Tremendous Increase In Production Research Articles

The Impact of Plant-Based Non-Dairy Alternative Milk on the Dairy Industry.

Vegetarians have claimed and actively promoted the advantages of plant-based alternative milks as the best option for human nutrition and health, compared to the natural dairy milk. However, numerous scientific evidences and reports have demonstrated that the natural milk possesses more beneficial nutrients and bioactive components than artificially manufactured plant-derived milks. The biochemical and nutritional advantages and functionalities of natural dairy milk cannot be replaced by man-made or crafted plant-based beverage products. On the other hand, the tremendous increase in production and consumption of the plant-based alternative milks in recent years has led a serious business downturn in traditional roles and stability of the dairy industry, especially in the major dairy producing Western countries. Although plant-based milk alternatives may have some benefits on nutrition and health of certain consumers, the plant-derived alternative milks may not overshadow the true values of natural milk. Milk is not a high fat and high cholesterol food as animal meat products. Unlike plant-based alternative milks, natural milk contains many bioactive as well as antiappetizing peptides, which can reduce body weight. It has proven that taking low-fat, cultured and lactase treated milk and dairy products with other diversified nutritionally balanced diets have been shown to be healthier dietary option than plant-based milk/foods alone.

Efficiency and productivity of health insurance business of public and private general insurance companies in India: a DEA approach

The objective of the present paper was to examine the efficiency and productivity of health insurance business of public and private general insurance companies in India. The analysis was made with the help of data envelopment analysis and Malmquist productivity index. It was observed that mean of technical efficiency of the public sector companies was higher than of private sector companies. The total factor productivity change had decreased for all public general insurance companies from 2006-2007 to 2013-2014. While, private general insurance companies had shown tremendous increase in productivity from 2006-2007 to 2013-2014. This could be due to the fact that private companies had taken the advantage of technological change, efficiency change, pure technical efficiency change and scale efficiency change. Therefore, public general insurance companies should expand their activities and outreach in the competitive environment.

How to minimize cycle times of robot manufacturing systems

The employment of industrial robot systems especially in the automotive industry noticeably changed the view of production plants and led to a tremendous increase in productivity. Nonetheless, rising technological complexity, the parallelization of production processes, as well as the crucial need for respecting specific safety issues pose new challenges for man and machine. Our goal is to develop algorithms, guidelines, and tools that make the commissioning of industrial robot systems more reliable by verifying the programs of robots and logical controllers. This in particular includes optimizing the schedule of the robot systems in order to ensure desired period times as well as conflict-free timetables already in the planning stage. The applicability of the Periodic Event Scheduling Problem proposed by Serafini and Ukovich (SIAM J Discrete Math 2(4):550–581, 1989) is investigated to tackle this cycle time minimization task, and we establish a variant of the classical formulation in order to cover the special characteristics of our scenario. We want to demonstrate how this key element forms a part of a range of developed software tools that support engineers and programmers throughout the commissioning of real-world robot production systems.

Efficiency and productivity of health insurance business of public and private general insurance companies in India: A DEA approach

The objective of the present paper was to examine the efficiency and productivity of health insurance business of public and private general insurance companies in India. The analysis was made with the help of data envelopment analysis and Malmquist productivity index. It was observed that mean of technical efficiency of the public sector companies was higher than of private sector companies. The total factor productivity change had decreased for all public general insurance companies from 2006-2007 to 2013-2014. While, private general insurance companies had shown tremendous increase in productivity from 2006-2007 to 2013-2014. This could be due to the fact that private companies had taken the advantage of technological change, efficiency change, pure technical efficiency change and scale efficiency change. Therefore, public general insurance companies should expand their activities and outreach in the competitive environment.

