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... be taken to landfill sites The trucks and trolleys are used for transportation of waste and it is dumped in landfill sites Land fills (Value of Land): The value of land that is used for dumping ... generally disposed at waste-land and some part of it is goes for organic composting and recycling • Landfill - major part of the solid waste is dumped into wasteland or farmland; generally it is dumped ... which 976804 and 291709 were domestic and foreign tourists respectively (Table 3.2) In 2005, the arrivals are 300830 and 17 PR-IRADe-08-2007 108291 respectively for domestic and foreign tourists...

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... high-quality information ⎯ and this information needs to be used to improve program functioning by shifting the focus from inputs to results, informing decisions and creating accountability for performance ... stunted are at greater risk for childhood morbidity and mortality, poor physical and mental development, inferior school performance and reduced adult size and capacity for work9 Protein-energy ... affects cognitive and motor development and undermines educational attainment; and, ultimately impacts on productivity at work and at home, with adverse implications for income and economic growth...

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... improvement of forecasting methodologies and should preserve historical predictions, forecasts, signals, and data In doing so, forecasts and methodologies can be easily compared and measured for effectiveness ... R&D and intellectual property creation Over time, despite both gains and setbacks between the U.S and Asian nations, U.S and global demand for better information hardware, smarter software, and ... technology forecasting I platform.* •  Identify data sets, sources, and collection techniques for forecasting technologies of potential value •  Comment on the technology forecasting approach set forth...

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... sustainable development • Promote performance-based standards and guidelines as bases for voluntary actions and for regulations, in sustainable development for new and existing infrastructure Rationale ... account for time effects; understand biogeochemical processes in soils and rocks; stabilize soils and rocks; use enhanced computing, information, and communication technologies; and understand geomaterials ... containment and remediation technology for developing countries and technology for reduction, reuse, and recycling of waste materials Cleanup, restoration, and protection of wetlands, rivers, harbors, and...

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... current domestic and export demands for food, feed, and fiber and still produce ample raw materials for biobased industrial products except for massive fuel production SILVICULTURE CROPS Forests are ... industrial production’s growing demand for biological raw materials The country has abundant croplands and forests, favorable climates, accessible capital, and a skilled labor force that uses sophisticated ... biomass and also contribute to the nation’s liquid transportation fuel needs Productivity of U.S farms and forests has been rising to meet domestic and export demands for traditional food, feed, and...

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... Birthday Wanda June, Hannah and Her Sisters and All About Eve In the lower-left corner of the figure we can find movies with few dialogues and few turns, as for instance: 1492 Conquest of Paradise and ... thank the Institute for Infocomm Research for its support and permission to publish this work Molla-Aliod D, Vicedo J (2010) Question answering In Indurkhya and Damerau (eds) Handbook of Natural ... types of information elements are extracted from the scripts: speakers, utterances and context The utterance and speaker information elements contain what is said at each dialogue turn and the corresponding...

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... Translating Genomic-Based Research for Health were crucial to the planning and conduct of the workshop, Systems for Research and Evaluation for Translating Genome-Based Discoveries for Health Federal ... the VA and create a secure, high-performance computing environment for researchers to access data Research Agenda The VA research agenda is informed by the health care needs of veterans and, Muralidhar ... of South Pacific Islanders, most 28 SYSTEMS FOR RESEARCH AND EVALUATION likely as a result of the LDS Church’s missionary efforts in Samoa, Tonga, and other island locales, and there is a Native...

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... Sudan, Syria, and Tunisia € Data on population living below poverty line reflects 1997 estimates for Jordan, 1998 for Iran and Yemen, 1999 for Libya and Oman, and 2000 for Egypt and Syria ¥ Data ... development and consequently formulate regional strategies for improving HRH planning and management [15] To better-inform HRH policies and to guide actions in terms of management and planning, ... for the EMR (68.2% missing data for Midwives; 63.6% for Community workers; 50% for Environmental and Public Health workers; 45.5% for Lab technicians, Health Management and support workers; and...

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... chain practices and lean performance In term of demand management, it is very important that how well firms manage the demand signal, demand collaboration, sales and operation planning and inventory ... best practices and performance Accordingly, there is a research by Accenture, INSEAD and Stanford University show correlation between companies with a successful supply chain strategy and significant ... Pathways for Research and Practice  Eliminate waste  Synchronize flow  Minimize both transaction and production costs  Establish collaborative relationships while balancing cooperation and competition...

