in this paper, we develop a freight transportation model for railway network considering hazmat transportation issue. in the transportation system considered, different customers can request for carrying hazmat and non- hazmat boxes. it is assumed that the sequence of the trains in the network is known. the objective is assigning the non-hazmat boxes and hazmat boxes to wagons of the trains so ...

Saliva collection and cortisol radioimmunoassay techniques were developed to enable frequent, "non-stressful" monitoring of stress in sheep and calves. Thus, transitory stress responses due to transport, castration or confinement have been recorded and compared. Significant increases in salivary cortisol concentration occurred in sheep exposed to rough transport or when first confined in metabo...

in this study, a hierarchical hub location problem by considering different modes of transportation and maximum allowed delay is investigated. this study is done on iran’s express postal service with 2 days maximum delay in delivery considering ground and airport hubs. the problem is of the type of location and single allocation for collection, transfer and distribution of the shipments. all th...

Routine and consistent data collection is required to address contemporary transportation issues. The cost of increases significantly when sophisticated machines are used collect data. Due this constraint, State Departments Transportation struggle for analyzing resolving problems in a timely manner. Recent advancements sensors integrated into smartphones have resulted more affordable method col...

Sentences with “more” can be used to compare along many different dimensions (e.g., number, height, etc.). Barner, Wagner, and Snedeker (2008) found that participants strongly preferred number as the relevant dimension for comparatives with deverbal nominals like “more jumping,” even when height was an available choice. Would this preference manifest as a choice of number over height pitting th...

Human biospecimen collection, processing and preservation are rapidly emerging subjects providing essential support to clinical as well as basic researchers. Unlike collection of other biospecimens (e.g. DNA and serum), biobanking of viable immune cells, such as peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and/or isolated immune cell subsets is still in its infancy. While certain aspects of proces...

The management of municipal solid waste (MSW) in China is facing urgent problems with rapid industrialization and urbanization. This article focused on the status of Hangzhou, capital city of Zhejiang province, China. The regulations, policies, implementation, barriers and solutions about source separation, separate collection, clean & direct transportation, treatment and disposal were introduc...

This report outlines a series of vision-based algorithms for data collection at traffic intersections. We have purposed an algorithm for obtaining sound spatial resolution, minimizing occlusions through an optimization-based camera-placement algorithm. A camera calibration algorithm, along with the camera calibration guided user interface tool, is introduced. Finally, a computationally simple d...