sustainability performance and cost of green machining technologies

... presented our study of the optimal planning and sequencing for parallel machining operations The combinatorial nature of sequencing and the complication of having precedence and mode constraints ... MUs and L (Ն 1) WLs with the capability of activating i cutting tools (I Ն i Ն 1) on distinct MUs, in parallel, either for the purpose of machining a single workpiece, or for the purpose of machining, ... mutation affects the performance of the proposed GA, the number of mutations was increased from one to two in each of the above settings (see Figures 8.10 and 8.11) From Figures 8.10 and 8.11, it is...

Ngày tải lên: 25/12/2013, 19:15

... counterparts In the first part of this note we discussed the issue of differing risk-return trade-offs among different stages of venture investment, and mentioned that the tails of the return probability ... industry is because of the nature of the human capital: the influx of highly qualified immigrants resulted in a high incidence of entrepreneurship and as a result provided a healthy demand for venture ... to improve the performance of their funds7 The finding of persistence in performance between subsequent funds is well documented by a number of authors (see for example Kaplan and Schoar, 2005)...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:21

... Fellow and Head of FIPP at CEPS, Reinhard H Schmidt, Professor at the University of Frankfurt and Santiago Carbó Valverde, Professor at the University of Granada The research team is composed of ... one objective and standard of assessment is the impact that they have on the lives of their clients; and the other one is profitability Ultimately and over the long term, impact and effectiveness ... World War The general distrust of commercial banks, and even of markets in general, and the lack of long-term funds seemed to make state ownership of banks and heavy-handed banking regulation a pure...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... tens of thousands of young spiders on each square yard of land simply vanish, and the swarms of fireflies that fly up from the stands of grass disappear at once The second application kills off ... planting period and the quantity of seed sown, between the time and amount of fertilizer application, and between the number of seedlings and the spacing of plants No particular amount of seed broadcast, ... and the seeds of clover, alfalfa, bur clover, and other types of green manure, with grain and vegetable seeds The mixture of seeds is coated first with a layer of soil, then one of clay, to form...

Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 14:00

... further test the impact of audit tenure and auditor opinion on cost of capital and find that cost of capital is inversely proportional to auditor tenure, and that cost of capital for the client ... effect of the two audit quality attributes, size and industry specialization, on the cost of capital of client firms Specifically, I examine which roles of auditing affect the cost of capital of the ... examine the impact of different attributes of the auditor and the audit on the cost of capital of the client firm I find that the cost of capital is inversely proportional to the length of the auditor...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 14:04