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... alliance and describes information flow by three characteristics: level of information sharing, information quality and IT supply chain applications The dimensions undertaken for the study for information ... provide their information Five point likert-type scale ranging from 1- which refer as “strongly disagree” for 1, “disagree” for 2, “neutral” for 3, ‘agree’ for and ‘strongly agree” for is used on ... and other supporting units that performs the function of transaction of resources required to produce service followed by transformation of these resources into supporting and core services and...

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... flexibility and responsiveness, reduces costs and improves quality throughout the supply chain Therefore, an effective information system and associated processes to gather and distribute information forward ... Management – Pathways for Research and Practice  Supplier quality management  Process management  Quality performance  Quality data and reporting  Financial and market performance  Management ... transportation and packaging industries to improve production performance, product quality, safety, and customer service while reducing transaction costs and inventory costs Benchmarking, whether informal...

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... and use three layers as basic, technical, and operating environment, highlighting the need for the integration of information, standards and organisation with business requirements, society and ... Quality information integration and implementation platform An internal quality information integration model is suggested on top of this structure, defining the subsystems and the critical data and ... integrity stands out as the backbone of the platform, with clear definitions for critical data and information flows Ho et al., (2009) suggest a co-operative distributed process mining system for quality...

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... individual and organizational biases (Oliva & Watson, 2009), leading to forecast sharing and improved predictive accuracy for the whole supply chain In summary, collaborative forecasting and forecast ... of flexible supply chains: forecasting, risk management, and decision making Forecasting and supply chain flexibility Forecasts represent main inputs into planning and decision making processes ... to provide a way for eluding forecasting uncertainties (Bish, Muriel & Biller, 2001), it may also be viewed as a means for benefitting from the informational advantages and forecasting expertise...

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... w3 and w4 denotes the weights of manufacturer’s, warehouses‘, logistic centres’ and shops‘ objectives, respectively 108 Supply Chain Management – Pathways for Research and Practice 5.3 Transforming ... Ampi , ∀i, and the MAC condition would be satisfied Unfortunately, in a previous publication we have shown that Hi ≤ is rarely satisfied and for most of λ values we have ϑi ≥ ϑi−1 (Pereira and Paulre, ... multi-product and multi-period model for the master planning problem in a ceramic tile SC Then, in Section 5, the solution methodology and the FGP approaches for different SC structures (i.e centralized and...

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... suppliers K Expected total holding and shortage costs for a unit demand 128 Supply Chain Management – Pathways for Research and Practice TC(R,m,s)Expected total holding and shortage costs of the system ... configuration and coordination of SCs (Davis 1993; Minegishi and Thiel 2000; Jung et al 2004), and tends to propagate up and down the SC, affecting performance considerably (Bhatnagar and Sohal 2005) ... supplier information about her inventory levels; and (2) the retailer, still sharing information on her inventory levels, orders in a 116 Supply Chain Management – Pathways for Research and Practice...

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... manufacturer and distributors to the final customers Recently, many researchers (for example, Weng, 1997, Lee and Whang, 1999, Cachon and Lariviere, 2005, Gerchak and Wang, 2004, Davis and Spekman, ... well-managed cooperation between buyer and supplier in terms of 138 Supply Chain Management – Pathways for Research and Practice sharing information on demand and inventory While using the multiple ... 1: With Full information sharing, scenario 2: With semi information sharing and scenario 3: Without information sharing For the first scenario, each echelon shares its online information to the...

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... no difference in performance for the above example between the modified MSMD (I) model and the MSMD (II) model Production and Delivery Policies for Improved Supply Chain Performance 155 Conclusion ... unpredictable changes Researchers need to identify and understand the new rules of engagement among companies that inform this novel organizational form This chapter provides explanations for the emergence ... and a shared collaboration understanding and culture among the companies (Noori & Lee, 2006) The use of standardized information technology (IT) systems is recognized as a necessary enabler for...

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... in the information the system was generating  Need for manual sequencing due to so many exceptions and information inconsistencies  An hour and a half daily effort for data cleansing and validation ... Demand planning: represents sales forecast for long, medium and short terms, based on a set of quantitative and qualitative approaches This results in expected demand, which acts as an input for ... and scenario planning (what-if analysis and simulations) For a guide on the main optimization and quantitative issues in APS (e.g how to define optimization problems for strategic, tactical and...

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... Management – Pathways for Research and Practice necessary, deliver will send the adjusted demand for the finishing in the form of a new demand propagation with fewer products This new demand will be propagated ... Pathways for Research and Practice Fig Overview of the Platform This architecture can be seen as a general framework that can be applied in diverse fields For example, the FORAC Platform was ... the FORAC Platform is found in Lemieux et al (2009) Other important technical information concerns how agents perform their planning activities Both Demand Propagation and Supply Propagation for...

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