To improve the critical heat flux (CHF) in boiling transfer, an idea of triggering three-dimensional mixed was proposed, and corresponding surface with extended thin film (ETFS) designed by adding a structure on plain (PS). With ethanol as working fluid, experiments were conducted to explore transfer CHF enhancement mechanisms ETFS. The results demonstrate that ETFS induces spatially uneven tem...

In this paper, an analytical approach is used for assembly line rebalancing and worker assignment for single and mixed-model assembly lines based on a heuristic-simulation algorithm. This approach helps to managers to select a better marketing strategy when different combinations of demands are suitable.Furthermore, they can use it as a guideline to know which worker assignment is better for ea...

What is a strategy? The term strategy has been used by many disciplines in a variety of contexts ranging, for example, from the game of chess and the Cuban missile crisis to markets, computer networks, political systems, cooperation, mating, parasitism, intragenomic conflict, and growth patterns. Despite this wide use of the term, only one discipline—game theory— has carefully examined the conc...

Visuomotor adaptation has been thought to be an implicit process that results when a sensory-prediction error signal is used to update a forward model. A striking feature of human competence is the ability to receive verbal instructions and employ strategies to solve tasks; such explicit processes could be used during visuomotor adaptation. Here, we used a novel task design that allowed us to o...

In recent years, Stackelberg Security Games have been successfully applied to solve resource allocation and scheduling problems in several security domains. However, previous work has mostly assumed that the targets are stationary relative to the defender and the attacker, leading to discrete game models with finite numbers of pure strategies. This paper in contrast focuses on protecting mobile...

Bi-level programming has been used widely to model interactions between hierarchical decision-making problems, and their solution is challenging, especially when the lower-level problem contains discrete decisions. The of such mixed-integer linear bi-level problems typically need decomposition, approximation or heuristic-based strategies which either require high computational effort cannot gua...