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UNINA9910453374003321 |
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Nag Bodhibrata |
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Business applications of operations research / / Bodhibrata Nag |
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New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2014 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (162 p.) |
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Collana |
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Quantitative approaches to decision making collection, , 2163-9582 |
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Operations research |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Part of: 2014 digital library. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Section 1. Introduction to operations research -- 1. Introduction to operations research and guide to LINGO software -- Section 2. Applications in operations management -- 2. Product mix -- 3. Facility location -- 4. Cable layout -- 5. Planning check-in counters -- 6. Scheduling of a production line -- 7. Shift staff planning -- 8. Production planning -- 9. Blending of dog diet -- 10. Paper roll trimming -- Section 3. Applications in supply chain management -- 11. Multicommodity transport planning -- 12. Single delivery truck routing -- 13. Multiple delivery trucks routing -- 14. Supplier selection with multiple criteria -- Section 4. Applications in marketing management -- 15. Revenue management -- Section 5. Applications in financial management -- 16. Portfolio management -- 17. Capital budgeting -- 18. Bank asset liability management -- 19. Index fund construction -- Section 6. Applications in transport management -- 20. Airline network design -- 21. Performance measurement using data envelopment analysis -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
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Operations Research is a bouquet of mathematical techniques that have evolved over the last six decades to improve the process of business decision making. Operations Research offers tools to optimize and find the best solutions to myriad decisions that managers have to take in their day to day operations or while carrying out strategic planning. Today, with the advent of operations research software, these tools can be applied by managers even without any knowledge of the |
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mathematical techniques that underlie the solution procedures. |
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UNINA9910958136403321 |
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A companion to life course studies : the social and historical context of the British birth cohort studies / / edited by Michael Wadsworth and John Bynner |
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New York, : Routledge, 2011 |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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1-134-00577-6 |
1-283-10201-3 |
9786613102010 |
1-134-00578-4 |
0-203-87858-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge advances in sociology ; ; 53 |
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BynnerJ. M |
WadsworthMichael E. J (Michael Edwin John) |
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Cohort analysis |
Social capital (Sociology) - Great Britain |
Families - Great Britain |
Social change |
Great Britain Economic policy |
Great Britain Social policy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction / Michael Wadsworth and John Bynner -- Politics, citizenship, and social capital / Lindsay Paterson -- Family structure, family policy, and practice / Lynda Clarke and Ceridwen Roberts -- Education policy and practice / Gary McCulloch -- Economic policy and practice / Hugh Pemberton -- Labour market, employment, and skills / David Ashton and John Bynner -- Health policy and practice / Michael Wadsworth -- Leisure, stability, and change / Ken Roberts -- Changing |
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Britain, changing generations / John Bynner and Michael Wadsworth. |
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Since the end of the Second World War, society has been characterised by rapid and extensive political, economic, scientific, and technological change. Opportunities for education, employment, human relations, and good health, have all been greatly affected by those changes, as have all aspects of life. Consequently, each post-war generation has been like no other before or since.Britain, uniquely, has five large-scale life course studies that began at intervals throughout that period. They have shown how lives are shaped by individual characteristics, their past and current experien |
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