Maritime green supply chain management: its light and shadow on the bottom line dimensions of sustainable business performance by Fernando, Yudi, Muhamad Fairuz, Ahmad Jasmi, Muhammad Shabir, Shaharudin

“…The findings confirmed that MGSCM practices indirectly facilitate sustainable economic, environmental, operational and social performance for these businesses. …”
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Investigating the catalytic properties of hydroxyapatite derived from mussel shells for the treatment of wastewater by Jun Haslinda, Haji Shariffuddin

“…The possibility of producing a useful product from this shell wastes will greatly enhance and ensure sustainable economic development as well as the associated waste management problems. …”
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Development of a hovercraft prototype with an aluminium hull base by A. K., Amiruddin, S. M., Sapuan, A. A., Jaafar

“…A study was undertaken to construct an economical and robust hovercraft by using the aluminium Al 6061-T6 (marine). …”
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A novel ump demulsifier, nd-20-02 assistedmicrowave technology for separation of crude oil emulsions by Nour, Abdurahman Hamid, Rosli, Mohd Yunus, Nour, Azhary Hamid, Abdelrahman, Ali Hassan, Omer, Manal Suliman, Rushdi, Gaafar

“…Traditional ways of breaking emulsion using heat and chemicals are disadvantageous from economic and environmental perspectives. In this invention, the potentials of UMP formulated demulsifier assisted-microwave in demulsification of water-in-crude oil emulsions are investigated. …”
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Lean management in quality improvement of cutting and hot forming process for window tint by Azizol Heirey, Bahari, Zamzuri, Hamedon

“…It was also discovered that the upgrades initiative directly benefits others, including economic benefits. The application of this powerful tool has not only reduced the rate of defects, but also in the areas of product development, customer retention analysis, cycle time optimization, productivity improvement and market share.…”
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A review on the bolted flange looseness detection method by Mohd Padzly, Radzi, Mohd Hafizi, Zohari

“…The implications of this problem are not only focused on the system itself but the surrounding circumstances and coupled with the enormous economic losses associated with such failures. The use of bolts in flange structure itself can cause significant deficiencies or damage, e.g. self-looseness. …”
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Biosurfactant production by utilizing waste products of the food industry by Alara, Oluwaseun Ruth, Abdurahman, Nour Hamid, Ali, Hassan Alsaggaf

“…The interest in the use of biosurfactants has continued to improve over the years because of their environmentally friendly nature, diversity, the alternative of production through fermentation, and potential usages in food processing, healthcare, crude oil recovery, and environmental protection that includes bioremediations of a site contaminated with heavy metals and polychlorinated biphenyls. Nevertheless, the economic viability of biosurfactants with their counterparts (synthetic surfactants) requires adequate processing during production. …”
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Organizational Innovativeness Among SMEs in Malaysia Halal Industry by Mazita, Mokhtar, Noor Azlinna, Azizan, Ida Rizyani, Tahir, Shariman, Mustafa

“…Achievement in today’s dynamic business environment requires innovation as it is said to be one of the most important factors in economic competition. It is also been considered as a fundamental organizational competency to sustain in the long run as suggested by Khalifa, Yu, & Shen (2007). …”
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Description and Evaluation of the MIT Earth System Model (MESM) by Kicklighter, David, Forest, Chris, Libardoni, Alex, Sokolov, Andrei P, Schlosser, Courtney Adam, Wang, Chien, Monier, Erwan, Brown-Steiner, Benjamin E, Prinn, Ronald G, Gao, Xiang, Eastham, Sebastian David

“…The IGSM consists of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Earth System Model (MESM) of intermediate complexity and the Economic Projections and Policy Analysis model. This paper documents the current version of the MESM, which includes a two-dimensional (zonally averaged) atmospheric model with interactive chemistry coupled to the zonally averaged version of Global Land System model and an anomaly-diffusing ocean model.…”
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An Exit Strategy from the Covid-19 Lockdown based on Risk-sensitive Resource Allocation by Shalev-Shwartz, Shai, Shashua, Amnon

