Small scale industries (SSI) have a significant role in the Indian economy in view of its contribution to production, employment, and export. However, since 1991 small scale industries in India find themselves in an intensely competitive environment due to globalization, domestic economic liberalization, and dilution of sector specific protective measures. The formation of World Trade Organizat...

A future oriented control system for the power and water industries must be able to cover more tasks than just the usual automation and optimization of plant processes. In the power generation and water industries, as well as in other process industries that are characterized by a high utilization of resources, there is a growing demand for more cost efficiency, environmental compatibility and ...

Hot Melt Extrusion (HME) is well known process for the Plastic Industries but it is well accepted by the pharmaceutical industries for the last three decays. With the use of HME we can increase solubility and bio-availability of the API. HME has proven to be a robust method of producing numerous drug delivery systems like modified, controlled and targeted drug delivery systems.HME is a solvent ...

Adaptation pathways is an approach to identify, assess, and sequence climate change adaptation options over time, linking decisions critical signals triggers derived from scenarios of future conditions. However, conceptual differences in their development can hinder methodological advance create a disconnect between those applying approaches the wider community practitioners undertaking vulnera...

Process and energy industries have been recognised as adopters of high levels automation compared to other sectors. Nonetheless, human cognitive input still plays a critical role in the operation process plants replication these capabilities remains key challenge for advancing levels. In this paper, we provide an analysis based on scenario reduced availability skilled labour increased demands s...

The paper describes and explains empirically the economic performance of four key creative industries (the book publishing, music sound recording, film production and software industries) in five Arab countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon). Using the Porter (Diamond) model as its theoretical background, a survey was conducted in the years 2002-03 among 242 experts, covering fir...