Conclusion: This study suggest a novel approach for solving pharmaceutical inventory problem. The developed model is maximizing total net profit while determining optimal production plan under shelf life and product ...

The main goal of this study is to check the unit root properties of the ecological footprint and its six subcomponents-cropland footprint, grazing land footprint, fishing grounds footprint, forest land footprint, built-up ...

This paper aims to reexamine the causal relationship between energy consumption and economic growth for 20 OECD countries. To that end, we employ a Granger causality test in the frequency domain which allows us to distinguish ...

The flexible manufacturing system (FMS) scheduling problem is one of the most difficult NP-hard combinatorial optimisation problems. The exact solution of an FMS scheduling problem cannot be found within a reasonable amount ...

In this study, the relationship between natural gas energy consumption and economic growth has been examined within the framework of the growth model for the top 10 natural gas-consuming countries from 1994 to 2015 using ...

Material selection is an important task for dental healthcare. A teeth can be filled with several filling materials such as a silver amalgam (mixed with silver, tin, zinc, and copper), a plastic, a porcelain, and composites. ...

This study examines the purchasing power parity theory for 14 African countries by applying a recent composite time series method that incorporates the Fourier approximation. The structural breaks are modelled as a gradual ...

In this study, the relationship between economic growth and biomass energy consumption has been examined within the framework of the production function for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa-the BRICS countries ...

In this study, the relationship between obesity and economic growth has been examined within the framework of the obesity Kuznets curve (OKC) for the top 20 obese countries from 1991 to 2016 using bounds test based on ARDL. ...

The participation of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War caused economic disruptions, huge budget deficits, surmounted inflation rates and excessive depreciation of Lira, the Ottoman currency. Based on the value of ...