SOLVING CAPACITATED LOCATION ROUTING PROBLEM BY VARIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD DESCENT AND GA-ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK HYBRID METHOD

Solving Capacitated Location Routing Problem by Variable Neighborhood Descent and GA-Artificial Neural Network Hybrid Method

This paper aims to find the optimal depot locations and vehicle routings for spare parts of an automotive company considering future demands.The capacitated location-routing problem (CLRP), which has been practiced by various methods, is performed to find the optimal depot locations and routings by additionally using the artificial neural network (

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The Impact of Options on Investment Portfolios in the Short-Run and the Long-Run, with a Focus on Downside Protection and Call Overwriting

In this article, we analyse the impact of the introduction of options on an investment portfolio.Our first objective is to derive closed-form formulae for Reydon the standard measures of portfolio efficiency: risk premium, risk, Sharpe ratio, and beta, of any portfolio containing any combination of options.Using these formulae on three examples of

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Development of Quercetin-DHA Ester-Based Pectin Conjugates as New Functional Supplement: Effects on Cell Viability and Migration

A quercetin derivative with remarkable biological performance was successfully synthesized by chemical modification of the flavonoid with docosahexaenoic acid to synthesize 2-(2,2-diphenylbenzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-yl)-5,7-dihydroxy-4-oxo-4H-chromen-3-yl-(4Z,7Z,10Z,13Z,16Z,19Z)-docosa-4,7,10,13,16,19-hexaenoate (3), deeply characterized by NMR spetrosco

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