The existence of uncertainties may result in various unexpected disruption events in logistics delivery, which often makes actual delivery operations deviate from intended plans. The purpose of the paper is to develop a combinational disruption recovery model for vehicle routing problem with...

The labor relationship is the predominant and fundamental relationship in human society. The regulation of this relationship is the most important to human being’s development.The regulation of the labor relationship is closely linked to personal basic rights and individual destiny.To regulate...

We established the existence of weak solutions of the fourth-order elliptic equation of the form <Equation ID="Equa1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$\begin{aligned} \Delta ^2 u -\Delta u + a(x)u=\lambda b(x) f(u) + \mu g (x, u), \qquad x \in \mathbb{R }^N, u \in H^2(\mathbb{R }^N), \end{aligned}$$</EquationSource> </Equation>where <InlineEquation ID="IEq3"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$\lambda $$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> is a positive parameter, <InlineEquation ID="IEq4">...</inlineequation></equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></equation>

Morse Reservoir, a major water supply for the Indianapolis metropolitan area, IN, USA, experiences nuisance cyanobacterial blooms due to agricultural and point source nutrient loadings. Hyperspectral remote sensing data from both in situ and airborne AISA measurements were applied to an adaptive...

Traditionally, manufacturing enterprises pay flat rates for each kiloWatt-hour (kWh) of electricity consumed. Newly available electric tariffs that charge both energy consumption (in kWh) and peak demand (in kiloWatts, i.e., kW) with varying time-of-use (TOU) rates have started to gain...

PDMS (Polydimethylsiloxane) is a typical material used to fabricate optofluidic microreactors for photocatalytic water splitting application. However, conventional direct catalyst coating methods are unable to load catalysts firmly and uniformly on the PDMS substrate, which results in weak bond...

This paper introduces the achievements and development plan on developing and utilizing the renewable energy resources in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. The fact shows that developing and utilizing renewable energy resources is a kind of feasible and effective way to solve the energy...

As required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, utility companies across the U.S. are offering TOU (time-of-use) based electricity demand response programs. The TOU rate gives consumers opportunities to manage their electricity bill by shifting use from on-peak periods to mid-peak and off-peak...