Postdisaster Volatility of Blood Donations in an Unsteady Blood Supply Chain*
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Bi-objective optimization of a blood supply chain network with reliability of blood centers
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عنوان ژورنال: Decision Sciences
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0011-7315,1540-5915
DOI: 10.1111/deci.12381