Lau Ho-fuk. / Summary in Chinese on end papers. / Thesis (M.Comm.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1969. / Bibliography: l. 136-138.

Ng Chi To. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-173). / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Abstract --- p.ii / Chapter Chapter 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Problem Formulation and Motivation --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Past Research Works --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- Results of the Study --- p.5 / Chapter 1.4 --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.7 / Chapter Part I --- THE CTV PROBLEM --- p.9 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- A GENERALIZATION OF SCHRAGE'S CONJEC- TURE --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1 --- Schrage's Conjecture --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2 --- Generalization --- p.13 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- ASYMPTOTIC OPTIMALITY --- p.15 / Chapter 3.1 --- Optimal Sequences under a Symmetric Structure --- p.17 / Chapter 3.2 --- An Upper Bound for the Relative Error --- p.21 / Chapter 3.3 --- Asymptotical Probabilistic Analysis --- p.25 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- ADDITIONAL FINDINGS --- p.37 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- THE BEST V-SHAPED SEQUENCE --- p.46 / Chapter 5.1 --- Transformation of the CTV Problem to a Boolean Optimization Problem --- p.47 / Chapter 5.2 --- Minimization of the Expected CTV among All the V-shaped Fixed Sequences --- p.48 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- THE WORST CASE ANALYSIS --- p.65 / Chapter 6.1 --- A Lower Bound for the CTV Problem --- p.66 / Chapter 6.2 --- A Worst Case Bound --- p.71 / Chapter Part II --- EXTENSIONS --- p.75 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- A MORE GENERAL MODEL --- p.76 / Chapter 7.1 --- Some Basic Concepts --- p.76 / Chapter 7.2 --- Problem Description --- p.78 / Chapter 7.3 --- Applications and Difficulties --- p.80 / Chapter Chapter 8 --- THE ZERO STARTING PROBLEM --- p.83 / Chapter 8.1 --- Problem Transformation --- p.85 / Chapter 8.2 --- Properties --- p.88 / Chapter 8.3 --- Algorithm A and Promising Solutions --- p.93 / Chapter 8.4 --- Time Complexity of Algorithm A --- p.94 / Chapter Chapter 9 --- PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS OF PROMISING SO- LUTIONS --- p.95 / Chapter 9.1 --- Promising Solutions under a Symmetric Structure --- p.95 / Chapter 9.2 --- An Upper Bound for the Relative Error of Promising Solutions --- p.100 / Chapter 9.3 --- Probabilistic Analysis on the Relative Error of Promising Solutions --- p.106 / Chapter Chapter 10 --- CONCLUDING REMARKS AND FUTURE RESEARCH WORK --- p.118 / Appendix A Preliminary Results for Analysis --- p.122 / Appendix B Proofs of Some Lemmas --- p.127 / Appendix C Proofs of Some Theorems --- p.149 / Appendix D Proofs of Some Properties --- p.160 / Appendix E An Alternative to Completion Time Variance --- p.167 / Bibliography --- p.169

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by Cheung Chit-Cheung, Gavin. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-77). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgment --- p.ii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Motivation --- p.2 / Chapter 1.2 --- Problem Description --- p.5 / Chapter 1.3 --- Contributions --- p.6 / Chapter 1.4 --- Thesis Organization --- p.6 / Chapter 2 --- Problem Formulation and Solution Approaches --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- Mathematical Modeling --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- Transformation of Problem --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3 --- Problem Analysis --- p.12 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Optimality Criteria --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Heuristic Solutions --- p.15 / Chapter 2.4 --- Literatures Review on Single-Machine Scheduling --- p.18 / Chapter 3 --- Discussion of Some Special Cases --- p.21 / Chapter 3.1 --- Two Operations --- p.22 / Chapter 3.2 --- Identical Distributions --- p.24 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Error Bound of LPTF - Maximum Distribution Approach --- p.27 / Chapter 3.3 --- Large Initial Time and Special Processing Times Structure --- p.29 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Application of SVF to Exponential Distribution --- p.34 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Error Bound of SVF 一 Switching Processing Times Approach --- p.37 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Extended Error Bound Analysis --- p.41 / Chapter 4 --- Heuristics to Solve the General Problems --- p.47 / Chapter 4.1 --- Level 1 - PIPF and LPTF Rules --- p.48 / Chapter 4.2 --- Level 2 - Adjacent Pair wise Interchange --- p.51 / Chapter 4.3 --- Computational Complexity --- p.53 / Chapter 5 --- Experimental Results --- p.54 / Chapter 5.1 --- Design of Experiments --- p.54 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Design of Problem Parameters --- p.55 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Evaluation Methods --- p.57 / Chapter 5.2 --- Results Analysis --- p.59 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Evaluation for Problems with Small Size --- p.60 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Evaluation for Problems with Large Size --- p.63 / Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.67 / Chapter 6.1 --- Summary --- p.67 / Chapter 6.2 --- Future Extension --- p.68 / Appendix --- p.69 / Chapter A --- Crossing Point of Normal Density Functions --- p.69 / Chapter B --- Probaiblity Distributions --- p.73 / Chapter B.1 --- Uniform Distribution --- p.73 / Chapter B.2 --- Exponential Distribution --- p.74 / Chapter B.3 --- Normal Distribution --- p.74 / Bibliography --- p.75

