This article presents a novel alternative subgraphs assembly line balancing problem with resource selection and parallel stations. The model considers both the choice between different process alternatives of production resources for various tasks. It also allows parallelization stations in balanced line, thereby improving flexibility algorithm. objective optimization is to minimize total cost ...

A surprising feature of resource-rich economies is slow growth. It is often argued that natural-resource production impedes development by creating market or institutional failures. This paper establishes an alternative explanation a slow-growing resource sector. A declining resource sector is disproportionally re ected in resource-dependent countries but appears to have little a ect on the res...

This paper describes the creation of a resource of German sentences with multiple automatically created alternative syntactic analyses (parses) for the same text, and how qualitative and quantitative investigations of this resource can be performed using ANNIS, a tool for corpus querying and visualization. Using the example of PP attachment, we show how parsing can benefit from the use of such ...

Often resource selection functions (RSFs) are developed by comparing resource attributes of used sites to unused or available ones. We present alternative approaches to the analysis of resource selection based on the utilization distribution (UD). Our objectives are to describe the rationale for estimation of RSFs based on UDs, offer advice about computing UDs and RSFs, and illustrate their use...

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), as a system of allocative efficiency for global health programs, is an influential criterion for resource allocation in the context of diplomacy and inherent foreign policy decisions therein. This is because such programs have diplomatic benefits and costs that can be uploaded from the recipient and affect the broader foreign policy interests of the donor and ...