The paper compares the expected performance of a Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) supply chain with a traditional “serially-linked” supply chain. The emphasis of this investigation is the impact these two alternative structures have on the “Bullwhip Effect” generated in the supply chain. We pay particular attention to the manufacturer’s production ordering activities via a simulation model based ...

To approach the ever growing complexity of modern malware, security applications increasingly leverage virtualization technology to perform Virtual Machine Introspection (VMI). VMI constitutes techniques that allow the observation, analysis, and control of guest Virtual Machines (VMs) from the outside. This lends VMI-based applications an omniscient character gaining a complete and untainted vi...

Background: Visual-motor integration is the ability to coordinate visual perceptual and motor skills. The Beery Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (VMI) is a standardized copy forms-type test that is frequently used to assess visual-motor integration. In China, there are few effective methods to assess visual-motor integration skill in children. The intention of this study was to de...

OBJECTIVES This exploratory study aimed to investigate associations between neonatal brain volumes and visual-motor integration (VMI) and fine motor skills in children born extremely preterm (EPT) when they reached 6½ years of age. SETTING Prospective population-based cohort study in Stockholm, Sweden, during 3 years. PARTICIPANTS All children born before gestational age, 27 weeks, during 2...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of visual motor function and gross motor function, through to conduct dual task training include eye movement into children with spastic cerebral palsy with ocular anomalies. Methods The subjects of this study were 6 children with spastic cerebral palsy with ocular anomalies. The experimental group (n=3) received the dual task train...

Rodents use rhythmic vibrissae movements to sense the environment. It is currently unclear whether intrinsic activity in the vibrissa motor cortex (vMI) is capable of driving vibrissa movements on a cycle-by-cycle basis. Disinhibition of vMI results in the occurrence of spontaneous 5- to 15-Hz synchronized oscillations. In behaving rats, this synchronous resonance of vMI is shown here to drive ...

A new velocity-map imaging apparatus equipped with a laser-vaporization supersonic cluster source and a time-of-flight mass spectrometer is described for high-resolution photoelectron spectroscopy studies of size-selected cluster anions. Vibrationally cold anion clusters are produced using a laser-vaporization supersonic cluster source, size-selected by a time-of-flight mass spectrometer, and t...

We determined whether a widely used assessment of visual-motor skills, the Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (VMI), is appropriate for use as an outcome measure for handwriting interventions. A two-group pretest-posttest design was used with 207 kindergarten, first-grade, and second-grade students. Two well-established handwriting measures and the VMI were administe...

This paper investigates the impact of a vendor managed inventory (VMI) strategy upon transportation operations in a supply chain. Specifically, the issue of batching to enable better use of transport vehicles is studied. A system dynamics methodology is used to develop difference equation models of three scenarios–– traditional, internal consolidation and VMI. The holistic nature of inventory m...

This study used the extended limits-to-value model to frame four research hypotheses related to the effects of organizational size, employee involvement, and logistics integration on the expected and perceived values of vendor-managed inventory (VMI) as implemented in the electronics industry. Most of the findings supported the hypotheses. Specifically, that supply chain members working for org...