“The debate on sustainable production often ends in discussions on the feasibility of farreaching changes in relation to the competitiveness of companies. Industry itself and policy-makers tend to back away from engaging in profound processes of industrial transformation” (Green, quotation frames the problem of moving towards sustainable production while dividing the issue into two separate yet...

The design of biocatalytic processes for industrial synthetic chemistry is determined in large part by the choice of isolated enzyme or whole-cell catalyst form. In the present paper, the considerations for choice are identified and some important classes of bioconversion are discussed in relation to the choice to be made. Recent developments in cell and protein engineering as well as reactor a...

A system that integrates different tools, from multicriteria analysis and mathematical programming but also cognitive and social psychology, can be proposed to cope with complexities and uncertainties that generate criticality in the socio technical approach. The purpose of this paper is to examine the potentialities of this system, above all in terms of information fusion and use in various co...

this article present the result from a study of two sediment cores collected from theenvironmentally distinct zones of ces. accumulation status of five toxic metals: cadmium (cd), chromium(cr), cobalt (co), copper (cu) and lead (pb) were analyzed. besides texture and chns were determined tounderstand the composition of the sediment. enrichment factor (ef) and anthropogenic factor (af) wereused ...

The aim of this study was to examine the rate of fatigue and sleepiness around the shift and non-shift workers and its relation to occupational accidents. This was a cross-sectional study on the workers of Iranian Industrial Mining Group. They included 137 shift workers as the case and 130 non-shift workers as the control. A multi-part questionnaire including demographic characteristics, Piper ...

One of the major issues required to be dealt with the casebased reasoning (CBR) is the challenge to meet to maintain and control the correctness and accuracy of the results expected to be produced against the proposed algorithm and methodology for the candidate CBR system. This paper introduces a computational model with the assistance of the concept of Regression fitting within the mathematica...

Study of the relationship between mental health, psychological handicap, and industrial conditions has developed considerably in importance during the last 5 years. Wartime investigations connected with the occupational adaptation of discharged service men were described by Lewis and Slater (1942), Lewis (1943), and Guttman and Thomas (1944), and the findings of Fraser(1947) on the incidence of...

The relation between nature and human considers different periods. At first it was bio-utilization which degrades the value of nature as a source of energy and material. After revolution in science development and attention to the damages which they made to environment, they tried to change their look to this issue and expand the mean of relation between human and nature. Birth of such word l...

industrial-scale r&d it projects depend on many sub-technologies which need to be understood and have their risks analysed before the project can begin for their success. when planning such an industrial-scale project, the list of technologies and the associations of these technologies with each other is often complex and form a network. discovery of this network of technologies is time con...

I survey the recent literature on the Phillips curve. Along the way, I will try to relate this literature to topics of interest to industrial organization. I will also point out the gaps in our understanding and places where more careful micro-economic analysis would be helpful to macroeconomists. In the conclusion, I summarize what an industrial organization economist might take away from this...