We consider a flow shop type manufacturing cell consisting of m machines and a material handling robot producing multiple parts. The robot transfers the parts between the machines and loads/unloads the machines. We consider ...

There is an increasing trend in using aluminum foam-filled columns in crash management systems due to theirlight weight in automotive industry. The main goal of this study is to optimize the crashworthiness of aluminumfoam-filled ...

This study aimed to evaluate the effects of certain maternal, fetal, and umbilical cord blood unit factors on storage and/or discard incidence of collected cord blood units from perinatal medicine patients. Materials and ...

In this study, the effect of sintering temperature on the high strain rate-deformation of 93W-5.6Ni-1.4Fe, 93W-4.67Ni-2.33Fe, and 93W-3.5Ni-3.5Fe alloys was investigated. The samples were sintered at 1460, 1480, and1500 ...

Peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) transplantation has become an established treatment option for a range of malignant and inherited diseases. PBSCs are usually cryopreserved in the presence of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and ...

We propose a feasible invisibility approach to suppress the scattering of waves from or to given directions and for particular frequencies, i.e., invisibility on demand. We derive a generalized Hilbert transform for a ...

Merchant diasporas have long attracted the attention of scholars through the narrow prisms of 'nations' and states. The history of Amsterdam's Greek Orthodox merchants, together with the other cases - who left the Ottoman ...

Taxation power can be either be used domestically or it might be used abroad. Such power is used according to unlimited and limited tax liability in income based taxes. Relation with the taxpayer is based on criteria of ...

AIM: To discuss a special type of skull lesion detected after delivery. We reviewed our experience on scalp swelling in term neonates to further investigate the relationship between cranial injuries and labor process. MATERIAL ...

For the first time with this study, membranes from directly copolymerized disulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) (BPSH 35) were utilized to replace NafionTM in vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFB). Direct copolymerization ...