Management overview class

This chapter provides an overview of the status of POPs contamination in developing countries. It discusses the important classes of POPs in developing countries, including their current and past sources, environmental distribution and temporal trends, and examines the problems faced by developing countries with the effective management of POPs. 

DRP stands for distribution resource planning, a class of commercial software tools that are widely used in industry for managing a firm s production/inventory/distribution systems. When demand is nonstationary, the dynamics of inventory are best captured by a set of recursive equations, which are closely related to the logic built into DRP software. Hence, we present next an overview of DRP, or more precisely, a formal abstraction of standard DRP procedures, the latter being widely available in professional references (e.g., Martin 1990 and Stenger 1994). 

Table 17.5 gives an overview on the classes of agricultural SBI fungicides as defined in the FRAG classification. As described in Chapter 12 of this book [19], the major purpose of this classification is to facilitate resistance management on the farmer level. The table demonstrates well the need to come to a simple and... 

To address the quality management and safety related to bioresorbable polymers, we begin by listing the main classes of these polymers [1] and then provide an overview of their principal uses ... 

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