Power management has become a vital issue in the design of modern processors. A popular technology to reduce energy usage is dynamic speed scaling [5, 8] where a processor can vary its speed dynamically. This has been adopted in technologies like AMD’s Cool ‘n’ Quiet [1] and Intel’s Speedstep [6]. Running a job at a slower speed saves energy, yet it takes longer time and may affect the performa...

This paper considers a flowshop scheduling problem of a manufacturing cell that contains families of jobs whose setup times are dependent on the manufacturing ............ sequence of the families. Two objectives, namely the makespan and total flow time, have been considered simultaneously in this work. Since minimization of each of these two objectives is an NpHard problem, a Multi-Objective G...

Our main aim was to determine an appropriate time for lung function measurements in infants, prior to environmental influences upon their respiratory tract. Tidal flow-volume loops, respiratory system compliance (Crs) and resistance (Rrs) (single breath passive occlusion technique) were measured in 24 healthy, awake awake infants, at one hour and on the following four days of life to investigat...