Fresh Look and Understanding on Carnot Cycle

Fish Oil and Inflammation - A Fresh Look.

A fresh look at industry and market analysis.(understanding markets beyond the Five Competitive Forces Model)

Today’s strange, new business world needs an augmented model of industry and market analysis that reflects recent developments in industry dynamics, such as globalization, entrepreneurship, technological advances, and the Internet. Here we present such an updated model, built on and expanding the basic premises that underlie Porter’s Five Competitive Forces Model. And we offer suggestions for h...

Nonlinear Thermodynamic Analysis and Optimization of a Carnot Engine Cycle

Michel Feidt 1, Monica Costea 2,*, Stoian Petrescu 2 and Camelia Stanciu 2 1 Laboratoire d'Énergétique et de Mécanique Théorique et Appliquée, UMR 7563, Université de Lorraine, 2, avenue de la Forêt de Haye, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy 54518, France; [email protected] 2 Department of Engineering Thermodynamics, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 313, Bucharest 06004...

A Fresh Look at Barriers from Alternative Perspectives on Risk

This paper takes a fresh look at alternative perspectives on major accident causation theories to highlight the fact that these perspectives can supplement and improve the energy barrier perspective. The paper starts from a literature study of energy barrier perspective, Man-Made Disaster theory (MMD), Conflicting Objective Perspective (COP), Normal Accident Theory (NAT), High Reliability Organ...

A fresh look at preoperative body washing

National guidelines do not support preoperative body washing to reduce surgical site infections, instead recommending bathing or showering with soap. Yet preoperative body washing continues to be widely used in many hospitals across Europe. This paper suggests that existing trials of preoperative body washing, upon which guidelines are based, are dated and proposes a new investigation of preope...