We study two reservation deposit policies for a service rm to increase its revenue through higher capacity utilization. First, under the no deposit policy, the rm requires no reservation deposit and imposes no no show penalty. Anticipating potential no shows, a rm may overbook; hence, there is no guarantee that the reserved service will be provided under the no deposit policy. On the contrary, ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the diagnostic performance of ultrasound, MRI and fluorine-18 fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (¹⁸F-FDG PET)/CT for the diagnosis of metastatic axillary lymph node (ALN) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and to find out histopathological factors affecting the diagnostic performance of these imaging modalities. METHODS From January 2012 to November 2014, 19...

22 23 Rapid and cost-effective MALDI-TOF MS-based systems will replace conventional 24 phenotypic methods for routine identification of bacteria. We report here the first evaluation 25 of the new MALDI-TOF MS-based VITEK MS system in a large clinical microbiology 26 laboratory. This system used an original spectra classifier algorithm and a specific database 27 designed for the identification o...

Abstract The theory of the diffusion limited electrochemical nucleation and growth a deposit consisting isolated 3D hemispherical nuclei has been re-analysed. analysis focuses on widely discussed model which assumes formation “diffusion zones” around growing nuclei. It proposed in literature that deposit-free fraction surface area substrate can be directly calculated from coverage with zones”. ...

in this paper, the reasons of damage water pumps parts of the air compressor cooling system were studied. to reach this goal, the works like preparing metallographic samples, evaluation of structure, investigation of mechanical properties, the alloy parts detection and chemical analysis of deposit and corrosion products collected from the parts were performed. according to studies and results o...

The goal of this paper is to improve our understanding of the costs and benefits of explicit deposit insurance. To this end, we compare the opportunity-cost value of deposit insurance services for a large sample of banks drawn from countries with or without explicit deposit insurance. After correcting for certain bankand country-specific factors, we find that the existence of explicit deposit i...

We carry out a quantitative analysis of the financing measures proposed for European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS) regarding target level fund and contribution scheme member entities. estimate loss distribution EDIS considering different sources systemic risk associated with correlations between bank assets we analyse sensitivity results to portfolio risk. Our findings show how interconnectio...