Using International Trade Data for Evaluating the Product Specific Competitiveness and Supplied Product Quality of Countries: A Successful Example of Applied Theory

2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Cleff
Keyword(s):  
Product Quality ◽  
Longitudinal Section ◽  
Search Costs ◽  
Applied Theory ◽  
Present Level ◽  
Combined System ◽  
Trade Data ◽  
Simple Regression ◽  
Selection Of

This paper proposes a simple regression-based method for reducing the complexity of decisions in the international procurement process. Based on foreign trade data, the method uses indicators, which allow a product specific cross-section and longitudinal-section valuation of the international competitiveness and the supplied product quality of all potential supplier countries. The method thus provides a variety of information for procurement departments, including the present level and the dynamic of competitiveness and product quality for the potential supplier countries within every product group of the international product nomenclature (Combined System and the Harmonised System). Potential supplier countries --the companies of which have proven to be particularly competitive in the different product quality stages-- are identified. This pre-selection of countries enables the companies to limit their search for potential suppliers to the selected supplier countries. High search costs are subsequently reduced and trend prognoses can be constructed.

Forest management and end-product quality: a Canadian perspective

1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. James Barbour ◽  
Robert M. Kellogg
Keyword(s):  
Product Quality ◽  
Potential Problem ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Present Level ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Resource Quality ◽  
Silvicultural Treatments ◽  
Canadian Perspective ◽  
Value Added Products

The level of silvicultural investment and area of forest land managed in Canada is rising dramatically. Although this will increase growth rates and help maintain the present level of harvest, it may well result in a reduction in the quality of the resource. The present paper illustrates the risk of ignoring this potential problem through examples of experience in utilizing plantation-grown trees in various parts of the world. Relying on technology to solve all resource quality problems may not necessarily make economic sense. Canada's future must lie in the production of "value-added" products that require a high quality resource, permitting the greatest flexibility in conversion options. Information relating silvicultural treatments to end-product quality is at present inadequate. Large integrated studies addressing these questions and the economics of silvicultural investments in terms of end-product value must be initiated for species that will be managed intensively. With relatively long rotations, Canada cannot afford to create a resource that does not match its future marketing strategy.

Aluminium Bahrain - Benefits at ALBA from Use of Improved Graphite Rings for Production of Extrusion Ingots

2009 ◽  
Vol 630 ◽  
pp. 251-257
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ali Kadhim ◽  
Hussain Al Ali Jalal Ghuloom ◽  
Garry Martin ◽  
Michael Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Service Life ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Surface Quality ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Continual Improvement ◽  
Billet Surface ◽  
Optimum Type ◽  
Selection Of

Surface quality and metallurgical characteristics of extrusion ingot have a significant impact on the extrudability of the billet. Both the type of casting mould and mould maintenance significantly influences billet surface quality. ALBA, like the majority of extrusion ingot producers, uses moulds with graphite technology, where a mix of oil and gas is injected through a graphite ring into the mould to improve billet surface quality. ALBA has a policy of continual improvement in the areas of safety, product quality and productivity to enhance customer satisfaction. During 2008, an extensive campaign was conducted in ALBA’s casthouse to select the optimum type of casting rings for Airslip™ moulds supplied by Wagstaff Inc. The graphite casting rings evaluated must be suitable for the casting conditions and environment within the casthouse at ALBA. This paper details the methodology and the criteria set for the selection of the optimum graphite casting ring type as well as the results achieved. The results of the work showed a preference for L type casting rings, which enhance the quality of the extrusion ingots and extend the service life of the graphite ring.

scholarly journals IMPROVING THE WEAR RESISTANCE OF PAINT AND VARNISH MATERIALS FOR ROAD MARKINGS BY INTRODUCING HIGHLY DISPERSED ADDITIVES

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-74
Author(s):  
И.Р. Волкова ◽  
А.И. Лямкин ◽  
В.Е. Редькин ◽  
П.О. Суходаев
Keyword(s):  
Wear Resistance ◽  
Aluminum Oxide ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Detonation Synthesis ◽  
Improve Performance ◽  
Technogenic Waste ◽  
Highly Dispersed ◽  
Varnish Industry ◽  
Selection Of

