Closed convex sets for which the barrier cone has a nonempty interior, as well as proper extended-values real functionals for which the domain of their Fenchel conjugate is nonempty, are mathematical objects currently encountered in various areas of optimization theory and variational analysis (see for instance the class of well-behaved functions introduced by Auslender and Crouzeix in [5]). Th...

introduction: balanced scorecard (bsc) is regarded as one of the successful tools in performance measurement. however, it neither absolutely nor comparatively provides the weight of each perspective and indicators related to each perspective. in this study, we applied a fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (fahp) to weight the perspectives and bsc indicators in hospital. methods: this applied, de...

Analytical solutions are presented for laminar fully-developed flow in micro/minichannels of hyperelliptical and regular polygonal cross-sections. The considered geometries cover a wide range of common simply connected shapes including circle, ellipse, rectangle, rhomboid, star-shape, equilateral triangle, square, pentagon, and hexagon. Therefore, the present approach can be considered as a gen...

Plug flow in microcapillaries or microchannels offers significant advantages for the development of microfluidic applications and recently triggers many interests and studies. Recirculation is formed within liquid plugs due to the presence of interfaces. This paper presents an analytical model to investigate the recirculation flow and the flow resistance in microcapillaries with circular cross ...

In the coming big data era, the demand for data analysis capability in real applications is growing at amazing pace. The memory’s increasing capacity and decreasing price make it possible and attractive for the distributed OLAP system to load all the data into memory and thus significantly improve the data processing performance. In this paper, we model the performance of pipelined execution in...

48 Pharmaceutical Technology FEBRUARY 2005 S. Klick, PhD, is a team manager, Analytical Development, at AstraZeneca R&D (Mölndal Sweden), tel. 146 31 7761758, fax 146 31 7767337, [email protected]. P.G. Muijselaar, PhD, is a senior analytical scientist and T.K. Gerding, PhD, is a manager, Sector Chemical & Pharmaceutical Development, at Solvay Pharmaceuticals (The Netherlands). J. Wat...

Background: As an essential principle, the collective life of human beings can constitute a human society only when human rights are respected. Demanding and respecting the rights of patients, as an inevitable part of human society, requires familiarity with patient-involved individuals. The present study aimed to determine the awareness level of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences...

Two analytical methods, high performance liquid chromatography and spectro ̄uorimetry, were studied to determine the content of coumarins (umbelliferone, scopoletin and 4-methylumbelliferone, in distilled beverages). Hydro-alcohol standard solutions of known coumarin concentration and commercial white rum samples were used to compare them. After determining the coumarin content with both methods...