News tagged with reverse logistics

Logical reversal: Reverse logistics helps environment, gives competitive advantage

During an economic downturn companies, particularly in the computer sector, could gain an advantage of their competitors by adopting reverse logistics, according to researchers writing in the International Journal of Environment an ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Google's Punchd wants to replace loyalty cards with an app

Over the years, Google has changed the way we search online and the way many businesses advertise online. With Android, the company has built the most popular smartphone operating system in the world. And now the tech giant ...

Technology / Software

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Technology companies on a hiring binge again

The 20 recruiters sized up Scott Mersy as they would a star high school running back. But instead of timing his 40-yard dash or checking his percentage of body fat, they were interested in his stats in cloud computing and ...

Technology / Business

created May 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tweaking the climate to save it: Who decides?

(AP) -- To the quiet green solitude of an English country estate they retreated, to think the unthinkable.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 03, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 67

Study: Employers, workers may benefit from employee reference pool

With employers increasingly reluctant to supply references for former employees in order to avoid legal liability, the creation of a centralized reference pool for workers may make labor markets in the U.S. more efficient, ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New insect birth control strategy zaps cotton pests

Using pests as part of an insect birth control program helps to get rid of them, UA researchers find. A new approach that combines the planting of pest-resistant cotton and releasing large numbers of sterile ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 07, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Frozen secrets of the 'Ice Cube'

There's nothing like temperatures that can reach minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit to keep you on your toes.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 27, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Solar-powered disaster relief

As water and fuel remained scarce in the weeks following the earthquake in Haiti earlier this year, one resource that relief teams could have used to help prevent dehydration literally surrounds the Caribbean ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 15, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Peru inventor 'whitewashes' peaks to slow glacier melt

In a remote corner of the Peruvian Andes, men in paint-daubed boilersuits diligently coat a mountain summit with whitewash in an experimental bid to recuperate the country's melting glaciers.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Snake bite: Prevention is best but antivenom treatment must also be improved

Around 5.5 million people are bitten by snakes each year, resulting in some 400,000 amputations and between 20,000 and 125,000 deaths. Despite this, the burden of human suffering caused by snake bite remains largely invisible ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Medical ethics experts identify, address key issues in H1N1 pandemic

The anticipated onset of a second wave of the H1N1 influenza pandemic could present a host of thorny medical ethics issues best considered well in advance, according to the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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