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Research ArticleOpen accessPhrase in the titleSolving the Periodic Maintenance Scheduling Problem via Genetic Algorithm to Balance Workforce Levels and Maintenance CostMohamed Ali Abdel-Fattah MansourProblem statement: In this article we address the multi-objective Periodic Maintenance Scheduling Problem (PMSP) of scheduling a set of cyclic maintenance operations for a given set of machines through a specified planning period to minimize the total variance of workforce levels measured in man-hours and maintenance costs with equal weights. Approach: The article proposed a mixed integer non-linear math programming … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 2 · 12 Jul 2011 · 8,317 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSurvey on Oral Health and History of Muscle Injury in Professional Athletes of Brazilian Women's Soccer: A Cross-Sectional Self-Reported StudyFlávia Costa Oliveira Magalhães, Cimar Eustáquio Marques da Silva, Cornelis Robert Springer et al.This study aimed to investigate behavioral eating habits and oral health care habits of professional women's soccer athletes and their relation to the history of muscle injuries from the last season. 44 female professional soccer athletes answered a specific questionnaire, comprising the length of professional sports practice, educational level, eating habits, oral hygiene care, individual perception of the oral health … …Current Research in Dentistry, Vol. 13, Issue 1 · 27 Jan 2022 · 6,806 accessesView PDF Cite

Review ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractNASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant StarRelly Victoria Petrescu, Raffaella Aversa, Antonio Apicella, Florian Ion Tiberiu PetrescuDiscovering the origins of life and colonizing extraterrestrial planets are two of the greatest ambitions that the international scientific community has today. Today, NASA is more prepared than ever to embark on an unprecedented race to conquer other worlds. The Kepler mission, named after Johannes Kepler, the German astronomer of the 16th-17th centuries, was scheduled to begin on March 7, … …Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Vol. 2, Issue 1 · 18 Jan 2018 · 7,904 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractENHANCEMENT OF TOTAL TECHNICAL LIFE OF AERO PLANESA. Balachandran, P. R. Suresh, Shriram K. Vasudevan, Kaushik VelusamyGovernment of India spends most of its income towards strengthening the Army, Air Force and Navy. Out of the amount spent for this, about 80% of money is spent on technology advancement and maintenance. We are coming in particular now about the Air Force and its fighter jets along with other flying machines as well. Taking Mirage-2000 as an instance, … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 3 · 22 Nov 2013 · 6,615 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractFiber Optic Sensors for Transportation Infrastructural Health MonitoringChin Chang, Rahul MehtaProblem statement: Monitoring the health of transportation infrastructures is currently reliant on transportation maintenance teams. Scheduled and periodic inspections on most of the infrastructures are performed by manual and visual operations, which are generally time consuming and costly procedures. The use of the fiber optic sensor technology makes it possible to realize continuous, real time and automatic health monitoring for … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2010 · 8,339 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractHormetic Interventions in AgingSuresh I.S. RattanSingle or multiple exposure to low doses of potentially harmful agents can have a variety of anti-aging and longevity-extending hormetic effects. These hormetic stressors include irradiation, physical activity, food limitation, heat, hypergravity, dietary components and reactive oxygen species. Molecular mechanisms facilitating the hormetic effects are being elucidated and comprise a cascade of stress response and maintenance and repair pathways. Although … …American Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Vol. 3, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2008 · 7,831 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Middleware Service for Increasing Applications Integration AvailabilityNader Mohamed, Jameela Al-JaroodiMiddleware has become an integral part of many distributed applications offering effective integration and interoperability solutions. In some situations a problem may occur where the integration of distributed information applications may be affected by scheduled unavailability of one or more of these applications. The scheduled unavailability occurs due to several reasons including application or data backup, software or hardware maintenance … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 2 · 28 Feb 2008 · 6,812 accessesView PDF Cite