Manufacturing industry has seen rapid changes in the last decade. Unprecedented growth of web and internet technologies has revolutionized the manufacturing industry from local to global competitive industry. Customer demand for customized and high quality product with lower cost and shorter life cycle has increased. In this agile environment, manufacturing industry need to be competitive, inno...

Inter-story drift is an important indicator of structural behaviour in performance-based seismic analysis. This paper describes the definition and contents of the inter-story drift. Existing calculation methods for harmful and harmless inter-story drift are revisited first. Their advantages and shortcomings are compared. Finally, the generalized shear deformation of region, which seems to be su...

aims: several methods have been used for textile wastewater treatment. the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of rosa damascena watering waste ash for cod and color removal from textile wastewater.  materials & methods: rose watering waste was gathered from one of the kashan processing plants. the raw wastewater sample was taken from one of the textile industries in kashan country...

Sentiment analysis has so far focused on the detection of explicit opinions. However, of late implicit opinions have received broader attention, the key idea being that the evaluation of an event type by a speaker depends on how the participants in the event are valued and how the event itself affects the participants. We present an annotation scheme for adding relevant information, couched in ...

Does technological change amount to accumulation of general, and so transferable, human capital? To approach this question I rely on a theoretical framework in which the “technology distance” between industries reduces inter-industry transferability of workers’ skill. Empirically, I use US panel data on individual intra-industry and inter-industry mobility decisions between 1982 and 1990, a per...

recently, a renewed interest arises in the application of nanotechnology for the upstream petroleum industry. in particular, adding nanoparticles to fluids may drastically benefit enhanced oil recovery and improve well drilling, by changing the properties of the fluid, rocks wettability alteration, advanced drag reduction, strengthening the sand consolidation, reducing the inter-facial tension and...

Organizations are increasingly using innovative information systems (IS) to adapt and thrive in the increasingly dynamic and competitive environment in which they operate. However, current literature on how innovative IS could be developed and adopted in an inter-organizational network is limited. Motivated by these concerns, we investigate a technological innovation initiated by a hub company ...

In this paper we introduce the ealignment approach for inter-organizational alignment. With ealignment we create alignment between organizations operating in a value web which is a set of organizations who jointly satisfy a customer need by (1) focusing on the interaction between the organizations in the value web, (2) considering interaction from four different perspectives, and (3) utilizing ...

In this paper we introduce the ealignment approach for inter-organizational alignment. With ealignment we create alignment between organizations operating in a networked value constellation which is a set of organizations who jointly satisfy a customer need by (1) focusing on the interaction between the organizations in the networked value constellation, (2) considering interaction from four di...

This paper formulates an empirical model to estimate the impact of endogenous new regional trade agreement (RTA) membership on trade structure. The likelihood of new RTA membership is influenced by economic fundamentals such as country size, factor endowments, and trade and investment costs. In a sample of country-pairs covering mainly the OECD economies we find a particularly strong effect of ...