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  2. Closed-loop recycling - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, closed-loop recycling may be considered part of environmental sustainability programs. [8] One goal of closed-loop recycling is to reuse materials in an identical role as before recycling. [3] [5] In contrast, open-loop recycling systems do not reclaim all of a resource. Whether by design or due to the physical and chemical ...

  3. Open-loop controller - Wikipedia

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    The definition of a closed loop control system according to the British Standards Institution is "a control system possessing monitoring feedback, the deviation signal formed as a result of this feedback being used to control the action of a final control element in such a way as to tend to reduce the deviation to zero."

  4. Control loop - Wikipedia

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    A control loop is the fundamental building block of control systems in general and industrial control systems in particular. It consists of the process sensor, the controller function, and the final control element (FCE) which controls the process necessary to automatically adjust the value of a measured process variable (PV) to equal the value of a desired set-point (SP).

  5. Retail apocalypse - Wikipedia

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    A permanently closed mom and pop health food store in Port Charlotte, Florida. The phrase "retail apocalypse" first appeared in print in an early 1990s essay by Peter Glen, author of It's Not My Department! [14] Media appropriated the term to refer to multiple brick-and-mortar store closures resulting from shifts in consumer spending. [6]

  6. The Wal-Mart Effect - Wikipedia

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    In 2013, the Democratic staff of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce released a report called Wal-Mart's The Low‐Wage Drag on Our Economy: Wal‐Mart's low wages and their effect on taxpayers and economic growth, which analyzed Walmart's effect on U.S. government finances and concluded that each Wal-Mart store with at ...

  7. Closed-loop controller - Wikipedia

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    The definition of a closed loop control system according to the British Standards Institution is "a control system possessing monitoring feedback, the deviation signal formed as a result of this feedback being used to control the action of a final control element in such a way as to tend to reduce the deviation to zero."

  8. The People's Republic of Walmart - Wikipedia

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    The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism is a 2019 book by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski, published by Verso Books. In the book, Phillips and Rozworski argue that large multinational corporations , such as Walmart , are not expressions of free-market capitalism but ...

  9. Store Closures Don’t Follow Electoral Maps

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    The post’s reference to Walmart is likely citing reports that the business closed 23 stores in 2023. These reported closures actually occurred in 14 states, however, not eight as the post claims.