The purpose of this paper is to examine factors driving developers to consider software factories and to scrutinize challenges to employing this methodology. The greatest attraction of the software factory approach is its logically sound conceptual framework covering the whole development process, from beginning to end. The greatest challenge to the successful utilization of this approach is it...

A recent outbreak of Q fever was linked to an intensive goat and sheep dairy farm in Victoria, Australia, 2012-2014. Seventeen employees and one family member were confirmed with Q fever over a 28-month period, including two culture-positive cases. The outbreak investigation and management involved a One Health approach with representation from human, animal, environmental and public health. Se...

This study aimed at evaluating the economic performances of and carbon footprint associated with innovative systems for energetic valorization second cheese whey (SCW), a by-product manufacture, through anaerobic digestion processes. Three were modeled: conventional single-stage digester (FAD), located about 50 km from dairy factory; an on-site (CAD), industry; two-stage (TAD). The TAD technolo...

This paper aims to explain the effect of workplace respect on employee performance at Abu Ghraib Dairy Factory (AGDF). For achieving research aim, analytical and descriptive approach was chosen using a questionnaire tool for collecting data. It covers 22 items; ten them variable twelve items variable. The population involved human resources who work AGDF in Baghdad within two administrative lev...

This paper presents a method for performance evaluation, ranking and clustering based on the double-frontier view to analyze the complex networks. The model allows us to open the structure of the “black box” and can help to obtain important information about efficient and inefficient points of the system. In this paper, we consider a three-stage network, in respect to the additional desirable a...

The use of different organic carbon sources in the denitrification of wastewater containing 2500 mg nitrates/L in a SBR was studied. Three alternative sources of carbon were tested: wastewater from a sweet factory, a residue from a soft drinks factory and a residue from a dairy plant. The first two are sugar-rich, whereas the third presents a high content in lactic acid. Maximum specific denitr...

Twenty of 80 strains of Penicillium roqueforti were able to produce up to 600 mg of mycophenolic acid (MPA) liter in 2% yeast extract-5% sucrose broth. Sixty-two of these strains had been isolated from the main blue-veined cheese varieties of western Europe or from starter cultures. Of these 62 dairy strains, only 7 had MPA-producing potential in vitro. These seven strains had all been isolated...