有色金属矿山工程技术项目尾款催收管理研究

依托实践经验和教训，从业务角度分析研究有色金属矿山工程技术项目尾款拖欠的形成机理和催收要点，全寿命周期探讨该类经营管理问题的解决途径，结合业务、财务、法务专业知识，提出一系列有深度可借鉴的见解及措施,如：1）催收工作要注意客户性质、客户经营情况、客户人员变化、项目完成瑕疵、乙方管理特征等具体情况采用不同的催收沟通办法；2）建议利用奖惩激励、诉前保全、信用保险、商业保理等工具达到催收或出表目的；3）提醒进行财产损失处理来结束确认不能回收项目的内部管理流程；4）提议利用履约担保、质量担保、客户分级管理等措施来控制回款风险。     

制药企业在2010版药品GMP实施过程中召回管理现状与常见问题分析

总结制药企业在2010版药品GMP实施过程中召回管理的现状,并分析存在问题,包括对产品召回持消极态度,召回管理方面培训不到位,操作规程缺乏可操作性,有效性评估不足等。建议制药企业必须重视产品召回的管理,严格按照2010版药品GMP的要求积极建立召回系统。     

Joint optimisation of tracking capability and price in a supply chain with endogenous pricing

Tracking systems have been widely used to resolve the issues of product recall and food safety. Thus far, few researches have been done on designing the tracking capability from the perspective of supply chain. In this paper, using the traceable unit size at the manufacturer level to measure the tracking capability, we propose a non-convex non-linear programming to jointly optimise the tracking capability and price considering the tracking cost and recall cost in a supply chain with endogenous pricing. Results show that, in both centralised and decentralised supply chains, there is a unique tracking capability and retailing/wholesale price with closed-form solutions to optimise the supply chain profit. When the cost ratio (unit tracking cost/unit recall cost) is sufficiently large and small, the optimal tracking strategy is barcode tracking and unit tracking, respectively, and otherwise, the optimal tracking strategy is batch tracking with an economic traceable unit size which depends on the cost ratio, quality inspection threshold, supply defection rate and the supplier’s tracking capability. Furthermore, in the context of large and small cost ratio, we find that improving tracking capability will enlarge and mitigate the effect of double marginalisation, respectively. In particular, we find that the strict tracking regulation policy is more robust than the subsidy policy to improve the supply chain tracking capability.     

The Effect of Editing Open-Ended Text Responses on Nutrient and Food Group Estimates from the Automated Self-Administered 24-Hour Dietary Recall (ASA24)

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Food Reporting and Comparison Study (FORCS) compares nutrient and food group estimates obtained from recalls collected through the web-based Automated Self-Administered 24-hour Recall (ASA24) to those from standard interviewer-administered telephone recalls among 1054 adults. Within the ASA24 software, respondents may choose to enter open-ended text to report “unfound food” and “other, specify.” Respondents use the“unfound food” field to report a food or drink they cannot find; the ASA24 system then asks a series of general questions to better identify the food. Respondents use the “other, specify” field to provide food details, such as brand name or cooking method, that differ from the responses offered by ASA24. When respondents use these two open-ended text fields, the system assigns default food codes. Nutritionists reviewed these codes and assigned new codes when appropriate. Nutrient and My Pyramid Equivalent (MPE) values from default food codes (unedited) andthe researcher assigned food codes (edited)were compared. Of the 716 food codes evaluated, changes were made to 248 foods (1.5% of total foods reported) which affected 194 (19.1%) of all recalls and required over 60 hours of specialized staff time. Although 43% of the 1013 completed recalls included at least one of the two text field responses, the ASA24 systemassigned acceptable default food codes 68% of the time.Editing did not significantly affect the means and ranking for most nutrients and food group MPE values; correlation coefficients for energy and macronutrient values before and after editing were 0.95 or higher, suggesting that this editingmaynot be necessary for most large studies using ASA24.     

On constitutive equations for thermoelastic dielectric continuum in terms of invariants

Electro-thermomechanical behavior of a thermoelastic dielectric body subject to external loading has been investigated theoretically in the present analysis. The theory is formulated in the context of continuum electrodynamics. The reaction of the body subject to external loads is expressed in symmetric stress, electrical polarization and heat flux. The solid medium is assumed to be linear, dielectric, isotropic, incompressible and dependent on temperature gradient. It has been observed that, as a result of thermodynamic constraints, the stress potential function is dependent on the deformation tensor, the electric field vector and the temperature, while the heat flux vector function is dependent on the deformation tensor, the electric field vector, the temperature and temperature gradient. To determine arguments of the stress potential and the heat flux vector functionals, findings of the theory of invariants have been used as a method because of that isotropy constraint is imposed on the material. As a result, constitutive equations of symmetric stress, polarization field and heat flux vector have been obtained in both material and spatial coordinates and asymmetric stress has been found using the expressions of symmetric stress and polarization field.     

