This dissertation investigates the effects of real-time information on supply chain operations and strategies as well as an inventory control problem with retail pre-packs in three essays. The first essay considers an order promising problem in the presence of pseudo order information in an...

Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] was domesticated in China but has a long history of cultivation on the Korean peninsula and in Japan. All three areas are considered important sources of soybean germplasm. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the genetic variation in soybean within and...