OBJECTIVE To evaluate 8-year weight losses achieved with intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI) in the Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) study. DESIGN AND METHODS Look AHEAD assessed the effects of intentional weight loss on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in 5,145 overweight/obese adults with type 2 diabetes, randomly assigned to ILI or usual care (i.e., diabetes support and ...

A search algorithm based on non-binary forward checking (nFC) is used to solve the car-sequencing problem. The choice of value ordering heuristics having a dramatic effect on solution time for this problem, different ordering heuristics were implementented. The results obtained by using these methods are compared on the instances reported in the CSPLib.

T paper examines the inventories of publicly traded U.S. retail and wholesale companies between 1981 and 2004. First, we document that inventory holdings have been reduced. The median of wholesale inventory holding periods was reduced from 73 days to 49 days. Retail inventory did not start to decline until about 1995. Second, we document that firms with abnormally high inventories have abnormal...

Public charging station occupancy prediction plays key importance in developing a smart strategy to reduce electric vehicle (EV) operator and user inconvenience. However, existing studies are mainly based on conventional econometric or time series methodologies with limited accuracy. We propose new mixed long short-term memory neural network incorporating both historical state sequences time-re...