Green supply chain management is an increasingly recognized practice among companies that are seeking to improve environmental performance. Of particular concern is how to arouse organizational awareness and put green activities into practice in order to enhance manufacturing performances. This paper investigates the correlation of green supply chain practices and manufacturing performances in ...

This paper describes the characterization studies under low magnetic fields of the Hamamatsu R7081 photomultipliers that are being used in the Double Chooz experiment. The design and performances of the magnetic shielding that has been developed for these photomultipliers are also reported.

Sociolinguistic research has increasingly turned to examining the use of both the grammar and speech events of black speech by non-Blacks. This phenomenon called language crossing is defined as “the use of language varieties associated with social or ethnic groups that the speaker does not normally ‘belong’ to” (Rampton 1995:14). Although the literature has focused on phonological features, the...

I will be dealing principally with the musical experience of the analyst of performance, and in particular with the problematic nature of its transmission to others (i.e. the readers and listeners of his publications). Given the crucial importance of the individual and collective auditory culture of musicologists in their daily work, this theme can not only be considered as an epistemological i...

Combining an EWMA chart with a Shewhart chart is traditionally recommended as a means of providing good protection against both small and large shifts in the process mean. Capizzi and Masarotto have proposed an EWMA chart with a variable smoothing constant (AEWMA) for the same purpose. In this paper, we optimize the designs of the AEWMA and of the combined EWMA-Shewhart schemes with regard to p...

Online social platforms collapse or converge public and private boundaries, creating both opportunities and challenges for pursuing publicity, privacy, and sociality. Presentations of the self thus become networked performances that must convey polysemic content to audiences, actual and imagined, without compromising one’s own sense of self. This study explored how individuals perform the self ...

We present an overview of current research in performance modeling, focusing on efforts underway in the Performance Evaluation Research Center (PERC). Using some new techniques, we are able to construct performance models that can be used to project the sustained performance of large-scale scientific programs on different systems, over a range of job and system sizes. Such models can be used by...

Solving many actual safety problems in atomic, electrotechnical, space, railway and oil industries as well as in science takes noncontact optical measurement technologies with micron resolution and productivity from 500 to 100 000 meas./s. We have developed, implemented and tested in real workshop and outside conditions some novel optical measuring systems, which are operating successfully in m...

This article describes the need of using Protocol Engineering techniques to study current telecontrol protocols and this way improve their performances by setting them up or changing for others, such as standardised ones (testing their implementations). Keyword: Substation and Distribution Automation, Protocol Engineering, Testing

Previous studies have shown that after being trained on A-B and A-C match-to-sample tasks, adults match not only same-class Band C stimuli (equivalence) but also BC compounds with sameclass elements and with different-class elements (BC-BC) . The assumption was that the BC-BC performances are based on matching equivalence and nonequivalence relations (equivalenceequivalence) . The present study...