Intramedullary nails have been widely used in treating femoral shaft fractures. However, end caps falling into soft tissue intraoperatively may cause trouble to surgeons, prolong operative time and increase radiation ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (70871032;90924021;70971035);the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (2008AA042901);Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (11040606Q27)
This paper considers the uniform parallel machine scheduling problem with unequal release dates and delivery times to minimize the maximum completion time.For this NP-hard problem,the largest sum of release date,proce...