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throughput of natural capital, the greater the possibility for sustainability of both the economic and natural systems. While … gains in energy efficiency, substitution, and technology have contributed to the gradual decoupling of throughput of natural … economic activity and the environment, and assesses the degree to which throughput has been (and can be) decoupled from …
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throughput and retention. Against these wider discourses on student throughput, this article focuses on specifically the repeater …
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In this paper, we present a bounding methodology that allows to compute a tight lower bound on the cycle time of fork--join queueing networks with blocking and with general service time distributions. The methodology relies on two ideas. First, probability masses fitting (PMF) discretizes the...
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We investigate how to allocate work in stochastic assembly systems so as to maximize throughput. We use Markov models …
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Utilizing a cyclic queue system, this paper investigates the effect of variance on a multi-item production facility. The variance of setup time, service rate and arrival rate is shown to have a powerful and sometimes paradoxical influence. Reduction in setup time, for example, is usually...
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This speech was delivered at the meeting of the International Society for Ecological Economics at Reykjiavik, Iceland on the 13th of August 2014 at the presentation of the 2014 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award. In the speech Peter Victor pays tribute to Kenneth Boulding, one of the pioneers of...
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There are compelling reasons to believe there is an unhealthy growth imperative inherent in private enterprise market systems that threatens the environment. Unfortunately, many who criticize a dysfunctional growth imperative fail to make a compelling case. This article argues that too often...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the applicability of lean accounting and throughput accounting in a … compares lean accounting and throughput accounting with the traditional accounting system the company is using today. The … contribute to further research on how to combine lean and throughput accounting for mixed manufacturing environments, involving …
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on throughput and work‐in‐process inventory of flow lines. This paper seeks to extend the basic dice game along the … experience is the understanding of the relationship between variability and throughput in an environment with dependent …
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