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Electricity procurement of industrial consumers is becoming more and more complicated, involving a combination of various procurement methods due to electricity liberalization and decarbonization trends. This study analyzed and improved power procurement strategies for a factory to achieve carbon neutralization through a multi-agent model simulating the electricity market and introduced a factory agent using various procurement methods including PV, FC, storage batteries (SB), and DR. Firstly, we created a new procurement strategy utilizing all methods. Then, by using the simulation model, we assessed the effectiveness of the existing peak shift DR scenarios in terms of cost reduction efficiency. Results revealed that the introduction of PV has led to a counterproductive outcome for DR. Based on the results, we proposed two methods to improve the effectiveness of DR, namely considering the operation of PV in the DR scenario and expanding the range of optional time periods for DR activation. Finally, we made three new DR scenarios based on our proposal. Through experiment, the new scenarios were confirmed to be effective in cost-effectiveness for decarbonization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study proposed a method of obtaining the type and quantity of equipment in factories by inquiring environmental impact assessment reports, which greatly improves the efficiency of gathering factory information. Thereafter, by combining on-site measurement and numerical modelling, the noise maps of an automobile industrial area were constructed. The exposed population under different noise levels were evaluated using the noise maps. The results indicated that noise pollution at nighttime in the study area was more severe than that during daytime, with 523 people (1.08%) and 1,357 people (2.81%) exposed to excessive noise levels during daytime and nighttime, respectively. In addition, this study also constructed a low-frequency industrial noise map. The methods and results of the present study can provide novel technical path for construction and analysis of large-scale industrial noise map.

This article investigates the experiences of Yi migrant workers in Shenzhen factories through a conceptual framework that focuses on three dimensions of home in migration. Examining industrial dormitories, the foreman system, and governmental attention, it uncovers the intricate ways migrants negotiate their sense of belonging. The spatial dimension is evident in dormitories offering a semblance of home while reflecting broader societal and economic influences. The relational aspect emerges through the evolution of the foreman system, highlighting the interplay between traditional social bonds and modern labour demands. The sensorial dimension becomes apparent in the limited recognition migrants receive despite their contributions. This study underscores the multifaceted nature of migrant experiences as well as the need for comprehensive understandings of home that encompass spatial, relational, and sensorial elements within the dynamic context of migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Robert Linhart's L'Établi recounts the author's experience of 'établissement' as a young Maoist militant in the months immediately following May '68. Ten years after leaving the École normale supérieure to work and politically organize at the Citroën automobile factory in Choisy, Linhart reflects on his experiences on the assembly line, and his attempts to organize an ultimately unsuccessful wildcat strike from within the factory. This article revisits L'Établi alongside Linhart's littlestudied critical writings on racism, imperialism, and capitalist production in order to foreground two interwoven, yet under-appreciated facets of the work, and Linhart's corpus more broadly: first, Linhart's critique of a dense racial and colonial logic which undergirded the division of labor and maintenance of orderly production in the factory despite the purported demise of the French Empire. And second, the his innovation as not just a political memoirist, but as an inventive literary strategist. To this end, this article focuses on the surprising movements of poetic effervescence which appear throughout L'Établi, which reveal themselves to be thoroughly interwoven with Linhart's anti-imperial, anti-capitalist project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a microhistory of Dongfang Arsenal, a Small Third Front project in Beijing, using archival sources, gazetteers, memoirs compiled by former workers, and oral history. It focuses on how the arsenal's former workers engaged with socialist modernity and tangibly experienced the changing relationship between China and the outside world. It examines the military-industrial complex as a physical micro-space for employment, political mobilisation, and later a collective memory site. Built upon existing studies of the Third Front and emerging research on negotiated state power in socialist enterprises, the article demonstrates how the Third Front's internally stratified industrial labour force creatively navigated the physical and institutional urban-rural divide by employing collective bargaining power. It also offers an insight into how an industrial, close-knit community and the society related to it experienced the Cultural Revolution. Additionally, it discusses the Front employees' experience and the arsenal's struggle for survival