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Heuristics for minimizing tool switches when scheduling part types on a flexible machine
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-08)
This article considers a tool loading problem whose objective is to minimize the number of tool switches over time in order to process several parts on a flexible machine. New heuristics are presented and compared. Some ...
Research on dust explosions at the University of Michigan
(Elsevier, 1992-08)
Dust explosion research carried out at the University of Michigan during the last two decades has been summarized. Significant results are presented on the smoldering combustion of dust heaps, turbulent combustion of ...
Integrated design of run-to-run PID controller and SPC monitoring for process disturbance rejection
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-05)
An integrated design methodology has been developed for a run-to-run PID controller and SPC monitoring for the purpose of process disturbance rejection. In the paper, the process disturbance is assumed to be an ARMA (1,1) ...
The GLRT for statistical process control of autocorrelated processes
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-12)
This paper presents an on-line Statistical Process Control (SPC) technique, based on a Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test (GLRT), for detecting and estimating mean shifts in autocorrelated processes that follow a normally ...
Genetic information, obesity, and labor market outcomes
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-09)
Economists have argued that obesity may lead to worse labor market outcomes, especially for women. Empirical methods to test this hypothesis have not thus far adequately controlled for the endogeneity of obesity. We use ...
Phase transformations of a liquid crystalline epoxy during curing
(Elsevier, 1994-06)
The phase transformations of a novel liquid crystalline epoxy, diglycidyl ether of 4,4'-dihydroxy-[alpha]-methylstilbene (DGEDHMS), from isotropic phase to liquid crystalline phase during curing have been studied using a ...
Economic incentives in software design
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1993-11)
I examine the incentives for software providers to design appropriate user interfaces. There are two sorts of costs involved when one uses software: the fixed cost of learning to use a piece of software and the variable ...
Assessment and science education: Our essential new priority?
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2012-08)
Counting Groves-Ledyard equilibria via degree theory
(Elsevier, 1983-10)
We study the Groves-Ledyard mechanism for determining optimal amounts of public goods in economies whose agents have the most general class of preferences for which a Pareto amount of public goods can be computed independently ...
The effects of excise taxes and regulations on cigarette smoking
(Elsevier, 1991-05)
We estimate a generalized linear model to examine adult and teenage cigarette demand. Our analysis focuses on the extent to which exice taxes and regulations restricting smoking in public places affect cigarette consumption. ...