At the recent Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses (ACEN) Annual Meeting in November 2008 in Ottawa, I had the privilege and honour of becoming president of this dynamic organization. Founded more than 30 years ago, ACEN represents the voice of senior academic nursing leadership in Canada, helping to set directions for healthcare policy and contributing to the alignment and advancement of the n...

In this paper, the flow-shop scheduling problem with unrelated parallel machines at each stage as well as sequence-dependent setup times under minimization of the sum of earliness and tardiness are studied. The processing times, setup times and due-dates are known in advance. To solve the problem, we introduce a hybrid memetic algorithm as well as a particle swarm optimization algorithm combine...

to investigate the appropriate distribution of nitrogen fertilizer application and optimum amount of phosphorus fertilizer to achieve high quality and quantitative yield in edible and seed potato (solanum tuberosum l.) tubers, this experiment was conducted in research farm of the college of agriculture and natural resources, university of tehran in 2012. the experiment was performed a strip spl...

Suitors come to the castle in order to try to win the hand of the Princess Saralinda. The first suitor to perform n amazing feats will succeed. If the number n of feats is large and the times to perform the feats are all i.i.d., then how long is it before a suitor will win the hand of the Princess? We develop asymptotics describing the distribution of this random time as the number of feats get...

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Financial Reporting, Regulation and Information Asymmetry

Every fall, thousands of high school swimming coaches across the country begin the arduous process of preparing their athletes for competition. With a grueling practice schedule and a dedicated group of athletes, a coach can hone the squad into a cohesive unit, poised for any competition. However, oftentimes all preparation is in vain, as coaches assign swimmers to events with a lineup that is ...