We considered the online scheduling problem of simple linear deteriorating job families on m parallel batch machines to minimize the makespan, where the batch capacity is unbounded. In this paper, simple linear deteriorating jobs mean that the actual...
The perishable milk products industry has to deal with multiple pressures such as demand forecasting, price fluctuations, lead time, order batching, and inflated orders along with difficulties of climatic and traffic conditions, storage areas and shi...
In recent years, the global resource shortage has become a serious issue. Recycling end-of-life (EOL) products is conducive to resource reuse and circular economy and can mitigate the resource shortage issue. The disassembly of EOL products is the fi...
The primary goal of business organization is optimally maximizing their productivity and profit whilst reducing the cost resulting from lost sales and services given to their customers, which can be achieved by exceeding the balance between the deman...
This paper addresses a batch loading and scheduling problem of minimizing the makespan on parallel batch processing machines. For batch loading, jobs with compatible families can be assigned to the same batch process even if they differ in size; howe...
Understanding the long-term performance deterioration trends and mechanisms of asphalt pavement is crucial for effective maintenance strategies. This study characterizes and correlates the multi-scale performance deterioration of a 14-year asphalt pa...
In this paper, we prove that the Taylor expansions of analytic functions appearing in the linearization of quadratic maps at hyperbolic fixed points do not successfully approximate invariant manifolds, such as stable and unstable manifolds, when high...
The aim of this study was to determine the factors associated with visual field (VF) deterioration after trabeculectomy, including the peripapillary vessel density (pVD) and macular vessel density (mVD) changes assessed by optical coherence tomograph...
Distributed control architecture can bring many benefits to the engine control system, but the delay and packet dropout introduced by network communication will bring negative effects to the control system. The aging and deterioration of the engine a...
The deterioration of the interlayer interface of a double-block ballastless track is affected by the environmental temperature and moisture conditions, which will have a negative effect on its service life. Composite specimens with interlayer interfa...
Owing to the combination of bitumen aging, traffic loading, and environmental factors, the performance of asphalt will gradually deteriorate with time. However, characterizing the deterioration is still challenging. Aiming to reveal how the performan...
The U.S. navigable infrastructure is a system of waterways dependent upon hydraulic steel structures (HSS) to facilitate the passage of ships and cargo. The system is linear in the sense that if one HSS is impassable, the entire river system is halte...
This paper explores the advantages of using relative free energy instead of exergy to build a mathematical theory of thermodynamic costs to diagnose malfunctions in thermal systems. This theory is based on the definition of a linearized characteristi...
The altered nature of archaeological metals means they deteriorate at much lower relative humidity (RH) conditions than historical metals. The study of deterioration for such materials is hampered by their complexity, variability and difficulties in...
This paper explores the advantages of using relative free energy instead of exergy to build a mathematical theory of thermodynamic costs to diagnose malfunctions in thermal systems. This theory is based on the definition of a linearized characteristi...
In this study, the effect of capitalization premium in forest estate markets on forest management and climate change mitigation economics is investigated. It is shown that proportional goodwill in capitalization induces linear scaling of the financia...
A growing number of recent research analyse the trade balance impact on economic growth. However, ambiguous results of studies imply the need for the research as the deteriorating trade balance hinders economic growth. This research aims to investiga...
The Indonesian government needs to maintain around 231,000 school buildings in active use. Such a portfolio of buildings given the diversity of locations, limited maintenance budget, and deterioration rates varied by different building conditions pre...
The deterioration of mortar has an adverse impact on the deformation and stress state of the masonry arch dam, after freeze-thaw cycles, in long-term operation. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of reinforcement grouting on the s...
This paper presents an analysis of the decision quality of the predict-then-optimize (PO) framework, an extensively used prescriptive analytics framework in uncertain optimization problems. Our primary aim is to investigate whether an increase in dat...
Background: Evaluation of left ventricular (LV) function in patients with idiopathic premature ventricular contraction (PVC) with preserved LV ejection fraction (LVEF), especially in the subclinical stage, may be of great importance in terms of direc...
Introduction: Primary lymphedema is usually caused by intrinsic disruption or genetic damage to the lymphatics but may also be the result of age-related deterioration of the lymphatics. The aims of this study were to determine the characteristics of...
This study aimed to investigate socioeconomic and health-related determinants and recent life events and their relation to changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and mental well-being during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. A web-b...
The research identifies and substantiates the problem of quality deterioration in the sentiment classification of text collections identical in composition and characteristics, but staggered over time. It is shown that the quality of sentiment classi...
Background Predictive machine learning models have made use of a variety of scoring systems to identify clinical deterioration in ICU patients. However, most of these scores include variables that are dependent on medical staff examining the patient....
