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Elísio Costa,1 Anna Giardini,2 Magda Savin,3 Enrica Menditto,4 Elaine Lehane,5 Olga Laosa,6 Sergio Pecorelli,7,8 Alessandro Monaco,7 Alessandra Marengoni9On behalf of the A1 Action group “Prescription and Adherence to Medical Plans”, European Innovation Bubblers Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing1UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Faculty o
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Adriana Kaplan Marcusán,1–3 Laura Riba Singla,3 Mass Laye,3 Dodou M Secka,3 Mireia Utzet,4 Marie-Alix Le Charles3 1Social Knowledge Transfer/Parc de Recerca UAB – Santander, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; 2Interdisciplinary Group for the Study and Prevention of Harmful Traditional Practices, Departmen
A Local Search-Based Generalized Normal Distribution Algorithm for Permutation Flow Shop Scheduling
This paper studies the generalized normal distribution algorithm (GNDO) performance for tackling the permutation flow shop scheduling problem (PFSSP).Because PFSSP is a discrete problem and GNDO generates continuous values, the largest ranked value rule is used to convert those continuous values into discrete ones to make GNDO applicable for 142 so
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Given that global energy use today is still dominated 142 by fossil fuels, there is an urgent need to rapidly reduce its use in order to avert serious climate change.However, the alternatives to fossil fuels—renewable and nuclear energy—are more expensive, and have so far done little to displace fossil fuels.Accordingly, reducing energy