The proposed Telecommunications Development Index (TDI) integrates 11 indicators, which are grouped into three first-level subindices labeled Supply, Adoption and Usage.
In the intervening decades since those tumultuous '60s, research into potential risk factors for hepatitis C led to development of better screening methods to protect the blood supply, adoption of universal precautions such as the use of protective gloves in health care settings and education around issues of safe sex and needle exchange programs.
Moreover, other issues in supply chains such as price competition and responsiveness are matters of the utmost importance, sustainable supply chain adoption is a challenging strategy (Mohd 2010).
We also need to better analyze the upfront risks to assess whether there would be natural incentives to both supply and adoption of the technology once the risks are sufficiently reduced through an infusion of grant funding.
Environmental concerns, particularly worries about the danger to water supplies, have slowed adoption of the practice in Europe, and the center-right government of former President Nicolas Sarkozy passed a law prohibiting it in 2011.
In the context of locations suffering from water scarcity, conflicting water use and insufficient levels of investment in water supply infrastructure, the adoption of water-saving technologies arises as one alternative to increase efficiency in water use and minimize contamination problems.
This study proposes a design method of an Asian global supply chain network that minimizes the costs under targeted material-based CO2 emissions reduction ratios, and determines the suppliers and factory locations that satisfy demands for low-carbon material supply, through the adoption of the Asian LCI database.
Limited training and a lack of supplies have slowed the adoption of regional anesthesia in many developing countries [ 35].
This paper discusses CE and its application to the construction, reviews and compares the existing tools and methods for CE readiness assessment, discusses supply chains generally and construction supply chain specifically, and stresses the need to assess the readiness of the construction supply chain for the adoption of CE.
The idea grew out of a program the foundation started after the recession hit that aimed to keep pets with their families by providing some financing to animal welfare groups to support food supply, temporary shelters, new adoption programs and the like.
