We investigate the use of the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/BE) for Combinatorial Optimization applications. We present a parallel version of a constraintbased Local Search algorithm which was chosen because it fits very well the Cell/BE architecture since it requires neither shared memory nor communication between processors. The performance study on several large optimization benchmarks shows m...

BACKGROUND Health insurance contributes to reducing the economic burden of disease and improving access to healthcare. In 2016, the Chinese government announced the integration of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) and Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URBMI) to reduce system segmentation. Nevertheless, it was unclear whether there would be any geographic variation in health insura...

BACKGROUND A number of significant recent research studies have used techniques of economic modelling to demonstrate the potential benefits of increasing breastfeeding rates in the UK overall, and specifically in neonatal care. This paper complements this growing body of evidence by presenting an economic analysis of data from an actual intervention, the 'Getting It Right From the Start' progra...

The Padmakar–Ivan (PI) index of a graph G is defined as the sum of terms [mu(e) + mv(e)] over all edges of G, where e is an edge, connecting the vertices u and v, wheremu(e) is the number of edges of G lying closer to the vertex u than to the vertex v, and where mv(e) is defined analogously. The extremal values of the PI index are determined in the class of connected bipartite graphs with a giv...

Coral reef ecosystems provide many functions, services and goods to coastal populations, especially in the developing world. A variety of anthropogenic practices threatens reef health and therefore jeopardises the benefits flowing from these services and goods. These threats range from local pollution, sedimentation, destructive fishing practices and coral mining to global issues like coral ble...

The article deals with the topical issue of getting glass and plastic into garbage its further burial in landfills. authors propose to change order collection for recycling plastic, make proposals solve this problem, simultaneously bringing both environmental economic benefits.

It is now firmly recognized that although the majority of mammalian genome is transcribed to RNA, protein-coding transcripts occupy only a minor part of mammalian transcriptome. Instead, increasing evidence suggests that the majority of mammalian RNAs is comprised noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). ncRNAs are a diverse class of RNAs with many subclasses involved in a wide variety of physiological functio...