Возможность управления качеством продукции, улучшение эксплуатационных характеристик, адгезии, износостойкости являются приоритетными направлениями в лакокрасочной промышленности. Один из способов влияния на качество лакокрасочных материалов (ЛКМ) – введение высокодисперсных добавок (ВДД) в полимерную основу. В работе осуществлялся подбор ВДД и способ их введения в краску с целью улучшения ее износостойкости, что важно при использовании, например, для дорожной разметки. Было изучено влияние трех типов ВДД: электровзрывного оксида алюминия, ультрадисперсных алмазов детонационного синтеза и оксида алюминия – глинозема (техногенные отходы Ачинского глиноземного комбината). Наибольший интерес в качестве высокодисперсной добавки для улучшения износостойкости полученных композитов представляет электровзрывной оксид алюминия. Установлено, что введение 0,05 масс. % взрывного Al2O3 позволяет увеличить износостойкость в лабораторных условиях на 25 % при сохранении других эксплуатационных характеристик в пределах требования нормативных документов. The ability to manage product quality, improve performance, adhesion, and wear resistance are priorities in the paint and varnish industry. One of the ways to influence the quality of paint and varnish materials (LCM) is the introduction of highly dispersed additives (HDA) into the polymer base. In the work, the selection of HDA and the method of its introduction into the paint was carried out in order to improve its wear resistance, which is important when used, for example, for road markings. The influence of three types of HDA was studied: electroexplosive aluminum oxide, ultrafine diamonds of detonation synthesis, and aluminum oxide-alumina (technogenic waste of the Achinsk alumina combine). Electroexplosive aluminum oxide is of the greatest interest as a highly dispersed additive for improving the wear resistance of the obtained composites. It was found that the introduction of 0.05 wt. % explosive Al2O3 allows you to increase the wear resistance in the laboratory by 30% while maintaining other properties.

Selection of the conditions and prediction of product quality of preliminary dewaxing

1989 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 148-151
Author(s):  
S. V. Tyumkin ◽  
T. N. Shabalina ◽  
I. I. Zanozina ◽  
D. E. Diskina
Keyword(s):  
Product Quality ◽  
Selection Of

ON THE EXPERT’S RIGHT TO BE PRESENT AT LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 163-171
Author(s):  
M. G. Shcherbakovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Initial Data ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
Reliable Assessment ◽  
Data Acquiring ◽  
Selection Of

The article discusses the reasonsfor an expert to participate in legal proceedings. The gnoseological reason for that consists of the bad quality of materials subject to examination that renders the examination either completely impossible or compromises objective, reasoned and reliable assessment of the findings. The procedural reason consists ofa proscription for an expert to collect evidence himself or herself. The author investigates into the ways of how an expert can participate in legal proceedings. If the defense invites an expert to participate in the proceedings, then it is recommended that his or her involvement should be in the presence of attesting witnesses and recorded in the protocol. In the course of the legal proceedings an expert has the following tasks: adding initial data, acquiring new initial data, understanding the situation of the incident, acquiring new objects to be studied, including samples for examination. An expert’s participation in legal proceedings differs from the participation of a specialist or an examination on the scene of the incident. The author describes the tasks that an expert solves in the course of legal proceedings, the peculiarities ofan investigation experiment practices, the selection of samples for an examination, inspection, interrogation.

Implementasi Voip Server Berbasis IPV6 Dengan Raspberry PI

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (01) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Rabbai San Arif ◽  
Yuli Fitrisia ◽  
Agus Urip Ari Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Internet Protocol ◽  
Wireless Transmission ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Average Delay ◽  
Ipv6 Network ◽  
Ip Network ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Better Than

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a telecommunications technology that is able to pass the communication service in Internet Protocol networks so as to allow communicating between users in an IP network. However VoIP technology still has weakness in the Quality of Service (QoS). VOPI weaknesses is affected by the selection of the physical servers used. In this research, VoIP is configured on Linux operating system with Asterisk as VoIP application server and integrated on a Raspberry Pi by using wired and wireless network as the transmission medium. Because of depletion of IPv4 capacity that can be used on the network, it needs to be applied to VoIP system using the IPv6 network protocol with supports devices. The test results by using a wired transmission medium that has obtained are the average delay is 117.851 ms, jitter is 5.796 ms, packet loss is 0.38%, throughput is 962.861 kbps, 8.33% of CPU usage and 59.33% of memory usage. The analysis shows that the wired transmission media is better than the wireless transmission media and wireless-wired.

