Ambulance redeployment is the practice of repositioning ambulance fleets in real time in an attempt to reduce response times to future calls. When redeployment decisions are based on real-time information on the status and location of ambulances, the process is called system-status management. An important performance measure is the long-run fraction of calls with response times over some time ...

The European Commission opens in its 7th IST call for proposals an action line for Semantic Web Technologies. It builds on ideas that have been looming for many years but have received their greatest push when the World Wide Web Consortium set up an interest group on that theme. The Semantic Web aims to make content machine understandable in order to automate a wide range of new tasks within th...

In a landmark 2005 paper published in PLoS Medicine, Ioannidis posited that " most current published research findings are false " (Ioannidis 2005). Consistent with this opinion are reports that drug develop ment has been hin­ dered and many clinical trials wasted based on published findings from pre­ clinical studies that with further effort could not be reproduced (Begley and Ellis 2012). The...

0140-3664/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2008.03.016 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +49 30 3463 7378; fa E-mail addresses: [email protected] fraunhofer.de (G. Zhang), [email protected] (D. Gen (G. Kambourakis), [email protected] (T. Dagiuklas), jiri. [email protected] (D. Sisalem). The emergence of Voice over IP (VoIP) has offered numerous advantag...

This paper describes one recent multi-year Capstone project in the Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MMET) Department at Arizona State University Polytechnic. Specifically, the project involves the design, development, construction, and testing of a prototype Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). After either an air or ground launch, this UAV will fly as a fixed wing aircraft, but it ...

1. Permitting one of two offerors to perform a second equipment demonstration (after first demonstration did not show the proposed computer system met all compatibility requirements) following receipt of best and final offers without reopening discussions with second offeror is unobjectionable where: (1) second offeror already had performed fully successful equipment demonstration; and (2) agen...

Background In Australia, the peer review process for competitive funding is usually conducted by a peer review group in conjunction with prior assessment from external assessors. This process is quite mysterious to those outside it. The purpose of this research was to throw light on grant review panels (sometimes called the 'black box') through an examination of the impact of panel procedures, ...

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in this letter we have proposed a new regularization scheme to deal with the divergent integralsoccurring in the quantum mechanical problem of calculating the bound state energy of the delta-functionpotential in two and three dimensions. based on the schwinger parameterization technique we argue thatthere are no infinities even in d dimensions. in this way we were able to compare our proposal w...