Managing occupational safety in any kind of industry, especially in processing, is very important and complex. This paper develops a new method for occupational risk assessment in the presence of uncertainties. Uncertain values of hazardous factors and consequence frequencies are described with linguistic expressions defined by a safety management team. They are modeled with fuzzy sets. Consequ...

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A wide range of composite material forms are finding use in today’s aerospace, automotive, and other transportation industry segments. The Boeing 787 commercial airliner, unveiled in 2007, features over 50% carbon fiber composites by structural weight, while the entire structure of the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento supercar, unveiled in 2011, is made exclusively from carbon fiber composites [1-2]....

Chemical reactions at the gas-surface interface are ubiquitous in the chemical industry as well as in nature. Investigating these processes at a microscopic, quantum state-resolved level helps develop a predictive understanding of this important class of reactions. In this review, we present an overview of the field of quantum state-resolved gas-surface reactivity measurements that explore the ...

In order to survive in their competitive sector, software companies must complete software products on time and within budget and those products should satisfy the customers’ quality expectations. One of the most effective methods to achieve this result is collecting necessary metrics during development and process these metrics to compute and control the quality costs. Based on some previous s...

Purpose-It is a general belief that using the right strategy for supplier selection and management will ensure the right suppliers who will adequately support the manufacturer to be flexible enough to meet customers' needs are engaged. Yet, there is little empirical evidence to support this view, especially in Malaysia. This paper attempts to fill this need by examining the impact of supplier s...

Despite the many advantages offered by technology clusters, firms located in them face the risk of losing valuable knowledge to nearby competitors. In this study, we argue that multi-location firms strategically organize their R&D activities to appropriate the value of innovations generated in clusters, mainly through three mechanisms: technological distance, value internalization, and control....

a. A focus on ‘development effectiveness’, i.e. on development outcome rather than on output; b. Promoting the role of civil society as an actor in development including in political dialogue, as stated in the article 20 of the Accra Agenda of Action (AAA); c. Recognising the diversity of civil society, creating an enabling environment and right of initiative; d. Prioritising local actors/local...