Golden Opportunities: Jewelry Making in Birmingham between Mass Production and Specialty

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Carnevali
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Product Market ◽  
Industrial Districts ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Industrial History ◽  
Flexible Specialization ◽  
Productive System ◽  
History Of

Narratives of flexible specialization as an alternative to mass production are largely absent from the industrial history of twentieth-century Britain. In this article, I challenge the notion that we should relegate small firms and industrial districts to a marginal place in the historiography of this period. Drawing from a range of sources, I explore the history of Birmingham's jewelry makers to show how they adapted the traditional productive system of the district to respond in a dynamic way to the challenges of rapid product market differentiation. As jewelry increasingly became a commodity for mass consumption, the firms in the Birmingham district used a combination of specialty and mass production as a strategy to both satisfy and create demand.

Links between pond and dike, their potential and impacts on livelihood.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manjurul Karim ◽  
Md. Abdul Wahab ◽  
David Little ◽  
Md. Shamsul ◽  
V. Marc
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Water Reservoir ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Important Food ◽  
Urban Households ◽  
Productive System ◽  
Principal Source ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Inland Water Bodies

Abstract Aquaculture and horticulture are interlinked and both of these agricultural components have considerable importance in the economy of Bangladesh. Most people in this country depend on fish as the principal source of animal protein. Vegetables are also considered by Bangladeshi people as important food items and as a source of micronutrients. Ponds, among various inland water bodies, are the most important water reservoir, providing access to fish, irrigation for surrounding vegetables and rice crops and water for family use, and thus are an integral part of rural and peri-urban households. Integration of crops with fish farming through pond-dike systems may be an economically viable and productive system for both richer and poorer farmers in rural and peri-urban areas in Bangladesh. High-cost inputs in fish farming are not needed in such pond-dike systems, therefore reducing the cost of inputs, provided that there is proper integration between pond and crops grown in the vicinity. A community-level assessment of the importance and role of pond-dike systems and a baseline study, carried out in villages in Mymensingh district in early 2002 by the Pondlive project funded by the European Commission, are outlined.

Commercial-scale aquaculture of tilapia species in Zambia.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Oreochromis Niloticus ◽  
Inorganic Compound ◽  
Chicken Manure ◽  
Green Water ◽  
Commercial Scale ◽  
Tilapia Rendalli ◽  
Productive System ◽  
Dominant Fish ◽  
Initial Scheme

Abstract This case study describes the piloting and subsequent commercialization of an integrated pig and fish operation in Zambia. The initial scheme began in October 1981 using indigenous Zambian species including Oreochromis andersonii, Oreochromis macrochir and Tilapia rendalli. Different fertilization techniques were trialled, including organic (chicken manure) and inorganic (compound) fertilisers, and different integration systems were tested; ducks over fish and pigs over fish. Over the 29 years the project has been running, the variety of methods originally trialled have been refined to the extremely productive system in place today. Oreochromis niloticus is the dominant fish species produced, and members of the Clarias genus used as the main predator. The hatchery has been intensified (and now incorporates mono-sexing), aeration systems have been implemented in grow-out ponds and a green-water floating fish pellet has been developed. Yields have increased from an initial average of 2.5 to 3 tons/ha to present yields of over 11 tons/ha. The initial five hectare project has grown to over 45 ha of water producing over 600 tons of fish a year, and a stable herd of 200 sows producing in excess of 4100 slaughter stock per annum.

scholarly journals Fee - fishing operation evaluation at Nothwest São Paulo State, Brazil

2005 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 590-596
Author(s):  
Ruy Bessa Lopes ◽  
Luiz de Carvalho Landell Filho ◽  
Carlos Tadeu dos Santos Dias
Keyword(s):  
Fishery Management ◽  
Stocking Density ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Productive Performance ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
Productive System ◽  
São Paulo State ◽  
And Cluster Analysis

Fee-fishing operations developed recently in Brazilian agricultural scenery in a rather disordered manner. This study, carried out at the northwest region of São Paulo State, Brazil, focuses on the productive performance of fee-fishing system. Several visits were made monthly to nine fee-fishing establishments, for six months. A questionnaire by owners targeting 13 indicators of the operation's productive performance. Data were submitted to multivariate analysis (MANOVA), principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis. MANOVA indicated significant differences between the fee-fishing operations. The PCA analyses indicated, from the higher coefficient eigenvectors, three attributes for the lakes, such as productive system, fishery management and operational administration. The cluster analyses classified the fishing lakes in four groups. The indicators angler frequency (AF), stocking density (SD), stocking biomass (SB), total capture (TC) and capture/lake/day (CLD), which are part of the attribute productive system, were the most important indicators of "fee-fishing" operations performance in this study.

