Types of Technologies

Distributed system. This characteristic mainly owes to the spatially distributed nature of supply chains. Supply chain partners are physically distributed around the world, and the design of the supply chain information system accounts for this problem. An additional important feature is the lack of centralization that complicates management of the supply chain information system. Eor instance, one supply chain partner generally is not able to use its system to enforce the security policy in the system owned by another partner. 

Use of public communication channels. Reconfigurable supply chain management information systems use public communication chaimels and the Internet, in particular, extensively. These communication channels offer a substantially higher degree of flexibility and lower costs while modem technologies can provide an adequate level of security. 

Different types of information systems are used in supply chain management. Information systems involved in supply chain configuration decision-making support and implementation can be classified as follows  

10 Infoimation Technology Support for Configuration Problem Solving 

The list of information systems does not include software packages used at the infrastructural level, such as server management systems and network routing 

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A hands-on experience with the method is possible via the SPINUS web service [48. This service uses a client-server model. The user can draw a molecular structure within the web browser workspace (the client), and send it to a server where the predictions are computed by neural networks. The results are then sent back to the user in a few seconds and visualised with the same web browser. Several operations and different types of technology arc involved in the system ... 

Lubricious Coatings for Biomaterials. Coatings of poly(ethylene oxide) when dry are tactile. If brought into contact with water, the poly(ethylene oxide) hydates rapidly and forms a lubricious coating. This type of technology is of great interest for biomedical devices introduced into the human body, such as catheters and endotracheal tubes, and for sutures (114—117). 

Examples of thiols prepared using this type of technology are 2-methyl-l-propanethiol, 1-butanethiol, and 2-butanethiol, in equations 3—5, respectively. 

Static sampling systems are defined as those that do not have an active air-moving component, such as the pump, to pull a sample to the collection medium. This type of sampling system has been used for over 100 years. Examples include the lead peroxide candle used to detect the presence of SO2 in the atmosphere and the dust-fall bucket and trays or slides coated with a viscous material used to detect particulate matter. This type of system suffers from inability to quantify the amount of pollutant present over a short period of time, i.e., less than 1 week. The potentially desirable characteristics of a static sampling system have led to further developments in this type of technology to provide quantitative information on pollutant concentrations over a fked period of time. Static sampling systems have been developed for use in the occupational environment and are also used to measure the exposure levels in the general community, e.g., radon gas in residences. 

This type of technology is a part of the group of air pollution controls collectively referred to as "wet scrubbers." Venturi scrubbers are also known as venturi jet scrubbers, gas-atomizing spray scrubbers, and ejector-venturi scrubbers. The technology is based on the removal of air pollutants by inertial and diffusional interception. 

This type of technology is a part of the group of air pollution controls collectively... 

Condensation scrubbing systems are a relatively new technology and are not yet generally commercially available. It may be argued that this is a pollution prevention type of technology since it replaces other approaches to controlling very fine PM, although the primary role is end-of-pipe treatment. 

Another type of technology that has influenced oil and gas exploration is the acquisition of 3-U surface seismic data. This technology produces so much information that modern interpreters have been forced to give up looking at paper sections and use computers just to view their data. The 3-U seismic surveys are very much like a solid section of the earth. An interpreter can sit at a workstation and literally slice through the data viewing the seismic picture of the earth in almost cvci y way possible. Some companies have assembled virtual reality rooms where the... 

Where is the dividing line between bulk and fine chemicals Here again there is no universally accepted definition. Nonetheless, a useful definition of a fine chemical is one with a price of more than 10 US dollars/kg and a volume of less than 10,000 tons per annum. The latter is rather a large volume for most fine chemicals, e.g. most pharmaceutical intermediates are produced in quantities of less than 100 tons per annum. In practice, the type of technology used is probably more dictated by volume than by product application. 

Types of Technologies for Treatment of Soil, Groundwater, and Drinking Water Contaminated with Oxygenates... 

Types of Technologies Used to Treat MTBE and Other Fuel Oxygenates... 

Extracted vapors and liquids are commonly treated aboveground. The types of technologies used for aboveground treatment are similar to those used for SVE and groundwater pump-and-treat, respectively, and they are discussed further under those technologies. More detailed information relevant to the application of MPE at sites in general or contaminated with MTBE and other oxygenates is available in Refs [47-49],... 

Therefore, after due consultation with the experts in the field and review of available C R systems, it is proposed to tackle the end-of-life FLs in two ways (1) deploy safe, fixed, and mobile lamp crushing systems to capture the mercury and reduce the waste volumes before transportation and (2) feed the crushed material and other components into a suitable recycling and recovery system to assure safe management. The review of available technologies has brought out two types of technologies that could be used in the proposed C R system ... 

This brief overview of some of the readily available PC-based information resources will, hopefully, encourage more widespread use of this type of technology. Toxicologists and pathologists, in particular, can avail themselves of these useful resources in a way that was simply not possible just a few years ago. The information one needs to make decisions is now far more accessible to many more of us for relatively reasonable expenditures of money for software and hardware. 

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