Proposed Framework

This chapter reviews the research design methodologies and explains how to build theory from case study research. Based on this revision, it is presented the research method used for developing the DDSC framework, and finally, presents the required steps of the Demand IMven Supply Chain assessment framework. 

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Poolton, J. and Barclay, I. 1996 Concurrent Engineering Assessment a proposed framework. Proc. Instn Mech. Engrs, Part B, 210(B4), 321-328. 

Emmanuel E, Perrodin Y, Keck G, Blanchard JM, Vermande P (2005) Ecotoxicological risk assessment of hospital wastewater a proposed framework for raw effluents discharging into urban sewer network. J Hazard Mater Al 17 1-11... 

The principles of waste classification presented in this Report do not address a framework for subclassification of hazardous wastes. However, the relationship of existing subclassifications to the proposed framework is discussed. 

The proposed framework for risk-based classification of all radioactive and hazardous chemical wastes developed in Section 6.2.2 represents waste classification in its broadest, most general terms. Thus, this classification system can be viewed as the highest level of a possible hierarchy of hazardous waste classifications (e.g., see Figure 4.2). Further subclassification of these broadly defined waste classes may be desirable for such purposes as protection of workers during waste operations, protection of public health and the environment following waste disposal, and development of efficient methods of waste management taking into account the characteristics of actual wastes. 

The interactions between units do, however, become significant over long periods of time processes with recycle exhibit a slow, core dynamic component that must be addressed in any effective process-wide control strategy. This chapter presented an approach for systematically exploiting this two-time-scale behavior in a well-coordinated hierarchical controller design. The proposed framework relies on the use of simple distributed controllers to address unit-level control objectives in the fast time scale and a multivariable supervisory controller to accomplish process-wide control objectives over an extended time horizon. 

Greaves et al. (2003) proposed a framework to optimise the operation of MVC columns with substantial reduction of the computational power needed to carry out the optimisation calculations. The framework relies on the use of NN based process model. The optimisation of a pilot-plant middle-vessel batch column (MVC) was considered to test the viability of the proposed framework. The maximum product problem was considered and solved by optimising the column operating parameters, such as the reflux and reboil ratios and the batch time. The NN based model is found to be capable of reproducing the actual plant dynamics with good accuracy, and that the proposed framework allows a large number of optimisation studies to be carried out with little computational effort. 

Unless a standard is actually implemented, its development would remain a purely academic exercise. The final step in the proposed framework deals with implementation of standards. However, different types of standards have very different implementation requirements, ranging from comprehensive sampling and compliance assessment schemes within some sort of legal regime to the agreement of text for a warning label. 

The case studies also illustrated problems in near miss management systems with reference to the proposed framework (see Chapter 4) ... 

Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR) (1997). Integrating the Nation s Environmental Monitoring and Research Networks and Programs A Proposed Framework. Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC. 

Anionic frameworks have been proposed for chabazite. gmelinite 5 and erionite. In this paper we suggest an anionic framework for levynite, and compare, on the basis of the proposed frameworks, the ease and degree of anisotropy of molecule diffusion, and the possible molecular sieve behaviour, for the four zeolites. It has already been shown that diverse intracrystalline channel systems can arise in structures such as analcite, nosean-sodaUte minerals, cancrinite, faujasite, and Linde Sieve A.9> 10... 

The proposed framework for SC risk management is illustrated in Figure 1 and... 

This introductory section describes the purpose, scope, and intended audience for this report discusses the definition and application of ecological risk assessment outlines the basic elements of the proposed framework and describes the organization of this report. 

Cairns Jr., J., McCormick, P.V. and Niederlehner, B.R. (1993) A proposed framework for developing indicators of ecosystem health. Hydrobiologia 263, 1-44. 

PROPOSED FRAMEWORK FOR EXPLORING MOBILE PHASE SOLVENT POWER AND SELECTIVITY... 

Srirola J.D., Hauan S. and Westerberg A.W. 2003. Toward agent-based process systems engineering proposed framework and apphcation to non-convex optimization. Comp. Chem. Eng, 27, 1801-1811. 

