To prevent medical errors, especially drug-related ones, clinical pharmacists have to play an important role in multidisciplinary team care. We have investigated the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and molecular biology of several drugs and have applied the findings obtained in our studies to therapeutic drug monitoring. The first finding is that achieving vancomycin (VCM) concentrations at...

The research in virtual cellular manufacturing (VCM) systems area gains momentum as markets have become more globalised. This is due to turbulent customer demands, characterised by frequent changes in product mix and volume. Therefore, if companies are interested in implementing manufacturing systems that can be quickly restructured with minimal cost and time, the approach of virtual cellular m...

Energy meter reading is a monotonous and an expensive task. Now the meter reader people goes to each meter and take the meter reading manually to issue the bill which will later be entered in the billing software for billing and payment automation. If the manual meter reading and bill data entry process can be automated then it would reduced the laborious task and financial wastage. “Automatic ...

BACKGROUND Psychosis compromises the educational and professional projects of young patients. Vocational case management (VCM) offers comprehensive support for reintegration into work or studies within an early psychosis intervention programme. AIMS To evaluate the effectiveness of VCM in resumption of work or school and to identify the predictive factors of occupational outcome. METHODS Th...

Global increase in trade leads to congestion of maritime traffic at the ports. This often leads to increased maritime incidents or near-miss situations. To improve maritime safety while maintaining efficiency, movement of vessels needs to be better coordinated. Our work formulates this problem of coordinating the paths of vessels as a multi-agent path-finding (MAPF) problem. To address this pro...

The Voronoi Covariance Measure of a compact set K of R is a tensor-valued measure that encodes geometrical information on K and which is known to be resilient to Hausdorff noise but sensitive to outliers. In this article, we generalize this notion to any distance-like function δ and define the δ-VCM. Combining the VCM with the distance to a measure and also with the witnessed-k-distance, we get...

This paper investigates mechanisms for the private provision of a public good which utilize competition to incentivize contributions. Theory predicts that “all-pay” competition is particularly effective for fundraising. Within this class of mechanisms different types of lotteries and all-pay auctions are analyzed and ranked. Four all-pay competition mechanisms are then examined in a laboratory ...

Acetylcholinesterase (AchE) activity was studied in pigmented rats 6 h to 1 y after hemilabyrinthectomy. A strong reduction of this activity was localized in the rostrocaudal extent of both the prepositus hypoglossi nucleus and the medial vestibular nucleus (that is, medial vestibular complex: VCm) ipsilateral to the lesion 6 h after the lesion. This deficit persisted within some areas disperse...