during the transition between various socio-economic regimes, bringing together the history of Maoist revolutionary modernisation and post-Maoist reform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Utilizing the case of factory- and home-based women workers in an enclave-shaped area within Pringapus, a suburb of the Semarang Metropolitan Region in Indonesia, this study endeavors to empirically investigate the intricate connections between the evolution of garment industries, urbanization, and the roles of women workers within households. Employing descriptive statistics, data from 200 respondents who participated in a questionnaire survey were analyzed. The findings suggest that beyond contributing to urban sprawl, large garment factories serve as magnets for rural migrant women and catalyze the growth of ancillary businesses and services. This includes the establishment of home-based garment industries, which offer additional employment opportunities for local married women. Both factory-based and home-based women workers expressed satisfaction with their current employment, reflecting an alignment between their workplace and individual characteristics. Moreover, both groups exhibited a positive level of bargaining power within their households, encountering minimal resistance from family or community members. This is particularly noteworthy given the prevailing patriarchal norms prevalent within Java Island. This study raises awareness about the need for pro-women policies in industries like the garment sector, where women make up the majority of the workforce. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the founding of the Communist Party of China, literature has often featured themes glorifying industry under the guidance of national policies. However, a group of post-1970s and -80s writers in China express a unique perspective on factory scenes in their works, deviating significantly from mainstream Realism. This article focuses on Lunei’s 路內 “The Following Trilogy” (Young Babylon, On the Trail of Her Travels, and Lost in Daicheng 戴城) to observe how the writer, as a witness at the edge of an era, depicts the aesthetic ambiance shaped by factory narratives, thereby reflecting social reality. Compared to other writers, two features set Lunei’s works apart. First, through the intertextuality of sounds, smells, relics, and factories, a poetic “ruin-spirit” space is constructed. The novels are also characterized by the presence of disabled individuals and societal “cancer cells,” symbolizing the confusion and disillusionment of the turn of the century, which are subtly embedded in the narrative. How does Lunei construct the aesthetics of the ruins in the space of the factory? How does he reflect and inquire into the changes of the times in his decadent writing? How does he combine the conscious personal history with the unconscious writing of the times, so as to show his social concern and shape the generation’s redemption of the past, perception of the present, and warning for the future? These are several questions explored in this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article dives into the tradition of beer brewing from the middle of the 19th century in the historical region of Háromszék, the area known today as Covasna county, Romania. From the smallest brewhouses located in villages which only fulfilled the local needs to the large factories in the towns of Sepsiszentgyörgy (Sf. Gheorghe) and Kézdivásárhely (Tg. Secuiesc) supplying even the surrounding regions, the study also sheds light on the familial relations between brewery owners, their products as well as on what remains today of the once remarkable breweries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a gender historical perspective, labour precarity constitutes a long-term phenomenon. Women's work represents a privileged observatory to understand how instability and precarity also characterised the cycle of economic and industrial expansion of the 1950s and 1960s. The article compares the conditions of female factory workers with those of home-based workers, a traditionally invisible category of workers, who between the 1960s and 1970s promoted demonstrations and protests with the support of trade unions, women's associations and local institutions. Changes in the subjectivity of women workers and homeworkers, whose demands often came together and gave rise to joint protests, not only became part of broader discussions on the relationship between industrial crisis and precariousness, but also generated discourses on specific forms of work that are now central to debates on flexible/precarious work such as part-time work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the mid-seventeenth century onwards, Kasimbazar emerged as the English East India Company's (EIC) primary market for silk and its textiles. The region surrounding Kasimbazar was prolific in producing silk goods destined for export. Attracted by Bengal silk's substantial profitability, EIC's directors in London envisaged an expansion to regions with existing infrastructure capable of delivering high-quality raw silk and textiles. Subsequently, Mr. Streynsham Master was dispatched to Bengal as a special envoy to strategize this expansion. The establishment of the EIC's sixth factory at Malda directly resulted from this mission. However, the nascent years of the Malda settlement were fraught with challenges, leading company officials to perceive Malda as