This study investigated the current situation of food risk management (FRM) in Chinese companies and the factors that influence the effectiveness of risk management measures. FRM is considered from the perspective of food company managers in 161 food companies surveyed in the Provinces of Henan and Hubei, Central China. Results suggest that the current FRM situation in China is poor, and the mo...

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are widespread environmental contaminants associated with changes in behavior and neurochemical function in laboratory animals and behavioral deficits in children. PCBs and PBDEs are found in food, especially in seafood and dairy products, and coexposure to these contaminants is likely. We examined the effects of an env...

Business-intelligence (BI) tools are broadly adopted in organizations today, supporting activities such as data analysis, decision making, and performance measurement. This study investigates the integration of feedback and recommendation mechanisms (FRM) into BI tool, defining FRM as visual cues that are embedded into the tools and provide the end-user with usage guidelines. The study focuses ...

Rapid growth in financial markets, increasing volatility and globalization are the main reasons of growing importance of financial risk management (FRM) which nowadays becomes a serious matter not only for financial institution. Several risks, possible targets and measures of each dimension of risk, several types of tools and techniques come together to form the FRM. This is the reason why this...

The paper focuses on the problem of point-to-point trajectory planning for flexible redundant robot manipulators (FRM) in joint space. Compared with irredundant flexible manipulators, a FRM possesses additional possibilities during point-to-point trajectory planning due to its kinematics redundancy. A trajectory planning method to minimize vibration and/or executing time of a point-to-point mot...

The utilization of a slug calorimeter to evaluate the thermal performance of fire resistive materials (FRMs) is presented. The basic specimen configuration consists of a ‘sandwich’, with a square central stainless-steel plate (slug) surrounded on two sides by the FRM. This sandwich configuration provides an adiabatic boundary condition at the central axis of the slug plate that greatly simplifi...

This study aims to find relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and food risk management (FRM), and other affecting factors of FRM in China. This is considered from the perspective of food company managers located in 161 food companies surveyed in Henan Province and Wuhan City, China. The results indicate that the company’s attitude (defensive/passive/proactive) to CSR affect...

Since Lim’s 1986 paper on the frequency-responsemasking (FRM) technique for the design of finite-impulse response digital filters with very small transition widths, the analysis and design of FRM filters has been a subject of study. In this paper, a new optimization technique for the design of various FRM filters is proposed. Central to the new design method is a sequence of linear updates for ...

To reduce the complexity of narrow transition bandwidth of FIR filter through Frequency Response Masking Technique (FRM) and to achieve low power with the help of time multiplexed FRM filters. This technique uses a cascade structure of periodic model filter and masking filter. The complexity is a reduced both by the number of multipliers and also the logic elements used which results in low pow...

Frequency-response masking (FRM) approach is a very efficient method for designing linear-phase FIR digital filters with general passbands and sharp transition bands. The FRM approach has recently been adapted to design cosine-modulated filter banks (CMFB). The resulting structure is a two-stage filter formed by the polyphase decomposition of the base filter in cascade with the decomposition of...