Manufacturing innovations are technologies and activities that improve and change the level of capacity, performance and quality in manufacturing permanently or over time. This policy brief explores the role of manufacturing innovations in different Nordic contexts, their link with production relocation decisions and performance implications. Manufacturing innovations are analyzed in terms of f...

Intermittent search processes switch between local Brownian search events and ballistic relocation phases. We demonstrate analytically and numerically in one dimension that when relocation times are Lévy distributed, resulting in a Lévy walk dynamics, the search process significantly outperforms the previously investigated case of exponentially distributed relocation times: The resulting Lévy w...

Gene relocation from the residual genomes of organelles to the nuclear genome still continues, although as a scaled down evolutionary phenomenon, limited in occurrence mostly to protists (sensu lato) and land plants. During this process, the structural integrity of transferred genes is usually preserved. However, the relocation of mitochondrial genes that code for respiratory chain and ribosoma...

UNLABELLED Hospital relocation is a highly complex undertaking, which has the potential to interrupt operations and poses risks for patients, staff, and providers. Little is known how hospital relocation impacts on workflow and communication. METHODS Using existing Electronic Health Record (EHR) data we determined time from medication ordering to first dose administration as a proxy for well-...

Disaster recovery after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 led to a number of challenges and raised issues concerning land rights and housing reconstruction in the affected countries. This paper discusses the resistance to relocation of fishing communities in Chennai, India. Qualitative research methods were used to describe complexities in the debate between the state and the community regarding...

This manuscript seeks to test a comprehensive model of job relocation decisions by conducting two independent but complementary investigations. The first study, using qualitative methods, inductively determined the key situational antecedents to job relocation decisions. The sample included 60 managers and executives from two U.S. multi-site service organizations. Results suggested that five si...

The WiMAX Forum has defined a two-tiered mobility management to minimize handover delay and packet loss. However, it leads to another problem: When to perform ASN GW relocation? The standards only define the ASN GW relocation procedures without specifying when the ASN GW relocation should be performed. It is left for vendors and operators to develop their own proprietary solutions. In this pape...

Car sharing is an important mobility service to approach urban and suburban mobility problems. It is a sustainable means of transport because it lowers the emissions of each car sharing customer by substituting privately owned vehicles by joint used ones. Nevertheless, car sharing still has to fully unfold its potential and has to overcome certain obstacles. For instance, it is necessary to sub...

Humans are social animals. We routinely interact with others learning about one another, about places, where to go and what places to avoid. Our activities are coordinated with others; sometimes because we explicitly seek to physically meet with those we know personally, other times the coordination is systemic because of norms and requirements of when those activities can take place (e.g. shop...