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Optimization Models For Leishmaniasis Control: A Case For Bihar, India
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-10-22)
Leishmaniasis, is a family of infectious diseases, which mostly affects poor and developing countries. The highest prevalence and mortality rate of Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) the world over occurs in Bihar state of ...
Mixed Integer Programming Models For Selecting Ground-level Ozone Control Strategies
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2011-07-14)
Under the Clean Air Act (CAA) in 1990, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was required to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for six common air pollutants that are considered harmful to public ...
Mathematical Optimization Techniques For Managing Selective Catalytic Reduction For Coal-fired Power Plants
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2011-07-14)
Coal is one of the most important energy sources in the U.S. However, it is also one of the biggest air polluters where the major emissions generated from coal combustion are oxides of nitrogen (NOx). NOx leads to ozone ...
Optimizing Load Control For A Residential Microgrid In A Collaborative Environment
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-07-22)
This research is aimed to develop an analytical model for a Residential Microgrid under a collaborative environment. In order to maximize profit, Collaborative Consumption (C.C) as a community-based social agreement has ...
Time Depedent Queuing Models Of The National Airspace
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2011-07-14)
Air transportation in the US system has dramatically changed in the past few decades. The National Airspace System (NAS) has increasingly become congested. A high volume of air traffic demand is one of the major challenges ...
Evaluation Of Quality And Sustainability Incentives To Optimize The Indonesian To The United States Crude Oil Supply Chain
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-07-22)
The New York Times explained that the United States increased its dependence on oil from Saudi Arabia by more than 20 percent last year (Krauss 2012). The United States of Energy Information Administration (U.S. EIA) stated ...
Using An AHP/ANP Hybrid Methodology For Freight Transport Networks Selection Towards Sustainable Transportation
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-03-20)
The selection of an effective transportation network for the transport of container freight is one of the most important factors in supply chain and logistics planning. The current transport networks, hub-and-spoke and ...
A Sustainability Based Framework To Make A Strategic Outsourcing Decision For Warehouses In The Electronics Industry
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-07-22)
Over the course of last decades, sustainability matured from an abstract concept to an important source of corporate legitimacy. Supply chain management plays an important role in shaping and framing sustainability, due ...
New Approach For Minimizing Human Errors In Hospital Operating Rooms By Using RFID Alerting Systems
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-07-22)
Patient safety is an increasing concern in health care due to the fact the increasing number of medical errors. Most fatal medical errors happen in hospital operating rooms. This research proposes a unique approach that ...
A Model Characterization Of The Texas Healthcare Facilities
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014-03-10)
The Patient Protect and Affordable Care Act of 2010 became a law on March 23, 2010. This healthcare act, according to the authors, is designed to improve health services by targeting various facets of the industry: ...