Stochastic flexible flow shop scheduling problem (SFFSSP) is one the main focus of researchers due to the complexity arises from inherent uncertainties and also the difficulty of solving such NP-hard problems. Conventionally, in such problems each machine’s job process time may encounter uncertainty due to their relevant random behaviour. In order to examine such problems more realistically, fi...

Increased exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) is associated with elevated morbidity and mortality in patients with cardiopulmonary diseases and cancer. We and others have shown that PM induces lung microvascular barrier dysfunction which potentially enhances the systemic toxicity of PM. However, the mechanisms by which PM disrupts vascular endothelial integrity remain incompletely explo...

Membrane trafficking is central to establishing and maintaining epithelial cell polarity. One open question is to what extent the mechanisms regulating membrane trafficking are conserved between nonpolarized and polarized cells. To answer this question, we examined the dynamics of domain-specific plasma membrane (PM) proteins in three classes of hepatic cells: polarized and differentiated WIF-B...

Parallel manipulators (PMs) with decoupled kinematics can be obtained by combining a translational PM (TPM) with a spherical PM (SPM) either in multiplatform architectures or in integrated more-complex architectures. Some of the latter type are inspired by the 6-4 fully parallel manipulator (6-4 FPM), whereas others of the same type are deduced by suitably combining TPMs’ limbs and SPMs’ limbs ...

Parallel manipulators (PMs) have been the subject of study, of much robotic research during the past three decades. A parallel manipulator (PM) is a closed loop kinematic chain mechanism, that is connected to the base via multiple independent chains. The scope of this research work is to perform the position analyses of the three degrees of freedom PMs (TRIPOD and TRI-GLIDE). The present work h...

In this paper we use interior-point methods for linear programming, developed in the context of sequential computation, to obtain a parallel algorithm for the bipartite matching problem. Our algorithm nds a maximum cardinality matching in a bipartite graph with n nodes and m edges in O(pm log3 n) time on a CRCW PRAM. Our results extend to the weighted bipartite matching problem and to the zero-...

Chronic alcohol abuse has a detrimental effect on retrospective memory. Less is known about its putative effects on everyday memory. This study looked at self-ratings of prospective memory (PM) (memory for future events). After controlling for other drug and strategy use, chronic heavy alcohol users showed global impairments in PM, when compared to matched controls. The underlying mechanisms ar...

Parallel environment (alpha in Graham’s notation): • P parallel identical • Q uniform machines: each machine has a given speed speed i, and all jobs have a size sizej, the processing time is given by sizej/speed i • R unrelated machines: the processing time of job j on machine i is given by pi,j, without any other constraints Sometimes the number of processors is fixed: for example, P2, F2, or Pm.

These abstracts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License. Go to http://iovs.arvojournals.org/ to access the versions of record. 378 Cellular mechanisms of retinal diseases and ocular therapeutics Tuesday, May 09, 2017 3:45 PM–5:30 PM Exhibit/Poster Hall Poster Session Program #/Board # Range: 3587–3601/B0146–B0160 Organizing Sectio...