This study addresses a magneto-viscoelasticity problem, considering the one-dimensional case. The system under investigation is given by the coupling a non-linear partial differential equation with a linear integro-differential equation. The system m...
Impairments in gait, postural stability, and sensory functions were proved to be strongly associated with severe cognitive impairment such as in dementia. However, to prevent dementia, it is necessary to detect cognitive deterioration early, which re...
Stone is a durable and high-performance paving material in standard and in intensive service regimes. Stone is thus a preferable material for sidewalk and promenade paving under intensive service regimes, such as touristic promenades and historic sit...
In its long service life, bridge structure will inevitably deteriorate due to coupling effects; thus, bridge maintenance has become a research hotspot. The existing algorithms are mostly based on linear programming and dynamic programming, which have...
Understanding and managing water quality in drinking water distribution system is essential for public health and wellbeing, but is challenging due to the number and complexity of interacting physical, chemical and biological processes occurring with...
1 February 2019
Objectives: In an aged Japanese population, we investigated associations of demographic variables with subjective neurocognitive complaints using the Neurocognitive Questionnaire (NCQ). Methods: Participants (N = 649) provided answers to the NCQ in b...
Transistor linearizer networks are proposed to increase the transmitted output voltage amplitudes of class-C amplifiers, thus, increasing the sensitivity of the echo signals of piezoelectric transducers, which are the main components in portable ultr...
Research on single faults like tooth root cracks and bearing outer ring failures is well-established. However, existing studies often replace the actual crack propagation path with a simplified linear crack model, neglecting the variation in stress i...
Safety and quality, as the major concerns of meat, are highly dependent on the ingredients and packaging techniques used. A basic combination of active and intelligent packaging is believed to be capable of preserving product quality, extending shelf...
5 January 2022
Aim: To explore the effect of changes in sleep characteristics on changes in quality of life during the transition period of new graduate nurses. Background: Sleep problems among nurses are associated with negative physical and psychological conseque...
One of the characteristic features of tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) sensors is a strong influence of bias voltage on tunneling current. Since fundamental sensing characteristics of the sensors are primarily determined by the tunneling current, th...
This study investigated the effect of adding polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) on the processing, surface and mechanical properties of linear low-density polyethylene (rLLDPE) recyclate generated as post-production waste in the rotational molding process....
This study investigates the deterioration of skid resistance and surface macrotexture following preventive maintenance using micro-milling techniques. Field data were collected from 31 asphalt pavement sections located across four climatic zones in T...
This study analyzes long-term deterioration patterns in 1378 Maryland steel bridges using annual Bridge Health Index (BHI) records from 1995–2021. Missing observations were addressed through linear interpolation combined with forward/backward f...
Maximizing benefit from budget allocation is a major challenge for municipalities in the modern era. This is especially significant when it comes to infrastructure network management such as water distribution networks. The main challenges of water d...
This paper describes the design method of a flight control system of a Quad Tilt-Wing (QTW) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). A QTW-UAV is necessary to design a controller considering its nonlinear dynamics because of the appearance of the nonlinearity...
Minimally processed ready-to-eat (RTE) vegetables are increasingly consumed for their health benefits. However, they also pose a risk of being ingested with food-borne pathogens. The present study investigated the ability of RTE spinach and rocket to...
Frequency lock-in-induced deadband phenomena are major problems of ring laser gyroscopes (RLGs), which deteriorate linear responses to changes in the applied rotation rate. In this work, the frequency lock-in phenomenon occurring in the RLG was succe...
M50 steel is a critical bearing material, yet its tribological properties may deteriorate in engineering applications. To reduce the frictional resistance between M50 steel and contact surfaces, this study utilized laser processing technology to fabr...
Adopting the cold metal transfer plus pulse (CMT + P) process, 316L stainless steel wire was treated with a single channel multi-layer deposition experiment under different linear energy. The microstructures of different regions on the deposited samp...
Objective: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) disease state prediction usually assumes linear progression and uses a classifier evaluated by its accuracy. Since disease progression is not linear, and the accuracy measurement cannot tell large from s...
In particular business transactions, the supplier usually provides an admissible delay in settlement to its vendor to encourage further sales. Additionally, the demand for the commodity is inversely proportional to the function of the sales price, wh...
The prolonged operation of machines in the production process can lead to continuous deterioration or even failure, and the necessary maintenance measures can alleviate the above negative effects. For this reason, this study investigates a joint opti...
Cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) cable is a representative power transmission cable. XLPE has excellent mechanical properties, chemical and heat resistance, and insulation. However, XLPE insulation deteriorates during operation due to electrical, mec...
One of the significant issues facing the world right now is food deterioration. If the freshness or deterioration of a fruit can be determined before it is lost, the fruit waste problem may be mitigated. The goal of this work is to develop a simple m...
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