Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to extend the analysis of the distribution-free newsvendor problem under the circumstance of customer balking, which usually occurs when customers are reluctant to buy products if the available inventory falls below a threshold level. Design/methodology/approach: A new tradeoff tool is provided as a replacement of the traditional one to weigh the holding co...

In this study, we reported our experience performing robotic extended lymph node dissection (eLND) in patients with prostate cancer. A total of 147 patients with intermediate and high-risk prostate cancer who underwent robotic eLND from May 2008 to December 2011 were included in this analysis. The dissection template extended to the ureter crossing the iliac vessels. We assessed lymph node yiel...

backgrounds: bleomycin (blm) has been labeled with radioisotopes and widely used in therapy and diagnosis. in this study blm was labeled with [62zn] zinc chloride for oncologic pet studies. materials and methods: the complex was obtained at the ph=2 in normal saline at 90 ° c in 60 min. radio-tlc showed an overall radiochemical yield of 95-97% (radiochemical purity > 97%). stability of complex ...

We consider a model for interest rates, where the short rate is given by a time-homogenous, one-dimensional affine process in the sense of Duffie, Filipović, and Schachermayer. We show that in such a model yield curves can only be normal, inverse or humped (i.e. endowed with a single local maximum). Each case can be characterized by simple conditions on the present short rate rt. We give condit...

the modeling can provide a quantitative approach and consistency in the estimationsoil erosion and sediment yield by a wide range of conditions. in this study, the integration method of revised universal soil loss equation model, geographic information system and remote sensing techniques were used in order to identify the spatial distribution of soil erosion and sediment yield in the talar wat...

a field experiment was conducted during 2003-4, 2004-5 cropping seasons evalute the effects of plant density on growth and yield of different rapeseed cultivars. the study was carried out at ramin agriculture and natural resources university (35 km from northeast of ahwaz). the experiment was in the form of split plots' based upon a complete randomized block design of four replications. ma...

Low-load nanoindentation can be used to assess not only the plastic yield point, but the distribution of yield points in a material. This paper reviews measurements of the socalled nanoscale strength distribution (NSD) on two classes of materials: crystals and metallic glasses. In each case, the yield point has a significant spread (10–50% of the mean normalized stress), but the origins of the ...

CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS The Agricultural Risk Management SimProbabilistic budgeting methods are used in ulator (ARMS) is a microcomputer program ARMS to evaluate the impact of alternative designed to help users evaluate strategies for management strategies on annual net cash managing yield and price risk in crop farming flow probability distributions. Probabilistic operations. Risk management st...