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... www.GrowingScience.com/ijiec A robust approach for solving a vehicle routing problem with time windows with uncertain service and travel times Mehdi Nasria*, Abdelmoutalib Metranea,b, Imad Hafidia and Anouar Jamalib aNational ... Tutorials in Operations Research, Institue for Operations Research ans the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 153-178, Maryland, USA Palomo-Martínez Pamela, J., Angélica Salazar-Aguilar, M & Laporte, ... research achievements in the story of operations research and particularly in practice There are important advances and new challenges that have been raised during the last few years such as radio

Ngày tải lên: 14/05/2020, 22:48

... expertise in the areas of ombudsman training, policy development, program management, and care planning and quality of life Sara was the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman in Louisiana for five years (1981-1986) ... evaluate the outcomes Is the problem solved? Is it partially solved? If not, look for new approaches or information and start The Problem-Solving Process: Resolution again II ANALYSIS AND PLANNING ... in recruiting and retaining staff  Advocate for a care plan that is clear, specific, and understood by all  Ask how all pertinent staff will be informed and trained in the changes  Be sure

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2022, 15:13

... knowledge in various domains on an abstract level to make it easy to transfer, translate, and transform across domains As problems understood on an abstract level can be matched to a broader range of ... moderate analytical thinking on how the knowledge interrelates among various domains, as well as pertains to current design problems; and (4) facilitate analogical thinking to adapt design problems and ... bags The Alpha UX team took advantage of these four opportunities and prepared four promotion items: a printed ad of Alpha Broadband Internet with a coin attached, the same ad printed with a

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2022, 02:13

... Nonlinear Functional Analysis Yokohama Publishers, Yoko-hama (2000) 6 Tada, A, Takahashi, W: Strong convergence theorem for an equilibrium problem and a nonexpansive mapping ... is nonem pty; for instance, see [5]. Recently, Tada and Takahashi [6] and Takahashi and Takahashi [7] considered iterative methods for finding an element of EP(G) ∩ F(T). Browder and Pet- ryshyn ... (1999) 3 Takahashi, S, Takahashi, W: Strong convergence theorem for a generalized equilibrium problem and a nonexpansive mapping in a Hilbert space Nonlinear Anal 69, 1025–1033

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20

... and distributes the market returns annually among the surviving members of each age cohort 5.4 Partial Annuitization: No Short-Term Annuity Market Many practical questions about annuitization ... on annuities. The impact of individuals disregarding their actions on the terms of insurance contracts is common in insurance markets. Perhaps moral hazard plays a relatively small role in annuity ... these annuities provide an individual with a consumption level that is independent of risk-class realization. The transfers across states of nature necessary for the first-best allocation are obtained

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... rates is that a change in α affects mainly medium ages, while a change in T affects largely older ages. Note also that, for (3.1), an increase in α raises the hazard rate, while an increase in T ... that while the hazards to survival at very young ages have been almost eliminated, increases in survival rates after age 60 have been slower, leaving substantial uncertainty about longevity for ... An annuity is a financial product that entitles the holder to a certain return per period for as long as the annuitant is alive. Annuities are typically sold to individuals by insurance firms at

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... determinants of mortality. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 11963, January. Davidoff, T., J. R. Brown, and P. A. Diamond. 2005. Annuities and individual welfare. American ... T. Miller. 2001. Saving, wealth and the demographic transition in East Asia. In Population Change and Economic Development in East Asia, A. Mason (ed.). Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. ... information effects and, 3–4; insurance and, 81–83; motive for, 1n1; partial annuitization and, 33–34; period-certain annuities and, 87–89; pooling equilibrium and, 82; private information and,

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... Sturm-Liouville Operators and Applications, vol 22 of Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, Birkh¨ user, Basel, Switzerland, 1986 a 4 M A Naimark, Linear Differential Operators Part 1, Frederick ... NY, USA, 1970 2 B M Levitan and I S Sargsjan, Introduction to Spectral Theory: Selfadjoint Ordinary Differential Operators, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, USA, 1975 3 V A Marchenko, ... regular boundary value problems,” European Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol 1, no 2, pp 51–60, 2008 9 K R Mamedov and H Menken, Asymptotic formulas for eigenvalues and

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... of a Boundary-Value Problem for Sixth-Order ODE with Three Parameters Liyuan Zhang and Yukun An Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Yudao st., Nanjing 210016, China Correspondence ... be addressed to Liyuan Zhang, binghaiyiyuan1@163.com Received 13 May 2010; Accepted 14 August 2010 Academic Editor: Kanishka Perera Copyright q 2010 L Zhang and Y An This is an open access article ... fourth-order boundary value problems with two parameters,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 281, no 2, pp 477–484, 2003 S Fan, “The new root formula and criterion of cubic equation,”

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... Differential Equation of Kirchhoff Type Giovanni Anello Department of Mathematics, University of Messina, S. Agata, 98166 Messina, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Giovanni Anello, ganello@unime.it ... is a Carath ´ eodory function, K : R  → R is a positive continuous function, and λ is a real parameter. Direct variational methods are used. In particular, the proof of the main result is based ... questions in boundary value problems of mathematical physics,” in Contemporary Developments in Continuum Mechanics and Partial Differential Equations, G. M. de la Penha and L. A. J. Medeiros, Eds.,

