A Novel Approach to the Common Due-Date Problem on Single and Parallel Machines

This paper presents a novel idea for the general case of the Common Due-Date (CDD) scheduling problem. The problem is about scheduling a certain number of jobs on a single or parallel machines where all the jobs possess different processing times but a common due-date. The objective of the problem is to minimize the total penalty incurred due to earliness or tardiness of the job completions. This work presents exact polynomial algorithms for optimizing a given job sequence for single and identical parallel machines with the run-time complexities of $O(n \log n)$ for both cases, where $n$ is the number of jobs. Besides, we show that our approach for the parallel machine case is also suitable for non-identical parallel machines. We prove the optimality for the single machine case and the runtime complexities of both. Henceforth, we extend our approach to one particular dynamic case of the CDD and conclude the chapter with our results for the benchmark instances provided in the OR-library.Comment: Book Chapter 22 page

Legal Patiency – Developing a New Category for Sentient Nonpersons

All animals with non-borderline sentience are deserving of certain legal considerations independent of their use and relationship to human beings. That is, all sentient beings should have some rights. Given the current organization of the U.S. legal system, which divides entities into property or persons, it is not surprising that animals are relegated to property status. This issue can be remedied by creating a third legal designation, legal patient, into which all non-person sentient animals (those which do not properly belong on either current category) would fit. These animals would receive certain limited rights, which would be implemented through legal structures already in place, such as those used in providing legal advocacy for children. Key words: Animal rights, animal welfare, animal law, personhood, propert

Legal Patiency – Developing a New Category for Sentient Nonpersons

All animals with non-borderline sentience are deserving of certain legal considerations independent of their use and relationship to human beings. That is, all sentient beings should have some rights. Given the current organization of the U.S. legal system, which divides entities into property or persons, it is not surprising that animals are relegated to property status. This issue can be remedied by creating a third legal designation, legal patient, into which all non-person sentient animals (those which do not properly belong on either current category) would fit. These animals would receive certain limited rights, which would be implemented through legal structures already in place, such as those used in providing legal advocacy for children. Key words: Animal rights, animal welfare, animal law, personhood, propert

Aortic Stenosis

This poster was completed on the topic of aortic stenosis. Emphasis on the poster was placed on the underlying pathophysiology of aortic stenosis and its significant impact on the function of the heart. Diagnostic testing, as well as presence of signs and symptoms, can assist the practitioner in assessing the severity of aortic stenosis in the patient. Treatment options, including medical management and surgical interventions, are reviewed and correlate along with nursing implication for care of the patient with aortic stenosis. Concluding facts regarding aortic stenosis are included as a summation of the poster topic

Russian policy toward sub-Saharan Africa: Disengagement or cooperation

Nach jahrelangen Versuchen der Gewinnung und Erweiterung ihres Machteinflusses ind Afrika zog sich die UdSSR in den 80er Jahren im Gefolge von Gorbacevs Reformpolitik aus diesem Kontinent zurück. Nach dem Zusammenbruch der UdSSR wurde diese Rückzugsstrategie zunächst fortgesetzt. Im Jahre 1994 begann Moskau jedoch wieder stärker sein Interesse an bilateralen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen zu afrikanischen Ländern zu artikulieren. Die schwierige finanzielle Lage vieler afrikanischer Staaten wird diese Pläne allerdings vermutlich zum Scheitern bringen. Rußlands politischem Engagement in Afrika sind angesichts seiner eigenen politischen und ökonomischen Probleme im Innern und im 'nahen Ausland' zudem enge Grenzen gesetzt. (BIOst-Mrk

Legal Purgatory: Why Some Animals are Neither Persons nor Property

All animals with non-borderline sentience are deserving of certain legal considerations independent of their use and relationship to human beings. That is, all sentient beings should have some rights. Given the current organization of the U.S. legal system, which divides all entities into property or persons, it is not surprising that animals are relegated to property status. I put forth a proposal to fix this whose central suggestion is that we create a third legal designation, legal patient, into which all non-person sentient animals (those which do not properly belong on either current category) would fit. These animals would receive certain limited rights, which would be implemented through legal structures already in place, such as those used in providing legal advocacy for children

Soviet propaganda and the process of national liberation

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New political thinking and Soviet foreign policy

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From new thinking to the fragmentation of consensus in Soviet foreign policy: The U.S.S.R and the developing world

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Soviet strategy in Southwest Asia and the Persian Gulf region

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