... see the process on video monitor The entry into the uterus is not always easy, as the non-stirrable tip of the catheter must usually go through different curvatures in the cervical canal and the ... laparotomies, Endoscopy versus IVF: TheWaytoGo 39 intestinal reanastomosis, or kidney transplantation This situation may pave thewayto hysteroscopic occlusion of the fallopian tubes based on the ... contractions over the next few days after the embryo delivery and prior to their natural implantation in the uterine cavity, the embryo(s) may be expelled either into the fallopian tube (causing ectopic...
... for use with the other two agents to provide the best outcomes Studies have suggested that patients may respond to a different anti-TNF agent if there is an inadequate response tothe first [26-29] ... were superior tothe outcomes in those receiving either as monotherapy [14,18] Prevention of damage Untreated inflammation leads to damage, and it is reasonable to predict that the earlier control ... alone [50] Decisions about the use of the newer biological agents must take into account both the costs of the medication and healthcare resources and also the costs to society, ranging from healthcare...
... N-acetylcysteine delays liver recovery from acetaminophen hepatotoxicity Crit Care 2009, 13:R55 Chun LJ, Tong MJ, Busuttil RW, Hiatt JR: Acetaminophen hepatotoxicity and acute liver failure J Clin Gastroenterol ... N-Acetylcysteine in the treatment of acetaminophen overdose: analysis of the national multicenter study (1976–1985) N Engl J Med 1988, 3190:1557-1562 Keays R, Harrison PM, Wendon JA, Forbes A, Gove C, Alexander ... Critical Care Vol 13 No Gupta et al Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests References Yang R, Miki K, He X, Killeen ME, Fink...
... complication with short-term therapeutic hypothermia and the published beneficial effects [1,2,5], therapeutic hypothermia should be a standard treatment within the indications recommended by ... generate or adopt written SOP for the indication and clinical use of therapeutic hypothermia [3] Even if the optimal duration and temperature of therapeutic hypothermia as well as different cooling ... investigation, the implementation of current recommendations by international organisations based on the published evidence should be promoted and adhered to in order to guarantee optimal stateof -the- art...
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... is too big, then the speed of convergence is too fast, it will easily give the local optimization If the coefficient is too small, then the speed is too slow, and the efficiency of the algorithm ... tothe node enterprises of the supply chain In order to avoid the “bullwhip effect” caused by the uncertainty of demand and supply, the traditional inventory strategy has to be revised Inventory ... Table The lower and upper bound of card for nodes problem To analyze the performance of the algorithm, the algorithm is run for 100 times The best solution is the best one within 100 runs The best...
... measured consisting of the event message into the tuple space (put scenario) and the notify scenario to other agents (notify scenario) 30 Supply Chain, TheWayto Flat Organisation The test configuration ... denoting the unitary price of the main product at the end of the process i Thus, considering the vector of the gross outputs x0, we can compute the vector y0, representing the total revenues associated ... processes Let in0 be the vector of the costs associated tothe primary inputs, including wages and salaries, and an0 the vector of investments amortization Then, the profit (pt) for all the production...
... constraints but the other goals lead to only one each The + − γ g measures the deviation away from the goal in the positive direction and γ g is for the negative direction The above goal constraints ... which incurs the one-time supplier development costs tothe firm Order allocation: The allocation of orders from the selected suppliers tothe factories to meet the demand at the factories This ... undesirable deviational variables The buyer specifies the weight κ g /− for goal g The weights measure the relative importance of satisfying the goals The GP (29) will then be the following single objective...
... beneficial to retailers as it allows them to return products tothe manufacturers when they are pressured to accept returns from their own customers End users want to be able to return products to retailers ... generous returns policy on their customers 3.5 Build -to- order products A build -to- order product (BTO) is essentially built to customize the product tothe requirement of the customers, hence increasing ... Matrix The left column of the matrix lists the requirements of the considered sub-domains The subdomains themselves are listed in the top row In the body of the matrix it is filled by priority of the...
