Flexibility is generally agreed to be a desirable feature of a Simple Temporal Network (STN). However, exactly what flexibility attempts to measure has varied, making it difficult to objectively evaluate flexibility metrics. Further, past metrics tend to lose information or exhibit other undesirable properties when aggregating the flexibility measures of individual events across an entire STN. ...

Leksell Gamma Knife® IconTM with integrated Cone Beam CT (CBCT) system provides increased workflow flexibility with e.g. planning on frameless images and subsequent frameless dose delivery. The stereotactic reference is given by the CBCT images taken prior to treatment. Co-registration of the planning image volume with the CBCT volume gives the transformation mapping of the planned isocenter po...

There are recognised shortages in most health professions in Australia. This is evidence that previous attempts at health workforce planning have failed. This paper argues that one reason for such failure is the lack of appropriate structures for health workforce planning. It also suggests that Australia needs to move beyond planning for particular professions and that health workforce planning...

in present paper, a point to point optimal path is planned for a mobile manipulator with flexible links and joints. for this purpose, a perfect dynamic modeling is performed for mobile manipulators considering large deformation in links, shear effects, elastic joints, effect of gravitation, and non-holonomic constraints. to study large deformation of links, non-linear relation of displacement-s...

Nowadays, there has been a growing interest in recovery options such as recycling, remanufacturing and reusing in the scope of Reverse Logistics (RL) and Closed-Loop Supply Chain (CLSC) concepts due to the environmental, economical issues and legal obligations. Due to this fact, companies should take into account the utilized recovery option while preparing both strategic planning and tactical ...

Recently, discrete part manufacturing systems have encountered more impending requests for adaptability and flexibility in order to efficiently survive the increasing dynamics of manufacturing environment. Although featurebased computer-aided process planning plays a vital role in automating and integrating design and manufacturing for efficient production, its off-line properties prohibit the ...

This paper develops a trajectory planning algorithm for a four-wheel-steering (4WS) vehicle based on vehicle kinematics. The flexibility offered by the steering is utilized fully in the trajectory planning. A two-part trajectory planning algorithm consists of the steering planning and velocity planning. The limits of vehicle mechanism and drive torque are taken into account. Simulation results ...

A noticeable and practicable scheme of channel coordination is the quantity flexibility contracts. It can be emphasized that quantity flexibility contracts can share the risk and cost of market demand uncertainty and yield more potential profitability for members within a supply chain. In view of its increasing importance, quantity flexibility contracts have been studied extensively and various...