Addressing an integrated decision-making structure for planting and harvesting scheduling may lead to more realistic, accurate, and efficient decision in fresh product supply chain. This study aims to develop an integrated bi-objective tactical and operational planning model for producing and distributing fresh crops. The first objective of the model is to maximize total revenue of supply chain...

The dependence of single-molecule photoluminescence intermittency (PI) or "blinking" on the local dielectric constant (ε) is examined for nile red (NR) in thin films of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF). In previous studies, variation of the local dielectric constant was accomplished by studying luminophores in chemically and structurally different hosts. In contrast, the NR/PVDF guest-host pair...

The separation ∆ peak between two peaks in the gamma-ray pulse profile is calculated as a function of energy for several polar cap models with curvature-radiation-induced cascades. The Monte Carlo results are interpreted with the help of analytical approximations and discussed in view of the recent data analysis for the Vela pulsar (Kanbach 1999). We find that the behaviour of ∆ peak as a funct...

We give new algorithms for learning halfspaces in the challenging malicious noise model, where an adversary may corrupt both the labels and the underlying distribution of examples. Our algorithms can tolerate malicious noise rates exponentially larger than previous work in terms of the dependence on the dimension n, and succeed for the fairly broad class of all isotropic log-concave distributio...

DNA replication in eukaryotes is asymmetric, with separate DNA polymerases (Pol) dedicated to bulk synthesis of the leading and lagging strands. Pol α/primase initiates primers on both strands that are extended by Pol ε on the leading strand and by Pol δ on the lagging strand. The CMG (Cdc45-MCM-GINS) helicase surrounds the leading strand and is proposed to recruit Pol ε for leading-strand synt...

For a conjunctive normal form formula F with n variables and m = cn 2-variable clauses (c is called the density), denote by maxF is the maximum number of clauses satisfiable by a single assignment of the variables. For the uniform random formula F with density c = 1 + ε, ε À n−1/3, we prove that maxF is in (1 + ε−Θ(ε3))n with high probability. This improves the known upper bound (1 + ε − Ω(ε3/ ...

The field of computational mechanics applies ideas from statistical mechanics, information theory, automata theory, and machine learning to create minimally-sized, optimal predictors of stochastic processes. These predictors, called ε-machines, are a subset of a well known statistical model class called the Hidden Markov Model (HMM). Despite being a subset, ε-machines have several important adv...