In the fiercely competitive era induced by expansion of open business archetypes, the managerial aspects of Extended Manufacturing Environments (EMEs) are experiencing growing concerns. There is no scope of leaving a possible operational improvement unexplored. For enhanced operational efficiency and capacity utilization the balancing and scheduling problems of EMEs are, therefore, rightfully c...

The lateral membrane plays an important role in the mechanical stability of epithelial cell sheet in steady state. In addition, the lateral membrane is continuously remodeled during dynamic processes such as cell extrusion, cytokinesis, and intercellular cell movement. In wound healing, the lateral membrane must be built from flat and spread cells that had crawled into the area of the wound. Th...

EEective management of battleeeld networks requires a hierarchical network management architecture wherein managers can dyanmically delegate management tasks to intermediate managers. In this paper we describe a novel paradigm called the spread-sheet paradigm which extends the traditional at SNMP management model to a hierarchical architecture. We present a spreadsheet MIB, language, and event ...

The spread of the cover sheet is a divisive phenomenon. Their appearance is geographically bound and their content situated in the local political and financial context. In this article we discuss the arguments for and against the coversheet in its guise as a fixture on institutional repository preprints, exploring the issue through statistical information gathered from survey material and from...

This paper explains minimization of makespan or total completion time for n-jobs, m-machine, no-wait flowshop problem (NW-FSSP). A spread sheet based general purpose genetic algorithm is proposed for the NW-FSSP. The example analysis shows that the proposed approach produces results are comparable to the previous approaches cited in the literature. Additionally, it is demonstrated that the curr...

The thermoresponsive behavior of a Methylcellulose (MC) polymer was systematically investigated to determine its usability in constructing MC based hydrogel systems in cell sheet engineering applications. Solution-gel analyses were made to study the effects of polymer concentration, molecular weight and dissolved salts on the gelation of three commercially available MCs using differential scann...

The coldest, the windiest, driest: continent of Antarctica is a place extremes. Located at South Pole, covered by vast ice sheet, millions years old and in some areas more than 4,000 m thick. If all this were to melt, sea levels would rise roughly 58 m. Despite its massive size, Antarctic sheet vulnerable, losing as climate warming. Most loss happens along coast, where slowly flows into ocean f...