Increasing the amount of inspection activities and inspecting a large fraction of the items are two approaches that are used to improve products’ quality. In this paper, as in a precedent article by Jaraiedi, et al.[5], 100% inspection in combination with multiple-criteria decision (MCD) response is considered. Three different inspection procedures for the multi-stage inspection are presented. ...

the supremacy of adaptation and imitation of antecedents over innovation is one of the features of arab poetry after fall of abbasid dynasty. however, literary borrowing which is deliberate and combined with tastefulness and elegance yields an appropriate effect and association on readers. technically, in rhetoric, if a poet borrows a hemistich, a verse or some verses from others' poems as...

Multiprotocol BGP (MP-BGP) specifies that the set of network-layer protocols to which the address carried in the Next Hop field may belong is determined by the Address Family Identifier (AFI) and the Subsequent Address Family Identifier (SAFI). The current AFI/SAFI definitions for the IPv4 address family only have provisions for advertising a Next Hop address that belongs to the IPv4 protocol w...

Mammals use chemical signals for individual and kin recognition, to establish social hierarchies, mark territories and choose mates. The nocturnal and social lifestyle of bats suggests that, besides acoustic signals, they also use scent to communicate. We investigated in the communally breeding Bechstein's bat, Myotis bechsteinii, whether secretions of the facial interaural gland contain inform...

he TIMED onboard Autonomy System provides fault protection and safi ng of the spacecraft and performs a limited set of routine operations. The main requirements of fault protection and safi ng are to detect failed or improperly functioning spacecraft components and autonomously replace them in the operational confi guration with properly functioning counterparts. The high degree of autonomy onb...

Purpose: To customize clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for cataract management in the Iranian population. Methods: First, four CPGs (American Academy of Ophthalmology 2006 and 2011, Royal College of Ophthalmologists 2010, and Canadian Ophthalmological Society 2008) were selected from a number of available CPGs in the literature for cataract management. All recommendations of these guidelines...

1212 Carlo Carbone , * Sandra Gardonio , Paolo Moras , Samir Lounis , Marcus Heide , Gustav Bihlmayer , Nicolae Atodiresei , Peter Heinz Dederichs , Stefan Blügel , Sergio Vlaic , Anne Lehnert , Safi a Ouazi , Stefano Rusponi , Harald Brune , Jan Honolka , Axel Enders , Klaus Kern , Sebastian Stepanow , Cornelius Krull , Timofey Balashov , Aitor Mugarza , and Pietro Gambardella Self-Assembled N...