a new approachto quantitative measurement of the supply chain complexity

... in the supply chain Assume that there are m manufacturers, n retailers and o demand markets in the supply chain Without loss of generality, a typical manufacturer, retailer and demand market are ... world (Shapiro, 2007) An appropriate design and planning of supply chains for an organization can squeeze out the inefficiencies of the activities in the supply chain and a certain amount of savings ... figure 1.1, is traditionally characterized by a forward flow of materials and a backward flow of information Figure 1.1 An example of supply chains Generally, decisions of supply chain can be divided...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:18

... greatest variability with regard of the diameter of their trunks Measurements separated by a complete reset of the device were repeated three times on the same axis The device was then rotated according ... cylindrical sample E = where E is the sample πd module of elasticity (Mpa), F is the applied force at each point (N), a is the distance between the support and the applied load, d is the diameter of the ... between-tree and between-clone variation Analysis of variance of MOE measurements performed on standing trees Analysis of variance allows to pinpoint the eventual effect of different factors on a selected...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22

... 757–778 AAG AGC GCA ACT GAT AGT GCA TCC GCC ATC GAC GCA ATT AGC CTT GCT AGC AGT ACG AGG 613–630 822–839 706–723 466–483 AAG AGC AAA GAT GAT AGT GAT TAC GCC ATC CCA CAG ATT AGC ATC AAT AGC AGT CAG ... 3¢) Amplification of RpCAbr and RpCAtr by quantitative PCR RpCAbrFqa TGG RpCAbrRqa GGT RpCAtrFqa GCC RpCAtrRqa TCA Full-length sequencing of RpCAbr RpCAbrF TAC RpCAbrR1 CGT RpCAbrR2 AGA RpCAbrR3 ... in the Archaea and Bacteria domains [11] Among the broad range of physiological processes in which they participate, CA can play a significant role in autotrophic organisms, serving as an inorganic...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 16:20

... contemplating the hardships of the colored races But Azurara was more than a moralizing annalist He acutely observed of the first cargo of captives brought from southward of the Sahara, less than a ... burthen as required by the parliamentary act of 1788 About half of these traded in the Gulf of Guinea, and half in the ports of Angola.[26] The trade in American vessels, particularly those of New ... volume of the trade, there are few statistics As early as 1734 one of the captains engaged in it estimated that a maximum of seventy thousand slaves a year had already been attained.[42] For the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 00:20

... refinement of) Ruzsa’s analogue of Freiman’s theorem, which gives a fairly strong characterisation of subsets A ⊆ Fn satisfying a small doubling condition |A + A| K |A| An analogue of this theorem for any ... Annals of Mathematics, 168 (2008), 1025–1054 A quantitative version of the idempotent theorem in harmonic analysis By Ben Green* and Tom Sanders Abstract Suppose that G is a locally compact abelian ... suppose that there are at least δ |A| 3 additive quadruples (a1 , a2 , a3 , a4 ) in A4 with a1 + a2 = a3 + a4 Then there is a regular Bourgain system S satisfying dim(S) Cδ −C ; |S| e−Cδ −C |A| and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21

... is calculated as the following: # of appearences of the item in the positive class # of appearences of the item in the data 21 Note that the parameter c takes into account the occurrence of an ... on a real data set provided by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Canada (CIBC) In addition, a third model based on the same data set was constructed “in-house” by CIBC Recall that a traditional direct ... deployment In particular, our collaborative partner, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Canada (CIBC), uses SAS as their only business intelligence software for all aspects of data analysis In this...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21

... glyoxalase pathway in Leishmania infantum A Fig Sensitivity analysis of the glyoxalase pathway in Leishmania infantum The effects of system parameters on the intracellular steady-state concentration ... http://jjj.biochem.sun ac.za/database/silva/index.html free of charge Results and Discussion The potential of the glyoxalase system as a possible therapeutic target relies on its role as the main catabolic pathway ... enzymes was then evaluated in this parasite by initial rate analysis Using the methylglyoxal glutathione hemithioacetal as substrate, the kinetic parameters for L infantum glyoxalase I, were a Km of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... lipopolysaccharide gave a pellet and an upper phase, the latter containing most of the material SDS/PAGE of the two materials Fig SDS/PAGE of the upper phase (1) and the pellet (2) obtained on ultracentrifugation ... chromatography on a Sephadex G-50 column gave a major O-polysaccharide peak at the void volume (O-polysaccharide) and a minor peak just after The material in the major peak was devoid of neuraminic ... in the upper phase and the pellet showed identical patterns and it was therefore concluded that the same polysaccharide was present A hydrolysate of the upper phase, analyzed as alditol acetates,...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:21

... performed the statistical analyses; all authors were involved in the interpretation of the results YP wrote the first draft of the paper All authors revised the first draft critically and gave final approval ... Garcia-Marcos L, Carvajal Uruena I, Escribano Montaner A, fernadez Benitez M, de la Garcia Rubia S, Tauler Toro E, Perez Fernandez V, Barcina Sancez C: Seasons and other factors affecting the quality ... model Based on the model, other life events, disease characteristics, disease-related events, and demographic characteristics are linked to the appraisal of demands and goals Furthermore, all factors...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... larval instar grows from a mass of about 1.2 g to about 11 g, so almost 90% of the final mass of the larva is gained during this single instar Because most of the body mass of Manduca accumulates ... instar, the size increment from instar to instar is constant That is, the final mass of each is a constant multiple of the final mass of the previous instar As a consequence, the mass of a larva ... required is a measure or process that changes with the mass of the larva and for which the larva can measure the ratio between the current state and the state at the beginning of the instar Stretch...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:21

