For managing reefer containers more efficiently, it is important to optimally determine the block size and the layout of reefer containers in the early design phase. Work balances among blocks of a yard have a significant effect on the productivity of container handling activities in automated container terminals (ACTs), and thus, the productivity of the whole terminal highly depends on the lay...

In this paper, empty container movements in the Los Angeles and Long Beach (LA/LB) port area are studied in an effort to reduce congestion by optimizing the empty container reuse. The dynamic empty container reuse is modeled analytically, and techniques are developed to optimize empty container operations. Several case studies based on current and projected demand in the LA/LB port area are use...

Directed containers make explicit the additional structure of those containers whose set functor interpretation carries a comonad structure. The data and laws of a directed container resemble those of a monoid, while the data and laws of a directed container morphism those of a monoid morphism in the reverse direction. With some reorganization, a directed container is the same as a small catego...

The objective of the study was to determine the effect of switching from an open (glass or semi-rigid plastic) infusion container to a closed, fully collapsible plastic infusion container (Viaflex) on rate and time to onset of central lineassociated bloodstream infections (CLABSI). An open-label, prospective cohort, active healthcare-associated infection surveillance, sequential study was condu...

Let u and v be any two distinct nodes of an undirected graph G, which is k -connected. A container C(u,v ) between u and v is a set of internally disjoint paths {P1,P2, . . . ,Pw } between u and v where 1 ≤ w ≤ k . The width of C(u,v ) is w and the length of C(u,v ) {written as l [C(u,v )]} is max{l (Pi ) | 1 ≤ i ≤ w }. A w -container C(u,v ) is a container with width w . The w -wide distance b...

We shall sketch a domain description of the (or at least a) container line industry with containers, container vessels, container stowage, container terminal ports with quays, container vehicles, quay cranes, stacks, stack cranes, transfer areas, etc., and with nets of sea lanes, container lines, bills of materials, logistics, etc. A domain description, according to [1], is a precise informal, ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Container-breeding mosquitoes, especially Aedes spp are vectors of diseases such as dengue and chikungunya. The abundance of these disease vectors in an area depends on the availability of container habitats and their physicochemical characteristics. The species composition of container-breeding mosquitoes in Asom, India was studied and the larval density was correlated ...

A general purpose 2D CAD system was established by Object-Oriented technology. Key technologies for realizing the system were introduced. The methods for forming shape container, manipulating shape container and constructing graph template library were described in detail. Basic shapes, such as line, rectangle, ellipse, polygon, B-Spline curve and textbox, can be grouped to be a shape container...

Management of container terminal operations is essentially the allocation and scheduling of the expensive resources such as berths, quay cranes, storage space, yard cranes, and container carriers. Each of these resources plays an indispensable role in the interlocking processes in a container terminal. In this survey we give a critical review and a comparative study on various decision problems...