Daily mortality and environment in English conurbations
Environmental ResearchPublished 1 June 1978
Alison Macfarlane
Citations32
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We discuss what we consider to be the 10 most vexing open questions in the area of polynomial time approximation algorithms for NP-hard deterministic machine scheduling problems. We summarize what is known on these problems, we discuss related results, and we provide pointers to the literature.
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