In 14 mongrel dogs wash-in and wash-out curves for halothane were obtained from measurements of arterial blood, mixed venous blood and end-tidal gas. From a certain point in the wash-in period the halothane concentration of arterial blood can be calculated from the halothane concentration in end-tidal gas and the blood-gas partition coefficient for halothane. Analysis of the curves shows that t...

This note applies techniques we have developed to study coherence in monoidal categories with two tensors, corresponding to the tensor–par fragment of linear logic, to several new situations, including Hyland and de Paiva’s Full Intuitionistic Linear Logic (FILL), and Lambek’s Bilinear Logic (BILL). Note that the latter is a noncommutative logic; we also consider the noncommutative version of F...

We study the question of how to shuffle n cards when faced with an opponent who knows the initial position of all the cards and can track every card when permuted, except when one takes K < n cards at a time and shuffles them in a private buffer “behind your back,” which we call buffer shuffling. The problem arises naturally in the context of parallel mixnet servers as well as other security ap...

Assisted living facilities (ALFs) have grown over the past few decades. If they attract residents with lower care needs away from nursing homes (NHs), NHs may be left with higher case mix residents. We study the relationship between ALF bed market capacity and NH case mix in a state (Virginia) where ALF bed capacity stabilized after a period of growth. Similarly, NH capacity and use had been st...

The increasing concerns about the environment and the depletion of natural resources are the main drivers for the growing interest in sustainability. Manufacturing operations are frequently considered to have an adverse effect on the environment. Hence, the sustainable operation of manufacturing facilities is a vital practice to ensure sustainability. The aim of this paper is to find the optimu...

We investigate tactical level planning problems in float glass manufacturing. Float glass manufacturing is a process that has some unique properties such as uninterruptible production, random yields, partially controllable co-production compositions, complex relationships in sequencing of products, and substitutable products. Furthermore, changeover times and costs are very high, and production...

Marketing products globally is challenging due to the diverse nature of markets. We use market heterogeneity, unbranded competition, resource and infrastructure availability, and sociopolitical governance as country-market characteristics that distinguish between developed and emerging countries. We investigate their moderating role on the relationship between elements of the marketing mix and ...