m wild plants, especially when travelling abroad. The first step in acquiring such an interest is to procure a book describing the flowers to be found in some place where one is going for a holiday. Such a one is " Flowers of the Mediterranean " by Polunin and Huxley. I choose this because so many people make for that part of Europe and it is a wonderful area in which to start. Armed with such ...

We examine the mechanism design problem for a single buyer to procure purchase-options for a homogeneous good when that buyer is required to satisfy an unknown future demand. Suppliers have 2dimensional types in the form of commitment costs and production costs. The efficient schedule of options depends on the distribution of demand. To implement an efficient outcome, we introduce a class of me...

WORK EXPERIENCE Supply management consultant. 2006-present Supply management consultant with large and small businesses. Prior customers include Commerce City Surplus Supply and Hoof-Wraps. Currently engaged in a supply management education program with a $5B construction distribution company Services include: • Procure to pay business process reengineering • Site visits to assist with supplier...

Analysis of the remission induction phase in three Medical Research Council trials of treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia has provided evidence of the adverse effect of the combination of colaspase (L-asparaginase) with vincristine and prednisolone. Significant myelosuppression, particularly of the granulocytic series, resulted in an increase in Gram-negative sepsis and death during the ...

The deluge of intelligent objects that are providing continuous access to data and services on one hand and the demand of developers and consumers to handle these data on the other hand require us to think about new communication paradigms and middleware. In hyper-scale systems, such as in the Internet of Things, large scale sensor networks or even mobile networks, one emerging requirement is t...

A buyer seeks to procure a good characterized by its price and its quality from suppliers who have private information about their cost structure (fixed cost and marginal cost of providing quality). We characterize the buyer’s optimal buying mechanism. We then use the optimal mechanism as a theoretical and numerical benchmark to study simpler buying procedures such as scoring auctions and barga...

In August 1999, the Japanese government decided to introduce mandatory labeling for genetically modified (GM) food starting from April 2001. Under the labeling system, certain types of processed food such as oil and sweeteners from corn are exempted from labeling, since scientific verification tests detecting GMO ingredient cannot be applied persuasively. The result of the introduction of label...

We use nonlinear model predictive control to procure a joint of mobility and transmission minimize total network communication energy use. The optimization problem is solved numerically in self-triggered framework, where the next update time depends on predicted state trajectory accuracy numerical solution. Solution must be accounted for any circumstance systems are run open-loop long stretches...

BackgroundSeveral Breast Cancer Multigene Signatures (BCMS) are available to profile early breast cancer (eBC) but knowledge regarding their use in clinical practice is scarce. Results from the European PROCURE Project on of BCMS current daily presented.MethodsA Delphi questionnaire drafted by Scientific Committee was administered twice 133 experts 11 countries. The included 5 sections: 1) Pane...

BACKGROUND Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) in patients with metastatic melanoma has been reported to have a 56% overall response rate with 20% complete responders. To increase the availability of this promising therapy in patients with advanced melanoma, a minimally invasive approach to procure tumor for TIL generation is warranted. METHODS A feasibility ...