School education today aims at improving the integration of school and professional life. A popular way to provide first hand experiences to students are guided factory tours. Companies are highly interested in establishing contacts to school classes, but guided tours to factories are subject to constraints on both sides. For schools, they require organizational effort, are not easy to integrat...

I ndonesia has one of the highest ratios of maternal mortality in Southeast Asia (359 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2012), according to the latest Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey. The Indonesian government provides free maternal and child health services, but for many of the twenty-five million female workers who are of reproductive age, these services are not available during their...

− The Real-time Colored Petri Net (RTCPN), a modification of traditional Colored Timed Petri net, is proposed to describe virtual factory. In RTCPN, firing discipline differs from traditional way in that the concept of time-enabled transition is introduced to implement real-time simulation. In this paper, we address how to describe virtual factory using RTCPN model. Combined with block diagram,...

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) along with hydroxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (OH-PBDEs) and methoxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (MeO-PBDEs) were found in plant and soil samples collected surrounding a seafood processing factory and a seafood market in China. The profiles of MeO-PBDE congeners were different between seafood processing factory and seafood market. The dete...

The main objective of this paper is to study the Distributed Scheduling (DS) problems in Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) environment using simulation model. This FMS is assumed to be single factory and multi factory which are analyzed by production capacity, throughput, utilization and work-in-process (WIP) by considering scheduling rules. The rules which are includes Largest processing tim...

People believe they experience the world objectively, but research continually demonstrates that beliefs influence perception. Emerging research indicates that beliefs influence the experience of eating. In three studies, we test whether beliefs about how animals are raised can influence the experience of eating meat. Samples of meat were paired with descriptions of animals raised on factory fa...

The B factories continue to dominate experimental publications on the τ. Since the previous edition of this Review, there have been 15 published papers that have contributed measurements to the τ Listings, including 6 from the BaBar Collaboration and 8 from the Belle Collaboration. Seven of these papers have provided new upper limits on the branching fractions for neutrinoless τ-decay modes. Of...

Software organizations are always looking for approaches that help improve the quality and productivity of developed software products. Quality software is easy to maintain and reduces the cost of software development. The Software Factories (SF) approach is one of the approaches to provide such benefits. In this paper, the quality and productivity benefits of the SF approach were examined and ...

The pattern language presented in this paper aims at helping designers to develop reusable building blocks that can be plugged together as needed by the application to be built. The patterns try to identify essential properties of reusable software. In particular, we show that extensive standardization is not a necessary prerequisite of reusability as long as interfaces are designed in a way th...