Does shifting visual attention require the same central mechanism as that required for selecting overt motor responses? In Experiment 1, Ss performed 2 tasks: a speeded manual response to a tone and an unspeeded report of a cued target letter in a brief masked array. Stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) between tone and array was varied. If the attention shift to the target was delayed by the first ...

The health service center is considering modification of the current doctor schedule to decrease the average time patients spend in the facility. A new schedule, which on average has an extra doctor added for each time slot, has been suggested by the preliminary queueing analysis. It is anticipated that the schedule will improve the system performance but has yet to be verified by a discrete ev...

Phased arrays in CMOS for consumer communication bands aim to enhance receiver performance by exploiting beamforming with antenna arrays. Sensitivity increases with the number of antenna elements through array gain and interferers can be cancelled through the spatial filtering of the beam pattern [1]. For the latter, the linearity of the receiver before the beamforming summing point becomes a b...

The therapeutic use of proteins has created an increasing demand for feasible and economical methods for both up- and downstream processes. However, whereas upstream processes have attracted substantial investment and commercial attention, downstream processing has been overlooked, causing a production bottleneck that is shifting the costs of production. This review focuses on the use of aqueou...

A computationally e ective heuristic method for solving the minimum makespan problem of job shop scheduling is presented. The proposed local search method is based on a tabu search technique and on the shifting bottleneck procedure used to generate the initial solution and to re ne the next-current solutions. Computational experiments on a standard set of problem instances show that, in several...

With processor and memory technologies pushing the performance limit, the bottleneck is clearly shifting towards the system interconnect. Any solution that addresses PCI’s bus-based interconnect, which has serious scalability problems, must also protect the huge legacy infrastructure. PCI Express provides such an evolutionary approach and allows a smooth migration towards building a highly scal...

We consider the problem of scheduling jobs in a hybrid job shop We use the term hybrid to indicate that we consider a lot of extensions of the classic job shop such as transportation times multiple resources and setup times The Shifting Bottleneck procedure can be generalized to deal with those extensions We test this approach for an assembly shop In this shop we study the in uence of static an...

In this paper, we present a hybrid algorithm combining ant colony optimization algorithm with the taboo search algorithm for the classical job shop scheduling problem. Instead of using the conventional construction approach to construct feasible schedules, the proposed ant colony optimization algorithm employs a novel decomposition method inspired by the shifting bottleneck procedure, and a mec...

Operating room scheduling is an important task in healthcare sector. This study proposes a Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) mathematical model for the scheduling of the operating rooms. In the presented model, apart from scheduling the patients’ surgery process, shifting of the medical staff is also carried out. The innovation considered in the proposed model is aimed at prioritizing...