The variety of chemical compounds and their widespread use in industry everyday life pose a risk to safety. Despite the experience gained over past century since fi rst medical protective equipment, toxicology system providing specialized care for trauma require further improvement development. continuing risks industrial production, damage by hazardous substances, threat toxic substances local...

The blockage/starvation patterns of known instability examples suggest using local demand information | which is precisely what is provided by the widely advocated kanban approach to ow control in manufacturing systems. Therefore, we have re-analyzed for stability the examples described in the 1990 Kumar{Seidman paper when modiied by introducing kanban control. It is found that this does not en...

The objective of this paper is to implement the robust polynomial (RST) controller using particle swarm optimization technique and analyze the robustness properties of the closed loop system with the effect of the auxiliary poles on the output sensitivity function. This designing and analysis part is performed by taking design example from literature.

regarding the highly intensive competition in the market, nowadays using customer-oriented strategies is necessary for retention and attraction of the costumers. nevertheless, using those kinds of strategies depends on understanding customer behavior patterns and classification of customers in accordance with those patterns. the current study aims to determine the strategies for dealing with ne...

The right to the highest attainable level of health is enshrined in the charter of the World Health Organization (WHO) (2002a) and many international treaties. It is this aspiration that spurs the work of the Organization and frames the broader global public health agenda for the twenty-fi rst century. It is a tall order. But the right to health is more important today than ever before given he...

In ITER, plasma disruption events may occur producing large fast thermal transients on plasma facing materials. Particularly important for the integrity of the ®rst wall (FW) are relatively ÔlongÕ duration o€-normal events such as plasma vertical displacement events (VDE) and runaway electrons (RE). An analytical methodology has been developed to speci®cally assess the e€ect of these events on ...

Template matching is a technique widely used for finding patterns in digital images. An efficient template matching algorithm should be able to detect template instances that have undergone geometric transformations. Similarly, a color template matching should be able to deal with color constancy problem. Recently we have proposed a new grayscale template matching algorithm named Ciratefi, inva...

Backtrack-style exhaustive search algorithms for NP-hard problems, such as constraint satisfaction, tend to have large variance in their runtime. This is because fortunate branching decisions can lead to nding a solution quickly, whereas unfortunate decisions in another run can lead the algorithm to a region of the search space with no solutions. In this paper, we show how a bestrst-search heur...

Trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) is generally associated with positive outcomes and can inform clinical and social interventions. We investigated the sub-factors of trait EI: Wellbeing, Self-control, Emotionality, and Sociability, in the context of the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) of motivation. In Study 1, participants (N = 247) completed Carver and White's (1994) BIS/BAS scal...

Many plasmids are mobile genetic elements (MGEs) and, as other members of that group of DNA entities, their genomes display a mosaic and combinatorial structure, making their classification extremely difficult. As other MGEs, plasmids play a major role in horizontal transfer of genetic materials and genome reorganization. Yet, the full impact of such phenomenon on major properties of the host c...