A Unified Measure to Assess Universally Industrial Products for Ecological Balancing

2015 ◽  
Vol 789-790 ◽  
pp. 1306-1310
Author(s):  
M.R. Ramadan
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Safety ◽  
Industrial Product ◽  
Manufacturing Plants ◽  
Plant Safety ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Related Approach ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
Safety Estimation ◽  
Gain Loss ◽  
Economic Assets

Recent literature shows that most safety-related standards are not yet finalized as long as they seem far from assessing a sought level of safety. In addition, the shortened and hasty assessment of the industrial safety depends solely on what directly endangers mankind security and its economic assets. Moreover, well-known quality standards have not yet established a well-defined code to formulate the safety and liability area of the product quality. Owing to the safety-related weak points mentioned above, the present paper puts forth a unified and applicable mathematical model. Moreover, this paper confirms that humanity's engineering willingness of a prospective industrial product (vehicle) along with its manufacturing plants has not to overlook crucial safety instructions for a multi-entity Environmental Closed System (ECS). The suggested environment-related approach is here checked using three commonly applied methods, namely, SPC, FMEA, and Markov Chains of industrial safety estimation for products /plants. Main findings of the present paper conclude that industrial (product/ plant) safety, in its broadened sense, does embrace the gain/loss statistical data of a product's introductory versions and represents a trade–off function of its profits (resource renovation) and its losses (resources drain). In addition, the comprehensive resource-loss trend helps product designers and concerned researchers meet a wide range of customer requirements and more operational regulations.

Development of a Wireless Sensor Network for Factory Power Monitoring and Automation Control

2011 ◽  
Vol 480-481 ◽  
pp. 1346-1351
Author(s):  
Wen Tsai Sung ◽  
Yao Chi Hsu ◽  
Jui Ho Chen
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Concentration ◽  
Vibration Sensor ◽  
Industrial Safety ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Current Sensing ◽  
Power Monitoring ◽  
Plant Safety ◽  
Real Time Measurement ◽  
Automation Control

For factory automation, devices and machine make a lot of space has become crowded and full of workers makes the operation of the pipeline space is limited, the problem of accidents become more frequent as the frequency will gradually floating surface have to seriously. The combination of embedded systems based on ZigBee technology to enhance the quality of research objectives of industrial safety, in addition to the general control inherent in using the system outside the ZigBee wireless technology to a remote control. Industrial application platform measurements have the thickness of the degree of screening, vibration sensor, weight classification, current sensing, energy monitoring, load switching, temperature monitoring, and carbon dioxide concentration. From the existing literature found in this study combined with embedded ZigBee for industrial real-time measurement system is an innovative technology. In this study, in addition to the discussion platform, the data for statistical measurement and analysis are also discussed in detail, through wired and wireless synchronization of the system measurement and monitoring, will be able to reach a real-time and can improve the safety of plant safety monitoring.

scholarly journals Measuring Urban Resilience to Climate Change in Three Chinese Cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9735
Author(s):  
Mingshun Zhang ◽  
Yaguang Yang ◽  
Huanhuan Li ◽  
Meine Pieter van Dijk
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Resilience Index ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
Monitoring Progress

Building an urban resilience index results in developing an increasingly popular tool for monitoring progress towards climate-proof cities. This paper develops an urban resilience index in the context of urban China, which helps planners and policy-makers at city level to identify whether urban development is leading to more resilience. The urban resilience index (URI) suggested in this research uses data on 24 indicators distributed over six URI component indices. While no measure of such a complex phenomenon can be perfect, the URI proved to be effective, useful and robust. Our findings show that the URI ensures access to integrated information on urban resilience to climate change. It allows comparisons of cities in a systematic and quantitative way, and enables identification of strong and weak points related to urban resilience. The URI provides tangible measures of not only overall measures of urban resilience to climate change, but also urban resilience components and related indicators. Therefore, it could meet a wide range of policy and research needs. URI is a helpful tool for urban decision-makers and urban planners to quantify goals, measure progress, benchmark performance, and identify priorities for achieving high urban resilience to climate change.

scholarly journals Speech synthesis systems: disadvantages and limitations

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.28) ◽  
pp. 234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolina Kuligowska ◽  
Paweł Kisielewicz ◽  
Aleksandra Włodarz
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Analysis Problem ◽  
Current State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Current Classification ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Insight Into

The present speech synthesis systems can be successfully used for a wide range of diverse purposes. However, there are serious and important limitations in using various synthesizers. Many of these problems can be identified and resolved. The aim of this paper is to present the current state of development of speech synthesis systems and to examine their drawbacks and limitations. The paper dis-cusses the current classification, construction and functioning of speech synthesis systems, which gives an insight into synthesizers implemented so far. The analysis of disadvantages and limitations of speech synthesis systems focuses on identification of weak points of these systems, namely: the impact of emotions and prosody, spontaneous speech in terms of naturalness and intelligibility, preprocessing and text analysis, problem of ambiguity, natural sounding, adaptation to the situation, variety of systems, sparsely spoken languages, speech synthesis for older people, and some other minor limitations. Solving these problems stimulates further development of speech synthesis domain. 

