0010-2180/$ see front matter 2011 The Combust doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2011.08.015 ⇑ Corresponding author. Fax: +1 607 255 1222. E-mail address: [email protected] (C.T. Avedisian). The droplet burning characteristics of binary blends of iso-octane, n-heptane and toluene were studied in an ambience that minimizes external convection and promotes spherical droplet flames. The results are compare...

The Macau Special Administrative Region has a special urban form. It is located on the coast of Pearl River Delta, with land area only 33.6 square kilometers. population living here close to 700,000. region highest density in world, and its energy mainly depends imports. With new coronavirus epidemic, Macau’s tourism industry been hit hard, expenditures have risen changes international situatio...

The international standard of information security risk management (ISO/IEC 27005:2011(E)) adopts an iterative approach and risk assessment methodology of information security incident scenarios analyses, applying the principle of 80/20 to calculate, and therefore should be able to save cost and to increase its effectiveness. On such a basis, we propose a rigorous and systematic approach to add...

We employ the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) data collected from 2006-2011 for over 40,000 firms in 115 countries to study the effect of International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certification on firm performance measured by sales growth and labor productivity. Our results from both the univariate tests and multivariate regressions show that ISO-certified firms exhibit higher sa...

The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of ISO 14001 and other significant factors on solid waste generation rates of organizations. The research is based on a survey conducted on a random sample of industrial companies that operate in United States. The paper reveals that companies’ solid waste generation rates are significantly reduced by certification and identifies several factors ...

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The recently published ISO/IEC 29110 for systems engineering has been used as the main framework for the development of the management and systems engineering processes at CSinTrans Inc. (CSiT), a Canadian company, founded in 2011. CSiT specializes in the integration of communication and security systems in transit industry such as trains, subways and buses as well as railway stations, subway s...