The Holt and Laury (2002) task is arguably the most widely employed method for eliciting individual risk attitudes in economics. However, although around 15% of standard experimental subjects fail to complete the task consistently, this fraction increases to an alarming 60-70% in the case of...

Addressing hospital emergency department (ED) overcrowding is a critical challenge for many healthcare systems worldwide. Many hospitals (including our partner hospital) have been experimenting with innovative patient flow designs to address this challenge. A promising new design is to separate...

In manual and semi-automated order picking systems, one of the challenges consists in minimizing picker blocking. One of the ways to prevent picker blocking is to have wide-isles warehouses. Although this solution solves part of the problem, pick-face blocking remains a challenge. Technological...

Additive manufacturing (AM) has attracted significant attention in recent years based on its wide range of applications and growing demand. AM offers the advantages of production flexibility and design freedom. In this study, we considered a practical variant of the batch-processing-machine...