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Publication date: 29 January 2010

Rachel Forrester‐Jones, Nick Gore and Kathy Melling

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Tizard Learning Disability Review, vol. 15 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1359-5474

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Publication date: 17 February 2012

Joseph Chiodo and Nick Jones

Smart materials (SMs) have the potential for facilitating active disassembly (AD). Select SMs are used in the design of devices to aid product disassembly. The purpose of this…

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Purpose

Smart materials (SMs) have the potential for facilitating active disassembly (AD). Select SMs are used in the design of devices to aid product disassembly. The purpose of this paper is to compare different AD approaches and highlight future work and potential.

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This work is a survey of the collated AD research employing only Smart and “made Smart” materials work from various published work in the field from companies and academia since its original invention. The introduction gives general discussion of AD with cost implications and how the technology could offer very lean dismantling. An overview of the history of the work is given with the context of the implications for the need for a technology like AD to retain critical materials.

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Besides a survey to date, comparisons were made of each AD technology application highlighting advantages and challenges. Comparisons were also made prior to this in alternative disassembly strategies to give context to the potential usefulness of the technology.

Practical implications

Only AD with SMs or “made Smart” were highlighted with some considerations for potential candidates.

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A survey of AD work only employing SMs and “made‐Smart” materials to date. Comparisons of each AD application were made highlighting advantages and challenges. Comparisons were made between AD and alternative disassembly strategies to give context to the potential usefulness of the technology. The conclusion included an overview of work with consideration for future work. A candidate technology with the most potential was discussed.

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Assembly Automation, vol. 32 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0144-5154

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Publication date: 28 February 2017

Peter Hines, Daniel Jones and Nick Rich

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Handbook of Logistics and Supply-Chain Management
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ISBN: 978-0-8572-4563-2

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Publication date: 20 August 2020

Benjamin Poore

This chapter examines the acts of burial and exhumation in three contemporary British history plays. For the purposes of this argument, a ‘history play’ may be defined as a piece…

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This chapter examines the acts of burial and exhumation in three contemporary British history plays. For the purposes of this argument, a ‘history play’ may be defined as a piece of writing for the theatre that engages with historical events or settings. Such plays inevitably, at the moment of their staging or revival, take on particular meanings for audiences, since theatre as a live, durational art form encourages spectators to compare the historical events depicted with their present historical moment. The chapter argues that acts of burial and exhumation in contemporary British theatre are intimately tied to notions of land, soil and belonging. These became increasingly pertinent ideas in the UK’s political climate in the years following the 2016 Referendum on membership of the European Union. Of the three case studies, Victoria by David Greig (2000) dates from more than a decade before this vote, whilst Common by D. C. Moore (2017), and Eyam by Matt Hartley (2018) were written and staged in the interim between the Referendum result and the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. All three, however, feature corpses on stage as a means to consider time, temporality, place and history. Each play offers a different interpretation of what it means to play dead and to stay dead.

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Death, Culture & Leisure: Playing Dead
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-037-0

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Publication date: 1 April 1996

Paul Clarke and Robin Bellis‐Jones

Describes the important role of activity‐based management in determining the direction for those managing change. Explores the importance to the implementation of change of the…

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Describes the important role of activity‐based management in determining the direction for those managing change. Explores the importance to the implementation of change of the understanding of cost in business as opposed to simply the desire to improve the way things are done. Concludes that managers should be clear about their direction for change before committing resources to the task.

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The TQM Magazine, vol. 8 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0954-478X

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Publication date: 30 July 2007

Bethan Loftus

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Police Occupational Culture
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ISBN: 978-0-85724-055-2

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Publication date: 1 April 1991

Christine E. Lachman

Computer‐based fax‐on‐demand systems will answer the phone and guide a caller through voice menu selections. The caller identifies the information desired by pressing the numbers…

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Computer‐based fax‐on‐demand systems will answer the phone and guide a caller through voice menu selections. The caller identifies the information desired by pressing the numbers on the touchtone keypad of the phone. The fax‐on‐demand system then delivers the information to the caller through either a one‐call or two‐call/call‐back method. Fax‐on‐demand is often confused with two other forms of fax messaging—fax broadcasting and fax mail. Fax broadcasting is the sending of one document to many locations; fax mail is similar to voice mail except fax messages instead of voice messages are delivered to one or more specified mail boxes. In contrast, fax‐on‐demand can better be characterized as a response application that allows individual callers to use touchtone telephones to access a database and other information, which can then be delivered to the caller's fax machine.

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Library Hi Tech, vol. 9 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0737-8831

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Publication date: 1 October 2005

Michelle McCarthy

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Tizard Learning Disability Review, vol. 10 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1359-5474

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Publication date: 1 October 1974

MICHAEL WOOLLISCROFT

Many engineering staff in the Health Service, from craftsmen to professional engineers, enter from outside the service at varying stages in their careers and from a variety of…

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Many engineering staff in the Health Service, from craftsmen to professional engineers, enter from outside the service at varying stages in their careers and from a variety of previous employments. Whilst more is now being done in the way of basic training via a substantial craft apprenticeship scheme and an honours degree studentship scheme, it is likely that substantial outside recruitment will continue for the foreseeable future. The Health Service is not primarily an engineering organisation, engineering staff total only 10 000 out of a total of 800 000 employees and the main training effort is of course in the medical, para medical, and nursing fields. Thus the engineering side of the Health Service contains numbers of staff trained in their basic trade or profession, but lacking knowledge of areas specialised to the Health Service. Because of their diversity of backgrounds and the breadth of knowledge required in the Health Service there are also gaps in more basic knowledge. Also, given the pace of change in some technologies, updating is necessary for all staff.

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Industrial and Commercial Training, vol. 6 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0019-7858

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Publication date: 28 January 2014

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Assembly Automation, vol. 34 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0144-5154

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