BACKGROUND Single-donor platelets (SDPs) are frequently preferred over pooled random-donor platelets (RDPs) to reduce donor exposures and the risk for virus transmission or HLA alloimmunization. Transfusion-associated virus-transmission risks have significantly decreased, which suggests that white cell reduction by filtration eliminates any difference in the risk of alloimmunization in transfus...

In this paper, we presents a novel approach for solving optimal power flow (OPF) problems using a hybrid differential evolution and harmony search (DEHS). The DEHS method is an improved differential evolution method based on the harmony search scheme. Harmony Search has strong and easy to combine with other methods in optimization and the Differential Evolution algorithm has a very great abilit...

PURPOSE Degrees of nutrient intake and food groups have been linked to differential chronic disease risk. However, intakes of specific nutrients may also be associated with differential diet costs and unobserved differences in socioeconomic status (SES). The present study examined degrees of nutrient intake, for every key nutrient in the diet, in relation to diet cost and SES. METHODS Socio-d...

The most vital factor in the application of precision agriculture technology is the cost of the required high-technology equipment. The equipment cost is the major obstacle in adopting the precision agriculture. GPS receiver is one of the most essential tools with high initial costs in this technology. The aim of this study was to evaluate a low-cost GPS receiver in 3 different tests including ...

We consider a one dimensional stochastic control problem that arises from queueing network applications. The state process corresponding to the queue-length is given by a stochastic differential equation which reflects at the origin. The controller can choose the drift coefficient which represents the service rate and the buffer size b > 0. When the queue-length reaches b, the new customers are...

We consider a one dimensional stochastic control problem that arises from queueing network applications. The state process corresponding to the queue-length is given by a stochastic differential equation which reflects at the origin. The controller can choose the drift coefficient which represents the service rate and the buffer size b > 0. When the queue-length reaches b, the new customers are...

General cost for CNC machining and the associated energy cost are set in the context of making economic and environmental improvements. This creates an incentive for manufacturing companies to investigate the energy efficiency of manufacturing processes. The paper presents a costing model, based on machining experiments. The model is accompanied with an industry based case to estimate the cost ...

Abstract. Bellman systems corresponding to stochastic differential games arising from a cost functional which models risk aspects are considered. Here it leads to diagonal elliptic systems without zero order term so that no simple L∞-estimate is available.

This paper deals with the control of polynomial nonlinear systems which are affine in the control. We use Bernstein polynomials and Polytopic Linear Differential Inclusion (PLDI) to design gain-scheduled controllers using a guaranteed cost framework.