The purpose of this paper is using the concepts of value engineering (VE) in evaluating the improvement caused by preventive maintenance (PM) systems in construction project. A real case is used to show how we can implement the proposed method. VE is the systematic application of recognized techniques by multi-disciplined teams that identifies the function of a product or service, establishes a...

This study applies periodic preventive maintenance (PM) to a repairable production system with major repairs conducted after a failure. This study considers failed PM due to maintenance workers incorrectly performing PM and damages occurring after PM. Therefore, three PM types are considered: imperfect PM, perfect PM and failed PM. Imperfect PM has the same failure rate as that before PM, where...

this paper considers the problem of scheduling hybrid flowshops with machine availability constraints (mac) to minimize makespan. the paper deals with a specific case of mac caused by preventive maintenance (pm) operations. contrary to previous papers considering fixed or/and conservative policies, we explore a case in which pm activities might be postponed or expedited while necessary. regardi...

HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) are associated with deficits in prospective memory (PM; "remembering to remember"), conferring risk of daily functioning declines. However, self-perceptions of PM functioning are not reliably associated with PM performance in HIV, suggesting a possible deficit in awareness of PM abilities (meta-PM). Our study examined meta-PM in HAND and its correl...

PM10 (the mass of particles present in the air having a 50% cutoff for particles with an aerodynamic diameter of 10 μm) is the standard measure of particulate air pollution used worldwide. Epidemiological studies suggest that asthma symptoms can be worsened by increases in the levels of PM10. Epidemiological evidence at present indicates that PM10 increases do not raise the chances of initial s...

‎Let $f:Arightarrow B$ and $g:A rightarrow C$ be two ring homomorphisms and let $J$ and $J^{'}$ be two ideals of $B$ and $C$‎, ‎respectively‎, ‎such that $f^{-1}(J)=g^{-1}(J^{'})$‎. ‎The bi-amalgamation of $A$ with $(B,C)$ along $(J,J^{'})$ with respect of $(f,g)$ is the subring of $Btimes C$ given by‎ ‎$Abowtie^{f,g}(J,J^{'})={(f(a)+j,g(a)+j^{'})‎/ ‎a in A‎, ‎(j,j^{'}) in Jtimes J^{'}}.$‎ ‎In ...

The Parkes Multibeam (PM) survey has found nearly 50% of the >1400 known pulsars and detected 20% of the pulsars in binary systems (75% within the survey area), few of these are millisecond pulsars with orbits of less than one day. It is known that the normal search techniques used in the PM Survey have selected against finding binary pulsars, due to the long integration times used. The relativ...