since lean concept has appeared many works have been done on decreasing or even eliminating of wastes such as extra inventory. although these studies have not taken into account expected availability seriously. so in this paper, a multiple objective decision making (modm) model has been developed by viewpoint of these subjects. they are decreasing wastes and increasing system availability. wast...

this research proposes a methodology for ranking decision making units byusing a goal programming model.we suggest a two phases procedure. in phase1, by using some dea problems for each pair of units, we construct a pairwisecomparison matrix. then this matrix is utilized to rank the units via the goalprogramming model.

The economic policy needs to pay increasingly more attention to the environmental issues, which requires the development of methodologies able to incorporate environmental, as well as macroeconomic, goals in the design of public policies. Starting from this observation, this article proposes a methodology based upon a Simonian satisficing logic made operational with the help of goal programming...

Many researchers adopt Local Binary Pattern for pattern analysis. However, the long histogram created by Local Binary Pattern is not suitable for large-scale facial database. This paper presents a simple facial pattern descriptor for facial expression recognition. Local pattern is computed based on local gradient flow from one side to another side through the center pixel in a 3x3 pixels region...

The liver glucose production (LGP) levels of 15-h overnight fasted weaned rats submitted to short-term insulin-induced hypoglycemia (ST-IIH) and long-term IIH (LT-IIH) were compared. Experiments to characterize ST-IIH or LT-IIH that followed an intraperitoneal (ip) injection (1.0 U/kg) of regular (ST-IIH) or insulin detemir (LT-IIH) were performed and glycemia were measured 0 (normoglycemic con...

Objectives: Skeletal development is a complex process. Little is known about the different response of limb or spine growth plate chondrocytes (LGP or SGP) to the estrogen level and the role of estrogen receptor (ER) during postnatal stage. Methods: LGP and SGP chondrocytes were isolated from 50 one-week mice and treated with different concentrations of 17β-estradiol. Cell viability was measure...

Background Leksell GammaPlan (LGP) and SurgiPlan (ELEKTA Instruments AB, Stockholm, Sweden) may be used effectively for the detailed evaluation of regional neuroanatomy before open neurosurgical procedures. We report our initial experience in the cases of cerebral gliomas. Methods LGP v.8.3 was used before the surgical resection of cerebral gliomas for (1) the delineation of subdural grid elect...

PURPOSE To review radiographic changes in the proximal femurs of children of different ages during the course of treatment for nutritional rickets. METHODS Pelvic radiographs of 161 children aged ≤ 13 years with nutritional rickets were retrospectively reviewed. Patients were treated with dietary counselling and vitamin D and calcium supplementation. Patients were followed up at week 3 and th...

Many researchers adopt Local Binary Pattern for pattern analysis. However, the long histogram created by Local Binary Pattern is not suitable for a large-scale facial database. This paper presents a simple facial pattern descriptor for facial expression recognition. Local pattern is computed based on local gradient flow from one side to another side through the center pixel in a 3x3 pixels regi...

in this paper the issue of evaluating iranian oil refineries performance has been discussed. the research is based on math modelling by operational research techniques. to do so, of the proposed scenarios and different math programming models, a model is made by combining dea with goal programming techniques that compared with the old classical dea models which measures the efficiency and produ...