Drive sprockets and chains with scale
Inclusion of small-scale milk producers in modern dairy value chains
... value chains Bram Wouters, and Jan van der Lee 1 Abstract The worldwide demand for milk is ...value chains? First, markets should have the preconditions of a reliable market, a competitive milk price and ...
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Bounding inferences for large-scale continuous-time Markov chains : a new approach based on lumping and imprecise Markov chains
... Markov chains are not only a robust uncertainty model—as they were originally intended to be—but also a useful computational tool for determining bounds on inferences for large-scale homogeneous ...
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Non-hotspot volcano chains originating from small-scale sublithospheric convection
... scale sublithospheric convection (SSC). In this study, we explore this concept in thermo-chemical, 3D-numerical models. Melting due to SSC is shown to emerge in elongated features (750 km) parallel to plate ...
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Computing inferences for large-scale continuous-time Markov chains by combining lumping with imprecision
... Markov chains (CTMCs), this exponentially increasing number of states has as a consequence that using the model to perform inferences—for the sake of brevity here limited to marginal and limit expectations—about ...
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The perception of organic values and ways of communicating them in mid scale values based food chains
... based chains that want to combine values with ...food chains by producers as well as consumers and [2] how can the virtues of direct marketing be retained in indirect marketing chains? Those ...
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Pro-poor value chains for small scale farming innovation : sustainability improvements through ICT
... Investment in research will enable the development of simpler ICT tools that can increase access to ICTs and trigger learning that leads to adopting more advanced ICTs [33]. Effective training programmes should be ...
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A Multi-Scale Flood Monitoring System Based on Fully Automatic MODIS and TerraSAR-X Processing Chains
... continental scale using daily-acquired medium spatial resolution optical data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ...processing chains of the MODIS (MFS) and the TerraSAR-X Flood Service ...
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Autonomous Solution Methods for Large-Scale Markov Chains
... to reflect the constraint P π i = 1 and the resulting system is solved using the matlab linear system solve command A \ b. • The advanced approach. The Markov chain is stored in matlab using native matlab sparse matrix ...
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Multiple-time-scale analysis for pinned breathers in Bose-Hubbard chains
... (Dated: January 29, 2019) Localized and pinned discrete breathers in Bose-Einstein Condensates in optical lattices or in arrays of optical waveguides, oscillate with frequencies which are much higher than those present ...
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Optimization of Large-Scale Sustainable Renewable Energy Supply Chains in a Stochastic Environment
... Multi-period planning is carried out to minimize investment risk by considering temporal variation in bioethanol demand. The objective is to simultaneously maximize financial profit, reduce GHG emissions, and increase ...
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Differences of small-scale farmers and the related short agri-food value chains
... 4. CONCLUSIONS In response to the rapid and profound changes taking place in the Hungarian agri-food sector, the aim of this paper is to analyse factors that have impact on a farmer’s decision to sell their products via ...
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Linking Small Scale Farmers in China with the International Markets: A Case of Apple Export Chains
... export chains had become highly integrated within the international ...apple chains and received a much higher profit margin compared with apple farmers in most other ...
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Challenges to Standardizing Emissions Calculation of Logistics Hubs as Basis for Decarbonizing Transport Chains on a Global Scale
... supply chains, have been identi- fied as one of the most pressing elements for which emis- sions calculations need to be further developed to ensure the ability of emissions calculation standardization to deliver ...
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Numerical Simulation of Non-Equilibrium Stationary Currents Through Nano-scale One-Dimensional Chains
... With the advent of nano-scale devices in the 1980’s, the need for a different approach to this problem emerged. At low temperatures and for tiny samples, electrons propagate as coherent matter waves which are ...
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Including small-scale farmers in profitable value chains: Review of case studies on factors influencing successful inclusion of small farmers in modern value chains in ACP countries
... value chains are promoted using producer organisations, such economies are not normally available to the organisation, particularly if the new chain is its first venture into trading ...product chains ...
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Chains in Chains - Logic and Challenges of Blockchains in Supply Chains
... larger scale, at first blockchain should be adopted by a few number of players representing a selected sample of key functions and sharing a common goal, ...
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Education in chains
... Operating model Unlike many other school groups, Cognita schools offer a variety of curricula across geographies including both local and international curricula. The defining characteristic of Cognita’s operating model ...
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Chains of securitization
... Marieke de Goede University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Financial security: A new field of study? Recent years have seen welcome growth in the exploration of the philosophical, conceptual and practical interrelations ...
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Chains of securitization
... Recent years have seen welcome growth in the exploration of the philosophical, conceptual and practical interrelations between ‘finance’ on the one hand, and ‘security’ on the other. While we are presently accustomed to ...
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Special Application Chain Drive Chains Sprockets Design and Selection Maintenance Information...
... Cast chains, in general, do a good job in sliding applications and have excellent cor- rosion ...Steel chains will usually provide longer and more dependable ...