sustainable development of the production in every region requires consideration of energy flow in the production system, moreover, investigating the production system inputs from environmental management point of view is of high importance. in this study energy use and greenhouse gas emissions is investigated. data were collected through interviews with 75 tea farmers and comparing the results...

Aprevious chapter addressed the general procedure for conducting a laboratory milling analysis and factors that impact the measure­ ment of milling yield, specifically milled rice yield (MRY) and head rice yield (HRY). These factors include the rice sample moisture content, temperature and milling ease, as well as laboratory mill settings and the duration for which the rice is milled. The impac...

Manufacturing firms routinely commit resources to increase yield rates through productand process-improvement initiatives. Champions of such yield-improvement projects may assume that stochastically larger yield rates are beneficial. In this note, we show that this need not hold, even when the contingent production lot sizes are chosen optimally. We employ stochastic comparison techniques to sh...

Measurements of low-energy electrons emitted by 1 to 4.5 keV Ne ion impact on an Al surface are discussed. Spectral structures found near 11 eV are attributed to the decay of plasmons in Al. A method is given to determine absolute values for the experimental electron yield from the plasmon decay. Plasmon yields are studied as a function of the incidence angle of the projectile. Strong variation...

The comprehension of the anisotropy impacts on mechanical properties of the rolled steel sheets was investigated using a non-quadratic anisotropic yield function. In this study, experimental and modelling determination regarding the behaviour of an industrial rolled sheet for a ferritic stainless low-carbon steel were carried out. The parameters of the associated yield equation, derived from th...

Previous research has demonstrated that the production of information services can be characterized at the aggregate economy-wide level by the Cobb-Douglas production function. However, the underlying production process at the firm level has not yet been ascertained. The objective of this paper is to determine the form of the production process for information systems services at the firm level...

This paper follows Jones (2005) in his approach to deriving the global production function from microfoundations. His framework is generalized by allowing for dependence between the Pareto distributions of laborand capital-augmenting developments. Using the Clayton copula family to capture this dependence, we derive a “Clayton-Pareto” class of production functions that nests both the Cobb-Dougl...