Alcohol, tobacco, and unhealthy foods contribute greatly to the global burden of non-communicable disease (NCD). Member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) have recognized the critical need to address these three key risk factors through global action plans and policy recommendations. The 2013-2020 WHO action plan identifies the need to engage economic, agricultural and other relevant...

The paper presents a new method for online identification of pay-loads for a two-link flexible robot. The method benefits from the close correspondence between parameters of a discrete-time model represented by means of the Delta-Operator, and those of the underlying continuous-time model. Although the applied principle might be general in nature, the paper is applied to the well-known problem ...

In this work, we describe short-term and medium-term scheduling for a largescale industrial continuous plant. For medium-range scheduling, two subproblems are solved using a rolling horizon based decomposition scheme. An upper-level model is used to find the optimal number of products, and length of the time horizon to be considered for solving the lower level short-term scheduling problem. At ...

We provide new proofs for two functional central limit theorems, and prove strong approximations for the cumulative “on” times in alternating renewal processes. The proofs rely on a first-passage-time representation of the cumulative “on” time process. As an application, we establish strong approximations for the queueing process in a single-server fluid queue with “on–off” sources.

We propose two mixed-integer linear programming based approaches for the 2-D orthogonal strip packing problem. Using knowledge from the alternative forms of time representation in scheduling formulations, we show how to efficiently combine three different concepts into the xand ydimensions. One model features a discrete representation on the x-axis (strip width) and a continuous representation ...

This paper reviews the advances of mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) based approaches for the scheduling of chemical processing systems. We focus on the short-term scheduling of general network represented processes. First, the various mathematical models that have been proposed in the literature are classified mainly based on the time representation. Discrete-time and continuous-time mod...

Fifteen fertile rams (live weight 55.9 ± 1.21 kg, and 2.5-3 years old) were randomly allotted to three diets consisting of 0 (Control), 12.5 (PBP-12.5), and 25 % (PBP-25.5) pistachio by-products (PBP) in dry matter. Sperm motility parameters were detrimentally affected in animals feeding on PBP-25% diet (P<0.05). Sperm concentration of C17-1, C22-6-n-3, C18-2-Cis and C22-6 n-3 fatty acids decre...

This paper considers a two-stage assembly flow shop scheduling problem. When all parts of each product are completed in the first stage, they are assembled into a final product on an assembly machine in the second stage. In order to reduce the delivery cost, completed products can be held until completion of some other products to be delivered in a same batch. The proposed problem addresses sch...