The concept of a collector-distributor lane system, as part of a regional arterial street improvement program is introduced. Such a system can improve operational aspects of certain urban arterial streets by provision of a transitional space between through-traffic streams and entering-exiting streams. Facilities for which this concept is most applicable, are arterial streets along which develo...

A novel method for the characterization and qualification of Hall effect thruster propellant distributors is presented. A quantitative measurement of the azimuthal number density uniformity, a metric which impacts propellant utilization, is obtained from photographs of a premixed flame anchored on the exit plane of the propellant distributor. The technique is demonstrated for three propellant d...

Sensitive data is leaked in software firm, government sectors and also from the web. To prevent this leakage, data allocation strategies are used. Data allocation Strategy improves the probability of identifying leakages. The current model in leakage detection is handled by watermarking. Watermarks can be useful in some of the cases, but it again, modifies of the original data. If the recipient...

Introduction Understanding the jetting phenomena near the gas distributor plate in a fluidized bed is important to gassolids mixing, heat and mass transfer, and erosion on any bed internals, which can all affect the performance of the bed. Moreover, acoustic vibration in a fluidized bed can be used to enhance the fluidization quality of particulate matter. Visualizing the jetting structure usin...

In this paper, we propose a new task decomposition method, Task Decomposition with Pattern Distributor (PD), for multilayered feedforward neural networks. The method uses a combination of network modules in parallel and series to generate the overall solution for a complex problem. We also introduce a method called reduced pattern training in PD networks. This method aims to improve the perform...

Supply chain management (SCM) consists of various components such as: supplier, manufacturer, factories, warehouses, distributions agents etc. These components are involved in various activities such as: supplying raw materials, manufacturing and distribution of the finished product to the final customer. The selection of right distributor is very important activity in SCM. This paper focuses o...

This paper examines the relationship between distributor backorder performance and its inventory levels under Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) in a supply chain that consists of distributors and manufacturers. We construct a principal-agent model to show that distributors' inventory managed by manufacturers can be used to induce distributor efforts, which are unobservable to the manufacturers, in...

one of the ways of selling products is “direct selling”. the companies which use this method sell their products directly to end users just by their distributors’ intermediation. in this method, distributors retail sell the products out of a fixed commercial location. harmful effect of loading unsold products with distributors had legislators make companies buy-back those products. briefly, we ...

North Bandung Cattle Ranching Cooperative (KPSBU) Lembang is a single primary business cooperative that acts as distributor of fresh milk produced by cows owned its member breeders. The distribution from farmers to cooperatives movement material flow suppliers factories known inbound logistics. This study was aimed analyze the logistics performance at KPSBU Lembang, value added for farmer, well...