BACKGROUND CONTEXT Despite significant literature associated with spinal injuries and recreational diving, few articles exist regarding competitive diving injuries, with no reports pertaining specifically to spinal injuries. As a result, a case report of a collegiate diver with C5-C6 ligamentous instability requiring operative stabilization is currently presented in addition to a review of the ...

We study online job scheduling on a processor that can vary its speed dynamically to manage its power. We attempt to extend the recent success in analyzing total unweighted flow time plus energy to total weighted flow time plus energy. We first consider the non-clairvoyant setting where the size of a job is only known when the job finishes. We show an online algorithm WLAPS that is 8α-competiti...

I. ABSTRACT A practical 1 imitation ·of the application of Smoluchowski 1 s classical estimate for the collision probability of two diffusing spherical particles in Brownian motion is the non-consideration of interparticle forces. For suspended particles in water such forces can arise from the disturbance the particle causes in the fluid {hydrodynamic forces), from the cloud of ions which surro...

valid objective measure that can be easily carrying for assessment of  competitive anxiety is not available in iran. competitive state anxiety inventory-2r (csai-2r) is introduced as a quick and easy diagnostic tool for competitive anxiety. the aim of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of csai-2r in the part of iranian society. the study population included all volleyball, ...

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The use of information systems for competitive advantage has been the topic of much writing and research. As a successful example, American Airlines’ aggressive use of its computer-based reservation system, SABRE, has often been cited for improving operational efficiency, increasing organizational flexibility, and altering interorganizational relationships. Yet, little attention has been given ...

today, every enterprise needs to have its own business model. a business model explains what exactly the costumers want, how they want it and how the company can satisfy them. this can actually leads to the industry's competitive advantages and help the enterprises to revive them. in the late decades the prevalence of e-commerce leads it to be known as a tool to organize the business and s...

The present context of the electric industry, characterized by competitive markets, privatization, and regulatory of technical requirements forces the power utilities to optimize their asset management practices and develop the requisite decision plans techno-economically. Practically approaching, this paper devises a new support tool based on a multiattribute decision making (MADM) framework i...