The problem of short-term scheduling often involves the satisfaction of variable product demands at specific due dates within the time horizon under consideration. Ierapetritou and Floudas (Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 1998, 37, 4341-4359, 4360-4374) presented a new continuous time formulation to effectively address the problem of short-term scheduling in batch, continuous, and mixed production facilit...

Flexible and dynamic supply chain network design problem has been studied by many researchers during past years. Since integration of short-term and long-term decisions in strategic planning leads to more reliable plans, in this paper a multi-objective model for a sustainable closed-loop supply chain network design problem is proposed. The planning horizon of this model contains multiple strate...

We study the possible existence of black holes in scalar-tensor theories of gravity in four dimensions. Their existence is verified for anomalous versions of these theories, with a negative kinetic term in the Lagrangian. The Hawking temperature TH of these holes is zero, while the horizon area is (in most cases) infinite. It is shown that an infinite value of TH can occur only at a curvature s...

We present three experiments on horizon estimation. In Experiment 1 we verify the human ability to estimate the horizon in static images from only visual input. Estimates are given without time constraints with emphasis on precision. The resulting estimates are used as baseline to evaluate horizon estimates from early visual processes. Stimuli are presented for only 153 ms and then masked to pu...

2 The Dedication, or Cash-Flow Matching (CFM) Model. 3 2.1 The Deterministic Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1.1 Short-term reinvesting and borrowing . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1.2 Tradeability Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.1.3 Transactions costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.1.4 Rebalancing an existing portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.1.5 Tim...