a subordinate to Hooghly and Kasimbazar with uncertain business potential. But, within two decades, consistent profits began to reshape this perception. Up until the key shifts in 1898 and 1899--EIC acquiring zamindary rights in Calcutta, establishing Fort William as the English headquarters, and the subsequent relocation of the subah capital from Dhaka to Murshidabad in 1706--interactions with local provincial rulers were mired in extortion and bribery. Nonetheless, the handsome profit margins painted a promising outlook for the EIC's future in the region. This paper delves into the initial 25 years after the Malda factory's inception. It evaluates the hurdles faced; the resolutions reached--whether through diplomacy or through petitions to distant Dhaka--the appointment of dadani merchants, the inclusion of pykers, and most notably, the trajectory of business growth and profits during this period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 1950s witnessed high accident rates in China’s industrial workplaces. Previous scholarship has attributed this phenomenon to enterprises prioritizing production over safety and to the impotence of China’s labor unions in enforcing safety policies. This article proposes a third approach by exploring the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) mass-based safe production regime, which was designed for political struggle against capitalists as well as fulfilling its political commitments to workers, while also aiming to enhance safety. Consequently, China’s labor authorities often adopted a principle of absolving workers from accident responsibilities, often shifting blame to enterprise leaders. This approach was ineffective in preventing accidents. In addition, the party’s safety education policies fell short because they romanticized older workers as safety-conscious mentors to the younger workforce but overlooked the reality that these veterans were often more prone to accidents. The generational gap in China’s workforce also impeded the dissemination of safety knowledge and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 1924 and 1955 factory managers introduced personality tests as a new tool to discriminate amongst large pools of potential employees. The new worker protections granted by New Deal legislation alarmed factory managers who developed personality tests to identify the ‘best workers,’ or least politically active ones, amongst a rising group of union sympathizers. Personality tests became important tools in the emergence of Human Resource Management, whose foundational thinkers compared themselves against the dominant model of factory management: Taylorism. They argued that Taylorism focused exclusive attention on the refinement of the physical movements of workers in order to maximize productivity and ignored the workers’ emotional needs. Traditional scholarship has drawn sharp distinctions between Human Resource Management and Taylorism by praising the former’s interest in protecting worker emotions and morale. However, this article argues that by incorporating personality tests, Taylorist managers assessed worker psychology in order to control their workers more efficiently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Human trafficking has been described as a crime that involves the recruitment of people and compelling or coercing them to provide labour or services or to engage in commercial sex acts. Men, women, and children of all ages and from all backgrounds have become victims of this crime, which occurs in every region of the world. The baby factory phenomenon is the latest form of human trafficking and sex slavery in Nigeria. Although relatively new in Nigeria, this latest trend of human trafficking is rapidly flourishing and gradually gaining ground as a big enterprise in different parts of the country. The baby factory practices involve young women who are held captive and forced to produce babies for sale or trafficking. This is obviously a very dangerous trend that requires serious attention because of the physical, mental, and psychological effects of the baby making activities. This paper, therefore, explores the factors responsible for the growth of the clandestine business as depicted in Irene Agunloye's Disposable Womb. The paper adopts the analytical method of data analysis since the data for the analysis are sourced from the play text. The findings reveal that women's desperation and patronage of the baby factories are due to the stigmatisation of childless couples in Nigeria. This desperation has led to an increase in the demand for babies. The derivable financial benefits from the baby harvesting business have also contributed to the growth of the industry, which results in physical, psychological, and sexual violence to the victims. The paper condemns the evil practice and proffers possible solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A workshop, as a crowded place, is quite easy to cause serious casualties and economic losses once there is a fire. In this paper, Pathfinder software was used to simulate fire emergency evacuation in a workshop of a large factory with building structural symmetry. According to the simulation results, several obstacles to the evacuation were discovered and further analyzed. The results showed that the main factors affecting the evacuation were the width of exits, the distribution of occupants and the effective evacuation width of stairs. Among them, only changing the width