This paper investigates the pricing and production game in a decentralized assembly system that consists of one assembler and two independent suppliers. One supplier is able to exert the push contract on the assembler so as to transfer all his inventory risk, while the other supplier has to accept the pull contract from the assembler and consequently bears the overstock risk. Under this hybrid ...

Push-ups are a common and practical exercise that is used to enhance fitness, including upper body strength or endurance. The kinetic characteristics of push-ups and its variations are yet to be quantified. Kinetic quantification is necessary to accurately evaluate the training load, and thus the nature of the training stimulus, for these exercise variations. This study assessed the peak vertic...

With the growing numbers of status update websites and related wrappers, initiatives modelling sensor data in RDF, as well as the dynamic nature of many Linked Data exporters, there is a need for protocols enabling real-time notification and broadcasting of RDF data updates. In this paper we present a flexible approach that provides such notifications to be delivered in real-time to any RSS or ...

به علت تغییرات حجم ناشی از خطای ساخت، فرکانس کاواک‌های شتاب‌دهی در شتاب‌دهنده‌های خطی الکترون تغییر می‌کند. نتیجه تنظیم فرکانسی کاواک‌ها یکی مراحل مهم تست سرد است که باید الزامات آن طراحی لحاظ شود. پروژه ساخت ساختار موج‌ایستا برای شتاب­دهنده با دو انرژی، پس طراحی، یک آلومینیمی (شامل نیم کاواک و تزویج) ساخته شد. این جبران پیچ‌های استفاده پیچ‌ها جزیی کاواک‌ها، آن‌ها را می‌دهند. مقاله محاسبات شبیه...

BACKGROUND Proper alignment of the scapula during upper extremity motion is important in maintaining shoulder joint function and health. Push-up plus exercise is considered as one of the best exercise to strengthen the muscles that stabilize the scapula. The purpose of the study is to examine the effects of push-up plus variants and elbow position on vertical ground reaction force and electromy...

This paper aimed to discover the dynamics attracting foreign students to pursue higher education in Taiwan. Internationalization in higher education has long been a topic of interest for many researchers. A significant body of literature has focused on the dynamics behind student mobility. In general, these studies used pull-push terminology to explain student mobility, as well as suggesting th...

Smartphones are now ubiquitous and valuable in many professions and yet have also been blamed for creating an ‘always on’ culture, blurring boundaries between work and home. Research has shown that checking e-mails out-of-hours via computer makes workers feel more overloaded with work but also increases their sense of coping. A total of 94 participants completed a survey exploring whether the s...

We prove that a pushing-block puzzle called PUSHPUSH-k is PSPACE-complete for any fixed k ≥ 1. In this puzzle, a robot moves on a finite grid. Each grid position is either empty or occupied by a single obstacle block. While moving, the robot may push obstacle blocks in direction of its movement, subject to certain constraints. In particular, once an obstacle block starts moving, it continues to...

PRELIMINARY AND INCOMPLETE: PLEASE DO NOT CITE Big Push models suggest that local product demand can create multiple labor market equilibria: one featuring high wages, formalization, and high demand and one with low wages, informality, and low demand. I demonstrate that minimum wages may coordinate development at the high wage equilibrium. Using data from 1990s Indonesia, where minimum wages in...