Rapid advances in cluster interconnect technologies [2,14,15] that offer different capabilities has added a new dimension to the problem of managing heterogeneity in a clustered environment. Cluster users are now faced with the challenge of having to choose from among several communication APIs[4,9,10,11]. Recent research efforts have addressed the issues involved in supporting multiple communi...

The successful implementation of supply chain management depends on many soft issues (strategic/behavioural) such as organizational resistance to change, inter-functional conflicts, joint production planning, profit sharing, team oriented performance measures, channel power shift, information sharing, real time communication, inventory and technical compatibility (Min & Zhou 2002). Many of the ...

AIM To examine the spectrum of neurological dysfunction and perceptual-motor difficulties at school age in a cohort of prematurely born children, and the relation of these measures to neonatal brain lesions, intelligence quotient, and behavioural adjustment. METHOD One hundred and eighty three children were tested at the age of 6 years using Touwen's Examination of the Child with Minor Neurol...

OBJECTIVES To measure the effect of vaginal estrogen cream in the treatment of vaginal atrophy in menopausal Indian women. METHODS A total of 50 menopausal women aged between 40 and 80 years old with symptoms of vaginal atrophy were selected and treated with 0.5 g vaginal estrogen cream, twice weekly for 12 weeks. The women were followed-up monthly where symptom score, Genital Health Clinical...

Operating system kernels are difficult to understand and monitor. Hardware virtualization provides a layer where security tools can observe a kernel, but the gap between operating system abstractions and hardware accesses limits the ability of tools to comprehend the kernel’s activity. Virtual machine introspection (VMI) builds knowledge of high-level kernel state by directly accessing the memo...

Vendor managed inventory (VMI) is a supply-chain initiative in which the vendor is authorized to manage inventories of agreed upon stock-keeping-units at retail locations. In this paper, a modified joint inventory policy is introduced for VMI systems where the vendor takes a standard (s, S) policy and the retailers utilize can-order policies. Under the regime of a can-order policy, each retaile...

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Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is increasingly being adopted as a mean of enhancing the efficiency supply chain (SC) operations. In this paper, we consider scenario where vendor responsible for managing inventory several retailers following VMI partnership and subject to restrictions on their maximum levels. To better reflect reality, first propose mixed integer nonlinear programming model oper...

Introducción: La pandemia por coronavirus se diseminó mundialmente con una amplia variedad de presentaciones clínicas. Se reportó que 15% los pacientes requirió internación en unidad cuidados intensivos (UCI). Estudios epidemiológicos demostraron ventilación mecánica invasiva (VMi) SARS-Cov-2 presentan más riesgo infecciones asociadas a la atención salud (IAAS).