Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Adviser: Xiaoqiang Cai. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2009. / "Submitted to Department of Management Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-86)

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-88). Also available in electronic version.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2006. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 152 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-129).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. / Dr. Faiz Al-Khayyal, Committee Co-Chair ; Dr. Paul M. Griffin, Committee Co-Chair ; Dr. Earl Barnes, Committee Member ; Dr. Jye-Chyi Lu, Committee Member ; Dr. John Elton, Committee Member.

M.Com. (Business Economics) / Proper pricing should be done in three phases. Firstly, the determination of the market-price, namely that price which the consumers are prepared to pay for the amount of need-satisfaction they perceived from using the product. Secondly, the determination of the target-price, namely that price wrich will give a satisfactory rate of return on investment for the firm. Thirdly, the determination of the final price, by comparing the market-price with the target-price. The determination of the market-price is becoming more and more relevant and up to the present time no comprehensive research has been done on this subject in South Africa. In this dissertation an investigation was undertaken into the present technology concerning market-pricing and from this knowledge a method was developed which will be applicable to the determination of market prices in South Africa.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Drexel University, 2009. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-120).

Ce travail traite d'une rematérialisation de l'œuvre d'art au cours des années 1960 et 1970, à travers l'usage de matériaux périssables, tels que les déchets, les aliments ou encore les fluides corporels. Nous distinguons nettement pour cette recherche le périssable de l'éphémère, de par la tendance du premier à durer et à vieillir, à se dégrader sans forcément aller vers sa complète disparition. Cette thèse a pour point de départ la façon dont de nombreux artistes, de Dieter Roth à Daniel Spoerri en passant par Ed Ruscha, Arman, Gordon Matta-Clark, Dorothée Selz ou Roy Adzak, ont envisagé ces nouvelles matérialités; elle évoque le rapport parfois ambigu entretenu par ces artistes avec le musée, à travers des stratégies entristes ou anti-institutionnelles. Une première partie, « la poubelle ». vient poser les jalons de la contestation du musée par le biais du périssable; la deuxième, « la conserve», s'intéresse aux démarches parodiant le caractère enfermant de l'institution; enfin, la dernière partie, intitulée « la relique» s'attache à la dimension plus cultuelle du musée, les œuvres périssables se transformant en reliques de l'artiste. / This research deals with a rematerialisation of the work of art during the 1960s and 1970s, through the use of perishable materials, such as waste, food or corporal fluids. Within this work, I clearly make a difference between the perishable and the ephemeral, since the first has a tendency to last and age, to degrade without necessarily tend to its total disappearance. For the starting point of this PhD, I chose the way several artist - from Dieter Roth to Daniel Spoerri to Ed Ruscha, Arman, Gordon Matta-Clark, Dorothée Selz or Roy Adzak - have considered these new materialities; I evoke the relation, sometimes ambiguous, maintained by these artists with the museum, through entryist or anti-institutional strategies. A first part, "the dustbin", establishes the groundwork of the contestation of the museum through the use of the perishable; the second once, "the can", is interested in the approaches that parody the imprisoning aspect og the institution; finally, the last part, entitled "the relic" is dedicated to the more religious dimension of the meseum : the perishable works of art transform into relics of the artists.

Fragments of a charred wooden bowl were recovered from Aztalan during excavations by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (SHSW) in 1964. Recent advances in analytical methods facilitated a multidimensional study of these fragments. Radiocarbon-dated to cal AD 994–1154 and found in association with Late Woodland, Mississippian, and hybrid forms of ceramics, the bowl augments our understanding of perishable technologies in these cultural contexts. 3-D models of the fragments allow for a virtual reconstruction of a portion of the bowl, which was carved from a solid piece of ash. Strontium isotope analysis of the wood indicates that the bowl was manufactured from wood locally available to the people at Aztalan.

The focuses of this dissertation are problems of batch production scheduling problems for perishable products with setup times, with the main applications in answering production planning problems faced by manufacturers of perishable products, such as beers, vaccines and yoghurts. The benefits of effective production plans can help companies reduce their total costs substantially to gain the competitive advantages without reduction of the service level in a globalize economy. We develop concepts and methodologies that are applied in two fundamental problems: (i) the batch production scheduling problem for perishable products with sequence-independent setup times (BPP-SI) and (ii) the batch production scheduling problem for perishable products with sequence-dependent setup times (BPP-SD). The problem is that given a set of forecast demand for perishables products to be produced by a set of parallel machines in the single stage of batch production, with each product having fixed shelf-life times and each machine requiring setup times before producing a batch of product, find the master production schedule which minimizes total cost over a specified time horizon. We present the new models for both problems by formulating them as a Mixed Integer Program (MIP) on the discrete time. Computational studies in BPP-SI and BPP-SD for industrial problems are presented. In order to efficiently solve the large BPP-SI problems in practice, we develop the five efficient heuristics. The extensive computational results show that the developed heuristics can obtain the good solution for the very large problem size and require very short amount of computational time.