Process Improvement for Error Records in a Financial Institution with the Analysis of Simulation on Using Value Stream Mapping by İbrahim Yel, Orhan Engin

“…A new value stream map has been prepared, based on the seven wasteful milestones defined in the lean production philosophy. …”
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Renewable Energy in China by V. I. Salygin, I. A. Guliyev, M. I. Ryabova

“…As a result of Chinese state policy to develop renewables China achieved certain results in wind energy, helioenergetics, hydroenergetics and energy from waste recycling.…”
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Optimizing Egg Production in Indonesia Using a Robust Stochastic Approach of Planning by Sri Sulandjari

“…Implications and Recommendations: Implementing the cumulative demand strategy could significantly enhance the efficiency of production planning in Indonesia's poultry industry by reducing waste and optimizing resources, especially in cooperative funding systems. …”
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Grewia tenax-Mediated Silver Nanoparticles as Efficient Antibacterial and Antifungal Agents by Priyanka Yadav, Monisha Singhal, Sreemoyee Chatterjee, Surendra Nimesh, Nidhi Gupta

“…The synthesis was conducted without hazardous chemicals and generation of toxic waste products. The focus of the study was, therefore, to investigate the efficacy of silver nanoparticles biosynthesized using Grewia tenax leaf extract as an antibacterial, antibiofilm, and antifungal therapeutic agent. …”
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SARS and MERS as learning tools for addressing the 2019-nCoV epidemic: A mini-review by Udit DAVE, Ashwin PALANIAPPAN

“…Heightened sanitation measures with regards to waste disposal in healthcare clinics and in areas of mass transit are also of great importance. …”
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IS SUSTAINABLE RUNNING POSSIBLE? EXPLORING INITIATIVES IN URBAN MARATHONS IN EUROPE by Liwia Delińska

“…All races highlight efforts related to recycling and waste reduction, and nearly all mention supporting local charities, using biodegradable materials, and promoting sustainable transport on their websites. …”
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Self-administration of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone with an Electronic Device: Clinical, Economic and Management Benefits of Objective Adherence Monitoring by Zuleika Saz-Parkinson, Maria Del Sol Granados Alonso, Carmen Bouza, José Luis Poveda Andrés, José María Amate

“…A better adjustment to prescribed daily dose (accuracy up to 0.01 mg) with the electronic device results in a better optimization of vials and could save an average of 5% of total treatment costs in terms of doses not wasted, amounting to €245 of potential savings per patient and year of treatment. …”
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‘Heavy Waters’ of Punjab: A Hydro-critical Analysis of Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man by Muhammad Ali

“…The latter’s idea of water carrying both physical and metaphysical waste seems to materialize in Sidhwa’s novel, who places her story in the context of the partitioned Punjab of 1947, when a desire for ‘territorialism’ over water resulted in countless human beings turning into ‘national refuse’, or people killed in the name of nationality, whose dead bodies floating in the rivers of the Punjab turned the rivers into both a haunting site and a site foreboding an environmental crisis sooner or later. …”
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Recycling of Oily Sludge as a Roadbed Material Utilizing Phosphogypsum-Based Cementitious Materials by Wei Xiao, Xiao Yao, Fuyang Zhang

“…Oily sludge is a hazardous waste containing emulsified petroleum hydrocarbons, water, heavy metals, and solid particles. …”
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The systemic evolutionary theory of the origin of cancer (SETOC): an update by Antonio Mazzocca, Giovanni Ferraro, Giovanni Misciagna

“…These adaptive changes enable cancer cells to survive in the harsh tumor microenvironment characterized by low oxygen concentrations, inadequate nutrients, increased catabolic waste, and increased acidity. De-endosymbiosis reprograms the sequential metabolic functions of glycolysis, the TCA cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation (OxPhos). …”
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Research Outlines of the Sustainable Profile of Believers in Croatia by Ivana Brstilo Lovrić, Miriam Mary Brgles, Damir Mravunac

“…The analysis showed that active believers have a more pronounced sustainable profile (as they throw away less food, separate waste more, show greater readiness for saving water, electrical energy and have a more pronounced critical attitude about the need for greater application of the Laudato Si' within the Church and society) than the occasional believers. …”
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Study of Biofouling on Fly ash – Bottom ash (FABA) Media Subtract by Selvia Mila, Saptarini Dian

