The integration of supply chain has become an important aspect in business environment due to the various business competitive pressures. This research proposes an intelligent decision support system for supply chain integration to support a supply chain’s competitive strategy of and help an organization gain a competitive advantage. Three major issues and related information technologies (IT),...

We establish an isoperimetric inequality with constraint by ndimensional lattices. We prove that, among all domains which consist of rectangular parallelepipeds with the common side-lengths, a cube is the best shape to minimize the ratio involving its perimeter and volume as long as the cube is realizable by the lattice. For its proof a solvability of finite difference PoissonNeumann problems i...

INTRODUCTION The mechanisms for atrial fibrillation (AF) are unclear in part because diverse mapping techniques yield diverse maps, ranging from stable organized sources to highly disordered waves. We hypothesized that AF mechanisms may be clarified if mapping techniques were compared in the same patients, and referenced to a clinical endpoint. We compared two independent AF mapping techniques ...

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PURPOSE The aim of this in vitro study was to compare the accuracy of two different impression techniques for the All-on-Four implant therapy protocol. MATERIALS AND METHODS An acrylic resin analog for an edentulous maxilla with four internal connection implants (Replace Select, Nobel Biocare) was fabricated according to the All-on-Four protocol. A total of 40 impressions were made with diffe...

Today the transmission of multimedia data including image and video is growing in telecommunications. Security is one of the main issues in transferring such sensitive information. Powerful image encryption algorithm is the solution for this problem. This paper is an implementation of a color image encryption algorithm based on Rubik’s cube technique. The Rubik’s cube technique is used for pixe...

We present a new technique for the embedding of large cube-connected cycles networks (CCC) into smaller ones, a problem that arises when algorithms designed for an architecture of an ideal size are to be executed on an existing architecture of a xed size. Using the new embedding strategy, we show that the CCC of dimension l can be embedded into the CCC of dimension k with dilation 1 and optimum...

In this paper we introduce an automatic tetrahedral mesh generator for complex genus-zero solids, based on the novel meccano technique. Our method only demands a surface triangulation of the solid, and a coarse approximation of the solid, called meccano, that is just a cube in this case. The procedure builds a 3-D triangulation of the solid as a deformation of an appropriate tetrahedral mesh of...

*Correspondence: Ram K. Gupta, Department of Chemistry, Pittsburg State University, 1701 South Broadway, Pittsburg, KS-66762, USA e-mail: [email protected] Epitaxial tin ferrite (SnFe2O4) thin films were grown using KrF excimer (248 nm) pulsed laser deposition technique under different growth conditions. Highly epitaxial thin films were obtained at growth temperature of 650°C. The quality a...

In this work, we present a technique to map any genus zero solid object onto a hexahedral decomposition of a solid cube. This problem appears in many applications ranging from finite element methods to visual tracking. From this, one can then hopefully utilize the proposed technique for shape analysis, registration, as well as other related computer graphics tasks. More importantly, given that ...