A multiobjective programming for transportation model with the consideration of both depot to customer and customer to customer relationships is proposed in this research. The objectives are to minimize the total transportation cost which is the baseline objective and to minimize the overall independence value. A Lexicographic Goal Programming (LGP) is applied to the proposed model. A minimizat...

BACKGROUND Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate contraception is widely used in Navajo women, a high-risk population for diabetes mellitus. However, depot medroxyprogesterone may lead to weight gain and independently decrease insulin sensitivity. We studied the association between depot medroxyprogesterone and development of diabetes in Navajo women. METHODS We studied Navajo women aged 18 to 50...

The properties of the depot fats of animals depend, to some extent, upon the nature of the dietary fats. Thus it was shown by Anderson and Mendel (1) that feeding of highly unsaturated oils results in the deposition of a body fat of high iodine number, whereas the administration of “hard” fat in the diet leads to a decrease in the iodine number of the depot fats. Recently Longenecker and Hildit...

A 50-year-old male patient with comorbid human immunodeficiency virus developed a relapse of bipolar disorder after a switch from oral aripiprazole 10 mg/day to intramuscular aripiprazole depot 200 mg every 28 days plus oral aripiprazole 5 mg/day. The patient was concomitantly taking lopinavir, saquinavir, ritonavir, silybum marianum extract, and omeprazole. Only 1 week after the switch, the pa...

Aircraft must follow strict Air Traffic Control (ATC) rules. One of these rules is that aircraft have to fly over predefined Flight Routes (FR). Current ATC visualizations do not display FRs because they are numerous and run into each other, and thus spoil the visualization. The schematic views for metro maps are used to maximize the transmission of relevant information (lines, metro stops) of ...

The installation of stationary super-capacitor energy storage system (ESS) in metro systems can recycle the vehicle braking energy and improve the pantograph voltage profile. This paper aims to optimize the energy management, location, and size of stationary super-capacitor ESSes simultaneously and obtain the best economic efficiency and voltage profile of metro systems. Firstly, the simulation...

Jinan is a famous spring city in China. Construction of underground metro system may block groundwater seepage, inducing the depletion risk of springs. This paper presents an assessment of the risk due to metro line construction to groundwater in Jinan City using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Geographic International System (GIS). Based on the characteristics of hydrogeology and engineer...

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is a link management standard that provides loop free paths in Ethernet networks. Deploying STP in metro area networks is inadequate because it does not meet the requirements of these networks. STP blocks redundant links, causing the risk of congestion close to the root. As a result, STP provides poor support for load balancing in metro Ethernet networks. A solution...

ID: I935 Timothy W. Duket and Seokcheon Lee School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47906

This article addresses an extension of the multi-depot vehicle routing problem in which vehicles may be replenished at intermediate depots along their route. It proposes a heuristic combining the adaptative memory principle, a tabu search method for the solution of subproblems, and integer programming. Tests are conducted on randomly generated instances.