Recycling 67 (2012) 75–79 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Resources, Conservation and Recycling journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/resconrec Full length article A carbon footprint based reverse logistics network design model Devika Kannan a,∗ , Ali Diabat b , Mahmoud Alrefaei c , Kannan Govindan d , Geng Yong e,∗ a Indian Institute of Industrial Engineering, Navi Mumbai, India Engineering Systems and Management, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology
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documents 7 1.7 Strategies and techniques to implement information security policies 8 2. Developing the Security Program(Word Count = approx. 500) 9 3. Security Management Models and Practices (Word Count = approx. 500) 11 A. ISO/IEC Model 11 B. NIST Security Model 11 C. RFC 2196 11 D. COBIT 11 E. COSO 12 4. List of References: 13 1. Information Security Policy 1.1 Security: Security has been a real issue for this century. Due to the new emerging technology like RFID and wireless devices
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field of uniprocessors, it is very attractive for programming large distributed systems. Introduction The motive of this research is to identify a set of system issues, such as integration of DSM with virtual memory management, choice of memory model, choice of coherence protocol, and technology factors; and evaluate the effects of the design alternatives on the performance of DSM systems. The design alternatives have been evaluated in three steps. First, we do a detailed performance study of a
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15 and 802.16. The IEEE has done notable work in the standards area of networking. I thinking the IEEE puts better understanding to everything concerning networking involving the physical medium on which we move data or how data is placed on the network, how we make sure it remain in its right state and how it flows. IEEE802 shows or helps in the way Ethernet can be used. Ethernet LANs may use coax cable
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operations processes on the operational level. These management levels are detailed and interfaces between the levels are defined. Since the considered problem is a planning problem, the framework serves for structuring planning requirements as well as the model development in the following chapters. 2.1 Value Chain Value chain as a term was created by Porter (1985), pp. 33-40. A value chain “disaggregates a firm into its strategically relevant activities in order to understand the behavior of costs and
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Models of Organized Crime Executive Summary Brittany Hereford CJA 384 September 28, 2014 Terri Smith Models of Organized Crime Executive Summary There are many of foundations of criminal activity in the United States of America, however, the foundation of criminal activity is the different kinds of organized crime. Organized Crime is that of which is defined as a criminal enterprise or individuals that are made in to a group that works as one or multiple groups that work together that have
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tremendous network and processing resources in order to serve multiple clients requests simultaneously. Still, the last mile to the server often becomes the bottleneck of the system because all clients are served by this one central network link. The QoS delivery of video streams cannot be guaranteed in case the bandwidth requirements exceed the resources at disposal. In order to overcome this major drawback network workloads need to be distributed and scaled as it is often achieved in P2P networks. Applying
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OSI Model The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model is a way to standardize communication between networked computers and other devices. Since there are so many ways to connect and communicate, this task was too large for just one standard. It had to be broken down into seven parts and layer them so each layer adds to the data before sending it down or subtracts data before sending it up. Yet each layer does not need changes from another layer in order for it to function. Each layer
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switching costs and network effects have achieved a significant amount of popular, as well as professional attention in the last few decades. It is presently defined as the core factor for new Information Technology economy. Switching costs originates, if a consumer demands a product, or its related accessories(hardware or software), of his own purchases to be compatible with each other this creates economies of scope among his purchases from a single supplier. Whereas network effects arise when a
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CULTURAL BOUNDARY SPANNING IN GLOBAL PROJECT NETWORKS Melissa Di Marco, 1 John E. Taylor 2 and Pauli Alin 3 ABSTRACT Projects are increasingly global in scope and outsourcing on projects increasingly common. Along with globalizing trends in projects, the workforce is also globalizing. It is common for engineers to move to other countries as expatriate workers or as emigrants to pursue job opportunities in other firms. Where much is known about global networks of engineers collaborating on projects
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