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Sustainable inventory, pricing, and marketing strategies for imperfect quality perishable items with inspection errors and advertisement-, expiration date- and price-dependent demand under carbon emissions policies

Sustainable Operations and Computers
The demand for perishable products is affected by freshness levels, advertising efforts and selling prices, among other factors. By virtue of being consumed mostly by humans, quality control is also an important factor in perishable production systems ...
Makoena Sebatjane
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Economic Concepts of Organic Certification [PDF]

, 2009
Certification is a key element in marketing organic food products. Based on economic theory, this report wants to illustrate the economic reasoning for certification. The intention is to provide a description of economic concepts, which is understandable
Dabbert, Stephan, Lippert, Christian, Zorn, Alexander   +2 more
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Attention U-Net-based semantic segmentation for welding line detection

Scientific Reports
In industrial processes, quality assurance through methods such as visual inspection is essential for ensuring process stability. Traditional manual visual inspection is a time-consuming and costly endeavor.
Hunor István Lukács, Bence Zsolt Beregi, Balázs Porteleki, Tamás Fischl, János Botzheim   +4 more
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Failure probability calculation model applied to gas pipelines [PDF]

REM: International Engineering Journal
This article presents an application for failure probability in long-pipeline gas systems through the development of trend curves over time for the attributes of corrosion wear, which are related to the length, width, and depth of the defect. In addition,
Frederico Carlos Maciel Thom, Geraldo Rossoni Sisquini, Matheus Jordão de Jesus, Oldrich Joel Romero   +3 more
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Enhanced Welding Operator Quality Performance Measurement: Work Experience-Integrated Bayesian Prior Determination

, 2019
Measurement of operator quality performance has been challenging in the construction fabrication industry. Among various causes, the learning effect is a significant factor, which needs to be incorporated in achieving a reliable operator quality ...
AbouRizk, Simaan M., Ji, Wenying, Li, Yitong   +2 more
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The Pulse Scale Conjecture and the Case of BATSE Trigger 2193 [PDF]

, 2000
The pulses that compose gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are hypothesized to have the same shape at all energies, differing only by scale factors in time and amplitude.
Desai U. D., Ramirez-Ruiz E., Robert J. Nemiroff, Vedrenne G.   +3 more
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How the perception of quality for beef evaluated by the buyer at the time of purchase: Study in three Brazilian cities of different sizes – Curitiba, Campo Mourão and Palotina

Acta Scientiarum: Animal Sciences, 2019
In order to evaluate how beef buyers in the State of Paraná, Brazil south value meat quality indicators, and attributes of credibility, 519 interviews were conducted in three cities with different sizes (Big – Curitiba, Medium – Campo Mourão and Small ...
Vinicius Cunha Barcellos, Camila Mottin, Rodolpho Martin do Prado, Tiago Schenkel, Cibeli Viana, Ana Carolina Pelaes Vital, Luciano dos Santos Bersot, Carlos Sañudo, Ivanor Nunes do Prado   +8 more
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Model-based Surface Defect Detection and Condition Monitoring in Wire Ropes [PDF]

, 2009
Wire ropes are exposed to huge external powers everyday. Therefore strict rules for a regular visual inspection exist. Many approaches for textural defect detection in textiles or other materials exist. However, until today no real possibility to control
Denzler, Joachim, Platzer, Esther
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Implementation of basic quality control tests for malaria medicines in Amazon Basin countries: results for the 2005–2010 period

Malaria Journal, 2012
Background Ensuring the quality of malaria medicines is crucial in working toward malaria control and eventual elimination. Unlike other validated tests that can assess all critical quality attributes, which is the standard for determining the quality of
Pribluda Victor S, Barojas Adrian, Añez Arletta, López Cecilia G, Figueroa Ruth, Herrera Roxana, Nakao Gladys, Nogueira Fernando HA, Pianetti Gerson A, Povoa Marinete M, Viana Giselle MR, Gomes Margarete S, Escobar Jose P, Sierra Olga L, Norena Susana P, Veloz Raúl, Bravo Marcy, Aldás Martha R, HindsSemple Alison, Collins Marilyn, Ceron Nicolas, Krishnalall Karanchand, Adhin Malti, Bretas Gustavo, Hernandez Nelly, Mendoza Marjorie, Smine Abdelkrim, Chibwe Kennedy, Lukulay Patrick, Evans Lawrence   +29 more
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Quality of Cattle Meat and Its Compositional Constituents

Veterinary Medicine International, 2021
Meat is the most valuable livestock product since it is one of the main sources of protein for human consumption. Meat quality can be evaluated according to the following parameters: pH, amount of lactic acid, volatile fatty acids, bounded water ...
Umer Seid Geletu, Munera Ahmednur Usmael, Yesihak Yusuf Mummed, Abdulmuen Mohammed Ibrahim   +3 more
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