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Sustainable Archiving and Storage Management of Audiovisual Digital Assets

With the advent of end-to-end tapeless production and distribution, the concept of what it means to archive audiovisual content is being challenged. The traditional role of the archive as a repository for material after broadcast is changing as a result of digital file-based technologies and high-speed networking. Rather than being at the end of the production chain, the archive is becoming an ...

Sustainable Infrastructure Assets: Capability for Infrastructure Capacity Management

Building for a sustainable environment requires sustainable infrastructure assets. Infrastructure capacity management is the process of ensuring optimal provision of such infrastructure assets. Effectiveness in this process will enable the infrastructure asset owners and its stakeholders to receive full value on their investment. Business research has shown that an organisation can only achieve...

Assessment of the Sustainable Rural Livelihoods Assets in Langroud County

The present descriptive survey aims to analyze sustainable rural livelihood in Langarud County of Guilan province, Iran. The statistical population was composed of all rural people in this county (N=37904). Convenience sampling used to determine sample size (n=180). They were selected by proportionally allocated random sampling method. The research instrument was a self-designed questionnaire w...

For-profit companies will strip NHS assets under proposed reforms.

The unfolding cautionary tale of Southern Cross illustrates the fundamental problems with the outsourcing of public services to corporate bodies (BMJ 2011;342:d3535, doi:10.1136/bmj. d3535). Its crisis originated when it was bought by private equity firms, which buy companies, like Southern Cross, that own unmortgaged land and buildings. After selling, leasing back, or borrowing against these a...

Optimizing Assets through Reliability-centered Maintenance