This paper investigates the impact of setup cost reduction on an inventory policy for a continuous review mixture inventory model involving controllable backorder rate and variable lead time with a service level constraint, in which the order quantity, setup cost, and lead time are decision variables. Our objective is to develop an algorithm to determine the optimal order quantity, setup cost, ...

This paper proposes a QoS-Aware Optical Connection Setup Management scheme that uses the Earliest Deadline First (EDF) queueing discipline to schedule the setup of the optical connections. The benefits of this EDF-based scheme are twofold: a) it reduces the blocking probability since blocked connection requests due to resource unavailability are queued for possible future setup opportunities an...

sudden pipe expansions have been known as efficient hydraulic energy dissipaters for a long time. the complex phenomenon of flow separation and velocity discontinuity at the interface of incoming jet and the recirculation flow, results in intensive shear and tensile rupture of the fluid and the associated destructive phenomenon of cavitation. this paper focuses on aeration in sudden pipe expans...

We present a laser-driven, bright, and broadband (50 to 1500 eV) soft-x-ray plasma source with <10 ps pulse duration. This is employed in two complementary, laboratory-scale beamlines for time-resolved, magnetic resonant scattering spectroscopy, as well near-edge x-ray absorption fine-structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy. In both beamlines, dedicated reflection zone plates (RZPs) are used sin...