Although tort liability is supposed to encourage health care providers to reduce the riskof patient injuries, medical malpractice insurance is thought to dampen this deterrenteffect by insulating physicians from the costs of claims. The degree to whichmalpractice insurance protects physicians from these costs has never been quantified,however, and the oft-heard claim that every physician is […]

Only the Solaris Operating System makes sense for UltraSPARC servers. But Sun offers Solaris, Red Hat or SUSE Linux for its Opteron and Xeon servers. Which should customers install?This paper provides key facts to help customers choose between Linux and Solaris for x86/Opteron servers. Each section focuses on a key area that exposes important differences […]

Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (I 998) 47:341-353The M/M/c with Critical JobsIvo ADANEindhoven University of Technology, Department of Mathematics and Computing Science,Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlandse-mall: iadan@win.tue.nlGERARD Hoo~mEMSTRADelft University of Technology, Department of Mathematics and Informaties, Box 356,2600 AJ Delft, The Netherlandse-mail: g.hooghiemstra@twi.tudelft .nlAbstract:

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The foundation of this project lies on the basis of the multi-tasking environment, at the operating system level. Animportant consideration taken into account is the ability to run platform-independent programs using a commongraphical user interface. The application (named ‘RunApp’) is developed using Microsoft Visual Basic. It is based onthe concept of linear programming in a […]

Refer to the DEPLOY document located in the root directory of your Delphi 6 product for a complete list of files thatyou can distribute in accordance with the Delphi License Statement and Limited Warranty.Borland may have patents and/or pending patent applications covering subject matter in this document. Thefurnishing of this document does not give you […]

Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and PhysicsInstitute for Theoretical Computer ScienceMalostranské nám. 2/25, 118 00 Praha 1, Czech Republicbartak@kti.mff.cuni.czAbstract. Visopt ShopFloor is a generic scheduling system for solving complexscheduling problems. It differentiates from traditional schedulers by offeringsome planning capabilities. In particular, the activities to achieve the goal areplanned dynamically during scheduling. In the paper, we […]

Data schema represents the arrangement of fact table and dimension tables and the relations between them. In data warehouse development, selecting a right and appropriate data schema (Snowflake, Star, Star Cluster, …) has an important Impact on performance and usability of the designed data warehouse. One of the problems that exists in data warehouse development […]