十三陵抽水蓄能电站上池西外坡岩体稳定分析

上池西外坡岩体稳定是十三陵抽水蓄能电站主要的地质工程问题之一，由于受到倾向池外的数条缓倾角断层以及不良的岩体结构控制，存在着滑动位移、变形失稳的可能性，电站的安全运行受到潜在的威胁。因此对西外坡岩体进行稳定分析，并进行补强处理是必要的。     

The Woodward Research Institute,Robert Burns Woodward (1917–1979) and Chemistry behind the Glass Door

Certainly a highlight in the career of Nobel Laureate Professor Robert Burns Woodward (1917–1979) was the foundation of the Woodward Research Institute (WRI) at Ciba AG in Basel, Switzerland, in 1963. Woodward's remarkable accomplishments in the development of organic chemistry altered not only our concepts of molecular structure, but also our comprehension of physico‐chemical properties. In his legacy, Woodward devised innovative strategies for natural product syntheses based on brilliant rationale of their properties and an uncanny sense of Nature. The chemistry community benefited not only at Harvard but especially in Basel and Zürich from Woodward's inspiring lectures and the opportunity to learn from the chemistry Meister. This article highlights parts of the chemistry and some personalities that contributed to forefront investigations at the Woodward Research Institute which began at the former Novartis legacy company, Ciba AG, Basel.     

Assortment planning for vertically differentiated products under a consider-then-choose model

Consider-then-choose models, borne out by empirical literature in marketing and psychology, note that customers follow a two-stage procedure to choose among alternatives. In this paper, we consider the assortment optimization problem of a retailer who manages a category of vertically differentiated products under customers’ consider-then-choose behavior. We characterize some structural results of the optimal assortment and find that the problem can be solved as the shortest path problem. Also, we develop an efficient algorithm to identify an optimal assortment.