Introduction: The SARS-CoV-2 virus 2019 (COVID-19) has consumed many available resources within contingency plans, necessitating new capacity surges and novel approaches. This study aimed to explore the possibility of implementing Flexible Surge Capacity concept in relieving hospitals by focusing on community develop “Home Isolation Centers” Bangkok, Thailand. Method: is a qualitative consistin...

Owing to the excellent redox reversibility and structural diversity, polytriphenylamine (PTPAn) has been regarded as one of promising cathode candidates for sodium-ion batteries. However, it still suffers from bulk aggregation low operating capacity in practical applications. Assisted by in-situ polymerization, leaf-like PTPAn nanosheets are uniformly introduced on surface carbon nanofibers (CN...

The present study investigated how an individual's Zhong-Yong tendency is related to his/her perceptual processing capacity. In two experiments, participants completed a Zhong-Yong Thinking Style Scale and performed a redundant-target detection task. Processing capacity was assessed with a non-parametric approach (systems factorial technology, SFT) and a parametric (linear ballistic accumulator...

this article addresses a multi-stage flowshop scheduling problem with equal number of unrelated parallel machines. the objective is to minimize the makespan for a given set of jobs in the system. this problem class is np-hard in the strong sense, so a hybrid heuristic method for sequencing and then allocating operations of jobs to machines is developed. a number of test problems are randomly ge...

Older people with cognitive impairment and/or dementia may be particularly vulnerable to diminished financial decision-making capacity. Financial capacity refers to the ability to satisfactorily manage one's financial affairs in a manner consistent with personal self-interest and values. Impairment of financial capacity makes the older individual vulnerable to financial exploitation, may negati...

Synchronous manufacturing aims at achieving the benefits of intermittent production lines in other production situations as well. Benefits such as short and constant throughput times and predictable capacity loading can be acquired through an appropriate design of the synchronous manufacturing system and its control system. The work order release decision is an essential part of this control sy...

OBJECTIVE Efficient scheduling of patient appointments on expensive resources is a complex and dynamic task. A resource is typically used by several patient groups. To service these groups, resource capacity is often allocated per group, explicitly or implicitly. Importantly, due to fluctuations in demand, for the most efficient use of resources this allocation must be flexible. METHODS We pr...

High performance carbonized bamboo fibers were synthesized for a wide range of temperature dependent energy storage applications. The structural and electrochemical properties of the carbonized bamboo fibers were studied for flexible supercapacitor applications. The galvanostatic charge-discharge studies on carbonized fibers exhibited specific capacity of ~510F/g at 0.4 A/g with energy density ...

Electricity market mechanisms designed to steer sustainable generation of electricity play an important role for the energy transition intended to mitigate climate change. One of the major problems is to complement volatile renewable energy sources by operationally flexible capacity reserves. In this paper a proposal is given to determine prices on electricity markets taking into account the op...

This paper describes a case study performed in a capacity selling type (CS) machine shop manufacturing wiring control systems of paper machines by partnership subcontracting. The research task was to improve a flexible way for handling large project orders. Traditionally, production control techniques are based on methods developed for companies manufacturing similar products in line. In case o...