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Appendix B: Patterns in the Ground Transportation of Research Animals in the United States
Appendix B: Patterns in the Ground Transportation of Research Animals in the United States
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and transportation of research animals between research institutions or from abroad. The next section discusses data-preparation efforts.
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Rodent vendors have estimated that 45% of shipments are to for-profit customers, suggesting that a large portion of the facilities that utilize rodents are not represented in the data sets used for this model. The third data set, which is referred to as the vendor data, includes the major vendors that supply research animals in the United States, the locations of production facilities, and the species they supply.
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APPENDIX B 119 In addition to the three primary data sources listed above, the US Cities Geographic Information System (GIS) file provided by TransCAD® (Caliper, Inc.)
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120 APPENDIX B An important issue is that the solution space for identifying the best locations for new facilities is the entire United States. However, it is computationally infeasible to enumerate the objective function over all possible locations in the United States.
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121 analysis. the in used segments grid 40 the for centroids the indicate Dots problem.
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APPENDIX B 123 shape of stars in Figure B-2, and the current demand points (i.e., research institutions) are represented by dots, with the diameter of the dot indicating the total amount of funding received by the research institution in 2003.
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124 set. data cats USDA the for problem location facility the for set Solution B-3 FIGURE
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Change 0 (base case) -- 25,387,410 -1 Chico, CA 18,110,828 28.66 2 Chico, CA and Hot Springs, AR 14,765,449 18.47 SUMMARY This chapter has described the committee's efforts to inventory and visualize the "utilization" points of research animals (the locations of institutions that use research animals)
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