Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. ___________________________________________________________________________ Abstract The aim of this study was to assess the exposures and perceived risks (occupational, lifestyle and psychological factors) of workers in the wood processing industries in Mutare, Zimbabwe. This project is important in that it...

Lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks are promising alternatives to fossil fuels for meeting raw material needs of processing industries and helping transit from a linear circular economy thereby meet the global sustainability criteria. The sugar platform route in biochemical conversion process is one extensively studied methods, which consists four major steps: pretreatment, hydrolysis, fermentat...

This article develops the decomposition of the dynamic Luenberger productivity growth indicator into dynamic technical change, dynamic technical inefficiency change and dynamic scale inefficiency change in the dynamic directional distance function context using Data Envelopment Analysis. These results are used to investigate for the Spanish food processing industry the extent to which dynamic p...

The basic concept of “an Open Industry Framework” is proposed. Current industry framework is closed and industries are making their efforts to produce best quality products in their own particular field. This is because current industries developed on the basis of their inventions. But quickly increasing diversification and frequent and extensive changes are calling for an open framework. In th...