Research on the FunctResearch on the Function of Science and Technology Culture in the Construction of Ecological Civilizationion of Science and Technology Culture in the Construction of Ecological Civilization

Looking at the history of the development of human civilization, each time the progress and leap of civilization are based on the advancement of science and technology culture and the tremendous increase in productivity. As a civilization which is more advanced than industrial civilization, the construction and development of ecological civilization are based on the advancement of science and technology culture, and depends on the important functional support of science and technology culture. The article made an in-depth study of the important epistemological functions, methodological functions, and productivity functions that science and technology culture played in the construction of ecological civilization. It aims to solve the serious ecological crisis that China is now facing, to realize sustainable development and build a Beautiful New China.

Physiological and biochemical basis of fruit development and ripening-a review

Fruits and vegetables are the natural source of vitamins, minerals and nutrients that play an important role in the human diet. Despite of tremendous increase in production and productivity, their per-capita availability for world population is a great challenge ahead due to constant postharvest losses occurring in perishable horticultural produce. These postharvest losses especially in terms of quality and nutritional composition could be controlled to a greater extent with better knowledge regarding their postharvest physiology. The ultimate physiological condition of the fresh produce determines their fitness for end use, including storability and acceptability for primary or secondary processing. Hence, it is indispensable to understand the physiological responses of perishable commodities to the storage conditions in direct relation to the intended end use. Physical, physiological and biochemical changes occurring during fruit ripening seem to modify their internal quality in terms of firmness, colour, starch content, organic acids and flavouring compounds. Thus, the knowledge on physiological profile of perishable fruits and vegetables could act as a powerful tool for their optimized commercial utilization.

Oil, Hard Power and U.S. Hegemony

In late 2014 and early 2015, the United States dramatically increased its presence in the oil market. This tremendous increase in production, which placed the United States ahead of every OPEC country besides Saudi Arabia, caused a global change in supply and demand that dropped the price of crude oil to $58 per barrel. This translated to an average gasoline price of $2.55 per gallon nationally on Dec. 15, 2014. The price drop reverberated throughout the global economy, affecting countries from Malaysia to Norway. In Venezuela, for example, it is estimated that a one dollar drop in the price of oil will cost the country approximately $770 million in annual revenue. The United States’ decision to act influenced the entire world, and this is no surprise – economic control is just one of the many facets of hard power and hegemony.

Income and Consumption Pattern of Punjab Cultivators

The threat to food security arises from purchasing power of the population groups. Mere availability of food does not guarantee nutritional security to all. Punjab has witnessed tremendous increase in production and productivity of cereal crops in the wake of adoption of new technology. It was found maximum on mechanized farms and least in case of non-mechanized farms. However, net returns were found to be positive in all the three categories under study, though in case of bullock operated farms, maximum proportion of total income was accruing to non-farm sources. Food has emerged as the main component of domestic expenditure in all the three categories, though its proportion decreased at higher level of mechanization. Within food segment, milk and milk products, wheat and sugar have shown a higher share in total food expenditure. The value of food items furnished by the farm itself was found to be higher on semi-mechanized farms and mechanized farms as compared to non-mechanized farms. In case of wheat consumption, the main staple diet of Punjab, 91 per cent was self produced in all the categories. The nutritional status of selected cultivators when compared with Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) depicted a similar pattern across the categories with a bias towards high energy food items like cereals, milk and fats, but was deficit in porteinous and protective food materials like fish, meat, eggs etc.

Is unconditional basic income a viable alternative to other social welfare measures?

Automation and globalization have brought about a tremendous increase in productivity, but also accelerated job destruction, systemic risks, and greater income inequality. Current social policies may not be adequate for achieving the goals of redistributing the gains from automation and globalization, providing efficient buffers against economic shocks, and advancing the reallocation of jobs and skills. Under certain circumstances, an unconditional basic income might be a better alternative for achieving those goals. It is simple, transparent, and has low administrative costs, though it may require higher taxes.

