In recent years hospitals have been vigorously searching for ways to reduce costs and improve productivity. One tool, simulation, is now widely accepted as an effective method for assisting management in evaluating different operational alternatives. It can help improve existing Emergency Departments (EDs) and assist in planning and designing new EDs. In order to increase the acceptance of simu...

Some problems about the connectivity of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are always important and difficult topics in research, especially the trade-off between connectivity and energy control. In this paper, we present a novel and effective method to calculate nearest neighbor nodes in three-dimensional WSNs using Poisson point field theory, which enables each node to find the k nearest neighbo...

In this paper the principle and experimental process of the infrared thermal wave nondestructive testing (NDT) on carbon fiber reinforced silicon carbide (Cf /SiC) ceramic matrix composite sample are demonstrated. The experiment results compared with X-ray testing results show that the infrared thermal wave NDT is an effective method for the Cf /SiC ceramic matrix composite, and it can be used ...

Introduction: Approximately 23,000 women and 15,793 men in the United States are affected by human papilloma virus (HPV) related cancers. Many of the infections could have been prevented through vaccination [2]. The CDC has recommended a 3-dose vaccination series as a safe and effective method of protecting against HPV strains associated with cervical and other cancers for girls since June 2006...

We extend earlier work on the Orientation Field Transform as an effective method for enhancing curve like features in images. Whereas the original Orientation Field Transform was formulated for straight lines, we generalize the formalism to general curves, resulting in improved accuracy for detecting circular objects. The method only requires one parameter, the curve width, to be selected by th...

Achievement of high-quality performance can provide a potential competitive edge in construction industry. Subcontracting has been identified as a source of poor quality and overall poor business performance of projects. The aim of this paper is to shown that modern ideas in Supply Chain Quality Management (SCQM) can positively impact quality problems caused by subcontracting. SCQM integrates q...

The course of developing effective medical treatments is typically based on the identification of diseasetriggering protein complexes. In this paper, we present ProRank+, an effective method for detecting protein complexes in protein interaction networks. By assuming that complexes may overlap, the method uses a ranking algorithm to order proteins based on their importance in the network. In ad...

A detailed experimental evaluation of earcons was carried out to see whether they are an effective means of communicating information in sound. An initial experiment showed that earcons were better than unstructured bursts of sound and that musical timbres were more effective than simple tones. Musicians were shown to be no better than non-musicians when using musical timbres. A second experime...

Two equations (1.1) and (1.3) which are bound with the transformation (1.2) are called point-equivalent equations. The problem of finding criteria for detecting pointequivalence for two given equations (1.1) and (1.3) is known as the problem of equivalence. This problem was studied in numerous papers (see [1–23]), some of them are classical papers and others are modern ones. Results of these pa...