Waste reduction is a primary environmental protection policy in North Carolina. This manual is directed at small or medium-sized businesses such as yours and provides guidance for developing or expanding Waste reduction is defined and described briefly in the first chapter of the manual, and the benefits of waste reduction are highlighted. Two primary benefits of pursuing waste reduction are en...

This review essay debates the policy issues raised by the book Retooling for Growth: Building a 21 Century Economy in America’s Older Industrial Areas, edited by Richard M. McGahey and Jennifer S. Vey (Brookings Institution Press, 2008). I argue that the main rationale for adopting policies to revitalize older industrial cities is to improve the per capita earnings of urban residents. Therefore...

Amitriptyline hydrochloride is a highly permeable active pharmaceutical ingredient (API). The function of these drugs is to block the reuptake of the neurotransmitters, norepinephrine and serotonin in the central nervous system. The nano-sized Amitriptyline (AT) imprinted polymer particles were synthesized successfully. The nanoparticles were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectros...

It is necessary to classify credit rating of small and medium-sized companies in Chinese growth enterprises board. We selected the data of 90 small and medium-sized companies, used fuzzy theory to calculate the qualitative variables, and reformulated support vector machine for ordinal regression method so that different input points can make different contributions to decide hyper plane, to ana...

Horizontally overlapping lines are normally found in printed newspapers of any Indian script. Along with these overlapping lines few other broken components of a line (strip) having text less than a complete line are also found in text. The horizontally overlapping lines and other strips make it very difficult to estimate the boundary of a line leading to incorrect line segmentation. Incorrect ...

For laboratory and synchrotron based X-ray sources, radiation damage has posed a significant barrier to obtaining high-resolution structural data from biological macromolecules. The problem is particularly acute for micron-sized crystals where the weaker signal often necessitates the use of higher intensity beams to obtain the relevant data. Here, we employ a combination of techniques, includin...

Faced with cost, time, or other pressures to keep an experiment small, blocking can be an effective tool for increasing precision of treatment comparisons. The simplest implementation of blocking is a division of experimental units into two equi-sized subsets, allocating one degree of freedom to explain unit heterogeneity. Small experiments will have block size k smaller than the number of trea...

Text Summarization has been an extensively studied problem. Traditional approaches to text summarization rely heavily on feature engineering. In contrast to this, we propose a fully data-driven approach using feedforward neural networks for single document summarization. We train and evaluate the model on standard DUC 2002 dataset which shows results comparable to the state of the art models. T...

Today's economic crisis has led to bankruptcy of many successful, but usually large-sized enterprises. This brought into question the future of large-sized enterprises. However, the only alternative to largesized enterprises (LEs) is networking of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into Regional Production Networks (RPNet). RPNet is non-hierarchical organizational form in which every SME...

Scheduling for a two-stage production system is one of the most common problems in production management. In this production system, a number of products are produced and each product is assembled from a set of parts. The parts are produced in the first stage that is a fabrication stage and then they are assembled in the second stage that usually is an assembly stage. In this article, the first...