... in management sciences / operations research / operations management, in various contexts of production planning and scheduling, container terminal management, fleet management, or warehouse management ... concepts and implications from Toyota Production Systems, Kanban systems, and Just-In-Time could also serve as the basic methodologies for a modern freight handling terminal, in particular in anair ... reducing CRmax_ r and CRmax_ b , the difference between any two facilities could be lessen, and as a result the workload could be distributed more balanced and evenly for each ramp zone and each breakbulk...
... Regional Transport Company of Sfax (SORETRAS), National School of Engineers of Sfax (ENIS), ANME and SAGAZ Authors would like to acknowledge them for their efforts and helpful technical and financial ... used, airand propane (we took a composition of LPG formed almost fully with propane) The inlet intake manifold pressure is taken as an initial condition; it is equal to 1.013 bar for the air inlet ... were performed in order to study the intake manifold influence on the engine performance The air- fuel ratio and the specific fuel consumption are measured and determined With the optimized manifold,...
... music, dance and film) and a range of humanistic, cognitive, neuroscientific, and evolutionary approaches Third, the atmosphere invited attendants to exchange ideas and perspectives, and to contribute ... gender and sexual orientation on ratings of attractiveness for male and female faces Participants included heterosexual and homosexual men and women The results showed that for heterosexual women and ... musicians and non-musicians, presented a series of experiments examining the relationship between major and minor keys and the experience of happiness and sadness in music While musicians easily...
... Capacity building assessment Analysing technical, financial, institutional and social barriers Understanding Needs and Assessing Opportunities - Skills and resources foran online community - page ... community Understanding Needs and Assessing Opportunities - Skills and resources foran online community - page Capacity of individuals and small organizations Questions to be answered include: ... consultants to help you assessment and planning • The time of the team members and yourself to assessment and planning • The time of any stakeholders who you are gathering information from • Planning...
... and specific heat of nanofluid by Equations and The density and specific heat of nanofluid and experimental data can then be used to calculate the Reynolds number and heat exchange capacity for ... coolant in an air- cooled heat exchanger to heat dissipation Identifying the differences in nanofluid weight fractions, mass flow rates, and temperature effects on heat exchange performance and ... 27 nm and vol.%, respectively The average thermal contact resistance was 0.18°C/W and 0.12°C/W for the deionized water and nanofluid, respectively Duangthongsuk and Wongwises [22] reported an experimental...
... for water management, and he has conducted several research projects (funded by the European Union, the Spanish Ministries of Science and Development and Foreign Affairs, and other European and ... strategies for conjunctive managementand water saving that allow for optimizing the water resources managementand preventing the scarcity periods The WAMME project (Water Resources Management ... Drought managementand planning for water resources /edited by Joaquin Andreu …[et al.] p cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 1-56670-672-6 (alk paper) Water-supply Management...
... Drought Managementand Planning for Water Resources Natural and manmade wetlands Constructed wetlands (CW) are defined as “designed and man-made complex(es) of saturated substrates, emergent and submerged ... highway medians and shoulders, and landscaped areas surrounding public building and facilities • Irrigation of landscaped areas of single-family and multifamily residences and other maintenance activities ... guidelines and criteria for irrigation by WHO (1989), the U.S EPA (1992), and the State of California (1978) (Asano and Levine, 1996) 2.3.1.2 Existing standards for water reuse in Mediterranean countries...
... J., and Moench, M H (2000) Groundwater and society Resources, tensions and opportunities New York: United Nations Department and Social Affairs and Institute for Social and Environmental Transition ... surface and subsurface components dynamically conceived, expanded, and operated to keep up with water demand, and hydrologic variability can provide economic, functional, and environmental advantages ... operation and monitoring and permanent supervision Furthermore, it cannot be implemented without well-identified users, the ability to pay for the operation and maintenance cost of recharge, and assurance...
... drought management plans with their triggers and special rules of operation, and a variety of planning, management, and real-time operating models Each of these items supports decision making and ... Decision support systems for drought management 125 The DSS should provide insight to water management issues at the watershed scale and effects of water and land managementAn example of this end-product ... uncertainly and hence are candidates for sensitivity analysis Another candidate for sensitivity analysis is the flow regime required to support ecosystems The design of the DSS must accommodate and adapt...
