but the precursor of post-its as well – those self-sticking, yellow pieces of paper used for writing down all sorts of notes. These are the kinds of sources that Dagmar Schäfer and her team at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin examine to learn more about planning histories and their impact on society, thereby also challenging the paradigms of their own discipline. Th...

3.3.3 The country adopted multi-sectoral, multipronged strategy to combat these problems and to improve the nutritional status of the population. Article 47 of the Constitution of India states that "the State shall regard raising the level of nutrition and standard of living of its people and improvement in public health among its primary duties". Successive Five-Year Plans laid down the polici...

Big data applications have fast arriving data that must be quickly ingested. At the same time, they have specific needs to preprocess and transform the data before it could be put to use. The current practice is to do these preparatory transformations once the data is already ingested, however this is expensive to run and cumbersome to manage. As a result, there is a need to push data preproces...

This note completely resolves the asymptotic development of order 2 by Γ-convergence of the mass-constrained Cahn–Hilliard functional, by showing that one of the critical assumptions of the authors’ previous work [10] is unnecessary.

Development of sustainable manufacturing system is a key research area to realise the Sustainable Development Goal of any country. In this research work we have developed a model for development of a sustainable manufacturing process using fuzzy-AHP. The fuzzy-AHP technique is used to determine the effect of various factors affecting the sustainability of a product. The study shows that, adopti...

We study electric field driven deracemization in an achiral liquid crystal through the formation and coarsening of chiral domains. It is proposed that deracemization in this system is a curvature-driven process. We test this prediction using the recently obtained exact result for the distribution of hull-enclosed areas in two-dimensional coarsening with nonconserved scalar order parameter dynam...

Selecting the best mining method among many alternatives is a multicriteria decision making problem. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the implementation of an integrated approach that employs AHP and PROMETHEE together for selecting the most suitable mining method for the "Coka Marin" underground mine in Serbia. The related problem includes five possible mining methods and eleven criteri...

The purpose of this study was to determine the reproducibility of patient-specific, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) quality assurance (QA) results in a clinical setting. Six clinical patient plans were delivered to a variety of devices and analyses, including 1) radiographic film; 2) ion chamber; 3) 2D diode array delivered and analyzed in three different configurations (AP deliver...

Abstract. We develop a new infinite dimensional gluing method for fractional elliptic equations. In Part I, as a model problem, we construct a solution of the fractional Allen–Cahn equation vanishing on a rotationally symmetric surface which resembles a catenoid and has sub-linear growth at infinity. In Part II, we construct counterexamples to De Giorgi Conjectures to fractional Allen-Cahn equa...