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Gobio Genus Species Integrated Management System – Târnava Rivers Study Case (Transylvania, Romania)

2019

Abstract The lotic habitats quality indicative congeners species Gobio gobio, Gobio kessleri and Gobio albipinnatus populations’ dynamic in time (2004-2019) and space revealed a decreasing trend in these rivers ecological status. The ADONIS:CE tool has been used to build a backing management system model, based on these indicative fish species habitat needs, indicators for favourable conservation status, pressures and threats. This management system implementation in the field will favour the amelioration of lotic habitats and the ecological status recovering of two of the local fish species of conservative interest (G. kessleri and G. albipinnatus).

River ecosystemAdonistârnava mare rivertârnava mică riverhuman activities preassures and threatsGobio gobiohabitat needsgobio albipinnatusGenusgobio gobioGobioromaniaeuropean unionQH540-549.5lotic habitats improvementEcologybiologyEcologybiology.organism_classificationGeographyHabitatConservation statusgobio kessleritârnava riverGobio albipinnatustransylvaniamanagementTransylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research
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A root cause analysis method for preventing erratic behavior in software development: PEBA

2019

Measures taken to prevent faults from being introduced or going undetected can secure development of highly reliable software systems. One such measure is analyzing root causes of recurring faults and preventing them from appearing again. Previous methods developed for this purpose have been reactive in nature and relied heavily on fault reporting mechanisms of ogranizations. Additionally, previous efforts lack a defined mechanism for innovating corrective actions. In this study, we strive to complement the existing methods by introducing a proactive and qualitative method that does not rely on fault data. During the course of the research, in addition to an extensive literature search, an …

Root (linguistics)Computer sciencefault removalohjelmistotekniikka0211 other engineering and technologiesfault preventionContext (language use)quality assurance02 engineering and technologyFault (power engineering)Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringField (computer science)Software systemsoftware process improvementSafety Risk Reliability and Quality021110 strategic defence & security studies021103 operations researchbusiness.industrytietokoneohjelmatSoftware developmentProactivitysoftware reliabilityRisk analysis (engineering)root cause analysisohjelmistokehitysRoot cause analysisbusinessReliability Engineering & System Safety
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How Artificial Intelligence Can link With Human Sciences

2013

International audience; Enhancing students' level of learning and ensuring academic success are the final goals of educational policy. To reach these goals, such policy seeks a way to simultaneously increase the skills and knowledge of students. We were interested to explore how the other sciences can help us draw closer to this goal. We therefore aim to demonstrate in this article an approach to help students at university find solutions to their learning problems. In an attempt to reach this goal, we suggest that other sciences can help us to the extent that the combination of the various sciences can be more effective than a single branch. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of scie…

Réussite universitairestudent[SHS.EDU]Humanities and Social Sciences/Education[SHS.EDU] Humanities and Social Sciences/EducationAméliorationÉtudiant[ SHS.EDU ] Humanities and Social Sciences/EducationIntelligence artificielleSciences humainesacademic achievementSciences de l'éducationScience EducationArtificial IntelligenceUtilisationComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONImprovementLevel of knowledgeNiveau de connaissances
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Deliberate and Emergent Changes on a Way Towards Electronic Document Management

2011

A unit of Fortum Service Ltd. operates and maintains the Rauhalahti power plant in Central Finland. In 1996-97, the unit launched a project pursuing coordinated organizationwide electronic document management (EDM). This case follows deliberate and emergent changes related to document management in the organization since the initiation of the project until February 2000. New information technologies were adopted, and responsibilities for continuous improvement of EDM were assigned. The continuous improvement was implemented as an extension of the ISO 9002 quality system earlier adopted for process improvement. The case shows that a shift from the paper-based era towards organizationwide EDM…

Service (systems architecture)EngineeringProcess managementKnowledge managementQuality management systembusiness.industryProcess improvementInformation technologyDocument management systemcomputer.software_genrebusinesscomputerUnit (housing)
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Issues in Software Inspection Practices

2005

The motivation for this research comes from a need to improve software inspection practices in software organizations. Even if inspections are well defined and regularly used in an organization, there may be some problems which can greatly reduce inspection effectiveness. The paper presents a list of inspection related problems which are known in the literature. It also relates some experiences from two case organizations. In addition, this paper provides an approach which helps identifying problems of this kind and directing limited improvement resources effectively.

