Demand planning affects the subsequent business activities including distribution center operational planning and management. Today's competitive environment requires distribution centers to rapidly respond to changes in the quantity and nature of demand. For the distribution center, accurate forecasts will help managers to accordingly plan operational activities. In the present thesis, we eval...

Seasonal climate prediction offers potentially useful information for water managers. However, implementing forecast information is challenging due to the probabilistic nature of forecasts and limited demonstrations of usefulness. In this study, an adaptive groundwater pricing model utilizing operational seasonal climate forecasts was evaluated for groundwater management. The price for groundwa...

When visibility is low on an airport (visibility less than 2000ft and/or cloud ceiling below 200ft), its capacity (number of flights landing or taking off per hour) is significantly reduced (up to 1⁄2), causing delays, cancellations, missed connections... The cost for the airport and the companies is high, in particular when the perturbed airport is a hub. The formation of fog cannot be prevent...

OBJECTIVE/BACKGROUND Our aim was to qualitatively explore the experiences of people who attended a one-day sleep workshop six years previously. PARTICIPANTS Of the 95 people who originally attended the workshop and a three-month follow-up, 14 individuals (mean age = 63.6 years) participated. METHODS Semi-structured interviews were used to explore: participants' experiences of insomnia since...

consecutive droughts in sistan and baloochestan province cause water resources restriction and this isa very significant problem for this region. in this study, in order to forecast the drought cycle in 9climatological stations in the province, we used artificial neural networks. the input data wereaverage of annual rainfall data in all stations and also deciles precipitation index, which the f...