As mentioned above, Cho and Wysk (1993) utilized the multilayer perceptron to take the place of the knowledge-based system in selecting candidate scheduling rules. In their proposed framework, the neural network will output a goodness index for each rule based on the system attributes and a performance measure. Sim et al. (1994) used an expert neural network for the job shop scheduling problem. In their approach, an expert system will activate one of 16 subnetworks based on whether the attribute corresponding to the node (scheduling rules, arrival rate factor, and criterion) is applicable to the job under consideration. Then the job with the smallest output value wiU be selected to process. 

Example 9 (Conceptual model of a chemical supply chain). To illustrate the proposed framework, in this example an exemplary chemical SC basically consisting of a core part of two chemical production sites is described. The example is inspired by the production network of Dow Chemical in Europe. The underlying real-world processes are not described in detail here. Instead, the resulting conceptual model after analysing the real world system is presented. All assumptions and models used are described in the following. Figure f.8 visualizes the production network. 

Our approach is based on a natural way to negotiate in the real world. The proposed framework consists of two types of individuals the mediator and the players. All players and the mediator specify the issues they need to negotiate before the negotiation process starts. Each player keeps his own private information and he does not know his opponents private information. Each player reports his partial CP-nets to the mediator. They do not directly come to know their opponents preferences at any stage. In addition, each player defines... 

Carey M. HSE Books 2001. Proposed Framework for Addressing Human Factors in lEC 61508.VECTRA... 

The proposed framework for formal vulnerability assessment [FVA] for maritime supply chains is presented below. In short, this is an expansion of the Formal Safety Assessment [FSA] methodology described by IMO for maritime applications (IMO 2002). FSA is a structured and systematic, tested and provenmethod-ology for enhancing safety, including protection of life, health, the marine environment and property, latest used for risk based design of vessels (SAFEDOR 2009). 

A key factor in the proposed framework is the model which allows for quantification of disruption scenarios, allowing them to be assessed in a costiefficiency consideration. The development of this model is still in a preparatory phase. As illustrated in the FVA... 

Along the paper traditional procedures to evaluate risk are revisited before presenting the proposed framework. This framework was applied in a realistic decision problem regarding the implementation of safety improvements to units that already reached acceptable risk levels. 

Considering the NORSOK Standard Z-013 model for risk estimation, analysis and evaluation this proposed framework can be used as a framework to deal further risk reducing measures after achieving the acceptable risk levels and there still safety improvements that can be implemented. And also held decisions about which risk reduction measures should be implemented, the priority of each action, the risk involved in different parts of the process. 

Figure 3 presents the stmcmre of the proposed framework and its steps. It starts with a Decision Situation that represents identification or the appearance of decision problem to be outlined. The step ahead is to define the kind of problematic (ROY, 1996 BELTON STEWART, 2002) that addresses the problem itself. 

The proposed framework will be illustrated by a case study using realistic data in a situation where all the acceptable risk limits has been achieved but there stiU some safety improvements that could be done, and the decision problem is to implement or not these... 

Current approaches to model risk in healthcare that have been borrowed from engineering domain and industry, have not proven to be effective and insight-fid, for a niunber of specific reasons. Unlike industry, in healthcare, there is much more variability in the procedures. Traditional PRA methods assinne a linear chain of independent events that lead to an accident or an unsafe condition, which by far is not the case in healthcare. Much of what happens in healthcare is subject to feedbacks. A hybrid approach to modeling risk in healthcare settings, as a combination of two modeling formalisms (system dynamics and Bayesian belief networks), has been proposed. We beheve that the proposed framework overcomes the deficiencies of conventional engineering risk analysis methods by its capability to explicitly model the feedback loops, time delays and the nonlinearities that exist in a complex healthcare setting. 

A maritime security management framework, based on the above FuRBaR assessment method, can be developed downwards and upwards to model risk observation attributes and security control criteria, respectively. The proposed framework may consist of some major components listed below, which outline the necessary steps required for security management. 

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