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A Linear Programming Model for Renewable Energy Aware Discrete Production Planning and Control

open access: yesProceedings of the Conference on Production Systems and Logistics, 2023
Industrial production in the EU, like other sectors of the economy, is obliged to stop producing greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. With its Green Deal, the European Union has already set the corresponding framework in 2019.
Adomat, Vincent   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Caterpillar's Spatial Metamorphosis: Heavy Equipment Manufacturing in the 21st Century

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Caterpillar Inc., the world's largest heavy equipment manufacturer, grew rapidly in the 20th century before a crisis of overproduction in the early 1980s threatened its survival. In response, it launched the $2.8 billion “Plant with a Future” (PWAF) program, a sweeping material and ideological overhaul that remade the firm for the post‐Fordist
Utkarsh Kumar, Michael L. Dougherty
wiley   +1 more source

Using an Adapted Job Demands–Resources Model to Examine the Use of Legal, Prescription, and Illegal Drugs for Cognitive Enhancement in the Working Population in Germany

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
Chronic stress is a global issue with detrimental effects on health and productivity, often leading individuals to adopt health‐related coping strategies. This study uses an adapted Job Demands–Resources model to examine how various job demands and resources impact perceived stress and, consequently, the use of legal, prescription, and illegal drugs ...
Sebastian Sattler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flexibilisierungsinstrumente im katholischen Kirchenrecht / Flexibilization Instruments in Catholic Canon Law [PDF]

open access: yesAncilla Iuris, 2019
In einem ersten Schritt („Prämissen“) versucht der Artikel, das Selbstverständnis der katholischen Kirche und des kanonischen Rechts zu verdeutlichen, insbesondere die Kirche als göttlich-menschliche Realität, den Unterschied zwischen theologischer ...
Helmuth Pree
doaj   +1 more source

Flexibile techhology of protectants for grain seeds

open access: yesIOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2020
Abstract The chemicalization of agriculture is an important component of an integrated plant protection system to obtain stably high crop yields and provide food products to the rapidly growing population of the Earth. Seed dressing with fungicides is a determining element in the plant protection system, and systemic drugs give the best ...
N G Vlasenko   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Stochastic optimization of Power‐to‐Methanol: Production cost sensitivity to process design vs. scheduling

open access: yesAIChE Journal, Volume 72, Issue 5, May 2026.
Abstract Under time‐varying electricity prices, the production costs of Power‐to‐X processes with intermediate storage can be reduced by simultaneously optimizing the process unit design and size with their scheduling and operation. However, the production cost sensitivity to optimal process design or scheduling is unclear, especially when several ...
Simone Mucci, Dominik Bongartz
wiley   +1 more source

Flexible Memory: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2026.
Flexible memory technology is crucial for flexible electronics integration. This review covers its historical evolution, evaluates rigid systems, proposes a flexible memory framework based on multiple mechanisms, stresses material design's role, presents a coupling model for performance optimization, and points out future directions.
Ruizhi Yuan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Everything Is Just Done Away With Now”: Contentious Practices of Scalar Brokerage Motivated by Narratives of Welfare Nostalgia in Postcolonial Rotterdam

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 108-119, March 2026.
ABSTRACT According to anthropological theories of brokerage, brokers build bridges, close gaps, make connections, and construct shared norms. In this article, I argue that such structural‐functionalist approaches to brokerage do not prove adequate in addressing unsettled and unsettling scale‐making practices of refugee‐led support initiatives in ...
Lieke van der Veer
wiley   +1 more source

Ajuste produtivo e medidas de flexibilização da legislação trabalhista Productive adjustment and flexibilization in the labor laws

open access: yesEstudos de Sociologia, 2007
A partir da década de 90, a introdução de inovações tecnológicas e organizacionais na indústria brasileira se intensificou significativamente. Um dos objetivos deste artigo é analisar os principais obstáculos à negociação de cláusulas referentes a essas ...
Rosana Ribeiro
doaj  

Re‐Embedding European Market Society? EU Labour Regulation and the ‘Double Countermovement’ to Market‐Making Integration

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 881-901, March 2026.
Abstract Scholars who have examined European integration from a neo‐Polanyian perspective have long been sceptical about the opportunities for a ‘countermovement’ against the EU's market‐making bias. However, as part of a broader ‘social turn’, recent years have seen the adoption of EU legislation to promote fair and decent working conditions. Based on
Sven Schreurs
wiley   +1 more source

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