of exits had little influence on shortening evacuation time. While changing the effective evacuation width of stairs could greatly relieve the evacuation pressure, every increase of 0.5 m in the width of the staircase could shorten the evacuation time by 30.0 s. Meanwhile, the larger the number of people in high-rise buildings, the longer the evacuation time was. Therefore, the means of restricting people from entering the high-rise buildings in batches could be used to prevent personnel from being evacuated in time when a fire incident occurs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Damage inflicted upon facilities and equipment within a building primarily results from lightning strikes. Consequently, the installation of lightning rods emerges as a vital necessity to augment the overall protection of a structure. This not only serves the collective welfare but also aligns with governmental interests. The imperative nature of this measure lies in its role in safeguarding a myriad of equipment and production activities that involve the use of flammable materials. These materials come in various forms, encompassing solids, liquids, and gases, both within the building and its surrounding areas.Within the realm of lightning protection systems (LPS), this research specifically adopts the conventional Franklin rod as the preferred choice for factory buildings. The study accentuates the essential need for a Level IV protection rating within the LPS framework. Furthermore, it strongly advocates for the multiplication of lightning protection rods to fortify the defense mechanism. A minimum recommendation of four rods per building roof is proposed, highlighting the critical significance of proactive measures. These measures are indispensable to ensure comprehensive protection against potential damages caused by lightning strikes in industrial settings. The proactive installation and adherence to these protective measures underscore the commitment to maintaining a secure and resilient environment for both equipment and personnel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Factories are transforming not only mechanically and technologically but also architecturally due to emerging developments in the industry and fabrication: This new process, called the Second Machine Age or Industry 4.0, a new model is designed in production by providing the human-machine partnership over a virtual network. It is aimed that the machines used in production and the people participating in different stages of production can work in different spaces. In time, jobs that require human power will be replaced by robots, and a new order is being considered where there will be no people in production spaces, and they can work in the virtual environment. Production for human beings is mostly from material production to digital production; labour will turn into digital labour. For this reason, it is thought that production spaces will turn into smart factories with only machines and production robots and no workers. And now the question is: what is a smart factory? The revolutions in the industry history started with the invention of the steam engine; then, new technological revolutions were experienced with the use of electricity in production, the development of automation systems and internet-based systems. While technology and production tools are constantly changing, these developments also affect production spaces. Factories are also transforming to keep up with these rapid and continuous physical and fictional innovations. This study focuses on the architectural evolution of factories by following the technological revolutions of the industry. It examines the main criteria in the process of change and transformation of factories and spatial reflections of the revolutions. It establishes a relationship between production technology and the needs of the production spaces and seeks references from past samples. The study aims to review the historical background for generating a projection to new production spaces and to be a new discussion for future factories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent advances in natural language processing enable more intelligent ways to support knowledge sharing in factories. In manufacturing, operating production lines has become increasingly knowledge-intensive, putting strain on a factory's capacity to train and support new operators. This paper introduces a Large Language Model (LLM)-based system designed to retrieve information from the extensive knowledge contained in factory documentation and knowledge shared by expert operators. The system aims to efficiently answer queries from operators and facilitate the sharing of new knowledge. We conducted a user study at a factory to assess its potential impact and adoption, eliciting several perceived benefits, namely, enabling quicker information retrieval and more efficient resolution of issues. However, the study also highlighted a preference for learning from a human expert when such an option is available. Furthermore, we benchmarked several commercial and open-sourced LLMs for this system. The current state-of-the-art model, GPT-4, consistently outperformed its counterparts, with open-source models trailing closely, presenting an attractive option given their data privacy and customization benefits. In summary, this work offers preliminary insights and a system design for factories considering using LLM tools for knowledge management.

