assembly line production is one of the widely used basic principles in production system. the problem of assembly line balancing deals with the distribution of activities among the workstations so that there will be maximum utilization of human resources and facilities without disturbing the work sequence. research works reported in the literature mainly deals with minimization of idle time i.e...

objective: gender selection and family planning have their roots in human history. despite great interest in these fields, very few scientific propositions exist which could explain why some family do not attain the desired sex. therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate whether sex of previous child or children could affect the outcomes of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (pgd). materi...

We describe our experience with the use of embryo biopsy and fluorescent in-situ hybridization (FISH) in order to sex embryos for the purpose of family balancing in a private IVF clinic in India from April 1999-April 2001. Embryos were biopsied and analysed on day 3, cultured in sequential media, and then transferred on day 4 or day 5 after morphological selection of the best embryos. From a to...

I was recently asked to address a group of residents on the subject of balancing family and career. Although I had never considered myself an expert on this topic, I provided these young physicians—almost half of whom were women—with practical advice from my own experience over the past 14 years. Although many of my suggestions seemed self-evident to me, the residents' enthusiastic responses en...

In this lecture, we will see our first glimpse of a “killer app” of probability in EECS. Probability helps us understand quantitatively how much of a resource we need when demands are somewhat random. There is a wide range of applications, especially in networking where understanding randomness is the key to the idea of “stochastic multiplexing.” The basic idea behind this (which are explored a...