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Appendix B: Patterns in the Ground Transportation of Research Animals in the United States
Pages 117-126

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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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... The one subgroup of research animals not described in those data sets are rats, mice, and birds utilized at research institutions not supported by NIH funding. This would include most commercial research institutions, such as pharmaceutical and biotech companies.
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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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... . Such an effort provides a qualitative sense of the patterns of transportation of research animals.


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