Inventory management in supply chains faces several typical problems, such as low turnover, high inventory investments, lost sales due to a stockout of certain items and surpluses of these same items in other locations. ...

The creation of buffer zones (BZs) around protected areas (PAs) has been proposed as a way to conciliate the effective protection of biodiversity and human occupation in surrounding areas. In this study, we seek to discuss ...

A major goal of protected area management is to promote coexistence between wildlife and people and managers may restrict human activity by creating buffer zones. There are a number of assumptions implicit in establishing ...

Buffers have been commonly used as a production strategy to protect construction processes from the negative impact of variability. Construction practitioners and researchers have proposed several buffering approaches for ...

This study approach the Critical Chain Method. This method is the Theory of Constraints applied to project management. The main contribution of this thesis is to propose a method for determining buffer size. Some literature ...

We investigated the influence and relative importance of insecticides and other agricultural stressors in determining variability in invertebrate communities in small streams in intensive soy-production regions of Brazil ...