A medical device manufacturer located outside Europe was informed by an Italian distributor that the European Authorised Representative must designate the distributor as the authorised entity when registering the manufacturer's devices in Italy in a new online data bank. This is incorrect. This article discusses the new requirements for registering medical devices in Italy, together with the st...

Polypropylene (PP) powders are coated with silica nanoparticles in a fluidized bed to improve the flow behavior of and processability powder fusion. The produced situ via dusty plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) an atmospheric-pressure Ar/O2 plasma jet fixed at distributor plate bed. Hexamethyldisiloxane is used as precursor nanoparticles. influence oxygen concentration gas numbe...

This paper examines the e¤ects of exclusive dealing contracts o¤ered by an incumbent distributor. The e¤ectiveness of exclusive dealing contracts o¤ered by distributors is quite di¤erent from those o¤ered by incumbent manufacturers. The traditional literature has focused solely on exclusive dealing contracts made by incumbent manufacturers and has derived multiple equilibria within homogeneous ...

A distributor segment has failure rate and repair time which decide mean up time (MUT) and mean down time (MDT). Usually the reliability analysis is based on exponential failure and repair laws. Certain values of repair times are smaller which may be neglected. This is known as repair time omission. Omitted repair time may be fixed. Repair time omitted in turn will affect the basic reliability ...

Distributed systems, especially clusters, can be used to execute ray tracing tasks in parallel for speeding up the image computation. Because ray tracing is a computational expensive and memory consuming task, ray tracing can also be used to benchmark clusters. This paper introduces task-distributor, a free software solution for the parallel execution of ray tracing tasks in distributed systems...

Collaboration has been recognized as a significant process that holds the value creation opportunity in supply chain management. Evaluating the value of collaboration is thus necessary for developing the effective collaboration mechanisms. This paper presents the evaluation approach specifically focusing on the supply-side collaboration on inventory decisions between a supplier and a distributo...

This paper studies supply chain coordination in a decentralized supply chain which consists of a distributor, a manufacturer, and an OEM. The distributor meets price-sensitive random demand of a product with a short life cycle. The manufacturer, having limited capacity, receives the order from the distributor; when the distributor's order exceeds the manufacturer's capacity, the manufacturer ou...

proper inventory control policy and the optimal price for the items has always been one of the main topics of scientific research and industry. on the other hand, there are many products in the market witch are classified as deteriorating items. therefore the problem of determining optimal price and optimal inventory policy for this type of items is very important. in this paper a 3 echelon sup...