scholarly journals Sir Frederick Edward Warner. 31 March 1910—3 July 2010

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Garside
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
County Council ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Childhood Home ◽  
Sporting Activities ◽  
Effects Of Radiation ◽  
Court Expert

Frederick Edward (‘Ned’) Warner's childhood home was a London County Council flat in north London. He won a scholarship to Bancroft's School, where he was successful in both academic and sporting activities and was awarded an Exhibition to read chemistry at University College London. Following this chemistry degree he took a diploma in chemical engineering. Sport, debates and left-wing politics dominated his student years. Warner was at the forefront in developing health, safety, risk assessment and environmental policies, particularly in their implementation to chemical process plant; early professional experience in several chemical manufacturing companies and extensive wartime work associated with acid manufacture had driven this commitment. He was a leading figure in the creation of the consulting company Cremer and Warner, and was appointed court expert to the Court of Enquiry following the Flixborough explosion in 1974. As treasurer of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, he chaired three of its major projects: Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War; Pathways of Artificial Radionucleotides; and Radiation from Nuclear Test Explosions. His expertise in the environmental effects of radiation put him in a position to lead the first international team to Chernobyl after the reactor meltdown in 1986. Warner served on many governmental, professional and academic bodies, particularly the Institution of Chemical Engineers, of which he was president in 1966–1967. He was knighted in 1968 for services to chemical engineering, was elected to the Royal Society in 1976 and was a founder fellow of the Fellowship of Engineering (now the Royal Academy of Engineering). He died in 2010, aged 100.

scholarly journals An empirical study of green supplier collaboration in the Chinese manufacturing sector: the double-edged sword effect of guanxi

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-373
Author(s):  
Ruoqi Geng ◽  
Afshin Mansouri ◽  
Emel Aktas ◽  
Dorothy A. Yen
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Institutional Variables ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Institutional Forces ◽  
Supplier Collaboration

Purpose Drawing on institutional complexity, this study aims to explore the interaction effect of formal and informal institutional forces on the adoption of green supplier collaboration (GSC) practices by Chinese manufacturing firms. Design/methodology/approach The paper hypothesises that the effect of the formal institutional forces on GSC in China is influenced by an informal institutional variable, guanxi, which is the interpersonal relationship between employees of the supplier and the manufacturer. To test the conceptual framework, hierarchical moderated regression analyses are conducted using multi-respondent data from 408 randomly sampled manufacturing companies in China. Findings Guanxi has a double-edged sword effect on the adoption of GSC practices. Specifically, guanxi reduces the negative impact of the perceived costs and the complexity of regulations on the adoption of GSC practices, but it also weakens the positive effect of suppliers’ advice and community pressures on the adoption of GSC practices. Research limitations/implications Results contribute to supply chain management literature by offering novel theoretical and empirical insights on the Chinese institutional environment governed by both formal and informal institutional variables. Practical implications Considering guanxi’s double-edged sword effect on the adoption of GSC, manufacturing companies are advised to carefully leverage their guanxi to maintain an institutional and contingent view of the environmental consequences in China. Originality/value This study empirically examines the effect of formal and informal institutional environments on the adoption of GSC practices in emerging economies.

scholarly journals Analyzing the Barriers to Reverse Logistics (RL) Implementation: A Hybrid Model Based on IF-DEMATEL-EDAS

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10876
Author(s):  
Chukwuebuka M. U-Dominic ◽  
Ifeyinwa Juliet Orji ◽  
Modestus Okwu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Reverse Logistics ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Hazardous Materials ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Sustainable Performance ◽  
Study Results

