With best wishes to the Japanese Paper Industry

Farewell and Best Wishes

permanent editor-in-chief is selected. With publication of this issue, I have reached a long-planned retirement from the NIEHS and Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP ). The mission of EHP is to serve as a forum for the discussion of the interrelationships between the environment and human health by publishing in a balanced and objective manner the best peer-reviewed research and most curren...

Best Available Techniques in the Pulp and Paper Industry

Best Wishes for Your Successful Completion of the Examination!

Please remember that this is a closed-book examination. You must be prepared to answer 4 of the 7 questions. Although not necessary, you may prepare written answers, overhead figures, or any type of materials that you think might be useful in the presentation of your answers. You may bring such preparation materials with you to the examination. The oral examination itself will not extend beyond...

ASSESSING SENSITIVITY TO PRIORS USING HIGHER ORDER APPROXIMATIONS With best wishes to Professor Akahira

Higher order likelihood methods lead to an easily implemented and highly accurate approximation to both joint and marginal posterior distributions. This makes it quite straightforward to assess the influence of the prior, and to assess the effect of changing priors, on the posterior quantiles. We discuss this in the light of some simple examples that illustrate in concrete form the potential fo...

Markovian inventory policy with application to the paper industry

This paper concerns problem formulation and solution procedure for inventory planning with Markov decision process models. Using data collected from a large paper manufacturer, we develop inventory policies for the finished products. To incorporate both variability and regularity of the system into mathematical formulation, we analyze probabilistic distribution of the demand, explore its connec...