In this paper, the problem of integration and scheduling automated guided vehicles (AGVs) inspection machines in medical sample-testing laboratories is addressed with objective minimizing maximum turnaround time (TAT). A genetic algorithm (GA) a sliding window (STW) heuristic (GA-STW) proposed for studied while incorporating vehicle assignment (VAA) decoding operations. mathematical model AGV m...

Heat stress is associated with death and other maladaptions including muscle dysfunction and impaired growth across species. Despite this common observation, the molecular effects leading to these pathologic changes remain unclear. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which heat stress disrupted redox balance and initiated an inflammatory response in oxidative and glycolytic...

Structured settlement underwriting is the underwriting of medically impaired lives for the purchase of an annuity to fund the settlement. Other than risk assessment, structured settlement (SS) underwriting has little in common with traditional life insurance underwriting. Most noteworthy of these differences is the relative lack of actuarial data on which to base decisions about mortality and t...

Previous comparative analyses of gross and net settlement have focused on the credit risk of the central counterparty in net settlement arrangements, and on the incentives for participants to alter the risk of the portfolio under net settlement. By modeling the trading economy that generates the demand for payment services, we are able to show some largely unexplored advantages of net settlemen...

Abstract This paper investigates the settlement in a pavement due to soil liquefaction. Four 1-g shaking table tests were performed on saturated sand bed-pavement model understand factors affecting liquefaction-induced settlements and their relation thickness width. All with base acceleration of 320 gal laminar box. The revealed that total reduced increase thickness. same but different width sh...

As nuclear families have become increasingly less stable over the past quarter century, married couples have been faced with the difficult task of negotiating the terms by which marriage is ended. For parents, divorce involves questions revolving around the care and sustenance of children. In this paper we investigate whether observed divorce settlements indicate that parents make trade-offs in...

It present the comparison of the performance of two different compression wavelet schemes namely Spatial-orientation Trees Wavelet (STW) and Adaptively Scanned Wavelet Difference Reduction (ASWDR). The paper analyses the compression schemes using gray scale image and color scale Image such that the quality of the reconstructed image. The characteristics of quality performance is calculate STW a...

This paper describes a mix word-pair mix-WP) identifier to resolve homonym/segmentation ambiguities as well as perform STW conversion effectively for Chinese input. The mix-WP identifier includes a specific word-pair (SWP) identifier and a common wordpair (CWP) identifier. It is designed as a supporting processing with Chinese input systems. Our experiments show that by applying the mix-WP iden...

Two different defined growth media were used to culture aseptically the root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita, on excised roots of tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum cv 'Marglobe.' One of these media, STW, was a formulation by Skoog, Tsui, and White and the other, MS, a formulation by Murashige and Skoog. From 1 through 4 weeks, inoculated tissues were fractured to observe root infection, gian...

A novel kind of adaptive second order sliding mode control algorithm, based on super-twisting law (STW), is proposed and applied to a floating wind turbine (FWT). This new for which the controller gains are dynamically adjusted with respect uncertainties perturbations, has very reduced number tuning parameters versus previous versions STW, low-requirement computational requirement. particularly...