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the emergency medical centers are very helpful since they reduce the number of death and injuries by getting to the scenes of accidents and dealing with the case immediately. as saving one's life is the prime goal in these centers, any findings and techniques which will improve the services and ease achieving the goal will be highly welcomed. the first and the major factor in giving this kind o...

The integration of chromatin modifiers into specific regulatory networks is not fully understood. In this issue of Immunity, Austenaa et al. (2012) demonstrate a specific role for the histone methyltransferase MLL4 (Wbp7) in controlling the expression of critical molecules in the Toll-like receptor pathway.

the location-routing problem is a relatively new branch of logistics system. its objective is to determine a suitable location for constructing distribution warehouses and proper transportation routing from warehouse to the customer. in this study, the location-routing problem is investigated with considering fuzzy servicing time window for each customer. another important issue in this regard ...

The congestion pricing has been discussed as a practical tool for traffic management on urban transport networks. The traffic congestion is defined as an external diseconomy on the network in transport economics. It has been proposed that the congestion pricing would be used to reduce the traffic on the network. This paper investigates the cordon-based second-best congestion-pricing problems on...