Efficient use of resources and promotion circular development are important tasks for strategic during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. China actively promotes remanufacturing industry, but there is still room improvement in many aspects such as industry’s laws regulations, technical systems, consumer awareness. Improving industry system will help us meet future challenges. Combined with theoret...

The 12th Five-Year Plan outline (2011-2015) of the National Economy and Social Development of the People’s Republic of China is referred as 12th Five-Year Plan. This paper analyzed and summarized the approved funded projects on approval of acupuncture and moxibustion science by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (NSFC) including the total number of the funding projects, the distr...

MOST readers will, by now, have made themselves familiar with the Minister of Health's Plans for developing the health and welfare services over the next ten years as outlined in the Blue Book* presented to Parliament. Mr. Powell himself spoke about it at length at the Association of Municipal Corporations' Conference in Morecambe on April 13th. No doubt there will be critic'" especially of the...

The bin packing problem is a well-studied combinatorial NP-hard problem. In the bin packing problem, a sequence of items are packed into bins, the packed items in a bin do not overlap. The objective is to minimize the number of used bins. The size of each item should be no more than the size of a bin. (Zhang, 2011) The algorithms can be divided into two categories: offline algorithm, requiring ...

The Y2K threat provides an excellent case study of organizational perception of and adjustment to risks. Utilizing qualitative data collected from focus group interviews with thirteen health care organizations, this paper examines hospital risk perception and preparedness for the Y2K computer problem. The potential for a date-specific failure of technological systems required hospitals to ident...