CHANCE CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION OF BIODIESEL SUPPLY CHAIN

Chance Constrained Optimization of Biodiesel Supply Chain

Biodiesel is an alternative and renewable biofuel for blending Ylang Ylang with fossil-based diesel.One of the challenges is to design the supply-chain network for biohydrodeoxygenated diesel (BHD) under uncertainty from both raw materials availability and the demand.The supply chain with four echelons; suppliers, factories, inventories and custome

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Phloretin exerts hypoglycemic effect in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats and improves insulin resistance in vitro

Xin Shen,1,* Nan Zhou,1,* Le Mi,1 Zishuo Hu,2 Libin Wang,1 Xueying Liu,1 Shengyong Zhang1 1Department of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, 2Student Brigade, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China *These authors contributed equally to this work Abstract: The present study investigated th

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Does Currency Substitution Affect Exchange Rate Volatility?

This study investigates the impacts of the degree of currency substitution on nominal exchange rate volatility in seven countries (Indonesia, the Philippines, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Argentina, and Peru).We use the Threshold ARCH model to consider the ratchet effect of currency substitution and sample periods in the 2000s, during which

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