SOME wa SaT DECISIONS ARE EASY. If yOU nt to fly from New York to n Francisco as cheaply as possible, you simply find the airline offering the lowest fare and buy a ticket. You have only a single ohjective, so you need to make only a single set of comparisons. But having only one objective, as any decision maker knows, is a rare luxury. Usually, you're pursuing many different ohjectives simulta...

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man Island. At the entrance to the bay is a small island (Ross), 2^ miles up the bay is a second island (Chatham), and 2 miles beyond Chatham i* a third island (Viper). These three small islands, with numerous stations along the north and south shores of the bay, form the nucleus of the Settlement, which is year by year widening its area from these starting points and spreading inland into Sout...

the descriptors computed by hyperchem® software were employed to represent the solubility of 40 drug molecules in supercritical carbon dioxide using an artificial neural network with the architecture of 15-4-1. the accuracy of the proposed method was evaluated by computing average of absolute error (ae) of calculated and experimental logarithm of solubilities. the ae (±sd) of data sets was 0.4 ...

P roduct, price, place, and promotion. Every business-school academic will tell you those four "Ps" represent the essence of marketing. But after 28 years as a healthcare strategy, marketing, and public relations professional, and after countless frequent flyer miles earned consulting across the country on the topic, I'd like to add a few more "Ps." These are people, passion, persuasion, perfor...

During the 1640s, the Irish Franciscan theologian John Punch taught his theology students in Rome that war against Protestants was made just by their religion alone. Jesuits like Luis de Molina identified the holy war tradition in which Punch stood as a Scotist one, and insisted that the Scotists had confused the natural and supernatural spheres. Among Irishmen, Punch was unusual. The main Iris...

BACKGROUND Patients being managed on warfarin make frequent or regular visits to anticoagulation monitoring appointments. International studies have evaluated transportation cost and associated time related to anticoagulation clinic visits. To our knowledge, no studies have evaluated the cost of transportation to such clinic visits in the United States. OBJECTIVE To describe the methods of tr...

The disease, however, did not spread to any extent at that period. Of its outbreak and spread in the city of Dacca a full description will be given below. At present its dissemination, throughout the district will be traccd. The first place from which the appearance of dengue was reported was Mirpur?a prosperous trading village eight miles due north of the city. On the 31st May, two schoolboys,...