Vendor performance plays a key role in price, quality, timely delivery and service in achieving the goals of the supply chain. Given this, today's supplier performance has become a critical element in the success or failure of a company. In this study, an idealized planning model with multi-criteria decision-making approach with network analysis tool based on the expansion of fuzzy quality func...

Anderson et al highlight the Breast Health Global Initiative for guideline development and discuss how developments in low and middle income countries have parallels in the delivery of health care to underserved populations in industrialized countries. Guidelines for appropriate breast cancer treatment must address early detection, accurate diagnosis, and the delivery of timely and appropriate ...

Abstract This study examines the effect of presence foreign experts on a company’s board important characteristic high-quality financial reporting: timeliness. We focus with experience (EFEs) who are members, in context dual model. The sample is drawn from population Polish nonfinancial firms listed Warsaw Stock Exchange during 2010–2015. For analysis, we use generalised method moments fixed ef...

We present a joint relay and radio interface selection algorithm with packet deadline under limited power usage in multi-interface sensor networks. We find route optimization techniques in multi-interface networks: 1) selecting the most conservatively lowest-power interface to guarantee timely transmission considering the remaining hops to destination, and 2) searching detouring paths when the ...

A real-time channel is a communication mechanism commonly used to guarantee timely delivery of messages between two nodes of a distributed system. It is established at the request of an application task. In the request, the task speciies its worst-case traac pattern and the required timing constraints. The system accepts the request only if it can guarantee the requested timing constraints with...

Drug Delivery Timely administration of emergency therapeutics is critical for patients with sudden-onset illnesses. In article number 2208648, Haojian Lu, Jicheng Yu, Zhen Gu, and co-workers develop an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mediated first-aid system (uFAST), which enables the autonomous via a UAV without involvement additional or conscious person to achieve timely first aid.

Imposing the constraint of timely delivery on usual messages is referred as time-constrained messages. The utility of such messages depends upon the time at which they arrive at their destination. Due to contention among randomly arriving messages at each node/link and multi-hops between the source and destination that a message must travel, it is difficult to guarantee the timely delivery of s...

Data driven organizations have enormous and growing appetites for integrated and value added information. Not only are they expected to consistently deliver data on time, the data integration and delivery teams are under mounting pressure to shrink their ETL cycles and accommodate new and more stringent service level agreements. This paper outlines the methodology adopted by Assurant Health for...