The developments of new concepts for an increased digitization manufacturing industries in the context Industry 4.0 have brought about novel system architectures and frameworks smart production systems. These range from generic to domain-specific Industrial Internet Things (IIoT). While most approaches include a service-based architecture selective integration with enterprise systems, close two...

The paper describes how stochastic optimization techniques can be used to model profit maximizing producer behaviour in a spatial continuum. The main methodological issues to be addressed are, first, that the representation of optimal allocations in a spatial continuum naturally leads to models that contain integrals over space, and the second that the resulting model tends to have a multi-leve...

In Nigeria, the factories ACTS of 1955, came into force on 1st September 1956, the factories (Amendment) ordinance, 1458, which came into operation on 1st April, 1959 made slight changes in some section of the original Act. And again in 1984, yet more changes were made in the factories Act. The factory Act lays down in general terms the minimum standard for safety, health and welfare of factory...

The basic structural elements of chromatin and chromosomes are reviewed. Then a model involving only three architectural motifs, nucleosomes, chromatin loops and transcription factories/chromomeres, is presented. Loops are tied through transcription factors and RNA polymerases to factories during interphase and to the remnants of those factories, chromomeres, during mitosis. On entry into mitos...

The evolution of B-Factories is discussed, and comments are made about the common features of present-day asymmetric storage ring collider designs. * Work supported by Department of Energy contract DE-AC03-76SF00515. Presented at the 4th International Symposium on Heavy E’lavour Physics, Orsay, France, June 25-29, 1991 There was a symposium Progress on B-Factories the day before the Heavy Flavo...

There is increasing evidence that different transcription units are transcribed together in discrete nuclear structures known as transcription factories. Various new techniques enable us to detect and characterize these structures. We review the latest findings and discuss how they support a model for transcription and chromosome organization.

Noise presents health and social problems in industrial operations, and is mainly related to machinery used in the industries. The present study was conducted in the different utilities industries in Jeddah Industrial Estate (JIE), in order to assess the magnitude of the problem of industrial noise exposure there in an endeavor to propose remedial controls to the problem. Noise was measured in ...

AIMS The main aims of this work were the study of cork slabs moulds colonization and the evaluation of the moulds diversity during cork processing steps, in different cork stoppers factories. Simultaneously, it was envisaged to perform an evaluation of the air quality. METHODS AND RESULTS Moulds were isolated and identified from cork slabs and cork samples in four cork stoppers factories. The...