Time is crucial in the airlines industry. Among all factors contributing to an aircraft turnaround time; passenger boarding delays is the most challenging one. Airlines do not have control over the behavior of passengers; thus, focusing their effort on reducing passenger boarding time through implementing efficient boarding strategies. In this work, we attempt to use cellular Discrete-Event Sys...

We investigate a spherical overdensity model for the non-clustering dark energy (DE) with the constant equation of state, ωde in a flat universe. In this case, the exact solution for the evolution of the scale factor is obtained for general ωde. We also obtain the exact (when ωde = −13) and the approximate (when ωde 6= −13) solutions for the ratio of the overdensity radius to its value at the t...

Book to market (BM) has long been associated with growth opportunities. We argue that after a negative shock to earnings, the BM of the firm is mainly determined by the shortterm recovery ability of the firm. Firms that have high (low) probability to recover from a negative shock will have low (high) BM after a negative shock. We confirm this relation both analytically and empirically and show ...

Current Findings in the Literature: A potential benefit of health IT in inpatient settings is decreased medication turnaround time. Many advocate that electronic processes for medication ordering and pharmacy verification and dispensing are more efficient than paper­based systems because they may be: (1) instantly delivered to the pharmacy as opposed to manually written by the physician, delive...

Current Findings in the Literature: A potential benefit of health IT in inpatient settings is decreased medication turnaround time. Many advocate that electronic processes for medication ordering and pharmacy verification and dispensing are more efficient than paper­based systems because they may be: (1) instantly delivered to the pharmacy as opposed to manually written by the physician, delive...

We have made remarkable progress in our understanding of the pathophysiology of cancer. This improved understanding has resulted in increasingly effective targeted therapies that are better tolerated than conventional cytotoxic agents and even curative in some patients. Unfortunately, the success rate of drug approval has been limited, and therapeutic improvements have been marginal, with too f...

It is suggested that dark energy in a brane world can help reconcile an infinitely cyclic cosmology with the second law of thermodynamics. A cyclic cosmology is described, in which dark energy with constant equation of state leads to a turnaround at finite future time, when entropy is decreased by a huge factor equal to the inverse of its enhancement during the initial inflation. Thermodynamic ...

With its far-reaching promise of a new synthesis ecology and economy, the concept bioeconomy is shimmering, ambiguous term in need ethical conceptual interpretation. The paper identifies potentials strategies for knowledge-based energy raw material turnaround, which, by turning away from fossil resources, can at same time contribute significantly to waste prevention. focus on criteria responsib...