Abstract The World Bank and International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) help ailing developing economies to address their debts economic crises. To receive this help, however, these international financial institutions IFI s) have in the past demanded reforms, termed Structural Adjustment Programmes SAP ). One of policies has been privatisation state-owned enterprises SOE s), which Ghana embraced imple...

People in different societies and different economic, political environments perceive and evaluate risks of large and complex projects in significantly distinctive ways. This chapter demonstrates ways of identifying and analyzing risks in large projects using case studies of mining projects in Mongolia. According to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), composed by the Project Manag...

The industrial plants, beyond subsisting, pursue to be leaders in increasingly competitive and dynamic markets. In this environment, quality management and technological innovation is less a choice than a must. Quality principles, such as those comprised in ISO 9000 standards, recommend companies to make their decisions with a based on facts approach; a policy much easily followed thanks to the...

Deep-sea mining is an emerging marine industry that presents particularly complex challenges due to its multi-faceted technological, scientific, environmental, social, industrial, political, economic and legal aspects, all of which must be addressed to achieve commercially viable results. These aspects are governed by the burgeoning regulatory regime promulgated by the International Seabed Auth...

Designing and assembling automobiles is a complex task which has to be accomplished in ever shorter cycles. However, customers have increasing desires w. r. t. reliability, durability and comfort. In order to cope with these conflicting constraints it is indispensable to employ tools that greatly simplify the analysis of data that is collected during all car lifecycle stages. We will present me...

OBJECTIVES An excess of mesothelioma has been observed in iron ore miners in Northeastern Minnesota. Mining and processing of taconite iron ore generate exposures that include elongate mineral particles (EMPs) of amphibole and non-amphibole origin. We conducted a nested case-control study of mesothelioma in a cohort of 68,737 iron ore miners (haematite and taconite ore miners) to evaluate the a...