This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone’s Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of defective tires. Using several independent data sources, and looking before and after the strike and across plants, we find that labor ...

The patient, a European boy, aged five years, had two or three attacks of vomiting without apparent cause on the 29th October. He was given a dose of castor oil on the morning of the 30th and according to his mother passed a stool normal in appearance. About 2 a.m. on the 31st October the boy was seized with an acute attack of pain of a colicky nature, and although considerably relieved by a sm...

This paper describes last improvements made on ALZ-MAS; an Ambient Intelligence based multi-agent system aimed at enhancing the assistance and health care for Alzheimer patients. The system makes use of several context-aware technologies that allow it to automatically obtain information from users and the environment in an evenly distributed way, focusing on the characteristics of ubiquity, awa...

We provide an improved compared to [5]–[7] local convergence analysis and complexity for the interpolatory Newton method for solving equations in a Banach space setting. The results are obtained using more precise error bounds than before [5]–[7] and the same hypotheses/computational cost. RESUMEN Nosotros entregamos aqúı un análisis de convergencia local y complejidad para el método de interpo...

The medicinal properties of Cornus mas L. (=Cornus mascula L.), Cornaceae, are well described in Hippocratian documents, and recent research provides experimental evidence for some of these properties. However, the chemical components of Cornus mas L. that may be of pharmaceutical importance are relatively unstable. In this respect a novel methodology for plant nutrient element extraction that ...

Hepatoblastoma is the most common primary liver tumor in children. However, it occurs rarely, with an incidence of 0.5-1.5 cases per million children. There is no clear explanation of the relationship between clinicopathologic features, therapy, and outcome in hepatoblastoma cases, so far. One of the most widely accepted prognostic factors in hepatoblastoma is histology of the tumor. The aim of...

This chapter introduces the main concepts of the methodology MASCommonKADS that extends object-oriented and knowledge engineering techniques for the conceptualisation of multi-agent systems. MASCommonKADS defines a set of models (Agent Model, Task Model, Expertise Model, Coordination Model, Communication Model, Organisation Model, and Design Model) that together provide a model of the problem t...

Radiol Bras. 2014 Mai/Jun;47(3):VII–VIII O artigo publicado por Pozzo et al. neste número da Radiologia Brasileira aborda aspectos interessantes e intrigantes sobre a situação da medicina nuclear no Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). Primeiro, observa-se que não existe, aparentemente, uma plena confiabilidade do sistema de registro do Datasus, considerando que um número significativo de equipamentos...

In vivo measurements of the proliferation kinetics of epithelial cells in human adenomas were made following i.v. pulse injec tion of tritiated thymidine ([3H]dThd), in a patient with familial polyposis and Gardner syndrome. In the adenomas and in adjacent flat mucosa, biopsies were taken and microautoradiographs were prepared at intervals after injection. Rates of epithelial cell proliferation...

SEAGENT 1 has two distinguished characteristics, which differentiate it from the former development frameworks. The first one is its interactive development environment. This environment support test-driven style plan development [1]. Plans and test plans can both be written using the HTN Editor and build-in unit testing tool verifies written plans using the test plans. The development environm...