... and the coordination and acquisition of data, performed the statistical analyses, and co-wrote the manuscript; CB participated in the design of the study, performed the statistical analyses and ... calculate the HWE (program http://www.genemapping.cn) In cases where all or part of this information was not available in the publication, the authors were contacted by email Statistical analyses ... in the genotyping analyses Statistical analysis The association between TCI scores and 5-HTTLPR or 5-HTTLPR/rs25531 was analyzed by analysis of variance, using the HA score as the dependent variable,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... Initially the patient was treated as diabetic ketoacidosis with intravenous insulin at a rate of U/hour with 0.9% saline Later, the plasma osmolality was calculated as 422 mmol/l and the diagnosis ... (especially males of African, Mediterranean, or Asian descent) when a diagnosis of diabetes is made In a G6PD-deficient diabetic patient, haemolysis may occur as a result hypoglycaemia, blood ... Mediterranean variant [6], and following administration of metformin [7] or glibenclamide [8] The precipitant of the haemolysis is not clear in this case and may have involved a combination of infection,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... cardiac arrest The impact of each variable on the acid–base status of patients with out -of- hospital cardiac arrest Each value is presented as the difference between the mean for the comparison ... sodium bicarbonate was administered before blood sampling Conceptual framework for the interpretation of quantitative acid–base analysis Quantitative physicochemical analysis of the results was performed ... from the analyzer output: pH, partial pressure of carbon dioxide, bicarbonate, standard base excess, lactate and ionized calcium Blood samples were also analyzed at the hospital central laboratory...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... and provided valuable demographic data RG, AG, CA, and PAM amplified gag and performed the phylogenic analysis All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements This work was ... independently amplified in two laboratories, one in Newark, New Jersey and the other in Covington, Louisiana The env sequence data were identical Figure shows the results of a phylogenetic analysis of gag ... infection is latent or that the antibody tests are false positives These data demonstrate that a pathogenic, novel strain of HIV-2 is circulating, at least, within Sierra Leone Health care providers...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... initiation codon, using the primer 5'-TGCAAATAAATGGATCCAACAAGTAGCAAAAGT-3' (nt 5968 to 6000) Mutagenic primers 5'-GGGACAGCAAGCTAAGTATCAA3' (nt 6113 to 6134) and 5'-TATCAACCCCAGCTAAGTAAGCAA-3' (nt 6129 ... SD6140 site was MarN2 (5'-AGGTAAGTATCAACCCCAG-3'; nt 6122 to 6140) The oligonucleotide used to detect Rtm-specific spliced message was MarS (5'-AGTATCAACCCCAGATATACAGAAC-3'; nt 6127 to 6140 and nt ... post-translational modifications or protein degradations, the rtm cDNA was used as a template in an in vitro transcription-translation reaction As shown in Fig 3D, analysis of the cell-free radiolabeled...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 06:20

... providing a guide path and that the driving performance of the elastic mode NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE SINGAPORE SUMMARY viii is comparable to that of the constrained mode The drawback of the ... normal operation [7], the CWA can follow the guide path when the chair is on the path and asymptotically return to the guide path when an error occurs between the guide path and the actual path of ... information NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE SINGAPORE 2.1 Path planning approaches 11 2.1.2 Reactive approach The reactive planning approach [22] works at a lower level of control hierarchy and can...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:59

... (D ), of the track with the smallest impact parameter with respect to the B candidate • Smallest vertex χ of the combination of the D − (D ∗− ) with any other track, and the invariant mass of this ... computed for each track in the B decay chain Fig The k-factor distribution and the average k-factor (black points) as a function of the visible mass of the B candidate, in samples of simulated (top) ... 0.47] The mistag probability η is evaluated for each B candidate from event and taggers properties and was calibrated on data using control samples [28] The average mistag rates for signal and background...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2017, 06:05

... peak , at the high T the real e peak is much smaller than tho noise peak The side-effect of is that it widdens the width of a delta-like (a I) peak with the amount proportional to < > One mav ... Hanoi University of Sci­ ence and different levels were shown The re-examination of the widdening of }){(■) peak has reveal the interference of a constant white random noise at 1.2% of maximal ... considered a s the correlation averaging techniques which H'lv : tlir correlation between input and output and/or the averaging of signal ov«*r prrsH timo period I2| They major disadvantage is that the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2017, 19:59

... comparing the –4– JHEP12(2016)087 Similarly, observables associated to the ADS modes, for a suppressed D → f decay, are the charge-averaged rate and the partial-rate asymmetry For the charge-averaged ... and [0, 0.2] The remainallowed ranges for rB B B ing auxiliary parameters are constrained with Gaussian priors according to the externally measured values and their uncertainties A range of alternative ... values of the observables from an input analysis i, and α is i the set of parameters For each of the inputs it is assumed that the observables follow a Gaussian distribution −1 obs T fi (Aobs (Ai...

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2017, 03:47

... bottom baryons allows many measurements of masses, lifetimes and branching fractions, which test the theoretical understanding of weak decays of heavy hadrons in the framework of heavy quark effective ... Owen54 , A Oyanguren68 , A Palano14,d , F Palombo22,u , M Palutan19 , J Panman39 , A Papanestis50 , M Pappagallo52 , L.L Pappalardo17,g , C Pappenheimer58 , W Parker59 , C Parkes55 , G Passaleva18 ... Universit` a di Genova, Genova, Italy Universit` a di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy Universit` a di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy Universit` a di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy Universit` a della Basilicata,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2017, 17:23