In this paper, we develop a network-based food supply chain model under oligopolistic competition and perishability, with a focus on fresh produce. The model incorporates food deterioration through the introduction of arc multipliers, with the inclusion of the discarding costs associated with the disposal of the spoiled food products. We allow for product differentiation due to product freshnes...

Abstract Can countries reorient their productive capacity to become more environmentally friendly and inclusive? To investigate this question paper uses a standard Input-Output modeling framework data from 141 regions construct new global dataset of employment, value-added, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (disaggregated into CO 2 Non-CO elements), air pollution (including nine categories polluta...

Reducing the power dissipation of parallel multipliers is important in the design of digital signal processing systems. In many of these systems, the products of parallel multipliers are rounded to avoid growth in word size. The power dissipation and area of rounded parallel multipliers can be signiicantly reduced by a technique known as truncated multiplication. With this technique, the least ...

We decompose factors affecting China’s energy-related air pollutant (NOx, PM2.5, and SO2) emission changes into different effects using structural decomposition analysis (SDA). We find that, from 2005 to 2012, investment increased NOx, PM2.5, and SO2 emissions by 14.04, 7.82 and 15.59 Mt respectively, and consumption increased these emissions by 11.09, 7.98, and 12.09 Mt respectively. Export an...

An ultra low-power digital signal processor (DSP) is proposed for the digital hearing aid. The DSP has a SNR monitor to vary its internal clock frequency in accordance with the input signal level. Digital filters use hardwired barrel shifters in place of multipliers, and a parameter ROM provides filter parameters. The clock generator consumes only 1 μW at sub-1V. The DSP consumes only 10 μW at ...

This paper describes a new design of low power 3-2 compressor circuit for high speed multipliers. Power consumption of proposed 3-2 compressor circuit varies from 0.355 nW to 1.6964 nW and delay varies from 2.0390 ns to 2.0224 ns. Further, power delay product of proposed circuit varies from 7.23×10 -18 (J) to 34.30×10 -18 (J) with varying supply voltage from 1.8V to 3.3V. The proposed compresso...

In previous work, we have used Bayesian methods in the analysis of various models to explain past variation and forecast future values of the rates of growth of real GDP for 18 industrialized countries. Using these models, point and turning point forecasts were calculated and found to be reasonably accurate compared to those of benchmark and other models' forecasts. In this paper, Marshallian d...

In this paper, our objective is to come up with a sound methodology to design supply chains with outstanding delivery performance. As the first step towards this objective, we consider supply chains with a linear workflow, which we call pipelined supply chains. We define a new index of delivery performance called delivery sharpness which measures the precision as well as the accuracy with which...