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Back belt effect on physiological strain and perceived discomfort and exertion during a continuous asymmetric stoop lift task.
(1997)
This research effort evaluated the effect of wearing an elastic back belt on physiological and perceived strain during a continuous, high-frequency, asymmetric stoop lift task. Specifically, this effort examined the effect ...
On merging sequencing and scheduling theory with genetic algorithms to solve stochastic job shops.
(1997)
The stochastic job shop problem was solved using two genetic algorithms. The first was a stochastic constrained genetic algorithm to minimize total tardiness and to evaluate chromosomes using probability Gantt charting. ...
Primal-dual techniques for nonlinear programming and applications to artificial neural network training.
(1997)
In this work, new developments in primal-dual techniques for general constrained non-linear programming problems are proposed. We first implement a modified version of the general nonlinear primal-dual algorithm that was ...
Estimation of production cost variance using chronological simulation.
(1997)
Production costs are usually simulated on the basis that the availability of generation capacity is subject to random failures of system generating units. In order to estimate the variance of cost, both the random forced ...
Reliability of a psychophysical method for evaluating repetitive power hand grasps of females.
(1997)
Sixteen female subjects performed a simulated industrial hand grasping task in twenty-minute sessions conducted over four weeks. Each subject was required to exert a grasping force of 30% of her MVC for five seconds. Travel ...
Total Quality Management implementation and leadership perspectives in a state agency.
(1997)
The population selected for this study was comprised of the entire groups of upper and middle-managers of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. This agency was selected based on information gathered on its activities as ...
Multicriteria plant layout with evaluation by simulation.
(1997)
Another significant contribution of this research is that the layouts generated from this procedure are quickly incorporated into a simulation model which is used for evaluating layouts. Simulation offers a rich evaluation ...
An analysis of short-term risk in power system planning.
(1997)
The results presented in this dissertation are as follows: The impact of weather forecasts on Bayesian load forecasting as a function of forecast lead time is shown in Chapter 2. Risk in the presence of load forecast ...