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- university of illinois at Chicago: Cooling, Heating, and Power Plant
- In the early 1990s, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) considered adding power generation to its central heating and cooling facility as a way to meet the increasing energy demands of a growing university. Based on total costs, CHP on the University of Illinois campus provided approximately $1,931,518 or...
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- Strategies for Energy Use on the Dairy Farm
- Monitoring energy cost and usage on the dairy farm often takes a back seat to the much other expenditure involved in producing milk. Usually it is feed, labor, and capital investment related costs that concern producers the most. This is understandable because these costs account for 75 to 80 percent...
- White papers
- Meeting the Illinois Dairy Industry Needs
- With near record milk prices in 1998 and low feed costs, Illinois dairy managers had a chance to catch up with solid management and financial planning. Dairy manager need to look back to see how their business has changed, look at 1998 to see how their business competed, and look...
- White papers
- Improving Poultry Production Through Regional Extension Education
- This article is on improving poultry production. Poultry extension education is important in today=s industry because it helps maintain visibility with clientele and provide current information. The poultry extension specialists at Purdue University, Michigan State University, The Ohio State University, University of Illinois, and University of Kentucky have formed the...
- White papers
- Trouble Shooting Troublesome Somatic Cell Counts
- There are three basic principles of mastitis control: eliminate existing infections, prevent new intra-mammary infections (IMI) and monitor infection status. Prevention practices including proper maintenance and use of milking equipment, and employment of proper milking procedure help prevent new IMI during the milking process. Maintaining a clean environment helps prevent...
- White papers
- Use of NEFA as a Tool to Monitor Energy Balance in Transition Dairy Cows
- During times of energy deficit, animals break down triglycerides (fat) stored in adipose tissue. The resultant none sterified fatty acids (NEFA) enter the blood stream to be transported to organs and tissues throughout the body. The concentration of NEFA measured in blood has been shown to reflect fat mobilized from...
- White papers
- "How To Buy, Sell, Make, Manage, Produce, Transact, Consume With Words"
- A classic paper in 1963 by the legal sociologist Stewart Macaulay studied firms that did business in Wisconsin. He confirmed what everyone in business knows, that business normally depends on a state of trust, not on explicit contracts to be enforced in courts. One large manufacturer of cardboard boxes looked...
- White papers 2007-09-18
- On The Exchange Of Information In Collaborative Product Development
- The publisher developed a dynamic programming (DP) model of the product development (PD) process. They conceptualize PD as a sequence of decisions: whether to incorporate a piece of information that just arrived (i.e. became available) or wait longer. This formulation utilized to derive optimal decision rules to determine whether (and...
- White papers 2007-01-18
- Bankruptcy And Firm Finance
- This paper analyzes how an enforcement mechanism that resembles a court affects firm finance. The court is described by two parameters that correspond to enforcement costs and the amount of creditor/ debtor protection. We provide a theoretical and quantitative characterization of the effect of these enforcement parameters on the contract...
- White papers 2006-09-21
- Trustworthy Supply Chains
- Supply chain management is the process of planning, implementing, and controlling the operations of a supply chain. It is the integration and management of supply chain organizations and activities through cooperative organizational relationships, effective business processes, and high levels of information sharing to create high-performing value systems that provide member...
- White papers 2006-05-05
- The Implications Of Product Architecture On The Firm
- Product architecture defines the functional requirements within a product system, maps these requirements to physical elements or subsystems, and describes the interaction between these physical elements. In spite of the diverse literature on the topic, it is clear that the implications on the firm have not been clearly outlined. In...
- White papers 2006-03-27
- Risk Aversion in Inventory Management
- Traditional inventory models focus on risk-neutral decision makers, i.e., characterizing replenishment strategies that maximize expected total profit, or equivalently, minimize expected total cost over a planning horizon. This paper proposes a framework for incorporating risk aversion in multi-period inventory models as well as multi-period models that coordinate inventory and pricing...
- White papers 2005-12-27
- Outsourcing Risk?: The Regulation Of Occupational Health And Safety Where Subcontractors Are Employed
- The subcontracting out of production tasks and services is not a new phenomenon, but from the late 1970s, and more especially over the last 15 years, the practice?now frequently referred to as outsourcing?has grown substantially across a range of industries in most industrialized countries.1 Recent surveys undertaken in the United...
- White papers 2005-10-24
- Design of Extended Warranties in Supply Chains
- Consider a supply chain involving an independent retailer and an independent manufacturer. The manufacturer produces a single product and sells it exclusively through the retailer. Using this supply chain framework, the authors develop a game theoretic model to study two commonly observed practices of selling extended warranties: the manufacturer offers...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Human Error and General Aviation Accidents: A Comprehensive, Fine-Grained Analysis Using HFACS
- The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) is a theoretically based tool for investigating and analyzing human error associated with accidents and incidents. Previous research performed at both at the University of Illinois and the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) have been highly successful and have shown that HFACS...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- e-Sourcing in Procurement: Theory and Behavior in Reverse Auctions With Non-Competitive Contracts
- One of the goals of procurement is to establish a competitive price while affording the buyer some flexibility in selecting the suppliers to deal with. Reverse auctions do not have this flexibility, because it is the auction rules and not the buyer that determine the winner. In practice, however, hybrid...
- White papers 2005-04-25
- Human Factors Implications of UAVs in the National Airspace
- Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are quickly becoming a part of the National Airspace System (NAS) as they transition from primarily military and hobbyist applications to mainstream flight applications such as security monitoring, satellite transport, and cargo hauling. Before the full potential of UAV flight in the NAS can be realized,...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Projecting Success: Effective Project Management in Academic Libraries
- Managing a major project in an academic library can be daunting in the best financial circumstances. Project management can assist libraries in achieving their projects on schedule and within budget. Best practices in project management are examined in the context of two major projects undertaken at the University of Illinois...
- White papers 2004-10-04
- Developing a Methodology to Study Crew Information Behavior in Aviation
- The purpose of the study presented in this paper was to assess whether concepts from Information Science could be used to develop and initially validate a framework to study the information behavior of flight crews in the civil aviation domain. Distributed use of information within groups remains a weak link...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Why Are Put Options so Expensive?
- This paper studies the "overpriced puts puzzle" - the finding that historical prices of the S&P 500 put options have been too high and incompatible with the canonical asset-pricing models. Simple trading strategies that involve selling at-the-money and out-of-the-money puts would have earned extraordinary profits. To investigate whether put returns...
- White papers 2004-08-26
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