preventive maintenance scheduling of generating units is addressed as a long-term scheduling in power system studies aiming to increase the reliability incorporating cost reduction. it consists of knowing which generating units should be shut down for regular safety inspection. in this paper, a new formulation of preventive maintenance scheduling associated with cost reduction index (cri) is pr...

introduction: intraoperative radiation therapy device (iort) is one of the several options for partial breast irradiation. iort is sent to the tumor bed during surgery and can be replaced with conventional standard therapy (ebrt). the aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of iort machine compared with ebrt and to determine the dominant option in terms of the cost-effect...

This paper gives a clear and comprehensive account of outcomes up to 10 years in 65 year old men with sub-aneurysmal aorta (SAA) managed as part national screening programme.1Thorbjørnsen K. Svensjö S. Gilgen N.P. Wanhainen A. Long term outcome detected aortas men: single scan after five identifies those at risk needing abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2021; 62: 380-38...