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The production planning and control process is performed within complex and dynamic organizations made up of customer expectations, equipment, materials, people, information, and technologies. Changes in both internal and external factors can create a variety of unforeseen events, which make initial...

This report describes the work and results of a computer program used to predict the propagation of air gun noise to long distances in the water column. The acoustic propagation model used is the PlaneRay model.The sound levels found in the computer model was then used together with startle thresholds...

...investments in human capital is important for the economic growth of a region. In this paper we will look at the connection between job satisfaction and job performance and its impact on the ?use? of human capital....

As the new power markets in many countries develop and (hopefully) become well-functioning, management of electricity utilit es should change. We present a set of generation planning models adapted to a price taking generator in a competitive marketsitu ation. In this important special case, prices coordinate...

We present a new wavelet software system, GM-waves, and illustrate some of its features in the context of the study of methods for wavelet shrinkage and their application to curve and surface fitting, smoothing and denoising by wavelets....

A snake can traverse cluttered and irregular environments by using irregularities around its body as push points to aid the propulsion. This characteristic feature of biological snake locomotion, which is denoted as obstacle-aided locomotion, is investigated for snake robot locomotion purposes in this...

Case study of introduction of RUP in SMEs...