Virtually all manufacturing and service industries are susceptible to periods of supply and demand mismatches. Due to capacity limitations and demand uncertainties, firms producing multiple products may frequently encounter instances where one of their products faces shortages while the other has excess inventories. In order to alleviate the level of such inventory mismatches, several tools may...

OBJECTIVES The fall in the prevalence of left handedness with age has been attributed to either premature mortality or a cohort effect of forced dextrality. Evidence for forced dextrality was sought to differentiate between these competing theories. DESIGN 6097 Edinburgh handedness inventories were used to calculate laterality quotients (LQ) with and without the questions relating to writing ...

This paper studies operations sequencing for a multi-stage production inventory system with lead times under predictable (deterministic) yield losses in the presence of uncertain demand, with full or partial release of work-in-process (WIP) inventories, for preor post-operation cost structures, and under the total discounted or average cost criteria. We derive necessary and sufficient criteria ...

this paper deals with a multi-period fixed charge production-distribution problem associated with backorder and inventories. the objective is to determine the size of the shipments from each supplier and backorder and inventories at each period, so that the total cost incurred during the entire period towards production, transportation, backorder and inventories is minimised. a 0-1 mixed intege...

We evaluate two leading explanations for inventories, the (S,s) and stockout avoidance motives, examining each within dynamic stochastic general equilibrium environments. We find that the (S,s) model is far more consistent with the cyclical behavior of aggregate inventories in the postwar U.S. when fluctuations arise from technology shocks, rather than preference shocks, while the converse is t...

Biodiversity assessment of tropical taxa is hampered by their tremendous richness, which leads to large numbers of singletons and incomplete inventories in survey studies. Species estimators can be used for assessment of alpha diversity, but calculation of beta diversity is hampered by pseudo-turnover of species in undersampled plots. To assess the impact of unseen species, we investigated diff...

Personality factors such as behavioral inhibition (BI), a temperamental tendency for avoidance in the face of unfamiliar situations, have been identified as risk factors for anxiety disorders. Personality factors are generally identified through self-report inventories. However, this tendency to avoid may affect the accuracy of these self-report inventories. Previously, a computer based task wa...