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Maternal and Child Survival: Findings from five countries experience in addressing maternal and child health challenges
Cortez, Rafael; Saadat, Seemeen; Chowdhury, Sadia; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Considerable progress has been made towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) since 1990. Although advances in improving MDG 4 and MDG 5a (reducing child and maternal mortality, respectively) have been made, progress is some countries have been insufficient. While some...
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Solving the container relocation problem by an improved greedy look-ahead heuristic
Jin, Bo; Zhu, Wenbin; Lim, Andrew - In: European Journal of Operational Research 240 (2015) 3, pp. 837-847
The container relocation problem (CRP) is one of the most crucial issues for container terminals. In a single bay, containers belonging to multiple groups should be retrieved by an equipped yard crane in accordance with their retrieval priorities. An operation of the crane can either relocate a...
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Rich vehicle routing problems: From a taxonomy to a definition
Lahyani, Rahma; Khemakhem, Mahdi; Semet, Frédéric - In: European Journal of Operational Research 241 (2015) 1, pp. 1-14
Over the last years, several variants of multi-constrained Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs) have been studied, forming a class of problems known as Rich Vehicle Routing Problems (RVRPs). The purpose of the paper is twofold: (i) to provide a comprehensive and relevant taxonomy for the RVRP...
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Integration of Wind Energy, Hydrogen and Natural Gas Pipeline Systems to Meet Community and Transportation Energy Needs: A Parametric Study
Garmsiri, Shahryar; Rosen, Marc A.; Smith, Gordon Rymal - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 5, pp. 2506-2526
The potential benefits are examined of the “Power-to-Gas” (P2G) scheme to utilize excess wind power capacity by generating hydrogen (or potentially methane) for use in the natural gas distribution grid. A parametric analysis is used to determine the feasibility and size of systems producing...
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Environmental life-cycle assessment of rapeseed-based biodiesel: Alternative cultivation systems and locations
Malça, João; Coelho, António; Freire, Fausto - In: Applied Energy 114 (2014) C, pp. 837-844
abiotic depletion and the consumption of heavy fuel oil in transoceanic transportation is an important contributor to …
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The trouble with voluntary emissions trading: Uncertainty and adverse selection in sectoral crediting programs☆☆Special thanks to Suzi Kerr, Lawrence Goulder, Michael Wara, Arthur...
Millard-Ball, Adam - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 65 (2013) 1, pp. 40-55
render sectoral crediting an extremely unattractive mechanism in practice, at least for the transportation sector. The …
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Integration of shipment scheduling decisions for forward and reverse channels in a recoverable item system
Toptal, Ayşegül - In: International Journal of Production Economics 140 (2012) 1, pp. 129-137
the transportation costs and capacities under the assumption of deterministic failure rate of items. The proposed solution …
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Analyzing the impacts of carbon regulatory mechanisms on supplier and mode selection decisions: An application to a biofuel supply chain
Palak, Gökçe; Ekşioğlu, Sandra Duni; Geunes, Joseph - In: International Journal of Production Economics 154 (2014) C, pp. 198-216
. We employ mathematical models for operations which integrate replenishment and supplier/transportation mode selection … decisions. These models explicitly account for carbon emissions that may result from transportation and inventory storage …-related carbon dioxide emissions worldwide arise from transportation. Because freight transportation is expected to continue to grow …
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An empirical study on coalition formation and cost/savings allocation
Audy, Jean-François; D’Amours, Sophie; Rönnqvist, Mikael - In: International Journal of Production Economics 136 (2012) 1, pp. 13-27
Interest has been raised by the recent identification of potential savings through collaborative planning in logistics operations. Even though substantial savings can be realized, two key questions exist: (i) how should potential savings be divided among a group of collaborating companies and...
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A new method for robustness in rolling horizon planning
Bredström, D.; Flisberg, P.; Rönnqvist, M. - In: International Journal of Production Economics 143 (2013) 1, pp. 41-52
integrated production, transportation and inventory planning problem. We make use of simulations to compare our approach with a …
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