealing, which assumes that entry can occur only by installing new capacity, by allowing the incumbent and the potential entrant to merge. This uncovers new effects. First, exclusive deals can be used to improve the incumbent’s bargaining position in the merger negotiation. Second, the incumbent finds it easier to elicit the buyer’s acceptance. Third, exclu...

The nature of Systems of Systems (SoSs), large complex systems composed of independent, geographically distributed and continuously evolving constituent systems, means that faults are unavoidable. Previous work on defining contractual specifications of the constituent systems within SoSs does not provide any explicit consideration for faults. In this paper we address that gap by extending an ex...

The Browne review combined with the current economic conditions has provided a catalyst for change in the funding arrangement, for the higher education sector in the United Kingdom (UK). Consequently, Institutions will place a greater focus on their supply chain to offer services that best fit their requirements, during the construction and refurbishment of their physical assets. The constructi...

Quad rotor is a renowned underactuated Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with widespread military and civilian applications. Despite its simple structure, the vehicle suffers from inherent instability. Therefore, control designers always face formidable challenge in stabilization and control goal. In this paper fuzzy membership functions of the quad rotor’s fuzzy controllers are optimized using nat...