this paper develops an operational perspective of supply chain sustainability, by considering it as a risk management process. it explores the nature of sustainability-related supply chain risks, distinguishes them from typical supply chain risks and develops an analytical process for their management. an empirical study is conducted to generate insights about how sustainability-related risks s...

Project AI4B aims to develop a data-driven approach to establish bioenergy networks of biomass feedstock producers and collectors. The project's main target is to remove bottlenecks in the biomass supply pipeline and to develop accountable, economically and environmentally sustainable bioenergy practices.

The dual supply voltage (dual-VDD) scheme reduces the active power consumption without performance degradation by using two power supply rails. However, an increase in the delay due to the scaled-down supply voltage has made assigning the lower supply voltage (VDDL) more difficult in the conventional dual-VDD scheme. We propose a technique for the dual-VDD scheme employing the Active Body-biasi...

On the importance of cumulus penetration on the microphysical and optical properties of stratocumulus clouds S. Ghosh, S. Osborne, and M. H. Smith Institute for Atmospheric Science, School of the Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK The Meteorological Office, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3PB, UK Received: 10 June 2004 – Accepted: 27 June 2004 – Published: 20 August 2004 Correspondence to:...

TThe uncertainty estimation and compensation are challenging problems for the robust control of robot manipulators which are complex systems. This paper presents a novel decentralized model-free robust controller for electrically driven robot manipulators. As a novelty, the proposed controller employs a simple Gaussian Radial-Basis-Function Network as an uncertainty estimator. The proposed netw...

A Data-Driven IDCT Architecture for Low Power Video Applications Thucydides Xanthopoulos Anantha P. Chandrakasan Charles G. Sodini William J. Dally Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Abstract. Analysis of transform coded (MPEG) video data streams reveals a large percentage of zero-valued Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coe cients. A Data-Driven 2D IDCT architec...