We popose a calculation method by which we can estimate the value of the loss of pressure along the pipeline, the loss of pressure per length meter of network and the cost of the pneumatic energy loss in the case of the horizontal and vertical pneumatic network. The proposed method is validated...

This paper aim to make a pass between the world economy and the lean six sigma system and his contribution for the reduce cost for products and realize quality improvements and cost reduction potential by a logical and well-structured training approach. In the many company, starts to implement...

Work motivation was and remained a "hot topic" for management and organizational behavior studies, as well as a major concern for practice of Human Resource Management. While such studies have evidenced a lot of factors of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation having different influences on...

This study approaches the issue of urban heating services in the current context of development and crisis. The importance of the energy area is highlighted in a globalised world as well as of knowledge, current state and the implications on the efficiency and sustainability of urban energy for...

Currently, when the entire world faces and economic and financial crisis, the Romanian energy has mainly the following major problems: - Lack of a viable and sustainable energy strategy for long term; - Modernisation of the equipment and installations; - Liberalisation of the energy markets; -...

Purpose – The paper aims to reveal and discuss the recent growing interest for personal development that seems to outline an emerging study field, and especially a flourishing industry of training business, but with many different approaches more or less related to individual needs and...

There is always an ethical dimension insufficiently explored beyond the list of identified causes of occupational accidents. This leads to a sequence of inappropriate or wrong decisions, adopted at the organizational, human and/or technical level, , leading to tragic events, often with...

Work motivation was and remained a "hot topic" for management and organizational behavior studies, as well as a major concern for practice of Human Resource Management. While such studies have evidenced a lot of factors of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation having different influences on...

Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this hypothesis in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an initial contract has a highly significant and...

We present an international trade model with multiproduct firms. Firms are heterogeneously endowed with two types of capabilities that jointly determine the trade-off within firms between managing a large portfolio of products and producing at low marginal cost. The model can explain many of the...