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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Product safety"”.
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Unveiling the Impact of Supply Chain Complexity on Product Safety Risk
Purpose: <br>Product safety risks increased over the past decades and in multiple industries, with often very negative consequences for consumers and companies, including fatalities, injuries and bankruptcies of firms involved. The purpose of this research is to examine the root causes of product …
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Resonance and Elaboration: the Framing Effect of Chinese Product Safety Issue Coverage
<p>This study identifies five frames packages consistently employed by mainstream U.S. newspapers to report China-related issues, and tests the effects of framing via an experiment. For the first part, master themes are extracted via a meta-analysis of published research papers, while framing …
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Thermal Modeling of Vacuum Assisted Steam Pasteurization for Improved Product Safety of Low Water Activity Foods
… through the small gaps within a package of product and condense on the surfaces leading to efficient heat transfer. Through experimentation with a full bag (127 x 178 mm) of product it was found that the steam actually penetrated extremely slowly with unpredictable behavior. To improve the …
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Market forces and aircraft safety: a daily stock market return analysis
The relationship between market forces and product safety in the context of the commercial passenger air travel market was investigated. The analysis was based on a detailed review of the events surrounding three airline accidents, each resulting in a substantial number of fatalities, and the …
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Understanding Playground Behaviors And Injury Potential To Elementary Children
… equipment standards published by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The cost of increased insurance premiums and a moral obligation to protect children on a playground while at recess increase liability exposures for a school district. This study explored the behaviors exhibited by …
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The social construction of compatibility: setting voluntary safety standards for agricultural tractors
This dissertation concerns the ways engineers and safety specialists acting as part-time volunteers cooperate in the setting of voluntary industrywide product safety standards in the farm equipment industry. These cooperative efforts are based, I contend, on collective investment criteria shared by …
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Design of equipment safety & reliability for an aseptic liquid food packaging line through maintenance engineering
… the particular needs of food industry regarding product safety and equipment reliability. Numerous maintenance engineering researchers have focused on maintenance engineering and reliability techniques highlighting the contribution of maintenance in achieving world class manufacturing and …
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Optical characterization of emulsions and applications in the dairy industry
Milk and milk products are an integral part of diet for a major segment of human population. Safety and quality of the industry's products is therefore essential as it directly affects human health and wellbeing. The present thesis discusses work towards developing analytical technologies and …
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Design and prototype of a personal ascending device based on the principle of a capstan winch
… manufacturing a low cost consumer version of the product. Safety, functionality, and cost drove the design process. The ascender was designed and built around the motor and gearbox from a Dewalt 36v hammerdrill. Individual components were machined in undergraduate machine shops on the MIT campus …
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Online Review Analytics: New Methods for discovering Key Product Quality and Service Concerns
… intends to discover as well as categorize safety concern reports in online reviews by using key terms prevalent in sub-categories of safety concerns. This dissertation extends the literature of semi-automatic text classification methodology in monitoring and classifying product quality and …
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QUALITY AND TRACEABILITY OF TYPICAL MEDITERRANEAN FRUITS
… and includes sensory properties, shelf-life, product safety and functional properties. The systems for the traceability of food products along specified stages of production, processing and distribution play a key role in assuring safety, quality and origin of food and are typically based on a …
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Modified atmosphere packaging of hard grated cheeses
… included mold and yeast enumerations. Secondly, product quality and shelf stability were determined biweekly by sensory, microbial, and instrumental analysis to evaluate product safety and changes in the natural aromas and flavors of hard grated cheeses. Instrument color analysis CIE L* a* b* …
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Self-deception and moral blindness in the modern corporation
… accusations of wrongdoing in connection with product safety. This inquiry demonstrates that self-deception can and does happen, and that the corporate milieu provides conditions where it may flourish, particularly when individuals or groups are motivated to avoid or deny the moral consequences …
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Escaping an institutional poverty trap : learning behavior as a collective action problem in Brazil's pharmaceutical industry
… in resources and capabilities persist within productive sectors, even in developing countries that have managed to sustain handfuls of well-performing firms in modern sectors? The conventional knowledge about this persistence suggests that in the long run, historical institutions are the …
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The role of finance and intangibles in the financialised pharmaceutical sector
… issues ranging from monopolisation to pricing, product safety, and more. The nature and institutional context of the contemporary pharmaceutical sector affords shareholders major pay-outs, sowing resentment among the public who are forced to pay its rents even in the face of apparently slowed …
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UTILIZING THE THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR TO UNDERSTAND CONSUMERISM: THE USE OF TWITTER FOR CONSUMERISM BETWEEN SAUDI AND AMERICAN CONSUMERS
… had great success in helping customers get safer products (car seat belts), more information (product labels), and better market regulation (the Consumer Product Safety Act). Consumer interests in developed countries are represented by several sets of organizations with different concerns. These …
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Fate of Foodborne Pathogens During Osmotic Dehydration and Subsequent Storage of Apples
… survival of pathogens, and therefore, improve product safety, include increasing temperature and time of processing and increasing concentration of CaCl₂. However, E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella in artificially contaminated apple slices, survived osmotic dehydration processing and subsequent …
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Potential Ignition Sources from Residential Electric Cooktops
… and increased volume of vaporization/pyrolysis products. The high setting for all three cooktop types showed the maximum potential for ignition based on the total heat output produced by the 6-inch diameter and 8-inch diameter heating elements. No fuels ignited at the high setting for the …
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Use of oxygen sensors for the non destructive measurement of oxygen in packaged food and beverage products and its impact on product quality and shelf life
… of O2 present in packs can negatively affect product quality and subsequently, product shelf-life, especially for O2-sensitive foods/beverages. Therefore, the ability of O2 sensors to continuously monitor O2 levels present within food/beverage packages was considered commercially relevant in …
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Green manufacturing in the medical device industry : a case study
… green chemistry as: "...the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances. Green chemistry applies across the life cycle, including the design, manufacture, and use of a chemical product." ' Green chemistry is essentially a …
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