In the literature, The most mentioned issues about measuring poverty are its multi dimensionality and vagueness. Besides traditional approaches fuzzy approaches are widely employed. In this study fuzzy index of poverty (FIP) is calculated for Turkey based on approximately 25000 households. The indicators are disposable income, food expenditure, clothing and footwear expenditures and habitable a...

We suggest the ratio of the ψ′′(3770)/ψ′(3686) production cross sections as an unambiguous probe of the dominance of hard, pointlike physics in charmonium production. If hard physics dominates the charmonium production the ratio : σ(ψ ) σ(ψ) ≈ Γ(ψ→ll) Γ(ψ′→l+l−) ≈ 0.1 is independent of the process. We argue that since the dominant DD̄ decay mode of the ψ′′-meson can be detected with a high effic...

A pilot study was conducted to examine the manner in which Cantonese speakers use prosody to mark syntactic junctures in speech production. Test sentences were designed to create the intended experimental conditions — each sentence-pair consists of an identical array of morphemes with exactly two interpretations according to two different syntactic structures. These structures can be clarified ...

This paper describes the development of an experience factory in an Australian organization involved in the field of telecommunications. Faced with improvement needs, in 1998 the organization placed special attention on approaches to support improvement activities. Towards the end of 1998 a project was started between the company and the Centre for Advanced Empirical Software Research (CAESAR) ...

In this position paper, we present our approach of utilizing mobile devices (i.e., mobile phones and tablets) for assisting engineers and experts in understanding and maintaining the factory pipelines. For this, we present a platform, called assistME, that is composed of three main components: the assistME Server, the assistME mobile infrastructure, and the co-assistME collaborative environment...

BACKGROUND In 2013, an unusually high incidence of biliary tract cancer among current or former workers of the offset color proof printing department of a printing company in Osaka, Japan, was reported. The purpose of this study was to examine whether distance from the printing factory was associated with incidence of biliary tract cancer and whether incident biliary tract cancer cases clustere...

At present classical factory simulations are conducted only when serious changes occur, for example prior to the beginning of construction, prior to larger investments or with the start-up of new products. Only in very rare cases, minor changes in reality will be updated in real-time in the digital model. Thus the simulation model soon loses validity. The effort and hence the hurdle to use the ...

The prevalence of deaths from lung cancer, other cancer, and all other causes was studied in workers and former workers at two factories (A and B) in the United Kingdom at which chloromethyl methyl ether has been manufactured, at one since about 1948 and at the other since 1956. At factory A in South Wales 571 men were traced and at factory B in the north east of England 1196. A statistically s...

This study aimed to evaluate the occurrence of Listeria monocytogenes in cheese and in the environment of three small-scale dairy plants (A, B, C) located in the Northern region state of São Paulo, Brazil, and to characterize the isolates using conventional serotyping and PFGE. A total of 393 samples were collected and analyzed from October 2008 to September 2009. From these, 136 came from dair...

The number of dairy cows in Idaho has increased by approximately 80% in the last decade with concentrated dairy production facilities being the norm. The majority of these production facilities are located in southern Idaho, which has generated regional air quality concerns. To determine the potential air quality impacts of these facilities, we determined emissions of ammonia (NH3) and methane ...