occurrence of natural disaster inflicts irreparable injuries and symptoms on humans. in such conditions, affected people are waiting for medical services and relief commodities. thus, quick reaction of medical services and relief commodities supply play important roles in improving natural disaster management. in this paper, a multi-objective non-linear credibility-based fuzzy mathematical prog...

A space transportation infrastructure is described that utilizes propellant depots to support all foreseeable missions in the Earth-Moon vicinity and deep space out to Mars. The infrastructure utilizes current expendable launch vehicles such as the Delta IV Heavy, Atlas V, and Falcon 9, for all crew, cargo, and propellant launches to orbit. Propellant launches are made to a Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO...

In this year-long, prospective observational study, sociodemographic, clinical, and functional characteristics were assessed in outpatients with schizophrenia from Australia, Mexico, Romania, and Taiwan who were switched from their primary oral antipsychotic to another oral or depot antipsychotic at study entry because of physician-perceived nonadherence risks. Patients (N = 406) rated their qu...

of prior cloud work: The PIs have built Depot, a cloud storage system that minimizes trust assumptions. Depot tolerates buggy or malicious behavior by any number of clients or servers, yet it provides safety and liveness guarantees to correct clients. Depot provides these guarantees using a two-layer architecture. First, Depot ensures that the updates observed by correct nodes are consistently ...

The paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of Depot, a cloud storage system that minimizes trust assumptions. Depot tolerates buggy or malicious behavior by any number of clients or servers, yet it provides safety and liveness guarantees to correct clients. Depot provides these guarantees using a two-layer architecture. First, Depot ensures that the updates observed by corre...

Using pigmented rabbits, two fluorophotometric methods for measuring aqueous flow were compared. A corneal depot of dye was used to measure aqueous flow in one eye of each rabbit while the vitreous depot method of Johnson and Maurice was used to measure aqueous flow over the same period in the fellow eye. After intravenous administration of acetazolamide or mannitol, during the first hour after...

The aim of this paper is to present and compare alternative hierarchical formulations for the periodic vehicle routing problem applied to solid waste collection. The solution of this problem is a one-week plan of daily routes for the transportation of mixed solid waste from containers to disposal facilities, taking into consideration the frequency of collection of each container within the plan...

A new depot formulation of the LHRH analogue Zoladex (goserelin acetate) has been developed which releases the drug over a period of at least 3 months as judged by measurement of drug content in depots at intervals after insertion in male rats and by the suppression of oestrogen secretion and oestrus in female rats. This formulation is based on the lactide/glycolide polymer system used for the ...

BACKGROUND The size and geometry of an insulin depot that is formed during subcutaneous administration by an insulin pump is evaluated. A novel method is used to visualize accurately the depot formation for small volumes of insulin (of the order of 10-100 µl) at a given point in time. Conventional visualization methods such as magnetic resonance imaging are unable to provide such accurate measu...