We are living within a transformation that has been variously labelled as industrial revolution 4.0, platform economy, digital capitalism. Nevertheless, this change is still mainly conceptualized through the vocabulary of factory system. In this article we aim to contribute to the development of an emerging framework on the 'new capitalism' without any nostalgia for the past by exploring some of its potential interpretative categories (pipeline, algorithmic subjectivities, mobile struggles), based in particular on its spatial configurations and on the production of living labour' subjectivities. Indeed, we are witnessing not simply a wave of technological innovation but a more general transformation of the forms of capitalist valorisation which rely on the role played by spaces and social cooperation. These changes do not affect only spatialities but also the subjective forms of living labour, including his/her practices of organization and struggle.

Factories are transforming not only mechanically and technologically but also architecturally due to emerging developments in the industry and fabrication: This new process, called the Second Machine Age or Industry 4.0, a new model is designed in production by providing the human-machine partnership over a virtual network. It is aimed that the machines used in production and the people participating in different stages of production can work in different spaces. In time, jobs that require human power will be replaced by robots, and a new order is being considered where there will be no people in production spaces, and they can work in the virtual environment. Production for human beings is mostly from material production to digital production; labour will turn into digital labour. For this reason, it is thought that production spaces will turn into smart factories with only machines and production robots and no workers. And now the question is: what is a smart factory? The revolutions in the industry history started with the invention of the steam engine; then, new technological revolutions were experienced with the use of electricity in production, the development of automation systems and internet-based systems. While technology and production tools are constantly changing, these developments also affect production spaces. Factories are also transforming to keep up with these rapid and continuous physical and fictional innovations. This study focuses on the architectural evolution of factories by following the technological revolutions of the industry. It examines the main criteria in the process of change and transformation of factories and spatial reflections of the revolutions. It establishes a relationship between production technology and the needs of the production spaces and seeks references from past samples. The study aims to review the historical background for generating a projection to new production spaces and to be a new discussion for future factories.

Microreactors present promising opportunities to open new nuclear energy markets. However, it is expected that the economic competitiveness of this new class of reactors will hinge on potential cost reductions via mass production. It is therefore critical to begin assessing important considerations for the factory production of microreactors. An overview of the important aspects of the general layout of a microreactor factory, along with best practices to be incorporated early in the design process, is provided in this study. Then, a detailed use case is considered and modeled using a dedicated tool that can map workflows and activities within a factory. The end product is a 242 000 sq. ft. factory model that can ramp up production from 10 to 100 units per year. Based on the activities and workflows needed, cost estimates for equipment and staffing needs are generated. These are expected to be first-order estimates, but would still provide guidance on the level of investment needed to reach mass production levels of microreactors. Furthermore, the potential cost reductions from scaling production are quantified. It was found that for a 100-unit factory throughput, reductions above 70% per unit cost relative to a prototype demonstration, could be observed for tasks conducted within a factory. These estimates focus solely on component fabricated at a factory and do not account for fuel costs nor any site activities. Because the analysis is design specific, not all findings are expected to be applicable across different microreactors (notably larger varieties), but it still provides a foundation establishing the basis for the mass production of these reactors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay explores how regimes of time-discipline have operated--and met with forms of resistance--across three critical sites of modernity: the factory, narrative, and the prison. Through a historical discussion of factory labor and drawing on E. P. Thompson's analysis of time and work-discipline, the essay examines the industrial capitalist methods of timing that underwrote workers' exploitation and large-scale theft of life and health. Readings of modernist authors show how the non-plots of modernist narrative push, within a limited sphere, against the imposition of progressive, developmental time. Finally, the essay examines the empty time of incarceration-modern time-discipline through a mirror darkly. In their prison writings, Black revolutionaries such as George Jackson wrested with the reality of a stolen futurity, illuminating empty time with liberatory political philosophy and anger. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Workers who are working in dusty environments might be associated with respiratory health problems. In Ethiopia, factories processing wood, textile, coffee, flour, cement and other materials are associated with dust emission. Furthermore, despite the adoption of the International Labor Organization (ILO) convention, the available constitution and labor proclamation, there are a lot of gaps in terms of occupational health and safety measures in Ethiopia. The current review aims to examine the existing evidence, current challenges and future direction regarding dust exposure and respiratory health in selected Ethiopian factories. Searches of peer-reviewed articles with full-length papers were made in online databases such as PubMed, Web of Science, MEDLINE, EMBASE and Google Scholar with a key words “Dust exposure”, “Respiratory health”, “Respiratory symptom”, “Ethiopia” and “Factory workers” from January 2000 to March 2023. The review found that excessive dust exposure is associated with a high prevalence of respiratory health problems. Lack of personal protective equipment and absence of safety and health training were the main occupational health deficits identified in most factories. Actions that focus on these deficiencies are commendable. Interventions focused on safety and health trainings, and the provision of adequate personal protective equipment of the required quality is recommended. In addition, administrative solutions and longitudinal studies on dust exposure and respiratory health are suggested.

The article considers the possibility and limits of reconstructing the memorial landscape of the Ural town-factory based on the materials of student folklore practical studies in the late Soviet era. The author reveals the stable motifs of the legends connected with the history of the founding of the industrial settlement of Kaslee, as well as with the specifics of the ethnic interaction between Russian settlers and the local population. The article also defines the “places of memory” in folklore materials. The study shows how the scientific and methodological attitudes of folklorists and the methods of interaction between collectors and informants are reflected in the collection of field archival materials from a particular area. The memorial landscape reconstructed according to folklore data tells both about the past of Kaslee and the present, as the perspective of such a description of the past is determined by the present. Archival folklore materials are an example of a combination of practices of communicative and cultural memories. In this aspect, the place of “songs about the city” is also determined in the article. The authors believe that “empty cells” – lacunae of archival memory, about which the informants did not tell and/or the collectors did not ask, are significant elements of this memorative landscape. The stories related to the accident at the Mayak chemical plant in 1957 and the environmental agenda in general become such subjects of silence. The article will be useful to folklorists and anyone interested in the problems of memory in folklore materials, as an attempt to apply the methods of folklore and anthropology to the practice of memory studies.

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This work seeks to reconstruct and analyze the theoretical-ideological references that encouraged the experience of the Peronist Armed Forces and Base Peronism (FAP - PB), two of the most important organizations of the alternative current of revolutionary Peronism during the 70's. The FAP-PB assumed an organizational form, a power strategy, a conception of the revolution and a position in Peronism that differentiated them from the rest of the hegemonic organizations of the new left. We believe that this experience can be put into dialogue with the theoretical-conceptual development of three theoretical references of the Marxist tradition: Rosa Luxemburg, Antonio Gramsci's council stage and the experience of Italian operaism in the 60's and 70's. Our objective is to provide a theoretical and political framework, which allows us to critically rethink the experience of basism in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Potato has strong links between the actors as varieties bred by breeders, crop management of growers and site location of processors strongly influence the yield and quality of the finished products. Here, the actors (breeders, growers, processors, retailers and users) in the value chain are recognized, and their information and material flows identified. The influence of genotype, environment and crop management and the efficient use of resources during the production of raw material, tubers harvested for processing purposes, are delineated. It is shown that climate change affects performance and that consumers looking for quality and new products are hardly interested in the primary processes, nor are breeders and processors showing interest in consumer concerns. Crop performance is dependent on yield and quality (dry matter, sugars, tuber size and desired and undesired constituents). Factory performance relies on recovery, reuse of rejects