... Chain, TheWayto Flat Organisation the firms in the study use the IT to coordinate their JIT programs with vendors In addition, some of the firms are beginning to use the IT to coordinate their ... popular use of the IT in this area is the communication of stock outs by customers to vendors, or the notification of stock outs by companies to their customers The IT has enabled companies to more ... with the ability to offer their customers another wayto contact the firm regarding service issues and integrate customer information and firm information to bring great benefits to both customer...
... according tothe Pull Operational System, which basically belong tothe mode of make to order (MTO) They make the decision of orders tothe upstream companies based on the history orders of their customer ... for the customer Then the function to determine the discount movement is shown next factor = (orders from the current day) / (offers from the previous day) If Factor is: - Zero, then to lower the ... inventory On the contrary, distributor integration can decrease the inventory by sharing inventory information between all the distributors Every distributor can check others’ inventory records to...
... adaptation along the supply chain needs to separate the good from the bad, and then strengthen the good while delete the bad Meanwhile, promote the values of focal firm and then form the common values ... decide the common goals with its customers about the product market orientation Also, the goals should take the retailers’ key role in the process into consideration Second, transfer the strategic ... Chain, TheWayto Flat Organisation stages of manufacturing, assembly and distribution to a finished product delivered tothe retailers and/or the end customers (Jain et al., 2006) In addition to the...
... algorithm which minimizes the inventory costs of a SC subject tothe constraint to be met with a specific task involving the delivery of finished goods The authors used the fuzzy set theory to ... from other nodes, purchases (if supplying nodes) and the inventory of the previous period The outputs are related to shipments to other nodes, supplies to customers and the consumption of other ... ii ∀ i, n (38) The inventory level is calculated as the sum of the total quantity of inventory of the finished good and parts at the end of each planning period T= (1,…,42) Then the following...
... can track the product throughout the supply chain- from the manufacturer all thewaytothe customer In most cases the RFID tag can be written and rewritten so that the information in the tag doesn't ... inventory records are accurate, misplaced items mean that they were not out of stock, but rather misplaced in storage areas or in the wrong location within the store The phenomenon of inventory ... study, the authors found that a median of 3.4% of SKUs were not found on the sales floor although inventory was available 340 Supply Chain, TheWayto Flat Organisation in the store In the first...
... use it to update the stored timestamp and send the key-hashed timestamp tothe reader Otherwise, the tag will send a pseudo-random number tothe reader The information is forwarded tothe backend ... Disconnected 376 Supply Chain, TheWayto Flat Organisation from the flash, the capacitor is re-connected tothe coil with an added switch to turn the device on or off The flash indicator light is re-connected ... from the reader to wake up The tag can then use its battery to communicate with the reader” … “semi-passive tags are similar to active tags in that they have their own power source, but the battery...
... THINK/FEEL Fig 1.1 The Trading Pyramid paid in the world for the high flyers – so you would expect it to be tough If you are going to battle your way through then you are going to need to be committed ... learn to live with risk that tightrope walkers learn to balance, but they don’t Instead they learn to live with imbalance, in the same way a trader must learn to live with risk This takes us tothe ... and then you can select only the best trading posiuse it tions, the low risk ones Then it will all gothe right wayThe 55 steps (a personal journey to success) (A simplified summary of the key...
... withdraws from the body in different ways —from the feet upward tothe heart or from the top of the head down The former is preferable because it indicates that the mind will exit the body either upward ... of ways However,unlike the space station, which is constructed by many people working together, the mind must be developed by you alone There is no way for others tothe work and for you to reap ... you face your enemy who is going to hurt you, that is the real time to practice tolerance Therefore, an enemy is the cause of the practice of tolerance; tolerance is the effect or result of an...
... approaches to improving the specific energy of the system are to reduce the weight of the structural components of the cell and to improve the utilization of the active materials The latter depends ... commercial use results in separator distortion so that much of the compressive force applied tothe stack is dissipated by collapse of the separator rather than being applied tothe active mass as intended ... 1.5 wt.% tin tothe lead–calcium alloy and the use of a degree of work tothe manufactured grid surface largely restored the creep resistance of the grid and prevented grid growth In the direction...