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Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Animal Sciences and Industry / Robert D. Goodband / Michael D. Tokach / The dissertation consisted of 6 chapters involving studies in heavy weight market pig production, dietary Ca and P requirements for nursery pigs, antimicrobial resistance development in finishing pig microbiota, seasonal growth variability in commercial pig production, and leftover feed management in wean-to-finish pig productions. The first chapter presents a thorough review of published studies involving genetic selection, nutritional requirements, health, welfare, and pork quality of finishing pigs with marketing weight greater than 130 kg and assessed future research needs. Chapter 2 describes 2 experiments that evaluated the growth performance and percentage bone ash of early nursery pigs fed various combinations of Ca and P provided by inorganic sources or phytase. Feeding more than 0.90% dietary Ca decreased average daily gain (ADG), average daily feed intake (ADFI), gain:feed ratio (G:F), and percentage bone ash when diets were at or below NRC (2012) requirement for standardized total tract digestible (STTD) P. However, adding inorganic P or phytase to P deficient diets improved pig performance and alleviated the negative impacts of high dietary Ca concentration on growth performance. The experiment presented in chapter 3 characterized the dose-response to increasing digestible P in diets without or with 2,000 units of phytase for 6- to 13-kg pigs. Increasing STTD P from 80 to 140% of NRC (2012) requirement estimates in diets without phytase, and from 100 to 170% of NRC (2012) in diets with phytase, improved ADG, G:F, and percentage of bone ash. Estimated STTD P requirements varied depending on the response criteria and statistical models and ranged from 91 to >140% of NRC (2012) in diets without phytase, and from 116 to >170% of NRC (2012) for diets containing phytase. In addition, phytase exerted an extra-phosphoric effect on promoting pig growth and improved the P dose responses for ADG and G:F. In chapter 4, a study was conducted to determine the effects of tylosin administration route (through feed, drinking water, or intramuscular injection) on the growth performance and the development of antimicrobial resistance in fecal enterococci of finishing pigs. Pigs that received tylosin injection had decreased ADG and G:F compared with control pigs that did not receive any antibiotic treatment, which may be due to a stress response to the handling during injection administration. Moreover, tylosin administration via injection and feed resulted in a higher probability of enterococcal resistance to erythromycin and tylosin compared with drinking water treatment. Chapter 5 presents a retrospective analysis on the seasonal growth patterns of nursery and finishing pigs in 3 commercial production systems located in the Midwest US. Nursery ADG and ADFI expressed prominent seasonal variations and were similar among systems, whereas nursery G:F was not affected by season. Finisher ADG, ADFI, and G:F varied over seasons, but the magnitudes and patterns of change were system dependent. This chapter also presents the concepts underlying the implementation of a multi-level linear mixed model of production records to analyze seasonality and potentially other decision factors in commercial systems. Finally, in chapter 6, 2 experiments were conducted regarding the strategy of managing leftover finisher feed in a wean-to-finish production system. Experiment 1 evaluated the timing (phase) of feeding 2.5 kg/pig of finisher feed in a 5-phase nursery program. All growth responses decreased immediately when the finisher feed was blended into nursery diets; however, pigs greater than 11 kg (phase 3) had improved ability to compensate for the negative effects of finisher feed on overall growth performance. Experiment 2 was then carried out to investigate the maximum amount of finisher feed can be fed to 11-kg pigs. Increasing the finisher feed budget from 0 to 3.75 kg/pig resulted in a linear decrease in ADG and ADFI. However, the economic analysis indicated no change in income-over-feed-cost due to the timing and dose of blending finisher feed into nursery diets.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University / I. History and Basis of Wage Stabilization The first effort in the history of this nation to establish a comprehensive wage control program was taken during World War II. It was not,however, until several months after the outbreak of hostilities that the President saw fit to ask Congress for special powers to permit him to initiate a wage control program. During the interim, wages were maintained at a stable level by the appeal of the President to labor and management to hold the line. Authority to begin the program of wage and price control was given the President in the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 and subsequently the National War Labor Board was established. The wage control function during World War II was handled by several administrative groups and finally was vested in the National Wage Stabilization Board, whose function concerned the stabilization of wages and salaries and the settlement of certain labor disputes. The war in the Pacific ended with the N.W.S.B. functioning as the single wage stabilization agency. Following a brief transition period all such functions were either terminated or vested in the Secretary of Labor, and the N.W.S.B. was dissolved [TRUNCATED].

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