scholarly journals Discursive realization of threat in pre-election communication

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksey Arkad'evich Romanov ◽  
Olga Vladimirovna Novoselova
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Research School ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Related Approach ◽  
Negative Effect

This article focuses on the question of pragmatic effectiveness of threat statements in political communication, in particular, the relevance of using threats in pre-election programs and intimidating voters with the goal of forcing them to vote for a certain politician. The aim of this article is to consider pre-election threat statements as verbal regulative actions and to propose a typology of such constructive menacives taking into account the targeted orientation of their consequent component. This study is based on a corpus of threat statements realized in the presidential candidates’ pre-election programs in Russia in 2018. The total number of menacives is 1. The study investigated the data from the perspective of the theory of speech activity, speech act theory and psychosemantics. The theoretical framework of the study is an action-related approach to the analysis of speech (dialogic) acts developed in Tver semantic and pragmatic research school (Romanov 1988; 2002; 2020). The study specified 18 targeted types of menacives that have a certain pragmatic and emotional effect on voters and are characterized by different frequencies in pre-election programs. This result demonstrates that the author of the pre-election program does not know mass voter’s preferences, their emotional state and feelings well; therefore, the politician directs their menacing influence on a wide range of potential voters. The authors conclude that politicians deliberately prefer to use threat statements with negative effect on an unfocused audience trying to win the attention and votes. The analysis shows that four types of threat statements with different targeting of consequent component proved to be a pragmatically effective tool in the Russian pre-election campaign in 2018. The results of this study can be used to predict the pragmatic effect of politicians’ threat statements on voters.

Computer simuations for the nano-scale

2007 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Štich
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Monte Carlo ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Hartree Fock ◽  
Monte Carlo Techniques ◽  
Nano Scale ◽  
Scale Modeling ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Weak Points

Computer simuations for the nano-scaleA review of methods for computations for the nano-scale is presented. The paper should provide a convenient starting point into computations for the nano-scale as well as a more in depth presentation for those already working in the field of atomic/molecular-scale modeling. The argument is divided in chapters covering the methods for description of the (i) electrons, (ii) ions, and (iii) techniques for efficient solving of the underlying equations. A fairly broad view is taken covering the Hartree-Fock approximation, density functional techniques and quantum Monte-Carlo techniques for electrons. The customary quantum chemistry methods, such as post Hartree-Fock techniques, are only briefly mentioned. Description of both classical and quantum ions is presented. The techniques cover Ehrenfest, Born-Oppenheimer, and Car-Parrinello dynamics. The strong and weak points of both principal and technical nature are analyzed. In the second part we introduce a number of applications to demonstrate the different approximations and techniques introduced in the first part. They cover a wide range of applications such as non-simple liquids, surfaces, molecule-surface interactions, applications in nanotechnology, etc. These more in depth presentations, while certainly not exhaustive, should provide information on technical aspects of the simulations, typical parameters used, and ways of analysis of the huge amounts of data generated in these large-scale supercomputer simulations.

Default investment strategies in a defined contribution pension system: a pension risk model application for the chilean case

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOLANGE BERSTEIN ◽  
OLGA FUENTES ◽  
FÉLIX VILLATORO
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Risk Model ◽  
Pension System ◽  
Economic Behavior ◽  
Investment Strategies ◽  
Defined Contribution ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Dominated Strategies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Gain Loss

AbstractIn a defined contribution pension system, one of the main risks faced by members refers to the investment of funds. In this context, we discuss which is the most suitable risk measurement for the affiliates to the pension system. Different life-cycle investment strategies are evaluated under this measure for different types of workers. We point out the importance of designing well-suited default investment options in light of the economic behavior of members, characterized by low financial knowledge, inertia and myopia in decision-making. We calibrate a pension risk model for the Chilean economy, including measures of life-cycle income, human capital risk, investment and annuitization risks. Our results suggest that affiliates can gain (loss) around 0.85 percentage points in terms of average replacement rates in return for an increase (decrease) of 1 percentage point in risk, measured as standard deviation of replacement rates. Using a stochastic dominance analysis, we find that there are no dominated strategies when subsidies from the Solidarity Pillar are excluded. When the Solidarity Pillar is considered, the most appropriate investment strategies for affiliates that receive these subsidies are concentrated on the riskier funds. However, this also means that there could be increased pressure on Government spending in order to grant additional benefits to affiliates. Our model has a wide range of practical applications that go from informing affiliates about the degree of uncertainty associated to their expected replacement rate to a guide to evaluate how different investment strategies affect the expected values of affiliates' pensions and their associated risk.

