Change and innovation are increasingly exerting a significant influence on the daily activities of companies. To ensure optimal control, innovative solutions are employed that are encapsulated in the concept of change management. In the engineering c...
Many countries, including South Korea, decided to suspend the inclusion of harvested wood products in their Nationally Determined Contributions, as part of the carbon inventory, in 2016. The inclusion of harvested wood products in the national greenh...
Apiaries must be ecologically and economically sustainable to provide pollination as a unique ecosystem service. Pollination as an ecosystem service is economically, socially, and environmentally irreplaceable. Therefore, it is essential to improve t...
In the design of complex products, change propagation often leads to overlapping impact paths, structural conflicts, and decreased coordination efficiency, especially in multi-source change scenarios. These issues limit the effectiveness of existing...
Vegetable processing pomace contains valuable substances such as natural colors that can be reused as functional ingredients. Due to a large amount of water, they are an unstable material. The aim of our research was to assess how the pretreatment me...
Adaptation of cropping management strategies is necessary to ensure the sustainability of our agriculture, which is facing threats arising from climate change. A methodology is proposed to find out and compare the most promising adaptation strategies...
Climate change has had a significant impact on agricultural production. It is important to evaluate the vulnerability of agricultural production to climate change. The previous methods for evaluating vulnerability are inconsiderate and unrealistic. T...
In the era of the competitive environment, the improvement in current products is ensured through activities aimed at increasing a product’s quality level and, consequently, reducing the amount of waste. The dynamically changing production envi...
This paper proposes a method to robustly monitor shelves in retail stores using supervised learning for improving on-shelf availability. To ensure high on-shelf availability, which is a key factor for improving profits in retail stores, we focus on u...
Jujube has anticancer, diabetic, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and immune system effects. In this study, jujube juice, jujube wine and jujube vinegar were investigated in terms of chemical composition, phenolic co...
The introduction or strengthening of a carbon tax is being considered in many countries as an economic policy instrument to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, there is no study analyzing the impact of a carbon tax increase in a uniform m...
Spread of the Jidoka concept can be phrased as a trend at the production of electronic products. In most of the cases, with the application of this concept, the development of testing procedures (for quality assurance purposes) of the finished produc...
Currently used decision support systems allow decision-makers to evaluate the product performance, including a net present value analysis, in order to enable them to make a decision regarding whether or not to carry out a new product development proj...
Accurate land cover mapping and change analysis is essential for natural resource management and ecosystem monitoring. GlobeLand30 is a global land cover product from China with 30 m resolution that provides reliable data for many international scien...
Climate change has brought significant changes to the earth and agriculture is the main economic sector that has suffered. The current study aims to assess the impact of climatic factors—measured by precipitation, temperature, and CO2 emissions...
The warming of the planet and ongoing climate change are now a scientifically proven fact. These phenomena have an impact on nature and many human activities, but logically affect agriculture the most. History has confirmed that the production of gra...
Reducing the lag in the accuracy assessment of multi-temporal land-cover products has been a hot research topic. By identifying the changed strata, the annual accuracy in multi-temporal products can be quickly evaluated. However, there are still two...
This research aims to investigate the extent and nature of productivity growth in manufacturing industries using nonparametric frontier techniques. In order to decompose the total factor productivity (TFP) into technical efficiency change and technol...
24 August 2022
Many novel tobacco products have been developed in recent years. Although many may emit lower levels of several toxicants, their risk in the long term remains unclear. We previously published a method for the exposure assessment of mixtures that can...
The paper deals with the issue of the mixed-reality usage in the design of production systems, its changes during expansion, or technological changes in the production, where it is necessary to flexibly and quickly verify the integration of a new mac...
Thermal infrared remote satellite (TIRS) images combined with high-resolution optical images in a time series can be used to analyze the production status of iron and steel factories (ISF) in China, which is more objective compared with statistical d...
Agriculture is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with enteric methane (EntCH4) from cattle production being a major source. In Zambia, cattle play a critical role in rural livelihoods and food security, yet the contribution...
This paper is aimed at understanding the possibility of applying ergonomics in the reorganisation of the work environment with the aim to improve working conditions and to increase the productivity of the examined workplace in an industrial company....
Producers of aggregates must prove that their products meet required standards. Effective decision-making in crushing processes requires analyzing how crusher operation affects component wear, particularly crushing plates. Their deterioration alters...
Energy transition is one of the main objectives of the European Union. Significant changes will mainly affect countries in which significant modifications will have to be made to their energy sources. The process will involve high investment in infra...
