Azo dyes are widely used in textile industries. Removal of the color from textile waste water is a striking issue. To curb this issue, biological treatment can be employed rather than physicochemical processes. In this work, Bacillus subtilis is used to degrade the reactive dye – RED M5B. It is found that decolorization was due the action of enzyme peroxidase produced by the organisms during it...

In this paper, we present our vision for a framework to facilitate computationally-based aerospace vehicle design by improving the quality of the response surfaces that can be developed for a given cost. The response surfaces are developed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques of varying fidelity. We propose to improve the quality of a given response surface by exploiting the rela...

For decades, difference scores have been widely used in studies of congruence in organizational research. Although methodological problems with difference scores are well known, few viable alternatives have been proposed. One alternative involves the use of polynomial regression equations, which permit direct tests of the relationships difference scores are intended to represent. Unfortunately,...

Genetic algorithms perform an adaptive search by maintaining a population of candidate solutions that are allocated dynamically to promising regions of the search space. The distributed nature of the genetic search provides a natural source of power for searching in changing environments. As long as sufficient diversity remains in the population the genetic algorithm can respond to a changing r...

A design methodology which uses a variable-complexity modeling approach in conjunction with response surface approximation methods has successfully been developed. This approach uses simple models to improve the accuracy of the response surface and reduce the number of analyses based on complex models required for constructing the surface. Simple models are rst used to eliminate \nonsense" port...

Recently, Jones and Nachtsheim (2011) proposed a new class of designs called definitive screening designs (DSDs). These designs have three levels, provide estimates of main e↵ects that are unbiased by any second-order e↵ect, require only one more than twice as many runs as there are factors, and avoid confounding of any pair of second-order e↵ects. For designs having six factors or more, these ...

Buffer management (BM) is an inventory management methodology introduced by theory of constraints (TOC). In this practice, the retailer passes his demands to the vendor in ‘almost a daily manner’ and has a ‘dynamic inventory buffer’ that reflects the change in demand patterns allowing the vendor the opportunity to replenish his inventory and obtain some market information. In this paper, we con...

A methodology is proposed to jointly model treatments with quantitative levels measured throughout time by combining the response surface and growth curve techniques. The model parameters, which measure the effect throughout time of the factors related to the second-order response surface model, are estimated. These estimates are made through a suitable transformation that allows to express the...

For any Lie algebra of classical type or type G 2 we define a K-theoretic analog of Dunkl's elements, the so-called truncated Ruijsenaars-Schneider-Macdonald elements, RSM-elements for short, in the corresponding Yang-Baxter group, which form a commuting family of elements in the latter. For the root systems of type A we prove that the subalgebra of the bracket algebra generated by the RSM-elem...

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