The Pickup and Delivery Problem (PDP) consists in defining a set of routes that satisfy transportation requests between a pickup point and a delivery point. This paper addresses a variant of the PDP where the requests are transportation demands arising from disabled persons. Vehicle passengers can change of vehicle during their trip on specific locations called “transfer points”. Solving this v...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW We discuss features of Parkinson's disease psychosis (PDP) including symptomology and pathophysiology. Treatment options, including non-pharmacologic strategies, dose reduction of offending agents, and the addition of non-dopaminergic antipsychotics, are addressed. The efficacy of second-generation antipsychotics and novel agents is examined. RECENT FINDINGS Pimavanserin, a ...

Programming is an activity centred primarily around the keyboard which is not necessarily the optimal input device for all users. Little research has taken place into alternative input devices for programming despite huge advances in handwriting and voice recognition for natural language. This project explored using a pen as the primary input device for programming. A variety of different metho...

Multimedia applications in general and video processing, such as the MPEG4 Visual stream decoders, in particular are increasingly popular and important workloads for future embedded systems. Due to the high computational requirements, the need for low power, high performance embedded processors for multimedia applications is growing very fast. This paper proposes a new data prefetch mechanism c...

This work provides both a speci cation and a proof of correctness for the system PDP (Prolog Distributed Processor) which make use of Abstract State Machines (ASMs). PDP is a recomputation-based model for parallel execution of Prolog on distributed memory. The system exploits OR parallelism, Independent AND parallelism as well as the combination of both. The veri cation process starts from the ...

Oreopithecus bambolii is a Late Miocene ape from Italy, first described in the late 19th century. Its interpretation is still highly controversial, especially in reference to its hand proportions and thumb morphology. In this study, the authors provide detailed descriptions of the available Oreopithecus pollical distal phalanx (PDP) specimens, as well as bivariate and multivariate morphometric ...

A. INTRODUCTION Under NETRJS [1], CCN's Network rje protocol [2], a virtual remote batch terminal may be either EBCDIC or ASCII. CCN operates an IBM 360/91 which performs all of its normal processing in EBCDIC. When a virtual ASCII terminal signs onto NETRJS, CCN translates the "card reader" stream to EBCDIC and translates the "printer" stream back to ASCII [3]. In recent months, a number of AS...

Enterprises need continuous product development activities to remain competitive in the marketplace. Their product development process (PDP) must manage stakeholders’ needs – technical, financial, legal, and environmental aspects, customer requirements, Corporate strategy, etc. -, being a multidisciplinary and strategic issue. An approach to use real option to support the decision-making proces...