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Impact of green manufacturing practices on organisational performance in Indian context: An empirical study
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
This study presents an empirical assessment and guides about measuring impact of GM (green manufacturing) practices on organisational performance in Indian context. The research approach is to extract critical GM factors ...
Dynamic simulation and optimization targeting emission source reduction during an ethylene plant start-up operations
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
Chemical plant flare minimization has been practiced not only during regular operating conditions but also abnormal operations such as start-ups, shutdowns, and process upsets. This paper focuses on introducing a generic ...
Antibiotic Prescription Patterns for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Outpatient Qatari Population in the Private Sector
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
Background: Antibiotic are often inappropriately prescribed for upper respiratory infections (URI) in the
Western countries. Data on the proportion of inappropriate prescriptions are lacking from the Middle
East and other ...
Toxin stability improvement and toxicity increase against dipteran and lepidopteran larvae of Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein Cry2Aa
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Wiley
, 2016 , Article)
BACKGROUND
Bacillus thuringiensis δ-endotoxins are the most widely used biopesticides for controlling economically important crop pests and disease vectors. Improving their efficacy is of great benefit. Here, an improvement ...
Class-time utilization in business schools in Tunisia
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
Tunisian Universities, like many other universities in the developing countries, do not adopt any textbooks and rather rely on classrooms as the main learning resource for the students. This study is concerned with observing ...
Sparsity-Aware multiple relay selection in large dual-hop decode-And-forward broadband relay networks
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IEEE
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
In this paper, three novel techniques are proposed and investigated for multiple relay selection in dual hop OFDM networks. These techniques are based on the exploitation of sparse signal recovery theory and on carefully-designed ...
Sparsifying dictionary analysis for FIR MIMO channel-shortening equalizers
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IEEE
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
In this paper, we propose a general framework that transforms the problems of designing sparse finite-impulse response channel-shortening equalizers and target impulse response filters for multiple antenna systems into the ...
Energy-efficient based on cluster selection and trust management in cooperative spectrum sensing
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IEEE
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) has been proposed as a solution for radio spectrum resources scarcity problem. Clustering technique is introduced to increase the performance of CSS and overcome the shadowing and fading ...
Robust Resource Investment Problem with Time-Dependent Resource Cost and Tardiness Penalty
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
In this paper, the classical Resource Investment Problem (RIP) is extended to consider time-depended resource cost instead of time-independent resource cost. The problem is named as the Resource Investment Problem with ...
Optimal planning of liquefied natural gas deliveries
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
We investigate the problem of designing an optimal annual delivery plan for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). This problem requires determining the long-term cargo delivery dates and the assignment of vessels to the cargoes ...