In this working note we describe our submission to the FIRE2017 IRMiDiS track. We participated in both sub-tasks, the first of which was directed at identifying the need or availability of specific resources and the second at matching tweets expressing the need for a resource with tweets mentioning their availability. Our linguistically motivated approach using pattern matching of word n-grams ...

in this paper, an exact geometric algorithm is presented for solving two-job sequencing and scheduling problems in flexible flow shop and job shop environments while the resources are (un)available in some time periods and processors (un)availability is the same in all work centers. this study seems utterly new and it is applicable to any performance measure based on the completion time. the in...

This research investigated impulse buying as resulting from the depletion of a common—but limited—resource that governs self-control. In three investigations, participants’ self-regulatory resources were depleted or not; later, impulsive spending responses were measured. Participants whose resources were depleted, relative to participants whose resources were not depleted, felt stronger urges t...

Drought as a natural but temporary imbalance of water availability is the interaction between natural environment and human life resulting in diminished water resources availability and reduced carrying capacity of the ecosystems. Drought indices are essential elements for an efficient drought monitoring system. These indices make the transforming information of climatic anomalies easier and al...

Multiple nations and private entities are pushing to make landing humans on Mars a reality. The majority of proposed mission architectures envision ‘living off the land’ by leveraging Martian water-ice deposits for fuel production other purposes. Fortunately designers, water ice exists in plentiful volumes. challenge is isolating accessible within regions that optimize preferred landing-site co...