The Last Mile in Academic Publishing: Revising a Manuscript

Illuminating the Last Mile?

The next leap in the communications market may be the extension of optical technology to access networks. Advanced fibre optical access equipment has been developed in the last decade and today trial tests are on the way and insular deployment has begun. The access network, the last mile, has not encountered any major changes of technology for a century. However, current advancements in technol...

Last Mile Distribution in Humanitarian Relief

Last mile distribution is the final stage of a humanitarian relief chain; it refers to delivery of relief supplies from local distribution centers (LDCs) to beneficiaries affected by disasters. In this study, we consider a vehicle-based last mile distribution system, in which an LDC stores and distributes emergency relief supplies to a number of demand locations. The main decisions are allocati...

The Last Food Mile: Conference Summary

A 2014 report by the Economic Research Service of the USDA revealed that 31% or 133 billion pounds – of the available food supply at the retail and consumer levels went uneaten by Americans in 2010. Such a vast amount of waste is particularly difficult to accept given that roughly one in six Americans experience food insecurity, and that inadequate nutrition is leading to a serious increase in ...

The four R's of revising and resubmitting a manuscript.

Quality of Service for the Last Mile

As broadband access to the Internet is expected to become widely available to customers over the last-mile, the need for providing Quality of Service (QoS) classifications over lastmile links is keenly felt. This report deals with a broad set of last-mile technologies from the perspective of their respective abilities to support QoS. A brief overview of the QoS characteristics, standards define...