Holly-berries obnoxious to Birds

On Obnoxious Markets

Certain markets evoke popular discomfort, distrust and even outrage. Trade in arms, drugs, toxic waste, child labor and body parts, for example, elicits these reactions to different degrees. This paper asks—what is it about some markets that brings about these responses? It is argued that three key parameters—extremity, agency and inequality—have a bearing on our intuitive reactions and serve t...

Transpiration in American Holly in Relation to Leaf Structure

Computing obnoxious 1-corner polygonal chains

We consider an obnoxious facility location problem in which the facility is a trajectory consisting of a bounded length polygonal chain of two edges having extremes anchored at two given points. In other words, given a set S of points in the plane and a positive value l0, we want to compute an anchored 1-corner polygonal chain having length at most l0 such that the minimum distance to the point...

Berries to Establish Occupational Safety and Health

Placing an Obnoxious Facility in Geometric Networks

In this paper we consider several different problems of placing an obnoxious facility on geometric networks. In particular, our main results show how to obtain efficient polynomial time algorithms for locating an obnoxious facility on the given network under various distance functions such as maximizing the total sum of distances or maximizing the smallest of the distances from the facility to ...