... assessment of balance performance and a subjective assessment of fear of falling [5,25-27] To our knowledge, no previous study has investigated the effect of STN stimulation alone by combining all of ... battery of clinical performance tests, subjective ratings of fear of falling and laboratory assessments that investigate reflexive movements The aim of the present study was to explore the effects of ... posturography tests have the advantages of allowing a standardized and reproducible procedure of using external balance perturbations and a quantification of the postural responses Posturographic...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... Identification and characterisation of target farms Training and Information Dissemination Provision of improved housing and health care for goats Improve the availability and quality of feeds and forages ... productivity and profitability on selected farms in Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan and Lam Dong provinces; and to train local Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) staff, participating and other ... production systems and in the application of new and appropriate technologies (improved housing, disease control, improved feed supply and quality, introduction of Bachthao bucks of proven genetic...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... Identification and characterisation of target farms Training and Information Dissemination Provision of improved housing and health care for goats Improve the availability and quality of feeds and forages ... production systems and in the application of new and appropriate technologies (improved housing, disease control, improved feed supply and quality, introduction of Bachthao bucks of proven genetic ... productivity and profitability on selected farms in Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan and Lam Dong provinces; and to train local Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) staff , participating and other...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... differences and provenance variation within species The trials included all three varieties of P caribaea (4 provenances of PCH, and each of both PCB and PCC, Table 3; however, a fifth provenance of PCH ... and Barnes (1990) list Guanaja, Alamicamba and Queensland as three of the top five provenances; Crockford et al (1990) report Queensland, Guanaja, Mountain Pine Ridge and Alamicamba as four of ... low latitudes of central Vietnam There were only relatively small differences in the growth of the Vietnam and Queensland sources of PCC and PCH evaluated in the Cam Quy (Table 17) and Lang Hanh...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... interpretation of farming system surveys carried out in 2006 and 2008, and of the biology and productivity of goats following the introduction of new technologies to farmers in Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan and ... Identification and characterisation of target farms Training and Information Dissemination Provision of improved housing and health care for goats Improve the availability and quality of feeds and forages ... conference, workshop training manuals, evaluation of competency of staff training and a survey of farmers views of the sustainability of the technologies introduced will all be presented in the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... in DSRC, the high mobility of vehicles on the road may cause two adverse effects on performance of message sending and receiving On one hand, during the transmission of safety-related EURASIP Journal ... Communications and Networking message, some of the receivers may move out of the transmission range of the sender, resulting in failure of receiving the message On the other hand, high mobility ... as the end of a transmission System Model and Performance Analysis 3.1 Assumptions for IEEE 802.11 Broadcast in DSRC In this paper, we focus on reliability and performance analysis of the DSRC...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... Productivity and cost of manual felling and cable skidding in central Appalachian hardwood forests Forest Products Journal, 53: 47–53 ZOBEIRY M., 1994 Forest Inventory (Measurement of Tree and Stand) ... chainsaw model The gross and net productivities of chainsaw for different diameters were 26.1 m3 and 20.6 m3 per hour/one person, respectively Estimates of hourly costs of the chainsaw were computed ... Lipsky) stand with the average growing stock 320 m3/ha The slope of the compartment was 20 to 60% and the aspects of the slopes were northern The total volume of production was 1,900 m3 and the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... consisted in removal and deposition of the organic layer and some underlying mineral soil in berms beside the trench In each of the nine blocks of RP and 10 blocks of LC, we randomly assigned the ... contained 37% sand, 47% silt, and 26% clay Both soil profiles were characterized by a mor humus layer of cm Experimental sites RP and LC were clearcut-harvested in the summers of 1996 and 1997, respectively, ... competing vegetation combination of six and seven randomly chosen blocks of RP and LC, respectively Bags were buried flat at 10-cm depth in scarified plots (top edge of trenches) or 10 cm below the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... at –2 °C (shaded symbols) Vertical and horizontal bars indicate standard error of the mean Fluorescence and performance of Douglas fir stored in October was of sufficient quality to warrant planting ... physiological status of Douglas fir seedlings and the field performance of freshly lifted and cold stored stock, Ann For Sci 56 (1999) 297–306 [33] Ottander C., Öquist G., Recovery of photosynthesis ... at the nursery site is a sandy loam (pH 5.7, organic content 6–8%, and sand, silt and clay fractions 66, 19 and 15% respectively) Plants received monthly additions of nitrogen at 14 kg N ha–1...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... APF, FCS, and FLM participated in the design and coordination of the study, interpretation of data and writing the manuscript References Prigatano GP, Wright EC, Levin D: Quality of life and its ... showed lower exercise performance and poorer health-related quality of life (Table 1) Subjects showed moderately high levels of baseline anxiety and depression Thirty percent of subjects had state ... percent of predicted DLCO%: single-breath diffusing capacity of carbon monoxide, percent of predicted emphasized that our measure of anxiety evaluates a general state of feeling anxious and does...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:20

... departments in Scotland [43] Assessment of the impact and performance of the trauma team as an isolated component of the trauma pathway is complex Separation of the impact of multiple members of staff in ... during out -of- hours care, where no supervisor is available on site The process of video review of trauma resuscitations therefore has benefits of performance and error analysis, audit and education, ... Page of cannot be expected to review overall performance where a horizontal rather than vertical model of care is applied The observer requires a knowledge and understanding of the processes of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2015, 18:15

... are resolved 1.4.1 Performance and Capacity in the Presence of Carrier Frequency Offset The performance and capacity of STBC MC-CDMA systems in the presence of carrier frequency offset is studied ... theoretical analysis of BER performance and system capacity for STBC MC-CDMA systems The analysis on the system performance in the presence of carrier frequency offset is first made, and Chapter Introduction ... ensure high performance of capacity and spectral efficiency Furthermore, the future generation of broadband mobile/fixed wireless system will aim to support a wide range of services and bit rates...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 15:54

... to standard deviation of earnings (see, e.g., Francis, LaFond, Olsson and Schipper, 2004; and Leuz, Nanda and Wysocki, 2003; and LaFond, Lang and Skaife, 2007), and the negative correlation of ... smoothing and implied cost of equity Section VI concludes Details of models 15 used for the estimation of implied cost of equity can be found in Appendix A, and details of variables definition and ... on the reduction of cost of equity Nevertheless, I find evidence that the relation between income smoothing and cost of equity also depends heavily on specific measures of cost of equity, particularly...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 16:34