Sustainable, closed material and product cycles, and efficient resource use

JOM ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 60 (8) ◽  
pp. 38-38
Author(s):  
Christina Meskers
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Product Cycles ◽  
Efficient Resource

Effects of Organizational Characteristics on Outcomes and Resource Use in Patients With Cancer Admitted to Intensive Care Units

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (27) ◽  
pp. 3315-3324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcio Soares ◽  
Fernando A. Bozza ◽  
Luciano C.P. Azevedo ◽  
Ulysses V.A. Silva ◽  
Thiago D. Corrêa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Hospital Mortality ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Organizational Characteristics ◽  
General Hospitals ◽  
Cancer Centers ◽  
Processes Of Care ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
Efficient Resource

Purpose To investigate the impact of organizational characteristics and processes of care on hospital mortality and resource use in patients with cancer admitted to intensive care units (ICUs). Patients and Methods We performed a retrospective cohort study of 9,946 patients with cancer (solid, n = 8,956; hematologic, n = 990) admitted to 70 ICUs (51 located in general hospitals and 19 in cancer centers) during 2013. We retrieved patients’ clinical and outcome data from an electronic ICU quality registry. We surveyed ICUs regarding structure, organization, staffing patterns, and processes of care. We used mixed multivariable logistic regression analysis to identify characteristics associated with hospital mortality and efficient resource use in the ICU. Results Median number of patients with cancer per center was 110 (interquartile range, 58 to 154), corresponding to 17.9% of all ICU admissions. ICU and hospital mortality rates were 15.9% and 25.4%, respectively. After adjusting for relevant patient characteristics, presence of clinical pharmacists in the ICU (odds ratio [OR], 0.67; 95% CI, 0.49 to 0.90), number of protocols (OR, 0.92; 95% CI, 0.87 to 0.98), and daily meetings between oncologists and intensivists for care planning (OR, 0.69; 95% CI, 0.52 to 0.91) were associated with lower mortality. Implementation of protocols (OR, 1.52; 95% CI, 1.11 to 2.07) and meetings between oncologists and intensivists (OR, 4.70; 95% CI, 1.15 to 19.22) were also independently associated with more efficient resource use. Neither admission to ICUs in cancer centers compared with general hospitals nor annual case volume had an impact on mortality or resource use. Conclusion Organizational aspects, namely the implementation of protocols and presence of clinical pharmacists in the ICU, and close collaboration between oncologists and ICU teams are targets to improve mortality and resource use in critically ill patients with cancer.

Resource-use maximisation through legume intercropping with maize in the eastern Himalayan region of India

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 508 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. K. Choudhary ◽  
Anil Dixit ◽  
Bhagirath S. Chauhan
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Soil Moisture Content ◽  
P Uptake ◽  
Resource Use Efficiency ◽  
Land Use Efficiency ◽  
Efficient Resource ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
Eastern Himalayan Region ◽  
Equivalent Yield

Intercropping provides opportunity to harness available resources. Thus, maize intercropped with soybean or peanut (groundnut) was tested with 1 : 1, 1 : 2, and 1 : 5 row proportions along with sole plantings of each crop to measure resource capture and resource-use efficiency. Results revealed that sole peanut had 60% higher maize-equivalent yield and 55% better production efficiency, followed by the 1 : 5 row proportion of maize–peanut, over sole maize. Intercropping increased land-use efficiency by 17–53% and land-equivalent coefficient by 0.21–0.56. The relative crowding coefficient was 39% higher with 1 : 2 maize–soybean, whereas the monetary advantage index was the highest (US$107) with the 1 : 5 maize–peanut. Nitrogen (N) and potassium (K) uptakes by maize were 42.9% and 38.2%, respectively, higher with 1 : 5 maize–soybean, whereas phosphorus (P) uptake was 64% higher with 1 : 5 maize–peanut. However, the least amounts of N, P and K were mined overall with 1 : 5 of maize–soybean. Soil moisture content was improved by 24% and solar radiation interception by 37.8% with soybean alone over maize alone, and these parameters increased with higher row proportions of soybean. The energy parameters also improved with the 1 : 5 row proportions of maize–soybean or peanut intercropping. This study provides a basis for efficient resource use by maize–soybean (or peanut) intercropping system.

