The purpose of this article is to present an analysis of the cost inefficiency of public regulation of input factors. During the data period used here, individual plants within the Norwegian fish ...

We tackle a capacitated lot-sizing and scheduling problem (CLSP) with the main objective of minimizing changeover time in the production of metal parts for car seats. Changeovers occur when a machine ...

Marine microorganisms thrive under low levels of nitrogen (N). N cost minimization is a major selective pressure imprinted on open-ocean microorganism genomes. Here we show that amino-acid sequences ...