Articles
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Treat your customers as equals! Fostering customer collaboration through social media
The purpose of this paper is to explore, firstly, how companies and customers interact using social media, and secondly, how social-media-mediated interactions support customer collaboration. We identify two modes of interaction: the relationship-oriented mode and the instrumental mode. The former reflects relationship marketing in that it emphasises reciprocal and bilateral communication, while ...
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Project - CTC Holding Part-2
The second stage of the 21.6 hectaregreenhouse, which was the first stage ofthe 3-stage project of approximately 68hectares. The construction of thesecond stage is finished and thewindows are already installed. Thepackaging area of the general project isapproximately 8.840m². The currentproject, financed by European banks, isplanned to start production in ...
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Book Review: Postharvest Physiology and Hypobaric Storage of Fresh Produce
Postharvest Physiology and Hypobaric Storage of Fresh Produce, by Stanley P. Burg. Wallingford, CABI Publishing. ISBN 0 85199 801 1Keywords: book ...
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Three generic resource-based strategies
The heterodox resource-based approach differs from the orthodox outside-in approach in that the performance of a firm is regarded as the result of the competitive value of its resources rather than a function of the characteristics of the environment in which it operates. Intangible resources, such as intellectual capital, arise in this framework as idiosyncratic resources from which a firm ...
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Technology for life? Or technology for death?
Mostly business people are honest in their dealings. They work honestly with their customers. Most of the machinery manufacturers and suppliers have a tendency to make and sell bigger and bigger machines. Naturally bigger machine has bigger profit. So everybody is tempted to sell bigger machines and bigger plants. They take satisfaction that they are working honestly. They are under the ...
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Metalworking - Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK Deeside, United Kingdom - Case Study
Toyota Engine Plant is located at Deeside, North Wales and employs over 500 members on a site covering 115 acres. In 2016, a total of approx. 240,000 fully assembled engines were pro-duced for the Burnaston Auris & Auris Hybrid vehicles and exported to other Toyota plants. Engines are produced through a process of Aluminium casting, machining and assembly before final inspection and despatch ...
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Freezing Preservation for The Textile Conservation of Historic Fabric in Museums
Historic textile conservation involves the care, restoration and preservation of fabric and woven material. A range of factors can cumulatively lead to textile deterioration such as exposure to UV light, heat, humidity, acidic environments and mould, bacteria and insects. Unlike most other fine art objects, textiles are particularly vulnerable to deterioration due to their past functional uses. ...
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Oat Dehulling and Stabilising - Case Study
Rowan food and biomass were employed to design and project manage a site where the aim was to intake raw oats and sell stabilised groats to the market place. The plan included a cleaning route to remove small oats and over size material then onto a destoner. Oats are then divided into fractions and sent for dehulling. Groats are sent for stabilising and husk sent for grinding.Groats are ...
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Turning metal into plastic - Case Study
The Client Challenge Engineers at CNH, a large manufacturer of agricultural equipment, were tasked with examining each part in CNH's equipment and reducing costs - without sacrificing product life or durability. The supplying distributor relied on Diversified Plastics to help them meet the challenge. The Diversified Plastics Solution We sat down with both the distributor and the engineering team ...
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The determinants of local collective action on erosive runoff. An analysis of farmers' geographical proximities in Upper Normandy, France
Runoff disregards territorial boundaries, affects farmers as well as other users of space, and necessitates collective action if it is to be combatted. In this article, based on the case of Upper-Normandy, we show that geographical proximity can play a determining role in the struggle against erosive runoff, and we present a new tool for analysing relations of proximity between farmers. First, we ...
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Comparison and analysis of burden design methods in blasting: a case study on Sungun copper mine in Iran
In this study, 19 burden designing methods have been analysed for burden design in the Sungun Copper Mine in Iran. Also, economical Optimum Burdens (OBs) have been calculated using the results of actual blastings. The results of mentioned methods and optimum burden have been compared with each other. The comparison shows that the Anderson, Pears, Allsman, Langefors and Energy Transition (ET) ...
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The economic situation and (tentatively) prospects: September 2009 (revised)
The paper analyses the evolution of the financial crisis as it spread throughout the real economy during 2009. It is argued that public funding of failed banks and financial institutions does not represent a path to a more stable financial system. It is also pointed out that structural international imbalances are not likely to be solved. In this context the link between green economics and the ...
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Cross‐tolerance in amphibians: Wood frog mortality when exposed to three insecticides with a common mode of action
Insecticide tolerance and cross‐tolerance in nontarget organisms is often overlooked despite its potential to buffer natural systems from anthropogenic influence. The authors exposed wood frog tadpoles from 15 populations to three acetylcholine esterase‐inhibiting insecticides and found widespread variation in insecticide tolerance and evidence for cross‐tolerance to these insecticides. The ...
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The neonicotinoid imidacloprid shows high chronic toxicity to mayfly nymphs
The present study evaluated the acute and chronic toxicity of imidacloprid to a range of freshwater arthropods. Mayfly and caddisfly species were most sensitive to short‐term imidacloprid exposures (10 tests), whereas the mayflies showed by far the most sensitive response to long‐term exposure of all seven arthropod species tested (28‐d effective concentration for 10% values of approximately ...
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Use of papaya seeds as a biosorbent of methylene blue from aqueous solution
In this study papaya seeds were used to remove methylene blue dye from aqueous solution. Papaya seeds were characterized as possessing a macro/mesoporous texture and large pore size. Studies were carried out in batches to evaluate the effect of contact time and pH (2–12) on the removal of dye. It was observed that the adsorption of dye was better in the basic region (pH 12). The ...
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Plene - increasing yields case study
PLENE is an innovative yield-increasing technology for sugar cane, due to be launched in 2011. PLENE sugar cane segments are treated with seed care applications to protect them in early growth stages. Planting is faster and easier than conventional methods. This will reduce the costs of sugar cane planting by 15 percent per hectare. Our development team is working with leading agricultural ...
By Syngenta
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Beyond inclusion: effects and limits of institutionalised public participation
European institutions as well as member states have been recently promoting participatory procedures that are proclaimed to contribute to the legitimacy of political regimes and decision-making processes. Discussing three cases in the controversy over GMOs in the Czech Republic and France, this paper analyses participatory procedures as a power technique, and argues that they have a tendency to ...
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Acute and chronic toxicity of neonicotinoids to nymphs of a mayfly species and some notes on seasonal differences
Mayfly nymphs are amongst the most sensitive taxa to neonicotinoids. This paper presents the acute and chronic toxicity of three neonicotinoids (imidacloprid, thiacloprid and thiamethoxam) to a mayfly species (Cloeon dipterum) and some notes on the seasonality of the toxicity of imidacloprid to C. dipterum and five other invertebrate species. Imidacloprid and thiamethoxam showed an equal acute ...
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Spatio-temporal variability of temperature and potential evapotranspiration over India
Worldwide, major changes in the climate are expected due to global warming, which leads to temperature variations. To assess the climate change impact on the hydrological cycle, a spatio-temporal change detection study of potential evapotranspiration (PET) along with maximum and minimum temperatures (Tmax and Tmin) over India have been performed for the second half of the 20th century ...
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5 Tips for getting your team to fill in timesheets
NEW: Time-sheets feature now live in your Agrimap Android app! Employees would rather take the time to make a very long list of things they would rather do than fill out their time-sheet instead of just filling out their time-sheet! In almost every business, there is a constant struggle for supervisors and managers to make sure that everyone fills out their timesheets on time and with accuracy. ...
By Agrimap LLC
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