The dipole moment of a wall-charged void is examined with reference to the spatial extent of the surface charge density /spl sigma/ and the distribution of this charge. The salient factors influencing the void dipole moment are also examined. From a study of spherical v...

The interface between assisted reproductive technologies (ART) and genetics comprises several sensitive and important issues that affect infertile couples, families with severe genetic diseases, potential children, professionals in ART and genetics, health care, researc...

Abstract The northwestern coastal zone of Portugal between Mondego cape and Minho River preserves a series of fluvio-aeolian, lagoonal, and dune formations that are archives of evolution during the late Pleistocene and Holocene. The existing chronology of these formatio...

Purpose This paper aims to study the relations between lean operations, lean principles in finance functions and the roles of finance functions. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses structural equation modeling to analyze data from 408 different firms in the Da...

Cubick and Dau [(2016). Acta Acust. Acust. 102, 547-557] showed that speech reception thresholds (SRTs) in noise, obtained with normal-hearing listeners, were significantly higher with hearing aids (HAs) than without. Some listeners reported a change in their spatial pe...

The stringent response is defined as the physiological changes elicited by amino acid starvation. Many of these changes depend on the regulatory nucleotide ppGpp (guanosine tetraphosphate) synthesized by RelA (ppGpp synthetase I), the relA-encoded protein. The second re...

Background Over the past decades, the health sector in general has increasingly acknowledged the effectiveness of interprofessional clinical training in enhancing teamwork. In psychiatry, however, knowledge of the benefits of collaborative clinical training is sparse. T...

We present a unified heuristic which is able to solve five different variants of the vehicle routing problem: the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW), the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP), the multi-depot vehicle routing problem (MDVRP), the site...

Abstract Time stamps were introduced in Shivers's PhD thesis for approximating the result of a control-flow analysis. We show them to be suitable for computing program analyses where the space of results (e.g., control-flow graphs) is large. We formalize time-stamping a...

Many international fishery agreements contain cooperative agreements involving sharing rules, such as the sharing of quotas within an agreed total allowable catch (TAC). Some agreements are stable in the sense that none of the participants in the given fishery has an in...