Producing customized products to respond to changing markets in a short time and at a low cost is one of the goals in agile manufacturing. To achieve this goal customized products can be produced using an assembly-driven product differentiation strategy. The successful implementation of this strategy lies in efficient scheduling of the system. However, little research has been done in addressin...

Using data from of 60 sections of a first finance course, attributes such as schedule timing, size, duration style, and instructor status (adjunct or full-time) are examined for impact on student performance and attitudes. The course examined is unique due to the significant number of sections offered and the utilization of a standardized final exam. Utilizing ANOVA, independent sample t-statis...

amyloid-β (aβ) self-assembly into cross-β amyloidfibrils is implicated in a causative role in alzheimer’s disease pathology.uncertainties persist regarding the mechanisms of amyloid self assembly and the role of metastable prefibrillar aggregates. aβ fibrilsfeature a sheet-turn-sheet motif in the constituent β-strands; as such, turn nucleation has been proposed as a rate-limiting step in the se...

BACKGROUND Precise estimates of final operating room demand can only be made 1 or 2 days before the day of surgery, when it is harder to adjust staffing to match demand. The authors hypothesized that the accumulating elective schedule contains useful information for predicting final case demand sufficiently in advance to readily adjust staffing. METHODS The accumulated number of cases booked ...

To address the need for updated pregnancy risk categories, the Food and Drug Administration published a final rule in 2014. The authors review the changes the rule makes, its implementation schedule, and its potential clinical impact.

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The popularity of simulated annealing comes from its ability to find close to optimal solutions for NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. Unfortunately, current implementations of the method usually require massive computation time. This paper presents a general annealing schedule which speeds up simulated annealing significantly when compared with general schedules available in the lite...

This paper presents the tolerance budgeting for the coarse assembly step in a novel coarse-fine strategy for micro-assembly. The final assembly step is to be performed using MEMS-based fimctionality that remains part of the product. Total tolerance build-up due to the coarse assembly and dimensional inaccuracies has been determined for the alignment of a single mode optical fibre to a laser dio...

This paper deals with the problem of constructing the schedule for the operations of a group of quay cranes devoted to discharge/load a set of groups of containers from a vessel at a maritime container terminal. The schedule is constructed starting from the assignment of each individual group of containers to a quay crane under the goal of minimizing the overall vessel completion time, aka the ...

Two hundred female sex workers (FSWs) in Lima, Peru were randomized to receive HPV4 vaccine in the standard (0, 2, 6 months) or a modified schedule (0, 3, 6 months). One hundred and eighty four (92%) participants completed 3 doses of vaccine. Baseline seropositive rates were 58% for HPV6, 22.5% for HPV11, 41.5% for HPV16, and 13% for HPV18. The final geometric mean antibody titer (GMT) followin...