Productivity and quality improvements, revenue increment, and rejection cost reduction in the manual component insertion lines through the application of ergonomics

The study is aimed at improving productivity and quality, increasing revenue and reducing rejection cost of the manual component insertion (MCI) lines in a printed circuit assembly (PCA) factory. Subjective assessment (through questionnaire), direct observation method, and archival data were used. Live experiments were conducted on production lines. Eleven problems were identified, i.e., long search for materials from the stores, unproductive manual component counting, obstructions during insertions, component fall-off while the PCA board was traveling on a U-shaped conveyor, etc. Interventions were made to rectify the problems, i.e., to have only one central store to eliminate confusion of the materials’ whereabouts, use weighing scale for component counting, modify the MCI sequence and the bin arrangements to avoid obstructions, and use straight conveyor to reduce handling. As a result, there was a tremendous increase in productivity and yearly revenue (US$4,223,736) and a huge reduction in defects and yearly rejection costs (US$956,136). Relevance to industry The ergonomics methods and interventions in this study can be replicated to solve similar problems in the MCI lines of electronic industry. They can be used in other industries that perform MCI of small parts. The results have revealed the effectiveness of ergonomics applied to MCI process.

II. 3. Cereals, pulses and oilseeds

In this chapter the term 'cereals' is used to describe all starchy vegetable seeds, regardless of their botanical family. Therefore wheat, barley, oats and rye belong to this group as well as maize, rice, sorghum and some others. Also, the word grain is sometimes used here to indicate this group of feedstuffs. Cereals, pulses and oilseeds contribute approximately 30% of the total energy supplied to farm animals in Europe with a predominant share coming from cereals. There is considerable variation, in this respect, between different countries owing to the structure of animal husbandry, production conditions and levels of production. The proportion of cereals is usually between 60 and 85% of the energy in rations for poultry, 40-85% for pigs, 10-40% for dairy cattle and 5-25% for sheep. In some countries a significant quantity of cereals is replaced by other feeds which have a high energy concentration in the dry matter such as maize-gluten feed, cassava, potatoes, sugar beet and other roots, and the proportion of grain is lower than mentioned above. These replacers of cereals can be used in the fresh or dried form. Inclusion in compound feeds is possible only after drying. In The Netherlands, the replacement of cereals with cassava and maize-gluten feed has been extensive in compound feeds for dairy cattle and pigs. The replacement of grain is limited by the production of those replacers, by the high cost of dehydration and other factors. In spite of the possibilities for replacement, grain is the main concentrate and has a key position in animal husbandry. It determines, to a large extent, the level of production and as a consequence determines the efficiency of animal production. In livestock husbandry, recently, a tremendous increase in productivity, growth in specialization, mechanization and rapid increase of size of production units, have increased the need for grain. In this way, animal production in much of Europe is becoming more dependent on grain. This is because of the unique characteristics of grain as a high-energy, highly-palatable feed.

Recent advances in the fish by‐products industry

In recent years the fish by‐products industry has grown more rapidly than any other segment of the world's fisheries. Production of fish meal, the primary product of the industry and an important feed ingredient, rose from 1,525,000 metric tons in 1958 to 5,080,000 metric tons in 1968. This tremendous increase in production was the result of improved fishing methods, expansion of established fisheries, and the development of new fisheries, particularly the anchoveta fishery of Chile and Peru. Although markets for fish meal were severely disrupted during the early part of the expansion, they subsequently exhibited a high order inelasticity and provide the basis for profitable operations.

Industrial utilization of seed oils

Within the past 25 years, the United States has evolved from a nation importing fats and oils to the status of major supplier of these products in the world markets. A principal contribution to this reversal has been the soybean crop, which totaled only 46 million bushels in 1937, whereas it was 693 million bushels in 1961. Another contributing factor has been the rapid expansion of our livestock industry. With this tremendous increase in production has come the realization that new and improved industrial uses must be found for these farm products in order to absorb excess productive capacity. Thus, in 1961, the per capita consumption of fats