This paper presents reliability and availability analysis of a k-out-of-(M+S): G warm standby system with time varying failure and repair rates in presence of commoncause failure. The system composed of two categories of components. One category of the components is of type 1 has M components and the other is of type 2 has S components. Type 1 have a lower failure rate. Markov method is used to...

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The multiple traveling repairman problem with profits consists of repairmen serving a subset all customers to maximize the revenues collected through visited customers. To address this problem, an effective hybrid search algorithm based on memetic framework is proposed. In proposed method, three features are integrated: dedicated arc-based crossover generate high-quality offspring solutions, fa...

A 2D finite-differences time-domain full-wave code is used to simulate the measurements of plasma filaments with fixed frequency O-mode reflectometry. The plasma is modeled by a linear slab plasma plus a Gaussian perturbation propagating in a direction that can vary from poloidal to radial. The plasma background density gradient is chosen in agreement with the steep edge transport barrier of H-...

We conducted a retrospective study of 36 cases of ameloblastoma from the files of Mittaphap Hospital in Vientiane Capital, Laos. Clinical findings showed an average patient age of 31.0 ± 3.8 years, with a slight male preponderance. Radiographically, all of the lesions showed multicystic radiotranslucency. Twenty-four patients underwent tumor resection and 12 underwent tumor enucleation. Of thos...

A spatially and temporally realistic simulation of Escherichia coli chemotaxis was used to investigate the swimming patterns of wild-type and mutant bacteria within a rectangular arena in response to chemoattractant gradients. Swimming dynamics were analysed during long time series with phase-space trajectories, power spectra and estimations of fractal dimensions (FDs). Cell movement displayed ...

This article considers those monoids S satisfying one or both of the finitary properties (R) and (r), focussing for the most part on inverse monoids. These properties arise from questions of axiomatisability of classes of S-acts, and appear to be of interest in their own right. If S weakly right noetherian (WRN), that is, S has the ascending chain condition on right ideals, then certainly (r) h...

BACKGROUND We aimed to evaluate the clinical and radiological short-medium term outcomes for the treatment of bilateral osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) with hip-preserving surgery of core decompression followed by tightly impaction bone grafting combining with non-vascularized fibular allografting in one hip and concurrent one-stage total hip arthroplasty (THA) in the contralateral sid...