“…Marine organisms have a certain influence on the dose value of ash waste received by each biota. It was revealed that there was still accumulation of tube worms and bryozoans in the fly ash – bottom ash concrete substrate, but there was a decrease in diversity, and found eight types of macrofouling in twenty-two concrete feed media, namely tube worms, barnacles, crabs, bryozoans, green algae, tunicates, hydroids, brown algae, sponges, and red algae.…”
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Fresh-cut watermelon: postharvest physiology, technology, and opportunities for quality improvement by Ebenezer Quandoh, Karin Albornoz

“…They also drive the loss of bioactive compounds like lycopene, affecting flesh color and reducing nutritional value, ultimately culminating in consumer rejection, food losses and waste. Although great research progress has been achieved in the past decades, knowledge gaps about the physiological, biochemical and molecular bases of quality loss persist. …”
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Characteristics of Pyrolysis and Copyrolysis Products Sewage Sludge in Different Temperature Ranges by Yunbing Li, Hongli Li, Qihang Zhang, Xinyi Wang, Xin Wang, Pen Jin

“…Rapid modernization, population growth, and improvement in people’s quality of life have resulted in an increase in urban sewage sludge as the main solid waste. At present, pyrolysis is the main treatment method for sludge due to carbon-free effects and less air pollution compared with incineration. …”
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Completely Recuperative Supercritical CO2 Recompression Brayton/Absorption Combined Power/Cooling Cycle: Performance Assessment and Optimization by Bing-Chuan Han, Yong-Dong Chen, Gai-Ge Yu, Xiao-Hong Wu, Tao-Tao Zhou

“…Therefore, this research offers a high-integrated combined power/cooling system in which two waste heat exchangers (WHEs) and a rectifier (RET) are used instead of the PRC to achieve 100% exhaust heat recovery. …”
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Ambient Air Quality Monitoring in Metropolitan City of Lagos, Nigeria by Kelechi Longinus Njoku, Tosin John Rumide, Modupe Olatunde Akinola, Adeola Alex Adesuyi, Anuoluwapo Omosileola Jolaoso

“…The results suggest that strict and appropriate vehicle emission management, industrial air pollution control coupled with close burning management of wastes should be considered in the study area to reduce the risks associated with these pollutants.© JASEM Keywords: Air, pollutants, Air quality index, carbon-monoxide, sulphur-dioxide…”
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Vulnerability Assessment and Spatiotemporal Differentiation of Provinces Tourism Economic System Based on the Projection Pursuit Clustering Model by Xiaohong Yu, Haiyan Xu, Shengqiao Wang

“…Among the 40 indicators, the ratio of industrial solid waste utilized (%), urbanization rate, and the density of grade highway and railway network (km/km2) have the greatest impact on the respondence, while the proportion of the population affected by natural disasters, the diversification index of industrial structure, and the number of traffic accident casualties have the most significant impact on the sensitivity, which are the indicators that have the greatest impact on vulnerability. …”
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Socio-Economic Characteristics and Animal Feed Resources of Ruminant Farmers in Katsina State, Nigeria by A. Aruwayo, K.S. Ahmed, I.R. Muhammad

“…Farm residues, home remnants and agro allied waste were shown to have abetted the challenges of scarcity of ruminant feed especially during the dry season of the year. …”
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Green Manufacturing and Environmental Sustainability in Selected Manufacturing Entities in Kampala District, Uganda by Rugasira, Jack, Moses, Agaba, Byarugaba Mbiito, Jotham, Makumbi, Rita, Kyotuheire, Jill, Asiimwe, Jane

“…The study, therefore, concludes that findings are not supportive of The National Environment Act, 2019; specifically concerning control of pollution and environmental emergency preparedness and management of waste. It also has a limited effect on environmental sustainability.…”
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Effect of Impact Load on Concrete Containing Recycled Tire Rubber Aggregate With and Without Fire Exposure by Muhammad Arf Muhammad, Wrya Abdulfaraj Abdullah faraj, Mohamed Raouf Abdul-Kadir

“…Over one billion tires are disposed into the environment each year and this has become a major environmental issue in the globe. Recycling of these waste tire rubbers in concrete has gained attention from researchers all around the world. …”
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