Understanding the performance issues of modern programming language execution can be di cult. These languages have abstract features, such as higher-order functions, laziness, and objects, that ease programming, but which make their mapping to the underlying machine more di cult. Understanding parallel languages is further complicated by the need to describe what computations are performed in p...

INTRODUCTION Since the endorsement of GeneXpert MTB/RIF by the WHO, many countries have embarked on implementing this technology. OBJECTIVE We outline the cost of installing GeneXpert in district hospitals in Abuja, Nigeria. METHODS We prospectively documented costs related to the installation of GeneXpert at five sites. Costs were collected from receipts received from suppliers and normali...

Information on the conversion efficiency of sawing machines is important to those involved in the management, maintenance, and design of sawmills. Little information on the conversion characteristics of hardwood sawing machines has been available. This study, based on 266 studies of 6 machine types, provides an analysis of the machine characteristics of kerf width, within-board, between-board, ...

Continuous advancement in the health sector is essential to reduce costs and increase efficiency quality of service. The widespread use ultrasonography (USG) has made it possible detect thyroid nodules with higher success rates. Some standard scoring systems have been developed score nodules. Thyroid are classification that determine risk cancer according ultrasonographic characteristics nodule...

Businesses are increasingly interested in how big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analytics can be used to increase revenue, lower costs, and improve their business processes. In this paper, we describe how we have developed a data-driven machine learning method to optimize the collection process for a debt collection agency. Precisely speaking, we create a frame...

The Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) is one of the most general and difficult of all traditional scheduling problems. The Flexible Job Shop Problem (FJSP) is an extension of the classical job shop scheduling problem which allows an operation to be processed by any machine from a given set. The problem is to assign each operation to a machine and to order the operations on the machine...

Proper planning of assembly lines is one of the production managers’ concerns at the tactical level so that it would be possible to use the machine capacity, reduce operating costs and deliver customer orders on time. The lack of an efficient method in balancing assembly line can create threatening problems for manufacturing organizations. The use of assembly line balancing methods cannot balan...