Supply Chain Design Models and Solution Methods: A Review and Directions for Future Research

Paradigm ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
Om Pal Singh ◽  
Satish Chand
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Design ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Design Models ◽  
Manufacturing Plants ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Decision Variables ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Solution Methods ◽  
Level Model

Supply chain may be designed both at the strategic level as well as at the operational level. The strategic level model decides the basic structural configuration of the supply chain, i.e. the locations and number of echelons like suppliers, manufacturing plants, distribution centres, retailers, etc. At the operational level, the parameters like inventory levels, production and delivery schedules, etc., are decided to control the day-to-day activities of the supply chain. In the literature, various kinds of models are appearing which have been developed by various researchers. Many performance measures have been used to assess supply chain performance. A wide range of supply chain decision variables, modeling approaches, and solution methods have been adopted by researchers. The objectives of this paper are to: (1) provide a focused review of literature on supply chain design models and their solution methods and (2) suggest directions for future research in this area.

scholarly journals Computer modelling of e-beam-pumped KrF lasers

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. B. Edwards ◽  
F. O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Close Agreement ◽  
Computer Modelling ◽  
Optical Gain ◽  
Laser Efficiency ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Model Predictions ◽  
Beam Pump ◽  
State Behaviour ◽  
Gain Loss ◽  
Steady State Behaviour

A computer kinetics model has been developed to predict the steady state behaviour of e-beam-pumped KrF lasers. The model can be used to calculate species densities, gain, loss and laser efficiency. Close agreement is obtained between the model predictions and a wide range of experimental measurements of optical gain, loss, and laser efficiency as a function of e-beam pump power, taken at various laboratories.

scholarly journals Discussion at the Central House of Scientists, RAS of the Development Problems of National Statistics and Their Solutions (Review of Scientific Papers and Reports on the Statistics Section in 2018-2019)

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 66-84
Author(s):  
B. T. Ryabushkin ◽  
V. N. Korobov
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Price Index ◽  
Financial Economic ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Population Census ◽  
International Banking ◽  
National Statistics ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Economic Assets ◽  
Labor Underutilization

This scientific and information review provides insight into the contents and nature of some questions and matters of national statistics as noted in the reports of statisticians - academics and practitioners at the meeting of Statistics Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences (CDU RAS) in 2018-2019. The Section covered a wide range of topics which could be grouped (although this grouping is somewhat relative) into three focus areas in modern Russian statistics discussed in the 2018-2019 season at the Central House of Scientists: I. Theoretical and practical aspects associated with conducting statistical observations, II. Development issues of macroeconomic statistics and III. Application of international statistical standards to Russian conditions.In these respective areas, debates focused on the results of the 2016 Russian Census of agriculture, optimization of the organizational structure of the 2020 Russian Population Census based on the results of the 2018 Pilot Population Census, fundamental principles of consumer price monitoring and calculating the consumer price index in today’s Russian statistics. Topics of methodological support of statistics on non-financial economic assets, improving the quality of GDP estimates based on the development of annual supply and use tables, the subject matter of innovation statistics triggered heated discussions amongst the practitioners and theoreticians who participated actively in the meetings. Finally, the Section reviewed matters of adopting international statistical standards to suit Russian conditions, in particular, the practical implementation of the Resolution concerning statistics of work, employment, and labor underutilization and Russian issues of international banking statistics.

Economic Vulnerability to Climate Change in Coastal New Jersey: A Stakeholder-Based Assessment

2014 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 1450003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Leichenko ◽  
Melanie McDermott ◽  
Ekaterina Bezborodko ◽  
Michael Brady ◽  
Erik Namendorf
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Climate Extremes ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
Climate Assessment ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Economic Assets ◽  
Post Disaster

This study investigates economic vulnerabilities to climate extremes and climate change in coastal New Jersey before and after Hurricane Sandy. Drawing upon methodological best-practices in climate adaptation and disaster risk management, which emphasize co-production of climate assessment information, the study employs a stakeholder-based approach to identify key climate-related economic stresses, risks and vulnerabilities. Interviews with stakeholders conducted in the months prior to Sandy highlighted a myriad of climatic, environmental and economic stresses in the region and revealed a wide range of economic assets, activities, and populations that are economically vulnerable. Post-Sandy meetings with stakeholders reinforced findings of the pre-Sandy interviews but also brought to light some new and unexpected vulnerabilities. The study illustrates the value of stakeholder participation in economic vulnerability assessments, including deeper and more nuanced understanding of local economic assets, activities, and populations at risk to climate extremes and climate change. The study also demonstrates the importance of stakeholder-engagement for creating buy-in to the climate assessment process and for facilitating new learning opportunities in a post-disaster context. Given climatic non-stationarity and continually evolving economic conditions, stakeholder-based assessments will need to be conducted and updated on an on-going basis in order to ensure continual relevance to post-disaster learning and response.

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