Service qualityEngineering managementEngineeringSoftwarebusiness.industrySoftware inspectionSoftware developmentSystems engineeringProcess improvementIdentifying problemsbusinessCapability Maturity Model Integration
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A comparison among different strategies to boost the performance of TiO2 photocatalysts

2018

Since its application in water cleavage usinga TiO2 photoanode in 1972, photocatalysis attracted great interest as green technology

Settore CHIM/07 - Fondamenti Chimici Delle TecnologieTiO2 photocatalysis photoactivity improvement.
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PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT OF VAPOUR COMPRESSION REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS USING NANOPARTICLES: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

2019

In recent years, the development and characterization of new refrigerants with higher energetic efficiency have gained considerable interest [1], with a particular emphasis on the energetic performance of suitable replacements. Nanofluids have been proposed as possible alternative due to their role in enhancing the thermophysical proprieties of traditional refrigerants [2]. The comprehensive review in [2] suggests that thermal conductivity of nanofluid increases with temperature and volume concentration but it is dependent on nanoparticle size distribution; specific heat is also increased if nanoparticles are added to the refrigerant. As consequence, the improved heat transfer coefficients …

Settore ING-IND/10 - Fisica Tecnica IndustrialeNanoparticles refrigerant COP improvements.
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Caso Studio relativo ad un ipermercato ubicato in Sicilia, opportunità di risparmio energetico, studi di fattibilità

2006

Settore ING-IND/11 - Fisica Tecnica AmbientaleIpermercati Analisi energetica Improvement gestione energeticaSettore ING-IND/10 - Fisica Tecnica Industriale
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Improvement of actinorhodin production yield in Streptomyces coelicolor by immobilized-cell cultivations by using PCL- and PLA-based films

2016

Actinomycetes are Gram-positive bacteria producing most of naturally occurring antibiotics (Donadio et al., 2010). At industrial level, antibiotics are produced by submerged fermentations where the actinomycete filamentous morphology negatively affects bioproductivity (van Dissel et al., 2014). Microporous membranes for bacterial cell-immobilization were already proven increasing bioproductivity in Streptomyces coelicolor, that is a model actinomycete producing the blue pigmented actinorhodin (ACT) antibiotic (Scaffaro et al., 2016). To develop an immobilized-cell bioreactor system, different kinds of polycaprolactone (PCL) and polylactic acid (PLA) films were produced by an electrospinning…

Settore ING-IND/22 - Scienza E Tecnologia Dei MaterialiStreptomyces coelicolor immobilizationbioproduction improvementpolycaprolactone and polylactic acid filmSettore BIO/19 - Microbiologia Generale
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Scritti in onore di Pellegrino Capaldo

2014

La qualità dei servizi è stata riconosciuta come un rilevante aspetto caratterizzante la performance dell’azienda pubblica, analogamente alla capacità di operare secondo criteri di efficienza e nel rispetto dei vincoli di bilancio. Sebbene sia possibile riscontrare alcuni significativi casi di adozione di politiche di customer satisfaction nelle amministrazioni pubbliche italiane, a tutt’oggi il tema presenta significative criticità, specialmente in ordine agli aspetti metodologici e agli strumenti operativi che consentano di integrare dette politiche nel sistema di programmazione e controllo delle aziende che erogano tali servizi. Il presente lavoro adotta una diversa prospettiva di analis…

Settore SECS-P/07 - Economia AziendaleQuality in delivering public services has been recognised as a major issue challenging performance in the public sector as well as the ability to operate effectively and within budget constraints. Empirical findings shown by the literature demonstrate that concrete efforts have been produced towards the evaluation and improvement of satisfaction levels of citizens and other Public Administration’s ‘customers’. However still today this issue portrays many unresolved criticalities particularly concerning the methodological approaches and operative tools to adopt in order to integrate ‘customer satisfaction’ programs with the wider organisational control system in each public administration. This paper adopts a non-conventional view of the ‘customer satisfaction’ concept. This is currently meant as a matter of social reporting or even statistical analysis based on the users’ perceptions on the level of provided services by a given (front office) unit in the public sector. Here an inter-institutional perspective is adopted with a view to map the overall value chain leading to the final product delivered to citizens or the community. Inside this chain tracking the underlying administrative products delivered by back-office units to their ‘internal clients’ in the public administration is recommended as a fundamental step to understand how to improve performance in satisfying citizens’ needs. This should also require a proper link between the administrative units’ goals and performance measures to the desired efficiency and effectiveness of processes leading to the attainment of administrative products providing the basis of the final services delivered to the private sector. Based on first empirical findings from field analysis in the Italian context the paper aims to outline an approach which could assist both politicians and managers to better assess and improve performance according to a customer satisfaction perspective.
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