A Supply Chain Synergy Measurement Model is put forward on the foundation of relational capital and interactive learning after going through present literatures related to Synergy Measurement. The order degree of subsystems is calculated, synergetic degree of the whole system obtained thereby. The index system for operability is established based on the aforesaid model, considering the characte...

The purpose of the present study was to determine whether muscle synergies are constrained by changes in the mechanics of pedaling. The decomposition algorithm used to identify muscle synergies was based on two components: "muscle synergy vectors," which represent the relative weighting of each muscle within each synergy, and "synergy activation coefficients," which represent the relative contr...

The synergistic effects of daptomycin plus gentamicin or rifampin were tested against 50 Staphylococcus aureus strains, with daptomycin MICs ranging between 0.25 and 8 microg/ml. Daptomycin sub-MICs combined with gentamicin concentrations lower than the MIC yielded synergy in 34 (68%) of the 50 strains. Daptomycin combined with rifampin yielded synergy in one vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus s...

Cocktail effects and synergistic interactions of chemicals in mixtures are an area of great concern to both the public and regulatory authorities. The main concern is whether some chemicals can enhance the effect of other chemicals, so that they jointly exert a larger effect than predicted. This phenomenon is called synergy. Here we present a review of the scientific literature on three main gr...

Synergy Graphs model team performance as a function of individual capabilities and inter-agent compatibility. Synergy Graphs have previously been applied to team formation problems in multi-agent systems, physical robot teams, and selecting modules for multi-robot teams. In this extended abstract, we describe how the Synergy Graph model is applied to human teams. In particular, we focus on bask...

Synergy is a concept fraught with ambiguity about its sources and effects, perhaps as a consequence of of previous literature on the subject not distinguishing between these. In this paper, the sources of synergy are separated from the sources of sustainable competitive advantage in order to analyze the competitive implications of different types of synergies, and thus be able to answer the que...

The checkerboard titration method was used to test the synergy of cefpirome and cefotaxime with teicoplanin or vancomycin against 35 penicillin-susceptible, 34 penicillin-intermediate, and 31 penicillin-resistant pneumococci. The MICs at which 50 and 90% of isolates are inhibited (MIC50s and MIC90s, respectively) of both cefpirome and cefotaxime were 0.016 and 0.06 microgram/ml, respectively, f...

Claims of synergy between etoposide and cisplatin have been based upon preclinical in vìvomurine P388 models or upon human clinical trials in tumors such as lung cancer. Such in vivo studies are useful in exploring therapeutic synergy, i.e., an improved therapeutic strategy. The term "synergy" in this context is sometimes, however, taken to imply greater than additive kill of tumor cells. Unfo...

Tamoxifen (TAM) markedly increases the response rate of malignant melanoma to treatment with cisplatin (DDP), carmustine, and dacarbazine, and we have previously reported that there is a highly synergistic interaction between TAM and DDP with respect to the cytotoxic effect against the human melanoma cell line T-289 (E. F. Mc Clay et al., Cancer Res., 52: 6790-6796, 1992). The mechanism underly...

In this paper we describe SYNERGY, which is a general-purpose AI planning system that is based on the genetic programming paradigm. Rather than reasoning about the planning world, SYNERGY uses selection, mutation, recombination and fitness measure to generate linear plans that solve conjunctive goals. We ran SYNERGY on several domains, and the experimental results show that our planner solves p...