The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment was a housing mobility program begun in the mid-nineties that relocated volunteer low income families from public housing to rental units in higher opportunity neighborhoods in 5 US cities, using the Section 8 affordable housing voucher program. Compared to the control group who stayed behind in public housing, the MTO voucher group exhibited a harmful...

Order Acceptance and Scheduling at a Make-to-Order System Using Revenue Management. (August 2006) Anshu Jalora, B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India; M.E., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Brett A. Peters Make-to-order (MTO) systems have been traditionally popular in manufacturing industries that either seek to provide greater variety to their customers or ...

ABSTRACT The successful development and application in industry of methanol-to-olefins (MTO) process brought about an innovative efficient route for olefin production via non-petrochemical resources also attracted attention C1 chemistry zeolite catalysis. Molecular sieve catalysts with diversified microenvironments embedding unique channel/cavity structure acid properties, exhibit demonstrable ...

A large body of nonexperimental literature finds residing in a disadvantaged neighborhood is deleterious for mental health, and recent evidence from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) program—a social experiment giving families living in high-poverty neighborhoods the opportunity to move to low-poverty neighborhoods—suggests a causal effect of moving to a low-poverty neighborhood on adult mental h...

The metallothionein genes of Drosophila melanogaster, Mtn and Mto, may play an important role in heavy metal detoxification. Several different tandem duplications of Mtn have been shown to increase cadmium and copper tolerance, as well as Mtn expression. In order to investigate the possibility of increased selection for duplications of these genes in natural populations exposed to high levels o...

We consider a single stage multi-product manufacturing facility producing a large number of end-products for delivery within a service constraint for the customer lead-time. The manufacturing facility is modeled as a multi-product, multi-priority queuing system. In order to reduce inventory costs, an efficient priority allocation between items consists in producing some items according to a Mak...

To be successful in companies, a production planning and control (PPC) concept should fit to the production environment. Essential elements of the concept should correspond with the characteristics of the production system. For classical concepts such as MRP these elements have become common sense. For example BOMexplosion and constant lead times make MRP known to perform best in environments w...

Methylrhenium trioxide (MTO) has the rare ability to stoichiometrically generate methanol at room temperature with an external oxidant (H2O2) under basic conditions. In order to use this transformation as a model for nonredox oxidative C-O coupling, the mechanisms have been elucidated using density functional theory (DFT). Our studies show several possible reaction pathways to form methanol, wi...

Delaying product differentiation is a hybrid strategy that strives to reconcile the dual needs of high variety and quick response time. A common product platform is built to stock in the first stage of production (called the Make-To-Stock (MTS) stage) which is then differentiated into different products after demand is known in the second stage (known as the Make-To-Order (MTO) stage). In this ...

Multi-scale topology optimization (MTO) is exploited today in applications that require designs with large surface-to-volume ratio. Further, the advent of additive manufacturing, MTO has gained significant prominence. However, a major drawback it computationally expensive. As an alternate, graded been proposed where design features at smaller scale are variations single microstructure. This lea...