Due to its importance, lots of investigations had been carried out in the last four decades to study the relationship between phase duration and vehicle departure amount. In this paper, we aim to build appropriate distribution models for start-up lost time and effective departure flow rate, by...

This paper proposes a novel integrated model for yard truck and yard crane scheduling problems for loading operations in container terminal. The problem is formulated as a mixed-integer programming model. Due to the computational intractability, two efficient solution methods, based on Benders'...

The yard truck scheduling and the storage allocation are two important decision problems affecting the efficiency of container terminal operations. This paper proposes a novel approach that integrates these two problems into a whole. The objective is to minimize the weighted sum of total delay...

This article proposes that MNC subsidiaries located in economically highly developed countries will transfer more knowledge to other corporate units than will subsidiaries located in less developed countries. The direct effect of subsidiary location is tested, as well as the interaction effects...

Many debris flows were triggered in the Chenyulan River Watershed in Taiwan in a rainstorm caused by the Typhoon Toraji. There are 117 gullies with a significant steep topography in the catchment. During this Typhoon, debris flows were initiated in 43 of these gullies, while in 34 gullies, it...

Many researchers seek to take advantage of the recently available and virtually uninterrupted supply of satellite-based rainfall information as an alternative and supplement to the ground-based observations in order to implement a cost-effective flood prediction in many under-gauged regions...

This paper investigates the impact of Asian banks' income structure on competitiveness, profitability, and risk over the period 2005–2011. Exchange-listed commercial banks of eight Asian countries are included in the study sample. The cross-sectional regression results reveal that higher...

The objective of efficient water management in vineyards is to save water, increase yield, and improve berry quality. So far, the effects of rice-straw mulching (M) and/or sub-surface seeper hose irrigation (SS) on grapevine's performance and water use are not clear. An experiment was conducted...

A calculation method of radiant time factors is presented and the method is used to calculate radiant cooling load. Based on experimental data of total heat gain and total cooling loads collected within 24-h, radiant heat gain and radiant cooling load can be calculated through convection and...

The customer retention is an important factor in today’s increasingly tourism competitive markets which should be concerned seriously. At present, many academic customer retention researches mostly focused on the business market research in the hotel industry. In view of the tourism resort,...