DESIGN, SIMULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION MONITORING SYSTEM FOR SYSTEM CONTROL C4 FEEDING PUMP FOR FEED VAPORIZATION IN THE BUTADIENE PLANT

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
Fahmi Yunistyawan ◽  
Yunistyawan J Berchmans ◽  
Gembong Baskoro
Keyword(s):  
Motor Control ◽  
Control System ◽  
Field Operator ◽  
System Control ◽  
Variable Speed ◽  
Variable Speed Drive ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Discharge Pressure ◽  
Selection Of

This study implements the auto start control system on an electric motor 3 phase C4Feeding pump when the discharge pressure is low-low (4.3 kg /cm²). The C4 feeding pumpmotor was initially manually operated from the local control station, this was very ineffectiveand inefficient because it still relied on the field operator to operate the pump motor and whenthe plant was in normal operating it is very risk if the field operator late to operate motor then itwill impact to quality of the product, and if the delay time to operate motor is too long then planthave to shut down, therefore improvement is needed in the C4 feeding pump motor controlsystem. In this paper, various types of 3-phase motor control are explained which allow it to beapplied to the C4 feeding pump motor that are on-off, inverter, and variable speed drive andefficient selection of the three systems control of the motor. Software and hardware used in thisthesis work are DCS CENTUM VP Yokogawa.

Thomas More’s Correspondence in a Spanish Ambiance

Moreana ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (Number 149) (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenio M. Olivares Merino
Keyword(s):  
The Subject ◽  
Selection Of

The recent reprinting of Álvaro de Silva’s 1998 edition of a selection of More’s letters prompts the author to examine the subject of Spanish translations of More, and of de Silva’s general commentary on More’s correspondence and on his relationship to other humanists. The author reflects on aspects of More’s personality as exposed in his letters and uses what he finds as a corrective to several biographical misconceptions. He points out the strengths and weaknesses of de Silva’s work and compares it with that of other translators, particularly Elizabeth Rogers, and notes the particularly Spanish quality of de Silva’s edition.

COMBINATORIAL POLYNOMIALLY COMPUTABLE CHARACTERISTICS OF SUBSTITUTIONS AND THEIR PROPERTIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-41
Author(s):  
VLADIMIR NIKONOV ◽  
◽  
ANTON ZOBOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Expectation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Small Range ◽  
Computational Point ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Bijective Function ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Element Base ◽  
Selection Of

The construction and selection of a suitable bijective function, that is, substitution, is now becoming an important applied task, particularly for building block encryption systems. Many articles have suggested using different approaches to determining the quality of substitution, but most of them are highly computationally complex. The solution of this problem will significantly expand the range of methods for constructing and analyzing scheme in information protection systems. The purpose of research is to find easily measurable characteristics of substitutions, allowing to evaluate their quality, and also measures of the proximity of a particular substitutions to a random one, or its distance from it. For this purpose, several characteristics were proposed in this work: difference and polynomial, and their mathematical expectation was found, as well as variance for the difference characteristic. This allows us to make a conclusion about its quality by comparing the result of calculating the characteristic for a particular substitution with the calculated mathematical expectation. From a computational point of view, the thesises of the article are of exceptional interest due to the simplicity of the algorithm for quantifying the quality of bijective function substitutions. By its nature, the operation of calculating the difference characteristic carries out a simple summation of integer terms in a fixed and small range. Such an operation, both in the modern and in the prospective element base, is embedded in the logic of a wide range of functional elements, especially when implementing computational actions in the optical range, or on other carriers related to the field of nanotechnology.

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