Maritime cabotage is a legislation published by a particular coastal country, which is used to conduct the cargo transportation between its two domestic ports. This paper proposes a two-phase mathematical programming model to formulate the liner hub-and-spoke shipping network design problem subject to the maritime cabotage legislations, i.e., the hub location and feeder allocation problem for p...

This video demonstrates how to maintain the growth of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) in feeder cell-free conditions and how to continuously passage hESCs in feeder cell-free conditions. Confirmation of hESC pluripotency grown in feeder cell-free conditions by immunofluorescence microscopy is also demonstrated.

The objectives of the study were to determine how factors affecting the selling price of feeder calves changed from 2000 to 2005 and to examine the perception that discounts narrow or even disappear as calf supplies decrease and selling prices increase. Data from weekly Arkansas livestock auctions were collected from January 1 to December 31 in 2000 and 2005. Data included calf sex, breed type,...

A fibroblast feeder layer is currently the best option for large scale expansion of autologous skin keratinocytes that are to be used for the treatment of severely burned patients. In a clinical context, using a human rather than a mouse feeder layer is desirable to reduce the risk of introducing animal antigens and unknown viruses. This study was designed to evaluate if irradiated human fibrob...

A major challenge faced by all dental schools is the need to attract highly qualified student applicants. The purpose of this study was to use 2002-03 AADSAS data to identify and characterize feeder colleges and universities that are the major source of applicants to U.S. dental schools. Feeder schools were defined as any institutions with five or more applicants, and minority-feeder schools as...

Because research on nematode involvement in trophic interactions, foodweb structure, and biodiversity is constrained by lack of an overview of nematode feeding habits, this outline presents a consensus of current thought on nematode feeding habits. The source of food is fundamental to trophic interactions and provides the basis for our definitions of the essential feeding types: 1) plant feeder...

Due to the difficulty and high cost of data collection, many feeder lines in assembly systems lack full collection of data. However, reliability statistics of feeder lines are important in throughput analysis and continuous improvement of manufacturing systems. In this paper, a simple approximation approach is presented to estimate the reliability statistics of feeder lines from the associated ...

In Industrial area one 11KV feeder feeds a static power converter fed DC motor load of variable power and some usual loads i.e domestic to industrial loads. Faults at DC motor load affect the other feeder loads. The L-G and L-L faults followed by open conductor fault on DC motor load effect the other feeder loads. This paper deals with the voltage dips and correction using the DSTATCOM, a custo...

producers to hedge feeder cattle and stocker cattle. Feeder cattle prices, and hence basis, varies with cattle type, lot characteristics and location. Producers need to consider these factors when estimating their basis. However, there still remains variability in prices due to volume, or more likely lack of volume, in a particular weight class or in some cases for an entire market. The volume ...

today, one of the new technologies in the modern era is vehicular ad-hoc network which has takenenormous attention in the recent years. because of rapid topology changing and frequent disconnectionmakes it difficult to design an efficient routing protocol for routing data between vehicles, called v2v orvehicle to vehicle communication and vehicle to roadside infrastructure, called v2i. designin...