There is frequent debate in the media and the scientific published reports about the use of radiation for diagnosis and treatment, the benefits and risks of the nuclear industry, uranium mining and the storage of radioactive wastes. Driving this debate is increasing concern about reliance on fossil fuels for power generation for which alternatives are required. Unfortunately, there is generally...

Mass consumption and shortening product lifecycles have increased worldwide production. Consequently, more raw materials such as minerals are used, and available landfills are filling up. Companies are urged to effectively incorporate sustainability issues such as End-of-life (EOL) management and Reverse Logistics (RL) practices to close the loop and diminish the amount of raw materials used in...

Recovery planning is a key component of many threatened species conservation initiatives and can be a powerful awareness raising tool. One of the largest impediments to conservation efforts in the Pacific region however, is the lack of ecological data and its subsequent effects on the development of feasible and useful recovery plans for threatened species. Without these plans, the understaffed...

Background: The cement industry in South Africa is lagging behind the green supply chain management (GSCM) revolution that has influenced many sectors to re-evaluate their systems. Objective: This study was conducted determine significant drivers of and barriers implementation GSCM African industry, thus investigate impediments industry. Method: A mixed-method approach used collect data from va...

Building knowledge-based systems today usually entails constructing a new knowledge base from scratch. Even if several groups of researchers are working in the same general area, such as medicine or electronic diagnosis, each team must develop its own knowledge base from scratch. The cost of this duplication of effort has been high and will become prohibitive as we build larger and larger syste...

Mining Software Repositories (MSR) is an applied and practiseoriented field aimed at solving real problems encountered by practitioners and bringing value to Industry. Replication of results and findings, generalizability and external validity, UniversityIndustry collaboration, data sharing and creation dataset repositories are important issues in MSR research. Research consisting of bibliometr...

Pain is a common and devastating symptom of cancer that can be effectively controlled with currently available pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies. Unfortunately, there continue to be reports that half of patients with cancer have inadequate relief of their pain with devastating effects on their quality of life and functional status. Systematic efforts to understand and eliminate ...

The dynamics of systems composed of a classical sector plus a quantum sector is studied. We show that, even in the simplest cases, ~i! the existence of a consistent canonical description for such mixed systems is incompatible with very basic requirements related to the time evolution of the two sectors when they are decoupled, ~ii! the classical sector cannot inherit quantum fluctuations from t...

Recovery planning is a key component of many threatened species conservation initiatives and can be a powerful awareness raising tool. One of the largest impediments to conservation efforts in the Pacific region however, is the lack of ecological data and its subsequent effects on the development of feasible and useful recovery plans for threatened species. Without these plans, the understaffed...

SupplyChainManagementInformationSystem(SCMIS)hasgainedalotofimportancebecause ofitsabilitytoreducecostsandincreaseresponsivenessinthesupplychain.Theimplementation ofSCMISisacomplicatedprocesswithsignificantrisk.Thestudieshaverevealedthatthesuccess inimplementingthesesystemsisnotveryencouraging.Therefore,itisnecessarytoestablishthe imped...