Recently, manufacturing companies aspire to implement reverse logistics in response to stakeholders’ requirements to reduce negative environmental consequences, improve organizational sustainable performance and ultimately increase competitive advantage. However, implementing reverse logistics can be impeded by a criteria framework, and necessitates the careful analysis of how such criteria interact with each other in the presence of uncertainty. Thus, in this study, we propose an integrated multi- criteria decision-making (MCDM) methodology that leverages the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) under Intuitionistic Fuzzy (IF) environment and Evaluation Based on Distance to Average Solution (EDAS). Within the proposed methodology, firstly, the IF-DEMATEL is applied to obtain the interrelationships between the criteria/barriers and then, the EDAS method is applied to prioritize the criteria based on the appraisal scores evaluation. An application case within the Nigerian manufacturing sector was utilized to illustrate the viability of the proposed methodology. The study results indicate that the highly prioritized barriers to implementing reverse logistics within the Nigerian manufacturing sector include low product quality, risk of storing hazardous materials and low technical expertise. Consequently, this study makes a profound contribution to the theory and practice of reverse logistics by presenting an integrated MCDM methodology that can effectively address the criticality of barriers in the way of reverse logistics progression in a complex and uncertain scenario.

Special Susceptibility of Children to Radiation Effects

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 890-890
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Radiation Effects ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Peak Frequency ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
Delayed Effects ◽  
Effects Of Radiation ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Intense Heat

In a nuclear war, children who survive the acute effects of radiation—the blast and intense heat—may also have to survive the loss or disability of parents who provide food, shelter, and love, so necessary for physical and emotional development. The likelihood of provision of even limited medical services following a nuclear blast is virtually nil. Finally, persons exposed to radiation as children have a substantially greater susceptibility to delayed effects than do those persons exposed as adults. 1. The peak frequency for leukemia is higher and occurs earlier among those less than 15 years of age exposed to radiation than among those who are older. 2. Breast cancer occurs excessively when females who were exposed to radiation during childhood reach the usual age for developing this malignancy. The rates for breast cancer for those who were 10 to 19 years of age at the time of the bomb are greater than those for females who were older at that time. Unexpectedly, an excessive occurrence of breast cancer has been observed among females who were 9 years old or younger at the time of the bomb, an age range when they would have had very little breast tissue. If cases continue to occur at the same rate as these women grow older, the excessive occurrence of breast cancer will be greater than among all other age groups. 3. Persons less than 30 years old at the time of the bomb are apparently more susceptible than older persons to radiogenic thyroid cancer. Benign thyroid tumors have occurred among nearly all children exposed to radioiodine-containing fallout from a nuclear weapons test on the Marshall Islands in 1954.

100-MeV KOMAC Proton Accelerator at Gyeongju: Operational Status and Upgrade Plan

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 2-8
Author(s):  
Yujong KIM ◽  
Myungkook MOON ◽  
Jae-Sang LEE
Keyword(s):  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Beam Current ◽  
Proton Accelerator ◽  
Accelerator Complex ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Isotope Production ◽  
Beam Irradiation ◽  
Proton Beam Irradiation ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Effects Of Radiation

In 2012, the Korea Multi-purpose Accelerator Complex (KOMAC) facility with a total construction budget of about $300M was constructed at Gyeongju in Korea. It has a 75 m long 100 MeV proton accelerator, which can supply the highest average beam current of 1.6 mA. Since 2013, the KOMAC has been operating the 100 MeV proton accelerator for the official user beam service with two multi-purpose beamlines, one at 20 MeV and the other at 100 MeV. In 2015, the first new high-flux beamline was constructed for a medical isotope production, and the second new beamline was added in 2016 to provide a low-flux proton beam irradiation service mainly for research on the effects of radiation on semiconductors, spacecraft parts, and medical/biological samples. By the help of recent increased usages of Korean semiconductor manufacturing companies, such as SAMSUNG and SK hynix, the competition rate for requesting beam time of the proton accelerator was increased as high as 3.54:1 in 2020. To support various research fields with good user satisfaction, we have been preparing to increase the beam energy of the proton accelerator from 100 MeV to at least 500 MeV. In this article, we describe the construction history, current operational status, and various applications of the KOMAC proton accelerator and its future upgrade plan.

Environmental consequences of nuclear war

Eos ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.B. Pittock
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear War ◽  
Environmental Consequences
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