background in many industries, noise is attributed as the most prevalent harmful agent threatening workers' health. geographic information system (gis) is an applicable surveying tool in civil engineering. but, the use of gis for noise and hearing loss screening seems to be partly a new approach. objectives this study aimed to apply gis in noise and hearing loss screening in the production hall...

The rapid development of computers and multimedia techniques makes the timely and accurate transmission of information possible. The electronic publishing becomes more and more popular in recent years. And its impact on the traditional publishing industry is enormous. This paper analyzes the characteristics between electronic publishing industry and traditional publishing industry, and gives so...

The purpose of this article was to review published research literature about the publishing process and the roles of participants in this process in the textbook publishing industry in the USA. The contents of books, collected works, reports and journal articles were analysed, and summaries of the contents were then organised chronologically to present a commentary on this topic. The results s...

In this paper, we discuss the problem and challenge for the reverse logistics of the publishing industry in China. First we present the background of the publishing industry in China through analyzing the statistics data of the past 8 years. Then we point out the existing problems and the underlying reasons. Finally we propose our solution and suggestions to cope with the existing problems, inc...

291 words) Over the past decade, several industries have considered Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to improve supply chain efficiency. In Japan, the national Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) initiated and sponsored a number of industry-wide RFID trials between 2003 and 2006. It selected the Japanese publishing industry, one of the largest publishing industries i...

This paper offers an overview, both internationally and with a particular concentration on the UK, of how the profession-orientated discipline of Publishing Studies (PS) is accommodated and established within those universities where it is offered. It presents a combination of data, gained from a survey of professionals teaching PS, desk research into courses of PS in the UK and from Heidi and ...

Over the past decade, several industries considered RFID technology to improve supply chain efficiency. In Japan, the national Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) initiated and sponsored a number of RFID trials between 2003 and 2006. METI selected the Japanese publishing industry, one of the largest publishing industries in the world, for an early RFID trial on item level to increase...