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Exact and heuristic methods to solve the berth allocation problem in bulk ports

Michel Bierlaire, Ilaria Vacca, Nitish Umang

While significant contributions have been made in the use of operations research methods and techniques to optimize container terminals, relatively less attention has been directed to bulk ports. In this paper, we consider the problem of allocating vessels ...

2012

A branch-and-price algorithm to solve the integrated berth allocation and yard assignment problem in bulk ports

Michel Bierlaire, Tomas Robenek, Nitish Umang

In this research, two crucial optimization problems of berth allocation and yard assignment in the context of bulk ports are studied. We discuss how these problems are interrelated and can be combined and solved as a single large scale optimization problem ...

2012

Surface and bulk reactions in borohydrides and amides

Shunsuke Kato, Elsa Callini

Complex hydrides such as LiBH4 and LiNH2 exceed the gravimetric hydrogen density of transition metal hydrides by one order of magnitude. However, hydrogen in complex hydrides is covalently bound and arranged in subunits e.g. [NH2]- and [BH4] - with a fixed ...

2012

High-resolution imaging of solvation structures with amplitude-modulation atomic force microscopy

Kislon Voitchovsky, Maria Ricci

At the interface with solids, liquid molecules tend to adopt a particular structural arrangement, which depends on the local interplay of forces between the solid and the liquid. As a result, this interfacial liquid does not behave like bulk liquid, often ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering, Po Box 10, Bellingham, Wa 98227-0010 Usa2012

Fabrication of polycrystalline (Y0.7Gd0.3)(2)O-3:Eu3+ ceramics: The influence of initial pressure and sintering temperature on its morphology and photoluminescence activity

Barbora Bártová

Nanocrystalline (Y0.7Gd0.3)(2)O-3 powder, synthetised via polymer complex solution method, was compacted into 25 pellets applying high pressures (173-867 MPa) for 30 s that were subsequently sintered at different temperatures (800-1400 degrees C) for 18 h. ...

2012

Flexoelectric effect in finite samples

Alexander Tagantsev

Static flexoelectric effect in a finite sample of a solid is addressed in terms of phenomenological theory for the case of a thin plate subjected to bending. It has been shown that despite an explicit asymmetry inherent to the bulk constitutive electromech ...

American Institute of Physics2012

Evaporation kinetics of volatile liquids and release kinetics of water from a smectite clay: Comparison between experiments and finite element calculations

John Christopher Plummer, Pascal Clausen

Numerical calculations of the evaporation kinetics of bulk volatile liquids and of water from smectite clay granules are compared with experimental results. The weight loss of the volatiles is analyzed by thermogravimetry and differential calorimetry. Unde ...

2011

One-dimensional exciton luminescence induced by extended defects in nonpolar GaN/(Al,Ga)N quantum wells

Nicolas Grandjean, Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Raphaël Butté, Jacques Levrat, Pierre Stadelmann, Jean-Daniel Ganière, Denis Martin, Pierre Michel Corfdir, Tiankai Zhu, Yadira Arroyo Rojas Dasilva

In this study, we present the optical properties of nonpolar GaN/(Al,Ga)N single quantum wells (QWs) grown on either a- or m-plane GaN templates for Al contents set below 15%. In order to reduce the density of extended defects, the templates have been proc ...

Institute of Physics2011

Evaporation kinetics of volatile liquids and release kinetics of water from a smectite clay: comparison between experiments and finite element calculations

John Christopher Plummer, Pascal Clausen

2010

Positive feedback in the transition from sexual reproduction to parthenogenesis

Séverine Vuilleumier Varisco

Understanding how new phenotypes evolve is challenging because intermediate stages in transitions from ancestral to derived phenotypes often remain elusive. Here we describe and evaluate a new mechanism facilitating the transition from sexual reproduction ...

2010

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