Archives: Story: School Board Adopts New Redistricting PlanFrom article:
The board retained Operations Research/Education Laboratory at N. C. State University to make a complete study of the Bladen school enrollments and the present and projected population status of the county, and then make recommendations on a new plan of districts.
ScienceDaily: Techniques For Making Barbie Dolls Can Improve Health CareFrom the article:
"By the end of the decade, the health care industry will realize that operations research, IT, and other advanced techniques that manufacturers have been using for 15 years to reduce the cost of making items like toys and computer chips will also improve health care delivery," said operations researcher William P. Pierskalla, the John E. Anderson Professor and former dean of the Anderson School at UCLA. "These techniques offer major cost, quality, and access improvements to the healthcare system."
The Hindu Business Line : Reliance refining margins rise as light, heavy crude prices divergeFrom article:
"At RIL, there is always a linear programming that is under way, based on the world crude prices and the product demand pattern. The return on the rather high investment made in infrastructure was paying dividends, especially when the delta between the price of sour and sweet crude was significant - a direct corollary of rising crude prices," an analyst said.
Top Farmer workshop tackles tough decisionsFrom article:
A popular workshop feature allows producers to enter information about their own farms into Purdue's linear programming software. Using the program, growers can test some of their own management situations, such as the optimum size of their operation for their current resources or whether buying a certain new technology will be profitable.
