A Novel Multicriteria Model Applied to Cashew Chestnut Industrialization Process

2009 ◽  
pp. 243-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Tamanini ◽  
Ana Lisse Carvalho ◽  
Ana Karoline Castro ◽  
Plácido Rogério Pinheiro
Keyword(s):  
Industrialization Process ◽  
Multicriteria Model

Multicriteria Model Applied to the Industrialization Process of the Cashew Nut

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Carvalho ◽  
Ana Castro ◽  
Placido Pinheiro ◽  
Maikol Rodrigues ◽  
Luiz F. Autran M. Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Cashew Nut ◽  
Industrialization Process ◽  
Multicriteria Model

Sustainability in organic and conventional farm ing: toward s a multicriteria model based on simulated farm indicators

2013 ◽  
pp. 175-200
Author(s):  
Sergio Albertazzi ◽  
Guido Baldoni ◽  
Guido Maria Bazzani ◽  
Maurizio Canavari ◽  
Nicola Cantore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Model Based ◽  
Multicriteria Model ◽  
Conventional Farm

Feature-based multi-criteria recommendation system using a weighted approach with ranking correlation

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 1013-1029
Author(s):  
Zeeshan Zeeshan ◽  
Qurat ul Ain ◽  
Uzair Aslam Bhatti ◽  
Waqar Hussain Memon ◽  
Sajid Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Recommendation System ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Multiple Features ◽  
Recommendation Algorithms ◽  
Label Correlations ◽  
Feature Based ◽  
Multicriteria Model ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Hybrid Recommendation ◽  
Different Sources

With the increase of online businesses, recommendation algorithms are being researched a lot to facilitate the process of using the existing information. Such multi-criteria recommendation (MCRS) helps a lot the end-users to attain the required results of interest having different selective criteria – such as combinations of implicit and explicit interest indicators in the form of ranking or rankings on different matched dimensions. Current approaches typically use label correlation, by assuming that the label correlations are shared by all objects. In real-world tasks, however, different sources of information have different features. Recommendation systems are more effective if being used for making a recommendation using multiple criteria of decisions by using the correlation between the features and items content (content-based approach) or finding a similar user rating to get targeted results (Collaborative filtering). To combine these two filterings in the multicriteria model, we proposed a features-based fb-knn multi-criteria hybrid recommendation algorithm approach for getting the recommendation of the items by using multicriteria features of items and integrating those with the correlated items found in similar datasets. Ranks were assigned to each decision and then weights were computed for each decision by using the standard deviation of items to get the nearest result. For evaluation, we tested the proposed algorithm on different datasets having multiple features of information. The results demonstrate that proposed fb-knn is efficient in different types of datasets.

Industrial disability in the Japanese railways business: the activity of Testudō Kōsaikai, 1931–1955

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Toshitaka Nagahiro
Keyword(s):  
Job Training ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Lower Degree ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Railroad Industry ◽  
Lower Member ◽  
Degree Of Disability ◽  
Industrialization Process

Abstract The industrialization process generated many disabilities. However, the historical study of industrial disability has not progressed. This study examines disability welfare in the Japanese railroad industry. In particular, Testudō Kōsaikai, an organization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) established in 1931, was uniquely devoted to welfare activities by linking a profit-making business and the provision of welfare. To cover welfare costs, such as providing workshops for disabled people, Kōsaikai conducted profit-making businesses, such as sales at station stalls. However, the welfare of disabled people in the JNR, including the activities of Kōsaikai, has not been previously examined. This study clarified the structure of disability welfare in the Japanese railroad industry until the early postwar period. People with a lower degree of disability, such as one upper or lower member amputation, were employed by the JNR, while some of these people were employed by Kōsaikai as sellers or officers, or accepted job training in Kōsaikai workshops. On the contrary, although few people with higher degrees of disability were employed by the JNR and Kōsaikai, the latter employed their family members to compensate them for their living costs.

scholarly journals Molecular design revitalizes the low-cost PTV-polymer for highly efficient organic solar cells

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junzhen Ren ◽  
Pengqing Bi ◽  
Jianqi Zhang ◽  
Jiao Liu ◽  
Jingwen Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Molecular Design ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Stable Conformation ◽  
Chemical Structures ◽  
Aggregation Effect ◽  
Industrialization Process

Abstract Developing photovoltaic materials with simple chemical structures and easy synthesis still remains a major challenge in the industrialization process of organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, an ester substituted poly(thiophene vinylene) derivative, PTVT-T, was designed and synthesized in very few steps by adopting commercially available raw materials. The ester groups on the thiophene units enable PTVT-T to have a planar and stable conformation. Moreover, PTVT-T presents a wide absorption band and strong aggregation effect in solution, which are the key characteristics needed to realize high performance in non-fullerene-acceptor (NFA)-based OSCs. We then prepared OSCs by blending PTVT-T with three representative fullerene- and NF-based acceptors, PC71BM, IT-4F and BTP-eC9. It was found that PTVT-T can work well with all the acceptors, showing great potential to match new emerging NFAs. Particularly, a remarkable power conversion efficiency of 16.20% is achieved in a PTVT-T:BTP-eC9-based device, which is the highest value among the counterparts based on PTV derivatives. This work demonstrates that PTVT-T shows great potential for the future commercialization of OSCs.

