Our research group seeks to understand how corporations can effect long-term commitments to economic prosperity and sustainability; and in particular, how such corporate commitments cascade through the organization and are implemented from the boardroom to the shop floor of the manufacturing facility. Our long-term goal is to examine the corporation from a sustainability perspective, where we w...

Article history: Received 29 September 2015 Received in revised form 17 October 2016 Accepted 21 January 2017 Available online xxxx Results of international comparisons of students in studies such as PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) and TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) are often taken to indicate that mathematical education in Dutch schools is not...

SYNOPSIS. Many aspects of physiological and organismal performance vary with some continuous environmental variable: e.g., photosynthetic rate as a function of light intensity; growth rate or sprint speed as a function of temperature. For such ‘performance curves’, the environment plays two roles: it affects both the levels of performance expressed, and the relationship between performance and ...

A method for environmental performance assessment is presented in this paper. The proposed method considers the procedure for environmental performance comparison of design alternatives as a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. Integrated assessment model based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is presented for solving MCDM problem. An integrated environmental index (IEI) for chemic...

Profitability describes a company's capacity to generate profits. is typically increased by implementing nonexistent budget system, reducing marketing expenses, and other asset management strategies. However, not the only factor affecting profitability in this instance. Environment, society, economy have fundamentally interdependent relationship. The existence environment has direct or indirect...

BACKGROUND The exposome constitutes a promising framework to improve understanding of the effects of environmental exposures on health by explicitly considering multiple testing and avoiding selective reporting. However, exposome studies are challenged by the simultaneous consideration of many correlated exposures. OBJECTIVES We compared the performances of linear regression-based statistical...

Mobile computer technology has greatly evolved in the recent years. Cloud computing is recognized to be a new area for solving performance issues. Mobile terminal can take advantage from cloud computing. To cope with these new resources and fulfill new quality and performance requirements a more sophisticated architecture and resource management is necessary. The basis of effective resource man...

Abstract—We address the problem where a mobile search agent seeks to find an unknown number of stationary objects distributed in a bounded search domain, and the search mission is subject to time/distance constraint. Our work accounts for false positives, false negatives and environmental uncertainty. We consider the case that the performance of a search sensor is dependent on the environment (...