The choice of materials takes on strategic importance in design aimed at harmonising the performance characteristics and ecocompatibility of products in line with the Life-Cycle Design approach. The objective of the present study is the development of a systematic method which introduces environmental considerations in the selection of the materials used in components, meeting functional and pe...

Strategic management Management means manage and past tense of mend which emphasizes the resources should be ready to use. Manage means to operate with justified utilization of resources for profit maximization and growth. The organization may be profit-making or nonprofit making. If we disintegrate the word it will mean manage, me, n and t that enforces everybody‘s contribution and team spirit...

Membrane engineering can offer an important contribution in realizing sustainable industrial development. It provides opportunities to redesign the conventional process of engineering in the logic of Process Intensification. Relatively new and less exploited membrane operations offer innovative solutions to the scarcity of raw materials, freshwater and energy. Here, we identify the most interes...

We describe how a generic multi-period optimization-based decision support system can be used for strategic and operational planning in a company whose processes can be described in terms of five fundamental elements: Materials, Facilities, Activities, Times and Storage-Areas. We discuss the issues of interface design, data reporting and updating, and production and profit planning. We also com...

Nutrisun is a special programe within Advanta Technologies in sunflower which aims at developing and implementing traits related to oils quality. Advanta owns intellectual property on high stearic high oleic materials and thus our objective is to capture value out of these special qualities at industrial level. Being Advanta a seeds company our challenge is to integrate by means of strategic al...

Department of Chemistry, University of Cal [email protected] Department of Chemistry and Chemical Bio 02138, USA Corporate Strategic Research, ExxonMob Annandale, NJ 08801, USA Department of Chemical Engineering, Univ USA Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Ber USA † Electronic supplementary information ( details, and full characterization (powd diamine loadings, dry N2 decomposition all ne...

The present paper describes the individual analytical methodologies (Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry, Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry and Alpha Spectrometry) that were developed for uranium age determination and discusses their advantages and drawbacks. With respect to a potential application of the methods (e.g. Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty), the discussion focuses on high...

The "articulatory loop" for rehearsal of verbal materials in working memory has been shown not to be a unique hard-wired structure associated with spoken language. Specifically, a parallel rehearsal process for sign language occurs in fluent signers. Here we show that the same rehearsal process can occur for unfamiliar, nonmeaningful body movements. We conclude that working memory maintenance d...