Computer hardware and software are resources without which the modern business of any organization, from manufacturing to services, is impossible. Not enough attention is being payed to maintenance of computer systems as an aspect of business. This paper gives some recommendations for the selection of the computer systems maintenance approach, based on many years of experience maintaining these...

Cognitive and neurocognitive approaches to human healthy aging attribute age-related decline to the biologically caused loss of cognitive-control functions. However, an embodied-cognition approach to aging implies a more interactive view according to which cognitive control emerges from, and relies on a person's active encounters with his or her physical and social environment. We argue that th...

In the developed countries, many organizations are regarded a...

This paper describes a randomized study to evaluate the effects of a comprehensive lifestyle management intervention for 279 postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes who are at elevated risk for coronary heart disease (CHD). The intervention, called the Mediterranean Lifestyle Trial, is focused on dietary factors, physical activity, social support and stress management. The Mediterranean Lifes...

The maintenance of railway track is highly relevant for the service quality and safety. This task demands huge technical and human resources. Therefore an optimal deployment of the available resources is crusial for the cost-effectiveness of railway operation. Furthermore, the track geometry maintenance activities need to be planned up to two years in advance. For this reason the French railway...

This paper concerns the modelling of maintenance activities in a distributed context. In this work we study the particular case where the maintenance activities are executed by two workshops: a central maintenance workshop (CMW) and a mobile maintenance workshop (MMW). The (CMW) concerns the repairing process for the corrective maintenance and the (MMW) execute all preventive maintenance in sev...

Modern urbanized societies are facing serious challenges in the maintenance of their water resources [...]

Improper and unnecessary maintenance actions can result in a waste of resources, time, and money. Training and education play a vital role in maintenance implementation and can be used to prevent improper maintenance procedures. The Center for Predictive Maintenance (CPM) has developed a demonstration framework and tool that can be used to educate and train users extending from maintainers to l...

“encourage economically efficient forest practices that assure the continuous growing and harvesting of forest tree species and the maintenance of forestland for such purposes as the leading use on privately owned land, consistent with sound management of soil, air, water, fish and wildlife resources and scenic resources within visually sensitive corridors as provided by ORS 527.755 that assure...