and avoidance of wastes. Heatmaps drawn of classes of productivity and losses and their attributes reveal where gains are to be made on fields, farms and factories to improve efficiencies, reduce the impact on the environment, and opportunities for decarbonisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Against the background of the climate crisis, fast innovation space in emerging technologies and the global competitive environment for manufacturing companies, a sound understanding of the life cycle behavior of factory systems becomes more and more important. The decision context of the factory life cycle conveys a high level of complexity, e.g. by the heterogeneous nature of factory element life cycles, manifold interactions between them as well as external change drivers. A model-based understanding as well as methods and tools are required that support factory planners and operators in this regard. This paper presents an approach for the modeling and quantitative evaluation of life cycle dynamics in factory systems while respecting the dynamic behavior of factory operation, as well. The purpose of the modeling is to deepen the knowledge of the prevailing life cycle mechanisms and their implications for factory planning and operation. The application of the approach is demonstrated in an exemplary case study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on adopting cybersecurity procedures in Chilean manufacturing companies in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s data-driven demands, which have exposed vulnerabilities in cybersecurity. This analysis is based on data from the Fifth Longitudinal Survey of Companies - ELE 5 - conducted by the National Institute of Statistics. Using the TOE adoption model, we employ binary and ordered Logit and Probit models with data from 574 companies and 17 explanatory variables. The objective is to gain insight into the factors influencing the adoption of cybersecurity processes, complementing the existing literature, which often focuses on developing specific technologies or conducting comprehensive analyses of digital transformation. The study highlights the significance of company size in explaining the adoption of cybersecurity procedures and reveals the relevance of explanatory variables as the depth of adoption increases. The findings underscore the need for public policies that facilitate the implementation of existing regulations, such as ISO 27.001, particularly for small companies. Additionally, the study emphasizes the importance of fostering a “culture of cybersecurity” across different sectors of society.

The working class has been interpreted within various disciplines and conceptual frameworks, some pointing to the gap between the depiction of the working class as a potentially active social force in the neoliberal deregulated global market and its portrayal as a suffering class of the marginal and excluded. In this text, I move behind this dichotomy to explore the everyday experiences of working-class men and women. Based on ethnographic research at the Bata shoe factory in the Czech Republic, I examine the meanings factory workers attach to their working classness. I investigate their sense of place in society in general. I argue that class matters in the workers' perceptions of the self. On the one hand, the workers adopt the awareness of subalternity in relation to the educational and further the labor field that ranks them among the lowest positions. On the other hand, they take individual pride in their endurance of the hard work that shoemaking is believed to be. The committed work and emphasis on collectivity turn the microorganism of the factory into a place of mutual discipline, where the praised collectivity functions also as a tool for enhancing work effectivity, also in the interest of the management. By pointing to the concrete dimensions in which they balance the feelings of pride and shame, belonging, and symbolic displacement, I contribute to the sociological understanding of contemporary working classness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to explore the effect of different after-ripening stages of Pleurotus eryngii cultured with liquid strains on the mycelial growth in the industrial production of Pleurotus eryngii, by taking the fungi bags inoculated with the liquid strains of Pleurotus eryngii as the test object, the effects of four different after-ripening stages on the growth, agronomic traits, yield and biological efficiency of Pleurotus eryngii were compared. The results showed that; the best growth of Pleurotus eryngii was 10 days after ripening, when the mycelium was white and robust, the fungi bags were firm, the budding time was 5 days, and the harvesting time was 18 days. The producing mushroom was neat and consistent, the size of mushrooms was uniform, the weight of single mushroom was 253 g, and the proportion of commercial mushrooms was up to 79.01%. The biological efficiency of commercial mushroom was up to 75.6% and the total biological efficiency was up to 95.74%. In summary, the analysis showed that in the process of industrial cultivation of Pleurotus eryngii, it was the most appropriate to use the liquid bacterial strains to cultivate Pleurotus eryngii for 10 days of subsequent ripening after the mycelium overgrew the fungi bags. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]