Abstract This article analyzes the documentation available in an attempt to settle controversy over “true” date and place of birth Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavo Vassa, African. Several original documents are analyzed, data is compared information provided by author himself his The Interesting Narrative Life Gustavus Written Himself , first published London, 1789. According these (a baptismal reco...

One of the key applications of operational research in health systems management is to improve the mechanism of resource allocation and program planning in order to increase the system efficiency. This study seeks to offer an innovative method for the planning and scheduling of health service units with the aim of reducing the patients' Length of Stay (LOS) in the Cardiac Surgery Ward of Razavi...

There has been significant discussion—and significant disagreement—on the issue of how exceptions should interact with atomic blocks implemented using transactions. We present a proposal that offers a significant contribution towards resolving this issue, at least for C++, and we raise remaining areas of disagreement for discussion at the workshop and in the community in general.

Nowadays, one of the problems of human life is popula- tion congestion and the lack of ability to meet their needs. One of the important infrastructures affected by this issue is the transportation infrastructure. Moreover, increasing transportation facilities through conventional methods, due to the need for macro investment and much time, cannot be nowadays considered as a proper and practi- ...

Modern drug discovery involves the simultaneous optimization of many physicochemical and biological properties that transcends the historical focus on bioactivity alone. The process of resolving many requirements is termed 'multi-objective optimization', and here we discuss how this can be used for drug discovery, focusing on evolutionary molecule design to incorporate optimal predicted absorpt...

In this article, we propose a method to deal with incomplete interval-valuedhesitant fuzzy preference relations. For this purpose, an additivetransitivity inspired technique for interval-valued hesitant fuzzypreference relations is formulated which assists in estimating missingpreferences. First of all, we introduce a condition for decision makersproviding incomplete information. Decision maker...