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Of these, the largest mass flow is constituted by HDDs. More than 200 companies have manufactured HDDs over time. But over the years, flie production has today become concentrated into just three manufacturers Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba. The amount of HDDs shipped annually since 1976 is shown in Fig. 7.3, with currently some 600 million manufactured annually (Walton and Williams 2011 Binnemans et al. 2013). 

The supply chain failures grab headlines. Success in the supply chain happens slowly over many years, but when a leader stumbles the impact on the balance sheet is pervasive. Much of the public understanding of supply chain management comes from reading about the failures. When companies with names like Apple, Boeing, Cisco Systems, Coca-Cola, CoirAgra, Hershey, Johnson Johnson, Ericsson, Mattel, Nestle, Nike, PepsiCo, Sainsbury s, and Western Digital make headline news due to supply chain failure, it is hard to not pay attention. Each time these premier brands stumbled, failed, and learned new lessons, the bar on supply chain excellence was raised. 

Western Digital s quarterly earnings report armounced that the company had experienced " 199 million in charges and expenses relating to flooding in Thailand."... 

This work has been partially supported by NSF grant MIP-8922851, SRC grant 90-DJ-146, State of California MICRO grants 90-046 and 90-047, and donations from Rockwell International, Texas Instruments, TRW, Western Digital, Silicon Systems, Inc., S-MOS, Inc., Vantage, and Mentor Graphics Silicon Syterns Division. The author is grateful for their support. 

Smith, A. (1991). Symbol Digit Modalities Test. Los Angeles Western Psychological Services. 

Digital ice charts from 1956-2005 covering the western Baltic Sea. 

As far as concrete law is concerned, this section only deals with the example of the Federal Republic of Germany. To my knowledge, the principles are very similar in other countries, at least in Western Europe and the Anglo-Saxon countries (see, e.g., [ABEP90]). In parts of the USA, digital signatures have recently been given... 

TPD data acquisition for both temperature and pressure was accomplished using an IBM-XT PC. The acquisition software was written in ASYST by W. Clark and modified by G. Chottiner in the Physics Department of Case Western Reserve University. Pressure data was digitized by the mass spectrometer, but the continuous voltage signal from the thermocouple was converted into discrete numbers and fed to the computer by a Keithley 570 A/D converter. The pressure data could be plotted as a function of time or... 

Mobile technology has become ubiquitous, at least in the Western developed countries. Smartphones have extensive computing and memory capabilities and they became a personal assistant and companion. People use them not only for communication, text, or voice, but also as digital agendas, watches, and alarm clocks. They are widely used to track activities and health parameters, and their use for sleep became a natural outcome. 

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