In modern economies, companies place a premium on managing their workforce efficiently especially in labor intensive service sector, since the services have become the significant portion of the economies. Tour scheduling ...

Dual-phase steels are high-strength steels which are heat treated to contain both a ferrite and martensite microstructure to achieve an extra strength. They have high formability, low alloy content, and high strength. In ...

Customer loyalty is an important issue for business enterprises to improve their market performance. It can be defined as the outcome of a customer's belief in a particular company and customer satisfaction with the company's ...

In this study, the ELT recycling process and management system of Turkey were examined. A new mixed integer nonlinear programming model was proposed for the collection, transport, and recycling of the ELT. Since the dimension ...

Metallurgical processes consist of different and complex production operations. One of them is heat treatment. Hardness value is an important response variable for heat treatment process. Heat treatment parameters and ...

Companies need to constantly evaluate their activities in strategic planning process. These activities include all processes in the company, such as management and organization, research and development, production planning, ...

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. ...