Figure 1. Warehouse specification tool used to describe the Automated Case Picking module. Challenges Warehouses play an important role in modern supply chains. These facilities receive goods from various suppliers, provide temporary storage for these goods, and distribute them to customers according to the received orders. The flow of goods in a warehouse is controlled by a warehouse managemen...

The potential benefits of addressing nicotine addiction as part of substance dependency treatment may include improved response to interventions for other addictions and, over the long term, reduced tobacco-related morbidity and mortality. The authors recount the experiences of three inpatient programs that instituted nicotine addiction interventions and a tobacco-free policy for both facilitie...

Background Serbia hosts some 228,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Kosovo, of whom more than 2,000 live in 24 collective centers. A large number of refugees and IDPs reside in substandard temporary housing or in illegal settlements lacking basic facilities. The research to assess vulnerability to HIV among young IDPs in Serbia was carried out with the support of the UN Joint AIDS Tea...

An ad hoc network is a collection of mobile nodes with wireless communication facilities forming a temporary network without relying on any existing infrastructure. Limited available bandwidth and highly dynamic network topology due to continuously moving nodes require dedicated routing algorithms to achieve reliable communication. In this paper, we present an approach to improve the bandwidth ...

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The role of temporary percutaneous endocardial pacing has been examined in a retrospective analysis of all paced patients admitted to one coronary care unit over a 6 year period. The majority of 162 cases (84.6%) were paced for complete heart block complicating acute myocardial infarction. These patients had a higher incidence of previous hypertension, myocardial infarction and diabetes, compar...

BACKGROUND In rural areas of Kenya, where the majority of Kenya's population lives, contraceptive use remains low compared with that in urban areas (37% vs. 47%). Inadequate access to family planning services in rural areas is partly due to fewer health facilities and the shortage of health care workers. Community-based access to injectable contraceptives can improve access for rural population...

purpose : vitreoretinal surgery can be difficult or impossible in patients with corneal opacity. one solution for this problem is use of temporary keratoprosthesis (tkp). we report anatomical and visual outcomes of this combined surgery in our institution. methods : we retrospectively reviewed charts of patients in whom a tkp was used between 2006 and 2010 with follow-up of at least six months....

Epidemic outbreaks, such as the one generated by coronavirus disease, have raised need for more efficient healthcare logistics. One of challenges that many governments to face in scenarios is deployment temporary medical facilities across a region with purpose providing services their citizens. This work tackles this temporary-facility location and queuing problem goals minimising costs, expect...