Excavators are quite expensive vehicles. therefore, there may be huge losses for decision makers if a wrong decision is made during the purchasing process. A good evaluation of excavator alternatives both reduces costs and ...

Quality function deployment (QFD) is one of the most powerful methodologies in new product development (NPD) because of its systematic support of knowledge creation and sharing. However, greater product complexity, increasing ...

This paper proposes a framework based on fuzzy probability for the prediction of innovation capability of an investment project. The prediction of innovation capability is a difficult task due to the fact that there exist ...

Atmospheric CO 2 has been dramatically increasing since beginning of the industrial time (i.e. 1860), being one of the main driver for climate change at regional and global level. The change in CO 2 concentration in the ...

The warming in the inner seas could not be more important and time is certainly running out for it. This study highlights important results about the detectable and predictable warming of the sea surface temperature (SST) ...

Identification of the net primary production capacity of European vegetated areas has been becoming the meaning since last decades. Responses of carbon uptake by autotrophs and storage in terrestrial ecosystems under ...

Facility layout in manufacturing and service systems affects the productivity and efficiency of the systems. Generally, more than one appropriate location is available based on associations among facilities. This leads to ...

The Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change aims not only at avoiding +2 degrees C warming (and even limit the temperature increase further to +1.5 degrees C), but also sets long-term ...

In recent years although the Industry 4.0 concept, which has been used in almost all stages, is still on the agenda, many lifting operations are still carried out manually. In terms of occupational health and safety, ...