scholarly journals Capitalismo distrettuale, localismi d'impresa, globalizzazione

2008 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Scope Economies ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Productive System ◽  
Dimensional Growth ◽  
It Revolution ◽  
Made In

From the late Sixties on, industrial development in Italy evolved through the spread of small and medium sized firms, aggregated in district networks, with an elevated propensity to enterprise and the marked presence of owner-families. Installed within the local systems, the industrial districts tended to simulate large-scale industry exploiting lower costs generated by factors that were not only economic. The districts are characterised in terms of territorial location (above all the thriving areas of the North-east and Centre) and sector, since they are concentrated in the "4 As" (clothing-fashion, home-decor, agri-foodstuffs, automation-mechanics), with some overlapping with "Made in Italy". How can this model be assessed? This is the crucial question in the debate on the condition and prospects of the Italian productive system between the supporters of its capacity to adapt and the critics of economic dwarfism. A dispassionate judgement suggests that the prospects of "small is beautiful" have been superseded, but that the "declinist" view, that sees only the dangers of globalisation and the IT revolution for our SMEs is risky. The concept of irreversible crisis that prevails at present is limiting, both because it is not easy either to "invent", or to copy, a model of industrialisation, and because there is space for a strategic repositioning of the district enterprises. The book develops considerations in this direction, showing how an evolution of the district model is possible, focusing on: gains in productivity, scope economies (through diversification and expansion of the range of products), flexibility of organisation, capacity to meld tradition and innovation aiming at product quality, dimensional growth of the enterprises, new forms of financing, active presence on the international markets and valorisation of the resources of the territory. It is hence necessary to reactivate the behavioural functions of the entrepreneurs.

scholarly journals STUDY OF EMBARGO’S AFFECT ON CANCER IN IRAQ

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-101
Author(s):  
Baghdad Science Journal
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Respiratory System ◽  
Soft Tissues ◽  
Lymphatic System ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
Central Registry ◽  
Productive System

different ?? ? injury ? This study aims to knowing the affect of embargo on cancer tutors in Iraq according to different body systems , In addition, this '?0 kinds study aims at knowing t^e categories ages that can be mostly injured by the cancer Egression analysis and descriptive statistics( median and frequency tables). ^?^???? have been used to achieve these two aims .This study includes ah the seventy cancer s Iraq from 1980-1998 and the data have been from the Ministry of Health / ?? tumors Iraqicancer board administration / central registry. The results of this study are emale productive? : Embargo has affected the ten different body systems as .? central nervous system and opthamamology , Hematology ,Respiratory ? system system , male productive system , lymphatic system, connective and other soft tissues

Headless Relative Clauses in Sierra Popoluca

2021 ◽  
pp. 475-508
Author(s):  
Wendy López Márquez
Keyword(s):  
Relative Clause ◽  
Relative Clauses ◽  
The State ◽  
Productive System ◽  
Free Relative ◽  
Demonstrative Pronouns ◽  
Interrogative Clauses ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Sierra Popoluca

This chapter presents the first investigation of headless relative clauses in Sierra Popoluca, a Mixe-Zoquean language spoken in the southern part of the state of Veracruz, Mexico. It shows that Sierra Popoluca exhibits a very productive system of headless relative clauses. The language has free relative clauses of all three major types attested crosslinguistically and, remarkably, all three types can be introduced by almost all the wh-words that can occur in wh- interrogative clauses. It also has two types of light-headed relative clauses, both with demonstrative pronouns as their “light heads”: those which are introduced by a relative subordinator and those that are introduced by wh-words—the same two strategies attested in headed relative clauses in Sierra Popoluca. Finally, the language has one more variety of headless relative clause that lacks both a light head and a wh-word.

Potential of Solar Radiation and Ambient Temperature as an Alternative Energy in Perlis

2015 ◽  
Vol 793 ◽  
pp. 323-327
Author(s):  
Y.M. Irwan ◽  
A.R. Amelia ◽  
M. Irwanto ◽  
M. Fareq ◽  
W.Z. Leow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Solar Radiation ◽  
Ambient Temperature ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Monthly Average ◽  
Productive System ◽  
Clean Energy Source ◽  
Great Development

As a renewable energy and clean energy source, solar power has great development potential. This paper presents the potential of solar radiation and ambient temperature characteristics can be used as alternative energy. All data collected using Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station at Centre of Engineering for Renewable Energy (CERE) in Kangar, Perlis. All data consist of daily and monthly average was analyzed. The result shows the average solar radiation and ambient temperature is high in the middle of the year 2013 which is from April to September. These results provide useful information for the design of solar energy system in order to plan the productive system.

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