Our understanding of how markets and businesses operate was passed down to us more than a century ago by English economist Alfred Marshall. It is based on the assumption of diminishing returns: products or companies that get ahead in a market eventually run into limitations so that a predictable equilibrium of prices and market shares is reached. The theory was valid for the bulk-processing, sm...

The southwest Kansas region is one of the centers in the United States for the production of processed beef and related industries. Trucks utilized to support these industries cause noteworthy damages to the regional highway pavements. The objective of this research project was to determine the pavement damage cost of a typical highway section in southwest Kansas attributed to the truck traffic...

High-power, nanosecond-pulse Q-switch laser processing has become commonplace in both existing and emerging high-tech industries. As these industries grow and mature, there is increased need for low-cost, high-quality manufacturing techniques. This translates to a need for increasingly precise and efficient laser processing capabilities. In this work, Newport/Spectra-Physics’ latest Q-switch di...

Based on existence of the chromite deposits in the Sistan and Baluchestan province in Iran, and also various applications of chromite in different industries, it is expected that the establishment of chromite processing plant is required in the erelong. The geographical location of a processing plant can have a strong influence on the success of an industrial venture. The processing plant site ...

The concentrations and removal efficiencies of various kinds of micropollutants were investigated and the relationships between the input sources of industrial wastewater and occurrence patterns of each micropollutant were identified at nine on-site industrial wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). The distribution pattern of each compound varied according to the WWTP type and several micropollut...

BACKGROUND There are many proven and suspected occupational causes of lung cancer, which will become relatively more important over time, as smoking prevalence decreases. METHODS We interviewed 457 cases aged 20-75 years notified to the New Zealand Cancer Registry during 2007-2008, and 792 population controls. We collected information on demographic details, potential confounders, and employm...

The elevated increase of CO2 emissions related to activities the extractive industry is becoming a challenging issue gradually affecting climate change and global warming. In this frame, effective utilisation through techniques Carbon Capture Storage (CCS) as well Utilisation (CCU) can alleviate greenhouse effect. Converting into value-added chemical or liquid fuel (e.g., methanol, hydrocarbons...

Hadoop and Spark are widely used distributed processing frameworks for large-scale data processing in an efficient and fault-tolerant manner on private or public clouds. These big-data processing systems are extensively used by many industries, e.g., Google, Facebook, and Amazon, for solving a large class of problems, e.g., search, clustering, log analysis, different types of join operations, m...

with the growth of technology, supervising systems are increasingly replacing humans in military, transportation, medical, spatial, and other industries. among these systems are machine vision systems which are based on image processing and analysis. one of the important tasks of image processing is classification of images into desirable categories for the identification of objects or their sp...