El Mercosur se ha convertido, en los últimos años, en el socio comercial extra comunitario más dinámico de España, al tiempo que nuestro país es el principal inversor europeo en la zona y el segundo a nivel mundial, por detrás de Estados Unidos. Pero este acercamiento no es sólo...

En este artículo se analizan y comparan las dificultades y las oportunidades de la integración comercial de América Latina y de sus economías más importantes frente a las alternativas de buena vecindad sin compromisos de integración económica.

This paper experimentally and analytically studies pricing decisions in closed-loop supply chains. Experimental results show considerable deviations from theoretical predictions by traditional pricing models. Moreover, social relationships can affect decision results, and double marginalization...

By using the theory of p-max stable laws, we study large deviations of the extremes under power normalization. The necessary and sufficient conditions for large deviations of each of the six p-max stable laws are derived.

Airlines commonly experience the problem that the sum of freight forwarders’ orders exceeds the airline's fixed capacity for hot-selling routes, while the orders are usually 50 percent for underutilized routes. Airlines cannot dynamically change flights to address the imbalance, since they...

Traditional land subsidence indices primarily describe the characteristics of land subsidence at a given site, but such indicators cannot satisfy the requirements for effective land management. We propose a new index system called the point-line-area-volume (PLAV) index system, designed to...

It is common that a decision maker′s utility depends on the degree to which the attribute performance matches the aspiration. However, aspiration is not considered in the traditional multi-attribute decision making (MADM) approaches. Using the Strategic Freight Forwarder Selection of China...

The K2CO3-based sorbent is promising for CO2 capture from the flue gas of fossil-fuel-fired power plant. In this work, various support/binder materials were utilized to prepare K2CO3-based sorbent pellets by an extrusion method, and their mechanical strength and CO2 capture performance were...

Gasification of coal or biomass with <i>in-situ</i> CO₂ capture is an emerging technology aiming to address the problem of climate change. Development of a CO₂ sorbent with desirable properties and understanding the behavior of such a material in carbonation/calcination reactions is an important part...

The member selection problem is an important aspect of the formation of cross-functional teams (CFTs). Selecting suitable members from a set of candidates will facilitate the successful task accomplishment. In the existing studies of member selection, the individual performance concerning a...