What motivated men to risk death in the most horrific war in U.S. history when pay was low and irregular and military punishment strategies were weak? In such a situation creating group loyalty by promoting social capital is of paramount importance and in the Civil War was the cement of both armies. We find that individual and company socio-economic and demographic characteristics, ideology, an...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to address a company valuation procedure by explaining the steps that must be followed from an economic-fi nancial perspective.Design methodology: We employ study case methodology fulfi ll all stages. Specifi cally, we analyze Peruvian cement “Cementos Pacasmayo”. A 10-year discounted cash fl ow (DCF) presented and brought present value using discount rate (WAC...

Production planning and inventory control efforts are known as the driving engines of manufacturing systems. The manufacturers, competing to survive in these days’ competitive business environment, aim to satisfy customers’ needs. This requires a precise production plan throughout the supply chain. These days, because of the increasing costs of production and distribution, especially in the cem...

This study deals with the distribution of heavy metals in soils around one of the most important industries in Kingston, Jamaica i.e. the Carib Cement factory at Rockfort. The dust emitted from the Caribbean Cement Company Limited (Carib Cement), located in Rockfort, Kingston, gets deposited in course of time over the soil, leaves and forms a grey cover on the surrounding soils. Geochemical ana...

This research is supported by National Research University Project; Office of Higher Education Commission (WCU007-HR-57); Integrated Innovation Academic Center, Chulalongkorn University; Centenary Academic Development Project (CU56-HR01); the Ratchadaphiseksomphot Endowment Fund of Chulalongkorn University (RES560530093); the Outstanding Professor of the Thailand Research Fund (DPG5480002); and...

Introduction: The cement production process uses high technology machines and coal as fuel. potential for fires is huge because in the company there are areas that very vulnerable to such coalmill, preheater, klin areas. purpose of this study describe description causes fires, fire prevention technical efforts, OSH organization field prevention, personal protective equipment (PPE). Methods: met...

Introduction: Before new products are released on the orthopaedic market they should be analyzed at a pre-clinical stage and tested in restricted clinical trials [1]. That this process is not always adequately followed is demonstrated by unacceptable clinical results with some products which had to be withdrawn from the orthopaedic market [2,3]. In this study we assessed the creep properties of...