The paper introduces a cutting-plane matheuristic for the design-balanced capacitated multicommodity network design problem, one of the premier formulations for the service network design problem with asset management concerns increasingly faced by carriers within their tactical planning processes. The matheuristic combines a cuttingplane procedure efficiently computing tight lower bounds and a...

We propose an online form of the cake cutting problem. This models situations where agents arrive and depart during the process of dividing a resource. We show that well known fair division procedures like cut-and-choose and the Dubins-Spanier moving knife procedure can be adapted to apply to such online problems. We propose some fairness properties that online cake cutting procedures can posse...

The objective of the study was to evaluate the degree of temperature change in the bone, directly adjacent to the implant site during the abutment part of one-piece implants, during procedures involving different cutting techniques. Three different one-piece implants: Osteoplant, Nobel Direct, Q-implant were cut with air-turbine burs after insertion in fresh pig ribs. Tests were performed with ...

We propose an online form of the cake cutting problem. This models situations where players arrive and depart during the process of dividing a resource. We show that well known fair division procedures like cut-and-choose and the Dubins-Spanier moving knife procedure can be adapted to apply to such online problems. We propose some desirable properties that online cake cutting procedures might p...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study to present the results of Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guided cutting needle biopsy procedures of suspicious breast lesions that can be solely detected on Magnetic resonance (MR) examination. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included 48 patients with 48 lesions which were solely be observed in breast MRI, indistinguishable in ultrasonography and mammogra...

In recent years, nanomachining has attracted increasing attention in advanced manufacturing science and technologies as a value-added processes to control material structures, components, devices, and nanoscale systems. To make sub-micro patterns on these products, micro/nanoscale single-crystal diamond cutting tools are essential. Popular non-contact methods for the macro/micro processing of d...

We present schemes for real-time generalized mesh cutting. Starting with the a basic example, we describe the details of implementing cutting on single and multiple surface objects as well as hybrid and volumetric meshes using virtual tools with single and multiple cutting surfaces. These methods have been implemented in a robust surgical simulation environment allowing us to model procedures r...

The present case study sums up the results of an initial attempt to adapt the emerging technology of Augmented Reality (AR) for supporting routine operations performed in Danish slaughterhouse facilities. Our aim is to reveal the applicability of off-the-shelf components and programming platforms to the trimming and boning process for pork bellies. The AR technology has demonstrated lucrative a...

Disease management has been defined as "planned care that in a systematiç way is designed to improve outcomes and to lower.costs for a population of patients with a given condition."l Mark Zitter, president of San Francisco's Zitter Group, has defined disease management as "a comprehensive, integrated approach to care and reimbursement based...ori the natural course of disease with treatment de...