Summary Lecture #1 Airline schedules (Aircraft, crew, passengers) are optimized leading to: Little slacksidle time) Schedule dependencies Delay chain effects Causes of schedule disruptions Shortages of airline resources Shortages of airport resources Complex airline resource regulations Aircraft maintenance

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Culture is thought to be the thing only humans have. Studies of animals however, show that chimpanzees can make and use tools like man. Monkeys can learn to do something from each other. Apes can even be taught some forms of language. We find that certain animals do culture similar to that of human beings and the line dividing us from them is not as clear as we used to think

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