The Davis growth model (DGM) simulates growth and body composition of beef cattle and predicts development of 4 fat depots. Model development and evaluation require quantitative data on fat weights, but sometimes it is necessary to use carcass data that are more commonly reported. Regression equations were developed based on published data to interconvert between carcass characteristics and kil...

Multi-modal logistics chains are those transportation processes in which different modes of transportation are involved for the delivery of goods. These modes are adopted in consecutive legs, which have to be synchronized. An example scenario is the delivery of goods from a production center in New York, USA, to a plant in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The transportation chain consists of two legs:...

Nowadays, the number of users relying on broadband wireless connectivity while riding public transportation vehicles is increasing significantly. One of the promising solutions is to deploy moving base stations on public transportation vehicles to form moving networks (MNs) to serve these vehicular users inside the vehicles. In this paper, we study the benefits and challenges in deploying MNs i...

Many biological systems use extensive networks for the transport of resources and information. Ants are no exception. How do biological systems achieve efficient transportation networks in the absence of centralized control and without global knowledge of the environment? Here, we address this question by studying the formation and properties of inter-nest transportation networks in the Argenti...

Outbound logistics is a crucial field of management. This study considers planning distribution for the poultry industry in Thailand. The goal to minimize transportation cost multi-depot vehicle-routing problem (MDVRP). A novel enhanced differential evolution algorithm (RI-DE) developed based on new re-initialization mutation formula and local search function. mixed-integer programming formulat...

Vehicle routing problems with pickup and delivery are of primary importance in distribution and logistics. Given a set of non-homogeneous vehicles, which are located at one central depot, the objective is to generate an optimal route plan ensuring that the demand for heterogeneous commodities can be satisfied by an arbitrary set of suppliers. Owing to their physical property, commodities have t...

The aims of this retrospective study were to evaluate the efficacy of different steroid formulations (depot vs oral) and if the continuous administration of steroids throughout and beyond a CHOP protocol might improve the survival time and rate of cats with mediastinal lymphoma. The medical records of client-owned cats diagnosed with mediastinal lymphoma were reviewed at two veterinary referral...

Kliewer et al. (2006b, 2011) proposed a time window implementation to the multi-depot vehicle (and crew) scheduling problem using a time-space network (TSN). Based on this approach, we developed a new methodology to implement time windows to the vehicle-type scheduling problem (VTSP), which solves the vehicle scheduling problem considering heterogeneous fleet. Our method presents as main advant...

The synthetic polypeptide depot-tetracosactrin (Synacthen-Depot) was given to nine steroid-treated asthmatic patients hypersensitive to animal corticotrophin. Eight had a satisfactory increase in plasma and urinary 17-hydroxycorticosteroids (17-OHCS). The remaining patient had been shown previously to have adrenal suppression. None of the patients developed allergic reactions to depot-tetracosa...

This paper presents a method for solving multi-depot vehicle routing problem (MDVRP). First, a virtual central depot is added to transfer MDVRP to the multi-depot vehicle routing problem with the virtual central depot (V-MDVRP), which is similar to a vehicle routing problem (VRP) with the virtual central depot as the origin. An improved ant colony optimization with coarse-grain parallel strateg...