BACKGROUND Capacity management systems create insight into required resources like staff and equipment. For inpatient hospital care, capacity management requires information on beds and nursing staff capacity, on a daily as well as annual basis. This paper presents a comprehensive capacity model that gives insight into required nursing staff capacity and opportunities to improve capacity utiliz...

The demand for data capacity has been growing, especially in the aviation and maritime industries and is expected to continue to grow in the foreseeable future. The satellite industry is moving to High Throughput Satellite (HTS) that are characterized by large numbers of small spot beams, frequency reuse, higher Equivalent Isotropically Radiated Power (EIRP) and higher Gain to Noise Temperature...

AbstractIn cognitive radio network, through efficient spectrum utilization the secondary user (SU) capacity maximization is an important work, here we optimize the secondary user capacity through threshold in the dual threshold scheme of cooperative spectrum sensing by taking the primary user( PU ) on priority as well as SU on priority in AWGN and Rician channel with the evolutionary optimizati...

We find that hotel mergers increase occupancy. In some specifications, price also rises. These effects occur only in markets with high capacity utilization and high uncertainty. These findings lead us to reject simple models of price or quantity competition in favor of models of “revenue management,” where firms price to fill available capacity in the face of uncertain demand. JEL classificatio...

Variations on hydrophobicity were monitored in two marine obligate hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria: Alcanivorax borkumensis SK2T and Thalassolituus oleivoras MIL-1T. These strains were inoculated, separately in ONR7a mineral medium with different concentration of sodium acetate. During 10 days measurements of cellular abundance and cellular hydrophobicity (capacity to adhere at polystyrene) were c...

An important dynamic capability for firms is their absorptive capacity. Information and communication technologies (ICT) and Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) can enable and enhance a firm’s absorptive capacity. Absorptive capability is a dynamic capability pertaining to knowledge creation and utilization that enhances a firm’s ability to gain and sustain a competitive advantage. Four capabili...