this study aims to deal with a more realistic combined problem of project scheduling and material ordering. the goal is to minimize the total material holding and ordering costs by determining the starting time of activities along with material ordering schedules subject to some constraints. the problem is first mathematically modelled. then a hybrid simulated annealing and genetic algorithm is...

in this article, we develop the distributed order fractional hybrid differential equations (dofhdes) with linear perturbations involving the fractional riemann-liouville derivative of order $0 < q < 1$ with respect to a nonnegative density function. furthermore, an existence theorem for the fractional hybrid differential equations of distributed order is proved under the mixed $varphi$-lipschit...

recent experiments on the spherical tokamak have discovered the conditions to create a powerful plasma and ensure easy shaping and amplification of stability, high bootstrap current and confinement energy. the spherical tours (st) fusion energy development path is complementary to the tokamak burning plasma experiment such as nstx and higher toroidal beta regimes and improves the design of a po...

in this article, hybrid organic-inorganic materials were prepared by free radical copolymerization of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (hema) and 3-methacryloxy-propyltrimethoxysilane (mptms) via sol-gel process. the methoxysilane-containing copolymer precursors were synthesized at different compositions. these copolymer precursors were then hydrolyzed and condensed to produce phema-sio2 nanocomposi...

exploitation of the full potential of any hybrid requires the possessing of genetically high-purity seeds. commercial soybean hybrids have been developed using a cytoplasmic male sterility (cms) system. in order to avoid reduction in yield caused by using low-purity seeds, development of a simple, rapid, and accurate method for hybrid purity assessment is of great essence and significance. ther...

In this paper, optimal design of hybrid low damping base isolation and magnetorheological (MR) damper has been studied. Optimal hybrid base isolation system has been designed to minimize the maximum base drift of low damping base isolation system where for solving the optimization problem, genetic algorithm (GA) has been used. In design procedure the maximum acceleration of the structure has ...

Based on the di erential action introduced in [12] we extend the action system framework into a hybrid action system framework. Hybrid action systems are to be used in modelling and analysing hybrid systems. The meaning of a hybrid action system is given as an ordinary action system. We also extended the de nition of a parallel composition for action systems to handle the continuous behaviour i...

Abstract Background and Aim: One of the major problems with resin composite restorations is the weakness of bonding between the new and aged composites. Since appropriate micromechanical retention is necessary for the repair of aged resin composite restorations, the level of surface roughness after sandblasting can be influential in this regard. Considering the diverse composition of avail...

We define and develop the concept of quasi-variety for models of hybrid logics and we apply this for determining initial semantics for classes of hybrid logics theories. The hybrid logic is considered here in a very general sense, internal to abstract institutions (in the sense of the so-called institution theory of Goguen and Burstall). This means our result is applicable to a wide variety of ...

We propose an approach to falsification of oscillation properties of parametric biological models, based on the recently developed techniques for testing continuous and hybrid systems. In this approach, an oscillation property can be specified using a hybrid automaton, which is then used to guide the exploration in the state and input spaces to search for the behaviors that do not satisfy the p...