This study investigates the scheduling of mechanical repairs performed at a Portuguese firm in automobile sector. The aim is to reduce amount time that vehicles spend inactive between interventions by developing mathematical model takes into account available resources and mechanics, necessary interventions, required for each repair. To accomplish this, mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) w...

We present a weighted-LASSO method to infer the parameters of a first-order vector auto-regressive model that describes time course expression data generated by directed gene-to-gene regulation networks. These networks are assumed to own prior internal structures of connectivity which drive the inference method. This prior structure can be either derived from prior biological knowledge or infer...

W hen an innocent search for a local auto-body repair shop lands someone on a page that promotes great mortgage rates, inexpensive prescription drugs, legal assistance, or pain-free cosmetic surgery, that person has been Web spammed. This practice undermines the trustworthiness people have come to expect from search engines. Google, Yahoo, and MSN have built their reputation on providing reliab...

Abs(ract-A� VLSI ('hip siH' is rapidl� increasing. more and more circuit components are becoming inacce".,ibl .. for .. ,tenlal testing. diagnosis. and repair. Memor� arra�s arc widely us"d in VLSI chips. and restructuring of partiall� fault� arra�., b.1 the available spare rows and columns is a l'omputationall� in­ tractable problem. Conventional softwart' nH'mnr� -repair al­ gorithms cannot h...

Tetralogy of Fallot is the most common cyanotic congenital heart disease worldwide [1]. Among other conotruncal abnormalities, 13-16% of Tetralogy of Fallot individuals are reported to have 22q11.2 deletion syndrome which is characterized by thymic hypoplasia, endocrine abnormalities and hypocalcaemia [2]. Individuals with micro deletion 22q11.2 deletion syndrome are prone to auto immune disord...

The object of this review is to examine the role of TEVAR in causing SCI. The anatomy and physiology of blood flow to the spinal cord is examined. The role of auto regulation of blood flow within the spinal cord is also examined. This review examines the reported results from the scientific literature of the effect of thoracic aortic aneurysm repair on spinal cord blood flow. In the light of th...

WHILE the initial stage of our body’s protective auto-repair mechanism when we acquire any type of acute infection (bacterial, viral, fungal, protozoan, etc.) involves inflammation, which significantly helps in the healing process, “silent” chronic inflammation all of us have in our body, day in and day out, which is not obvious to us, is actually the cause of most, if not all, illnesses we are...