Efficient Resource Use in Simplified Complete Denture Fabrication

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 512-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuhiko Kawai ◽  
Hiroshi Murakami ◽  
Yoshiaki Takanashi ◽  
James P. Lund ◽  
Jocelyne S. Feine
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Complete Denture ◽  
Efficient Resource

scholarly journals Dari Konsep Ekonomi Islam Sampai Urgensi Pelarangan Riba; Sebuah Tawaran Ekonomi Islam Timur Kuran

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-232
Author(s):  
Havis Aravik ◽  
Achmad Irwan Hamzani ◽  
Nur Khasanah
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Alternative School ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Efficient Resource ◽  
Islamic Economic

Islamic economic thought became increasingly prevalent with the birth of various schools of thought in Islamic economics. One of them is the critical alternative school that was pioneered by Timur Kuran. This research will discuss from Islamic economics to the urgency of prohibiting usury; an offer of the East Kuran Islamic economy. With the aim of knowing and analyzing the extent to which Eastern Kuran's economic thought made significant contributions to the development of contemporary Islamic economics. This research is a qualitative research with a library research approach and all data obtained were analyzed using descriptive analysis methods. The results of this study indicate that Timur Kuran is one of the pioneers of the Critical alternative school which critically studies various concepts of Islamic economics and banking. Various forms of economic thought such as from the concept of Islamic economics are none other than modern doctrines that offer alternatives to the economic systems of Capitalism and Socialism. The emergence of an Islamic economy was none other than political-cultural, with the largest contribution coming from Pakistanis, zakat is a more effective safety net than a secular redistribution system and the waqf system does not yet have the flexibility needed for efficient resource use, and the Qur'an prohibits the practice of usury which involves compounding the debt of a loan that is unable to make payments according to a predetermined schedule.

scholarly journals The carbon nanotube formation parameter space: data mining and mechanistic understanding for efficient resource use

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (16) ◽  
pp. 3787-3800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenbo Shi ◽  
Ke Xue ◽  
Eric R. Meshot ◽  
Desiree L. Plata
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Carbon Nanotube ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Growth Parameters ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
Efficient Resource ◽  
Deposition Processes ◽  
Space Data ◽  
Carbon Nanotube Growth ◽  
Nanotube Growth

Data-mining of the carbon nanotube growth parameters informed strategies to reduce energy and resource consumption for chemical vapor deposition processes.

High Farm Income and Efficient Resource Use

1949 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 555
Author(s):  
Walter W. Wilcox
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Efficient Resource

scholarly journals Higher education student pathways to ebook usage and engagement, and understanding: Highways and cul de sacs

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 601-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biddy Casselden ◽  
Richard Pears
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Education Student ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Space Saving ◽  
Efficient Resource

Ebooks have enthusiastically been adopted by academic libraries, viewed as a golden bullet by library professionals, resulting in efficient resource use, space saving, student satisfaction and accommodating millennial generation study habits. A small-scale online survey undertaken at Northumbria and Durham Universities investigated students’ ebook use, examining aspects of learning ebooks support, searching strategies, devices used for ebook access, and reading and use strategies. Ninety-two responses were analysed using a mixed methods approach. Despite many advantages of ebooks including portability, availability, functionality and searching, results, demonstrated sentiment regarding ebooks was not wholly positive. There were frustrations regarding the complexity of ebook provision, publisher’s restrictions and the lack of compatibility with reading devices. A key finding related to ebook interrogation which involved greater targeted searching of content and a ‘bite-size’ approach to reading. Caution must be observed to ensure that library collections facilitate a complexity of learning styles, and provide opportunities for students to better digest content.

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