The inventory slack routing problem is a specialized vehicle routing problem that focuses on delivering waves of inventory to sites in a timely and even manner. It is difficult to find an optimal solution to this problem, thus heuristic and search techniques are necessary. ...

Direct observations of the atmospheric processing of Asian mineral dust R. C. Sullivan, S. A. Guazzotti, D. A. Sodeman, and K. A. Prather Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0314, USA Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA now at: Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA, 895...

F. Hendrick, M. Van Roozendael, A. Kylling, A. Petritoli, A. Rozanov, S. Sanghavi, R. Schofield, C. von Friedeburg, T. Wagner, F. Wittrock, D. Fonteyn, and M. De Mazière Institut d’Aéronomie Spatiale de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway Institute of Atmospheric Science and Climate, Bologna, Italy Institute of Environmental Physics, University of B...

This supplement to Tobacco Control is the product of the State and Community Tobacco Control Research Initiative (SCTC), which consists of seven research projects and a coordinating centre funded through cooperative agreements with the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute (NCI). Research conducted by Initiative members addresses important, understudied aspects of state and c...

The Institute of Paper Science and Technology is an independent graduate school, research organization, and information center for science and technology mainly concerned with manufacture and uses of pulp, paper, paperboard, and other forest products and byproducts. Established in 1929 as The Institute of Paper Chemistry, the Institute provides research and information services to the wood, fib...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Using tobacco industry internal documents to investigate the use of tobacco industry consulting scientists to discredit scientific knowledge of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). DESIGN Basic and advanced searches were performed on the Philip Morris, Tobacco Institute, R J Reynolds, Brown and Williamson, Lorillard, and the Council for Tobacco Research document web sites, with ...

This research was done while I was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies (IMES) of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) during the spring of 2001. I am very grateful to the IMES and the BOJ for their hospitality and research resources, and would like to thank the seminar participants at the IMES, Hitotsubashi University, the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry,...

Does secrecy improve security or impede securing software updates? The automotive industry has traditionally relied upon proprietary strategies developed behind closed doors. However, experience in the software security community suggests that open development processes can find flaws before they can be exploited. We introduce Uptane, a secure system for updating software on automobiles that fo...