Specific previous experience affects perception of harmony and meter.

Prior knowledge shapes our experiences, but which prior knowledge shapes which experiences? This question is addressed in the domain of music perception. Three experiments were used to determine whether listeners activate specific musical memories during music listening. Each experiment provided listeners with one of two musical contexts that was presented simultaneously with a melody. After a listener was familiarized with melodies embedded in contexts, the listener heard melodies in isolation and judged the fit of a final harmonic or metrical probe event. The probe event matched either the familiar (but absent) context or an unfamiliar context. For both harmonic (Experiments 1 and 3) and metrical (Experiment 2) information, exposure to context shifted listeners' preferences toward a probe matching the context that they had been familiarized with. This suggests that listeners rapidly form specific musical memories without explicit instruction, which are then activated during music listening. These data pose an interesting challenge for models of music perception which implicitly assume that the listener's knowledge base is predominantly schematic or abstract. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Paradoxical effects of testing: Retrieval enhances both accurate recall and suggestibility in eyewitnesses.

Although retrieval practice typically enhances memory retention, it can also impair subsequent eyewitness memory accuracy (Chan, Thomas, & Bulevich, 2009). Specifically, participants who had taken an initial test about a witnessed event were more likely than nontested participants to recall subsequently encountered misinformation—an effect we called retrieval-enhanced suggestibility (RES). Here, we sought to test the generality of RES and to further elucidate its underlying mechanisms. To that end, we tested a dual mechanism account, which suggests that RES occurs because initial testing (a) enhances learning of the later misinformation by reducing proactive interference and (b) causes the reactivated memory trace to be more susceptible to later interference (i.e., a reconsolidation account). Three major findings emerged. First, RES was found after a 1-week delay, where a robust testing benefit occurred for event details that were not contradicted by later misinformation. Second, blockage of reconsolidation was unnecessary for RES to occur. Third, initial testing enhanced learning of the misinformation even when proactive interference played a minimal role. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Armstrong axioms and Boyce-Codd-Heath Normal Form under bag semantics

The theory of functional dependencies is based on relations, i.e. sets of tuples. Over relations, the class of functional dependencies subsumes the class of keys. Commercial database systems permit the storage of bags of tuples where duplicate tuples can occur. Over bags, keys and functional dependencies interact differently from how they interact over relations.We establish finite ground axiomatizations of keys and functional dependencies over bags, and show a strong correspondence to goal and definite clauses in classical propositional logic. We define a syntactic Boyce-Codd-Heath Normal Form condition, and show that the condition characterizes schemata that will never have any redundant data value occurrences in their instances. The results close the gap between the existing set-based theory of data dependencies and database practice where bags are permitted.     

Recall costs balanced against spoilage control in Dutch custard

The relation between the moment at which a recall of Dutch custard is initiated and the direct costs of this recall was investigated. A simulation model of the custard supply chain was developed to compare scenarios with and without a quarantine of 48 h at the storage of the production plant. The model consists of 3 parts: 1) the distribution of a 24,000-L batch of custard over the supply chain over time is simulated; 2) the time to detect spoilage bacteria with a recontamination test procedure is simulated; and 3) the direct recall costs of custard over the different parts of the supply chain are calculated. Direct recall costs increase from about €25,000/batch to €36,171/batch from 57 to 135 h in the situation without quarantine and from €25,000/batch to €36,648/batch from 123 h to 163 h for the situation with quarantine. Then costs decrease because more and more custard is at the consumer level and only 0.13% of the consumers will ask for a refund. With low true contamination probabilities quarantine is not profitable, but at later detection moments with high probabilities it is. We conclude that a simulation model is a helpful tool to evaluate the efficiency of risk management strategies like end product testing and a quarantine situation.     

Collaborative remembering in older adults: Age-invariant outcomes in the context of episodic recall deficits.

Rapidly growing research reveals complex yet systematic consequences of collaboration on memory in young adults, but much less is known about this phenomenon in older adults. Young and older adults studied a list of categorized words and took three successive recall tests. Test 1 and 3 were always taken individually, and Test 2 was done either in triads or alone. Despite older adults recalling less overall than young adults, both age groups exhibited similar costs and benefits of collaboration: Collaboration reduced both correct and false recall during collaborative remembering, was associated with more positive beliefs about its value, and produced reminiscence, collective memory, and some forgetting in its cascading effects on postcollaborative recall. We examine the role of retrieval organization in these effects. As environmental support may play a substantial role in healthy aging, the relatively preserved effects of collaboration on memory in older adults hold promise for testing judicious uses of group remembering in aging. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)