... Spain Andreu, J., Capilla, J., and Sanchis, E (1996) Aquatool: A generalized decision supportsystem for water-resources planning and operational management J Hydrology 177, 269–291 Basson, M S., and ... systems This system was designed to be an aid to the managementand investigation of water resources It includes an optimization module, a management simulation module, andan underground water ... also the social and political The analysis and drought measures mentioned in points 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, corresponding to the management phase defined as planning, are put into effect and must be regularly...
... as the requirement for elaborating a Special Plan andan Emergency Plan, being responsible for the first plan the Spanish Basin Organisations, andfor the second type of plan, public administrations ... events managementand in the strategic planning of the actions to be taken The main tools for drought managementand planning available in Spain are: • • • • Drought indicators for the Spanish ... desalination plants, which can be transported from one area to another Copyright 2006 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Drought Managementand Planning for Water Resources Copyright 2006 by Taylor & Francis...
... RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 3.13.1 Comparison of test results 3.13.2 Connections H1 and H2 3.13.3 Connections H3 and H4 3.13.4 Connections H5 and H6 3.13.5 Connections H7 and H8 3.13.6 Connections H9 and ... Hope-Gill and Johnson, 1976, Johnson and Chen, 1991, Kemp and Dekker, 1991, Leon, 1990, Liew et al., 2001, Lukey and Adams, 1969, Price and Anderson, 1992, Tehami, 1997) have proposed design methods for ... received moral support and understanding from Sze Ching; his wife and his parents He would like to express gratitude to them For the author’s years-old and 1-year-old sons, Yan Zhang and Ding Jie; the...
... RESEARCH DESIGN 51 Overview Discretionary Accruals and Earnings Management The Accrual Anomaly and Earnings Management Incentives The Accrual Anomaly and Earnings Management ... Lakonishok, and Vermaelen (1995), Loughran and Ritter (1995), Michaely, Womack, and Thaler (1995), Spiess and Affleck-Graves (1995), Ikenberry, Rakine, and Stice (1996), and Desai and Jain (1997) ... represents the change in revenues, and PPE represents gross property, plant, and equipment The variables i and t are firm and time subscripts, respectively, 39 and βˆ , βˆ , and βˆ are the parameters...
... principal soil managementand conservation activities in Santa Catarina MANAGEMENTAND USE OF ANIMAL MANURE Another important activity in the microcatchments is the management of animal manure Santa Catarina ... camera-ready form by Chrissi Smith-Redfern The concept for this publication originated from José Benites, Land and Plant Nutrition Management Service (AGLL), Land and Water Development Division (AGL), and ... members, and operates a refrigeration facility for pigs and poultry combined with meat processing and the preparation of animal rations and concentrates There Soil managementand conservation for...
... Accounting and Economics 23 (2): 115-139 , and K Subramanyam 1998 Auditor changes and discretionary accruals Journal of Accounting and Economics 25 (1): 35-67 , K Raghunandan, and K Subramanyam ... (e.g., Barber et al 1987 and Simon and Francis 1988) Magee and Tseng (1990) analytically examine the relationship between pricing o f audit engagements and auditor independence, and conclude Reproduced ... relationships can reduce auditors’ incentives to invest in learning about their clients, resulting in lowerquality audits (St Pierre and Andersen 1984; Arrunada and Paz-Ares 1997) Geiger and Raghunandan...
... Waltinger, Alexander Mehler, and Maik St¨ hrenberg 2008b An integrated model of u lexical chaining: Application, resources and its format In Angelika Storrer, Alexander Geyken, Alexander Siebert, and Kay-Michael ... Jussen, Alexander Mehler, and Alexandra Ernst 2007 A corpus management system for historical semantics Appears in: Sprache und Datenverarbeitung 3.6 Historical Semantics Corpus Management Mitchell ... Explorer Documents and repositories can be created and edited via context menus They can be moved via drag and drop between different repositories Both can be copied via drag and drop while pressing...
... listening ear, and my rock iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Dr Sandra Petronio, my advisor, for her continual academic mentorship and friendship She has graciously opened many doors and opportunities ... college and other literature has addressed the adolescent and young adult‟s experience with parental breast cancer, however, understanding how families adjust and cope when several stressors and ... which to understand and analyze the way young adults regulate private information and accommodate the need for shifting privacy boundaries when they are faced with two stressful demands (Petronio,...