In today's fiercely competitive products market, product warranty has started playing an important role. The warranty period offered by the manufacturer/dealer has been progressively increasing since the beginning of the 20th Century. Currently, a large number of products are being sold with long-term warranty policies in the form of extended warranty, warranty for used products, service contra...

The basic algorithm is derived from the weak-commitment algorithm (WC) of Yokoo [17], which has been shown to outperform breakout and min-conflict backtracking on certain classes of problems. Weakcommitment search is that part of WC which results from removing the learning mechanism; this will be called WC-NL. WC-NL is coupled with learning-by-merging to form the new algorithm WC-NG. Experiment...

Recent large epidemics of cholera with high incidence and associated mortality among refugees have raised the question of whether oral cholera vaccines should be considered as an additional preventive measure in high-risk populations. The potential impact of oral cholera vaccines on populations prone to seasonal endemic cholera has also been questioned. This article reviews the potential cost-e...

Cardiac catheterization is one of the commonest procedures done worldwide. Although the risks of the procedure are small, it is plagued by patient dissatisfaction due to the prolonged bed rest after the procedure and groin bleeding related to the femoral artery puncture site. There have been many attempts to decrease or eliminate the bed rest postprocedure, including the development of numerous...

Interlocked feedback loops may represent a common feature among the regulatory systems controlling circadian rhythms. The Neurospora circadian feedback loops involve white collar-1 (wc-1), wc-2, and frequency (frq) genes. We show that WC-1 and WC-2 proteins activate the transcription of frq gene, whereas FRQ protein plays dual roles: repressing its own transcription, probably by interacting wit...

Use objective data to compare patients’ all-cause short-term disability (STD), long-term (LTD) and workers' compensation (WC) utilization explore changes from baseline for employees with mental disorders (MentalDisorders). Employees medical-claims based on the US Agency Healthcare Research Quality MentalDisorders category were retrospectively identified in WorkPartners Reference Database (RRDb)...

A large number of products are now being sold with long-term warranty policies. This is mainly due to fierce competition in the market and customer demand. Offering long term warranty results in additional complexities in estimating costs associated with warranty servicing due to the uncertainties associated with usage, preventive maintenance and warranty servicing strategies. This paper review...

Reducing the excess costs of consumer due to timely maintenance and increasing efficiency detecting deviations in technical condition improve operational reliability is an important task improving using energy-saturated tractors domestic production. In order promptly provide initial information on degree use current state resource-determining parts assemblies, as well increase controllability a...