This research employs probit analysis to examine the selection criteria governing nonuniform application of concentrated housing code enforcement in the city of St. Louis. The study has three specific objectives: (1) to identify the goals and geographic selection criteria characteristic of St. Louis' concentrated code enforcement program during the twenty years that it was in effect; (2) to est...

The classical single-band uncertainty model introduced by Bertsimas and Sim [8] has represented a breakthrough in the development of tractable robust counterparts of Linear Programs. However, adopting a single deviation band may be too limitative in practice: in many real-world problems, observed deviations indeed present asymmetric distributions over asymmetric ranges, so that getting a higher...

The objectives of this study were to estimate (co)variance components for growth and feed efficiency measures, and to compare selection strategies to improve economic efficiency of gain. Variance components for pre- and postweaning growth, body weight, and measures of feed efficiency were estimated from data collected on 1,047 Targhee lambs over 7 yr. Approximately 21 d after weaning, lambs wer...

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Structure Based on Non-competitive Input-Output Analysis Zhirui MU Cuihong YANG Abstract By applying a non-competitive input-output model capturing processing exports of China, this paper establishes a multi-objective programming model to optimize the export structure. In the input-output model, China’s domestic production is divided into three parts, production for domestic use, processing exp...

The display of visual content is an important means to support presentations and discussions. For this, utilizing multi-display-environments (MDE) seems promising in order to show different aspects of data simultaneously and to combine pieces of content from various users. Smart Meeting Rooms (SMRs) provide such an environment but also allow for new assistance approaches, which can support user...

assembly lines are special kinds of production systems which are of great importance in the industrial production of high quantity commodities. in many practical manufacturing systems, configuration of assembly lines is fixed and designing a new line may be incurred huge amount of costs and thereby it is not desirable for practitioners. when some changes related to market demand occur, it is wo...