This review paper addresses the critical need for structural prognostics and health management (SPHM) in aircraft maintenance, highlighting its role identifying potential issues proactively managing health. With a comprehensive assessment of various SPHM techniques, contributes by comparing traditional modern approaches, evaluating their limitations, showcasing advancements data-driven model-ba...

The present study was initiated to examine the activities of private clinic- or hospital-based occupational physicians (OPs) and to identify difficulties the OPs encountered in their occupational health service (OHS). A questionnaire was sent by mail to 557 OPs in Kyoto prefecture, Japan. Effective answers were obtained from 86 OPs who were private practitioners or physicians in hospitals and s...

The competitiveness and performance of manufacturing companies depend on the availability, reliability and productivity of their production equipment. This recognition has led to a drastic change of perception on maintenance over the past decades, evolving from a ‘‘necessary evil’’ to a ‘‘value adding’’ activity. In order to ensure a good performance of the production plant, maintenance manager...

The emergence of "off shoring or outsourcing" in the debate about where best to do software development and applications support has added yet another layer of complexity into the domain of Development Managers. This is on top of the usual plethora of issues we all know and love such as configuration and requirements management, design, enhancements, reuse and refactoring, baseline controls, IP...

There is great need for a secure, fine-grained, efficient, and user-friendly authorization infrastructure to protect the services in Grid community. Grid users and administrators still have to deal with authentication and authorization issues in the traditional supercomputer-centric fashion, especially with the host account maintenance and certificate management. This paper proposes a capabilit...

Extended Abstract Abstract A materialized hypertext view is a hypertext containing data coming from a database and whose pages are stored in HTML les. This paper deals with the maintenance issues required by these derived hyper-text to enforce consistency between page content and database state. Here, hypertext views are deened as nested oid-based views over the set of base relations. An algebr...

OBJECTIVE Long-acting antipsychotic agents were developed to promote treatment compliance in patients requiring maintenance treatment for schizophrenia. METHOD An analysis of the impact of non-compliance on treatment outcomes in schizophrenia and the advantages and disadvantages of long-acting antipsychotics. RESULTS Partial or total non-compliance with oral antipsychotics remains widesprea...

This paper presents a novel vision of paperless and visual lifecycle building management tools based on the coupling between Building Information Models (BIM) and Augmented Reality (AR) called Lifecycle Building Card. As the use of BIM increases within the architecture, engineering, and construction industries, new opportunities emerge to help stakeholders and maintenance operators to leverage ...

The network management within supply chains requires a systematic cost oriented tool to measure and manage the transactions between the partners. Therefore a supply chain performance measurement was developed, that considers all cost of selection, acquisition, use, administration, maintenance and disposal. It can be used for determining what a particular purchase really cost the organization – ...