“…We argue that risk-sensitive resource allocation combined with risk-sensitive levels of social distancing enables to lower the overall mortality toll in parallel to resumption of economic activity.…”
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Left Behind: Creative Destruction, Inequality, and the Stock Market by Kogan, Leonid, Papanikolaou, Dimitris, Stoffman, Noah

“…Financial market participants do not capture all economic gains from innovation even when they own shares in innovating firms. …”
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Toward Equitable Participatory Design: Data Feminism for CSCW amidst Multiple Pandemics by D'Ignazio, Catherine, Graeff, Erhardt, Harrington, Christina N, Rosner, Daniela K

“…CSCW, like many other academic communities, is reckoning with its roles, responsibilities, and practices amidst 2020's multiple pandemics of COVID-19, anti-Black racism, and a global economic crisis. Reviewing our work with data and communities demands we address harms from overexposure caused by surveillance or algorithmic bias and from underexposure caused by design that is insufficiently participatory and equitable. …”
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Toward Equitable Participatory Design: Data Feminism for CSCW amidst Multiple Pandemics by D'Ignazio, Catherine, Graeff, Erhardt, Harrington, Christina N, Rosner, Daniela K

“…CSCW, like many other academic communities, is reckoning with its roles, responsibilities, and practices amidst 2020's multiple pandemics of COVID-19, anti-Black racism, and a global economic crisis. Reviewing our work with data and communities demands we address harms from overexposure caused by surveillance or algorithmic bias and from underexposure caused by design that is insufficiently participatory and equitable. …”
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OPEC: Calming a nervous world oil market by Choucri, Nazli

“…The consuming nations regarded the price increases with horror—as an audacious and unwarranted economic humiliation. Since then, the oil-exporting countries have increased the market price of crude ten times, reaching $28 per barrel, and almost everyone agrees that there remains a wide margin for further price increases to producers, consumers, and international oil companies. …”
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17.32 Environmental Politics and Policy, Spring 2003 by Meyer, Steve

“…Why do political factors - economic interests, social and political values, bureaucratic styles, ideologies, elections, etc. - always seem to overwhelm sound scientific and engineering judgment in determining policy outcomes? …”
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Sunk costs and sunk benefits in environmental policy : I. basic theory by Pindyck, Robert S.

“…This paper shows how "economic" uncertainty (i.e., uncertainty over future costs and benefits of reduced environmental degradation) and "ecological" uncertainty (i.e., uncertainty over the evolution of an ecosystem) interact with two kinds of irreversibilities-- sunk costs associated with an environmental regulation, and "sunk benefits" of avoided environmental degradation-- to affect optimal policy timing and design.…”
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The Climate Policy Dilemma by Pindyck, Robert S.

“…Climate policy poses a dilemma for environmental economists. The economic argument for stringent GHG abatement is far from clear. …”
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Congestion pricing using a raffle-based scheme by Amin, Saurabh, Loiseau, Patrick, Schwartz, Galina, Musacchio, John, Sastry, S. Shankar

“…Our scheme builds on ideas from the economic literature on incentivizing contributions to a public good. …”
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Autonomous personal vehicle for the first- and last-mile transportation services by Chong, Z. J., Qin, B., Wongpiromsarn, T., Rankin, E. S., Ang, M. H., Hsu, D., Low, Kian Hsiang, Frazzoli, Emilio, Rus, Daniela L., Bandyopadhyay, Tirthankar

“…To ensure that the system is economically feasible, we take a minimalistic approach and exploit prior knowledge of the environment and the availability of the existing infrastructure such as cellular networks and traffic cameras. …”
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Urban characteristics attributable to density-driven tie formation by Pan, Wei, Ghoshal, Gourab, Cebrian, Manuel, Pentland, Alex Paul, Krumme, Katherine Ann

“…Here we demonstrate that our model provides a robust and accurate fit for the dependency of city characteristics with city-size, ranging from individual-level dyadic interactions (number of acquaintances, volume of communication) to population level variables (contagious disease rates, patenting activity, economic productivity and crime) without the need to appeal to heterogeneity, modularity, specialization or hierarchy.…”
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