In industrial production, soft sensors play very important roles in ensuring product quality and production safety. Traditionally, global modeling methods, which use historical data to construct models offline, are often used to develop soft sensors....
Smoking food products is one of the methods of preserving them and giving them unique qualities. The proper selection of process parameters significantly affects the sensory attributes of the products, as well as their health benefits. An experimenta...
This paper empirically investigates the influence of intellectual capital on changes in total factor productivity of 36 BSE-listed banks in India from 2005 to 2019. This study employs a two-stage analysis that begins by investigating changes in total...
Product innovations often involve changes to materials. Various material alternatives are typically sought to improve product quality. Currently, following the current trend of sustainable product development, it is necessary to consider environmenta...
The transfer of graphics to a product’s surface is a widely known technology. Printing, engraving, and etching are used every day in production processes with countless types of materials. This paper deals with quality control for laser engravi...
The Chang 2 bottom water reservoir area in the western part of northern Shaanxi constitutes one of the key oil-producing regions within the Ordos Basin. A principal reservoir here is the Triassic Yanchang Formation’s Chang 2 reservoir, which is...
As in conventional error matrix-based accuracy assessments, collocated reference sample data are often used for characterizing per-pixel (local) accuracies in land-cover change maps so that local accuracy predictions can be made using direct methods....
Requirement changes and cascading effects of change propagation are major sources of inefficiencies in product development and increase the risk of project failure. Risk management regarding these requirement changes yields the potential to handle su...
Requirement changes and cascading effects of change propagation are major sources of inefficiencies in product development and increase the risk of project failure. Proactive change management of requirement changes yields the potential to handle suc...
The challenge of feeding nine billion people by 2050, in a context of constrained resources and growing environmental pressures posed by current food production methods on one side, and changing lifestyles and consequent shifts in dietary patterns on...
Understanding the impacts of regional climate change on crop production will benefit strategic decisions for future agricultural adaptation in China. In this study, the climatic production potential of potato over the past 61 years in Inner Mongolia...
Dynamic changes in customers’ expectations and unfavorable climate changes have generated the need to consider such aspects in the process of creating new products and the modernization of existing products. Simultaneously including customers’ expect...
Organic milk production is an environmentally friendly production system based on local forage and a ban on using chemical fertilizers and certain other rules. Organic milk is considered to be healthier and is gaining attention worldwide. The market...
In the pharmaceutical industry, it is a major challenge to maintain consistent quality of drug products when the batch scale of a process is changed from a laboratory scale to a pilot or commercial scale. Generally, a pharmaceutical manufacturing pro...
29 March 2022
Dietary supplements are health-promoting products. The legal categorization of dietary supplements as foods does not raise concerns, but a general understanding of how they work in the human body seems to deviate from the official definition. Thus, i...
Using remotely sensed satellite products is the most efficient way to monitor global land, water, and forest resource changes, which are believed to be the main factors for understanding global climate change and its impacts. A reliable remotely sens...
The marine controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) method has been used in different applications, such as oil and gas reservoir exploration, groundwater investigation, seawater intrusion studies and deep-sea mineral exploration. Recently, the utili...
Environmental issues and sustainability performance are more and more significant in today’s business world. A growing number of manufacturing companies are searching for changes to improve their sustainability in the areas of products and manu...
This paper presents a new and improved method of hybrid input-output (I-O) to evaluate the economic impact of a biomass power plant’s resource production and consumption. The effect of resource consumption induces a change in an economy’s production...
Agricultural injuries are a valuable social sustainability indicator. However, current methods use sector-scale production data, so are unable to assess the impact of changes in individual farming practices. Here, we developed a method that adopts a...
29 December 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the intricate relationships between human health and the social-ecological system in an era of climate and global change. Widespread COVID-19 adversely affected farmers’ employment, production practices, and li...
Operational flexibility in an aggregate production process is required to adapt to changes in customer demands. Excessive demand for a particular product fraction can lead to operational alteration wherein re-crushing of the existing larger-sized pro...
Climate change has an effect human living in a variety of ways, such as health and food security. This study presents a prediction of crop yields and production risks during the years 2020–2029 in northern Thailand using the coupling of a 1 km...
Providing rapid access to land surface change data and information is a goal of the U.S. Geological Survey. Through the Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) initiative, we have initiated a monitoring capability that involves gen...
The degree and amount of sand production in hydrate reservoirs is related to the selection of stable production processes, but there is currently a lack of quantitative sand production prediction research using real logging data and formation samples...
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