T. M. Correia, J. S. Young, R. W. Whatmore, J. F. Scott, N. D. Mathur and Q. Zhang 1 Department of Materials, Cranfield University Bedfordshire MK43 OAL, United Kingdom [email protected] 2 Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom 3 Tyndall National Institute, Lee Maltings, Prospect Row, Cork, Ireland 4 Department of Earth...

Supply chain management is an integrative approach for planning and control of materials and information flows with suppliers and customers as well as between different functions within a company. One particularly important element in supply chain management is the management of inventories. This field has received considerable attention during the last years. Nevertheless, most quantitative an...

Abstract This work is part of an effort to structurally integrate self-sensing functionality into smart composite materials using embedded microsensors and local network communication nodes. Here we address the issue of data management through the development of localized processing algorithms. We demonstrate that the two-dimensional fast Fourier transform (FFT) is a useful algorithm due to its...

This note considers an N -stage serial production/inventory system where materials flow from one stage to another in fixed batches. Linear holding and penalty costs (for backorders) are assumed. By Chen [2000], echelon stock (R,nQ) policies are optimal for such systems. Based on the results of Chen [1998], we show that the optimal reorder levels satisfy newsboy inequalities (equalities) when th...

agroecology emphasizes the use of organic materials in agriculture. the organic acids are important sources of organic materials. in order to study the effect of different levels of humic acid on yield and yield components of corn (zea mays l.) an experiment was conducted at research station, faculty of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran, during 2009. the experiment was conducted...

Abstract. This work is part of an effort to develop smart composite materials that monitor their own health using embedded micro-sensors and network communication nodes. Here we address the issue of data management through the development of localized processing algorithms. We demonstrate that the two-dimensional Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is a useful algorithm due to its hierarchical structu...

OBJECTIVE To determine which multidetector-row helical CT scanning technique provides the best-quality reconstructed 3D images, and to assess differences in image quality according to the levels of the scanning parameters used. MATERIALS AND METHODS Four objects with different surfaces and contours were scanned using multidetector-row helical CT at three detector-row collimations (1.25, 2.50,...