the present research proposes and optimizes the performance of a novel solar-driven combined cooling, heating, and power (cchp) kalina system for two seasons—winter and summer—based on exergy, exergo-economic, and exergo-environmental concepts applying a non-dominated sort genetic algorithm-ii (nsga-ii) technique. three criteria, i.e. daily exergy efficiency, total product cost rate, and total ...

Tobacco companies have begun to acquire pharmaceutical subsidiaries and recently started to market nicotine replacement therapies, such as Zonnic nicotine gum, in convenience stores. Conversely, tobacco companies are producing tobacco products such as tobacco chewing gum and lozenges that resemble pharmaceutical nicotine replacement products, including a nicotine pouch product that resembles sn...

In this article we improve the known Kazhdan constant for SLn(Z) with respect to the generating set of the elementary matrices. We prove that the Kazhdan constant is bounded from below by [42 √ n + 860], which gives the exact asymptotic behavior of the Kazhdan constant, as n goes to infinity, since √ 2/n is an upper bound. We can use this bound to improve the bounds for the spectral gap of the ...

An age-dependent repair model is proposed. The notion of the “age” of the product and the degree of repair are used to define the virtual age of the product. The virtual failure rate function and the virtual hazard function related to the lifetime of the product are discussed. Under a non-homogeneous Poisson process scenario the expected warranty costs for repairable products associated with li...

In this paper, we analyze the optimal introduction timing of a seller’s products targeted at segments that differ in their willingness to pay for quality. Past studies suggest that an introduction sequence of a high-quality product followed by a lower quality version of the product may mitigate the cannibalization effects of the low-quality product on profits from the high-quality product. We s...

this paper defines how a meta heuristic search engine called p.s.o can be used to maximize the objective function of a logistic regression model, describing the relationship between the response variable (product designs' score) and a set of explanatory variables (product design factors). at the first phase the processed data, classified and categorized, by kansie engineering is used as input t...