Use of a multicriteria model for evaluating the use of sustainable practices in a clothing industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Deoclécio Junior Cardoso Da Silva ◽  
Leoni Pentiado Godoy ◽  
Taís Pentiado Godoy ◽  
Daniel Benitti Lorenzett ◽  
Roger Da Silva Wegner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clothing Industry ◽  
Sustainable Practices ◽  
Multicriteria Model

scholarly journals A multicriteria model to assess tractors used in family agriculture

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 727-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ângelo V. dos Reis ◽  
Antônio L. T. Machado ◽  
Mário C. Gomes ◽  
Norberto L. M. Andersson ◽  
Roberto L. T. Machado
Keyword(s):  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Operational Cost ◽  
City Region ◽  
Cost Weight ◽  
Family Farmers ◽  
Purchase Cost ◽  
Multicriteria Method ◽  
Evaluation Stage ◽  
Multicriteria Model ◽  
The One

In recent years, public policy has been offering subsidized credit for machine purchase to family farmers. However, there is no methodological procedure to select a suitable tractor for these farmers' situation. In this way, we aimed to develop a selection model for smallholder farmers from Pelotas city region in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Building a multicriteria model to aid decisions is divided into three main stages: structuring stage (identifying stakeholders, decisional context and model creation), evaluation stage (stakeholder preference quantification) and recommendation stage (choice selection). The Multicriteria method is able to identify and value the criteria used in tractor selection by regional family farmers. Six main evaluation areas were identified: operational cost (weight 0.20), purchase cost (weight 0.22), maintainability (weight 0.10), tractor capacity (weight 0.26), ergonomics (weight 0.14) and safety (weight 0.08). The best-rated tractor model (14.7 kW rated power) also was the one purchased by 53.3% of local families.

scholarly journals Polytechnics as Institutions for Intraregional Collaboration for Skills Development in Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 311-316
Author(s):  
Kutsanedzie F. ◽  
Mensah E. .
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Training ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
The Face ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Industrialization Process ◽  
Applied Social Science ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Graduate Unemployment

The Polytechnics in Ghana were established and given the mandate enshrined in the Constitution of Ghana under the Act of Parliament of the Republic of Ghana (Act 745) to train students in the fields of Science, Technology, Applied Social Science and Applied Art to serve the middle-manpower management needs of the country. In addition, the polytechnics are to provide skills development, conduct and publish industry driven research findings. Polytechnic graduate are expected by employers and captains of industry to be more practical-skilled and biased by virtue of their training. However, over the years, it appears the polytechnic graduate training is becoming more of theoretical rather than what was initially intended. Commentaries of stakeholders reveal that the polytechnics are gradually losing their focus vis-à-vis the practical training of students as they are fast comparing themselves to the universities. This paper uses observation of the polytechnics educational system, interviews with stakeholders and other secondary data as the bases to critically examine and identify the conditions that hamper the practical training of the polytechnic students – practical content of syllabi; teacher – student ratio in the face of high student intake; qualification of lecturers in terms of practical training. It thus recommends ways by which the polytechnics can improve upon the practical training of its student via mobilizing and utilizing its resources to create industries to facilitate the training of its students as well as reducing graduate unemployment. This thus will serve as lynch-pin to drive the country’s industrialization process.

scholarly journals Os novos conteúdos da regionalização: lugares modernizados e lugares letárgicos no planalto nordpatagónico argentino

Finisterra ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (58) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Laura Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Industrial Transformation ◽  
Sheep Breeding ◽  
Skilled Labour ◽  
Rio Negro ◽  
Industrialization Process ◽  
Modernization Process ◽  
Modern Breeding ◽  
Breeding Techniques

MODERN AND LETHARGIC PLACES IN THE NORTHPATAGONIC PLATEAU - The southern region, an area of the northpatagonic plateau (Rio Negro, Argentina) is a vast sheep breeding region. Sheep breeding and agriculture were introduced at the end of the last century in an attempt to enlarge the production of argentinean beef, cereals and wool.Since the 1940s the industrialization process has been changing many areas of the country, but the northpatagonic region continued to export basic wool (without any kind of industrial transformation).However, since the 1980s selective modernization has begun to reach the large isolated farms, helping to improve ties with distant places. This modernization has resulted in new modern breeding techniques and in the use of skilled labour. This modernization programme of change has come from both international and national centers of decision and research, and also from a few technically specialised provincial centres.The modernization process has been confined to the larger farms and has improved "vertival" relations, which have lead to skilled labour moving into the region.On the other hand, the lathargic places are not reached by the technical and scientific modernization, although information about the new consumer's patterns is received; as a result there is an increase of the population exodus to the larger modern urban centres of the province. Nowadays, the region comprises a network of modern progressive centres, as well as a mosaic of lethargic towns and rural areas.

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