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Promoting the growth of high quality goods and the phasing out of shoddy products

Lang, Peter - In: International Journal of Green Economics 5 (2011) 2, pp. 126-132

Conventional economic growth actually measures throughput, not accumulated wealth, as conventional growth measurements do not take account of the short life of goods and the loss to the economy when they are discarded. This article argues that society should be seeking growth in the quality of...

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Fit for the task: the future of the small scale domestic repair and maintenance industry in the UK

Leather, Philip; Rolfe, Susan - In: Construction Management and Economics 15 (1997) 2, pp. 201-212

organizing it. However, the poor reputation of that sector of the building industry dealing with small scale domestic repair and … this phenomenon. It describes the results of a survey of firms operating in the domestic repair and maintenance sector of …

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TRANSIENT ANALYSIS OF A MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEM MODELED BY A GENERAL MARKOV PROCESS

PÉREZ-OCÓN, RAFAEL; MONTORO-CAZORLA, DELIA; … - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR) 23 (2006) 03, pp. 311-327

An M-unit system in dynamic environment with operational and repair times following phase-type distributions and …

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Technical evaluation of rural biogas installations in Tunisia

Mlaouhi, A.; Thayer, B. Ben; Kesraoui, R.; Depeyre, D. - In: Renewable Energy 9 (1996) 1, pp. 980-983

The aim of this study is a contribution on research-development on renewable energies in agriculture. It is based on enquiry of 28 installations amony fourty. We study the development of biogas installations in rural aeras in north ouest of Tunisia, the technical control, the rate of its success...

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A note on replacement policy for a system subject to non-homogeneous pure birth shocks

Sheu, Shey-Huei; Chang, Chin-Chih; Zhang, Zhe George; … - In: European Journal of Operational Research 216 (2012) 2, pp. 503-508

system has two types of failures. Type-I failure (minor failure) is removed by a general repair, whereas type-II failure …

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Introduction

Baizerman, Michael - In: Evaluation and Program Planning 35 (2012) 1, pp. 139-147

This introduction opens a field of exploration about evaluation, evaluation practice, and the evaluator in the context of violent contested spaces, violently divided societies, war, and violent civil strife and conflict. Discussed in the introduction are the philosophical, theoretical, political...

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The Work of Repair: Gesture, Emotion and Sensual Knowledge

Dant, Tim - In: Sociological Research Online 15 (2010) 3, pp. 7-7

paper contrasts the work of production with the work of repair and argues that the later is an artisanal process in tune … with the species being of humans identified by Marx. Amongst the distinctive characteristics of the work of repair are the … complex process of the work of repair that is explored in the light of theoretical perspectives from Leroi-Gourhan, Hendrick …

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Optimal repair–replacement policies for a system with two types of failures

Wang, Guan Jun; Zhang, Yuan Lin - In: European Journal of Operational Research 226 (2013) 3, pp. 500-506

replacement of the system at once. The repair of the system is not “as good as new”. The consecutive operating times of the system … after repair form a decreasing geometric process, while the repair times after failure are assumed to be independent and …

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A reliability system under different types of shock governed by a Markovian arrival process and maintenance policy K

Montoro-Cazorla, Delia; Pérez-Ocón, Rafael - In: European Journal of Operational Research 235 (2014) 3, pp. 636-642

be repairable or non-repairable. Repair times are governed by a phase-type distribution. The number of deteriorating …

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Study of damage and repair of blades of a 300kW wind turbine

Marín, J.C.; Barroso, A.; París, F.; Cañas, J. - In: Energy 33 (2008) 7, pp. 1068-1083

The inspection of damages detected in some blades of 300kW wind turbines revealed that the nature of these damages was probably due to a fatigue mechanism. The causes that had originated the failure (superficial cracks, geometric concentrator, abrupt change of thickness) have been studied,...

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