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... p(x)-Laplacian, and becomes pLaplacian when p(x) ≡ p (a constant) The p(x)-Laplacian possesses more complicated nonlinearities than the p-Laplacian; for example, it is inhomogeneous The study of various ... Infinitely many solutions for a Neumann-type differential inclusion problem involving the p(x)-Laplacian Nonlinear Anal 70, 2297–2305 (2009) [14] Dai, G: Infinitely many solutions for a hemivariational ... inequality involving the p(x)Laplacian Nonlinear Anal 71, 186–195 (2009) [15] Dai, G: Three solutions for a Neumann-type differential inclusion problem involving the p(x)-Laplacian Nonlinear Anal

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... Order Scalar Functional Differential Equations, Folia Facultatis Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis Mathematica, vol 10, Masaryk University, Brno, 2002 , On nonnegative ... Facultatis Scientiarium Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis Mathematica, vol 12, Masaryk University, Brno, 2003 V Kolmanovskii and A Myshkis, Introduction to the Theory and Applications ... R Hakl and A Lomtatidze, A note on the Cauchy problem for first order linear differential equations with a deviating argument, Arch Math (Brno) 38 (2002), no 1, 61–71 ˚z R Hakl, A Lomtatidze, and

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... of M a t l a b have made available a somewhat limited version of the program, S t u d e n t M ATLAB, available for individual purchase at a reasonable cost The b i g g e s t limitation is that ... date: 10/4/00 Assigning a scalar to a variable is straightforward: a = 5.348 a = 5.3480 » If you perform no other operations, Matlab responds by echoing back t h e variable with the value assigned ... meant to supplement the published Matlab manual (Student Matlab, available at the UW Bookstore or with the purchase of the Student Matlab software.), and the on-line help available in Matlab...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 02:20

... N P., Karathanasis, H C., Papachiou, P N., Samartzis, M K., Vavalis, E A , Wang, K Y., and Weerawarana, S 1990 Ellpack: A numerical simulation programming environment for parallel MIMD machines ... selected parallel architectures • information about the availability of the foreign solver libraries that are available at the site This information is specified at installation time and loaded in at ... generated for each processor The timing information can be loaded into the output tool and analyzed via PELLPACK’s performance visualization tool, ViPerform Timing and trace data can also be analyzed...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 04:20

... of M a t l a b have made available a somewhat limited version of the program, S t u d e n t M ATLAB, available for individual purchase at a reasonable cost The b i g g e s t limitation is that ... date: 10/4/00 Assigning a scalar to a variable is straightforward: a = 5.348 a = 5.3480 » If you perform no other operations, Matlab responds by echoing back t h e variable with the value assigned ... meant to supplement the published Matlab manual (Student Matlab, available at the UW Bookstore or with the purchase of the Student Matlab software.), and the on-line help available in Matlab...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 13:22

... plot against the s a m e independent data set, the form must still be of pairs of x and y data To use a special symbol f o r plotting, tack on a 'o' to the plot command after the data pair (see ... constants for reactions and Let k1, k2 be given parameters, a n d the initial concentration of A (ca0) be a design variable The i n d e p e n d e n t variable is time (tfin), and the dependent variables ... it as a function from the command line, o r are currently from within a larger Matlab script available for Matlab to use, Example: enter the command what at the command function y = tconvert(x)...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 13:22

... verbal memory maintenance and manipulation [42] The Corsi Block-Tapping Task was used to assess spatial working memory maintenance and manipulation, analogous to digit span forward and backward ... setting All patients received training parallel to a three-week inpatient work therapy, which was similar for all patients We used a measure of functional capacity as a proxy measure for functional ... were log-transformed SPSS, Version 16, was used for statistical analyses All statistical tests were two-tailed, and significance was determined at the alpha 0.05 level For all analyses related to...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... generate ideas Brainwriting methods, in particular, have the greatest potential for idea quantity Time also can be a factor because the more time available, the greater the number of ideas that can ... the Ideal MacCrimmon and Taylor (1976) propose another definition that is more appropriate for our purposes and has remained a standard over the years They define a problem as a gap between a current ... situations in which idea generation activities are applied You also might want to use it for general problem- solving training or as background information for training in idea generation activities...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2013, 20:09

... General Mills, Inc., began a total quality management program for its Olive Garden chain, it paved the way for adaptation at all sites by providing a lengthy training and development program In addition, ... 1990, pp 8 4A2 -8 4A5 Generating Alternatives Generating alternatives involves cataloging the known options (a rational act) and generating additional options (a rational and intuitive act) It is ... service as a marketing innovation Management innovation improves the way the organization is managed Hewlett-Packard's restructuring as discussed in the fourth paragraph of this chapter, was a management...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 21:23

... information on the variables, similar to what is in the Workspace Window) clear clears out all variables so they no longer exist clear variablename clears out a particular variable clear variablename1 ... values are not known ahead of time Most languages also have the capacity to store constants, which are values that are known ahead of time and cannot possibly change An example of a constant value ... many operators and built-in functions that can be used in interactive expressions 1.1 GETTING INTO MATLAB MATLAB is a mathematical and graphical software package with numerical, graphical, and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 15:53