Multistage networks

Courtney SM, Finkel LH and Buchshaum G 1995 A multistage neural network for color constancy and color induction. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 6(4), 972-985. 

Central to our concept of risk evaluation and management is the attempt to initiate a deliberative process, because rational criteria of evaluation ought to be applied in discur.sive. sellings and communicated to the political decision makers and the public at large. So the deliberation for an adequate ri.sk-policy should lake place within a multistage communication process that is characterized by forms of mutual consultation and a public network of communication. 

Highly active skeletal Si was obtained by multistage removal of Ca from CaSig the silicon metal was arranged in the form of a network consisting of six-membered rings [21]. 

The main advantage of virtual cells is that they facilitate modeling of a complex network system, in a system of multistage lines, where each stage (see Fig. 30.6) is a virtual cell Mj, its entry and exit buffers are By and Btj+i, and Qy is the supply flow of parts, from buffer By to the virtual cell Mj [16, 17, 19-21]. 

For the feedstock, there are logistical and sustainability concerns. Each potential biorefinery concept has specific coproduct and waste issues to consider. Transport is a general issue in this discussion. The biomass resource has to be transported to the refinery subsequently the products have to be transported to the downsdeam industry and/or the consumer. Of interest is the approach of the company Nature-Works LLC that currently operates the largest biorefinery in the United States in Blair, Nebraska. The nameplate capacity of the polymer production plant is 140,000 tons of polymer per year. Corn is the basis for the production of the bioplastic polylactic acid (PLA) in a complex multistage process. Sixty percent of its com feedstock is obtained from the local area (producers, located less than 40 kilometers from the plant). Several companies in an emergent network are now active on the Blair biorefinery campus (Wells and Zapata, 2012) reducing transportation from one industrial branch to the next one. 

Tiwari A, Chang PC, Tiwari MK (2012) A highly optimised tolerance-based approach for multistage, multi-product supply chain network design. Int J Prod Res 50 5430-5444 Ulkii S, Schmidt GM (2011) Matching product architecture and supply chain configuration. Prod Oper Manag 20(1) 16-31... 

Thus, competitive repulsive and attractive interactions in polyelectrolyte gels may lead to the formation of nanostructures with different sizes and morphologies tri ered by external stimuli. When many different forces are involved in the interactions between network units, the collapse transition can proceed as a multistage process with several intermediate phases. 

Flexible Multistage Forward/Reverse Logistics Network Under Uncertain Demands with Hybrid Genetic Algorithm... 

Keywords Forward/reverse logistics network Multistage and multi-time-period supply chain Triangular fuzzy demand Genetic algorithm... 

Flexible Multistage Forward/Reverse Logistics Network... 

Fig. 2 Forward/reverse flexible multistage logistics network model...

A multistage crossbar is a network with logarithmic complexity, and it has a structure which is situated somewhere between that of a bus and that of a crossbar with respect to potential capacity and costs. The 2-network as depicted in Fig. 4 is an example. Commercially available machines such as the IBM RS/6000 SP and the SGI 0rigin2000 use such a network structure. For a large number of processors the n log2 n connections quickly become more attractive than the n used in crossbars. Of course, the switches at the intermediate levels should be sufficiently fast to cope with the bandwidth required. 

Very recently" an application of the tree approximation to multistage processes during network formation has been reported. The first stage is the reaction of the monomers 1 giving a product 1, the second stage is the reaction of the monomers 2 with the product 1, and so on. This procedure can be applied to the reaction of preformed polymers as well. 

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