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Supply Chain Management : An International Journal A decade of supply chain collaboration and directions for future research

Purpose – This paper aims to conduct a systematic review of the literature on supply chain collaboration published over a 10-year period from 2005 to 2014. It explores the nature and extent of research undertaken to identify key themes emerging in the field and gaps that need to be addressed. Design/methodology/approach – The authors review a sample of 207 articles from 69 journals, after using an iterative cycle of defining appropriate search keywords, searching the literature and conducting the analysis. Findings – Key themes include the meaning of collaboration; considerations for supply chain collaboration theory; emerging areas in collaboration for sustainability, technology-enabled supply chains and humanitarian supply chains; and the need for a more holistic approach, multi-tier perspectives and research into B2C collaborations. Research limitations/implications – The paper provides discussion and scope for future research into the area which would contribute to the field tremendously. Originality/value – There have been very few reviews in the past on supply chain collaboration, and this is one of the first extensive reviews conducted to address how well the body of knowledge on supply chain collaboration corresponds with our contemporary society.
Influence of Strategic Market Orientation Capabilities on Performance of Mobile Telecommunication Firms in Kenya 1 *

Purpose: This study sought to examine the influence of strategic market orientation capabilities on performance of mobile telecommunication firms in Kenya. Methodology: The target population consisted of four hundred and sixty two (462) mobile telecommunication employees presented in the following sub-groups: four (4) chief executive officers (CEOs), thirty one (31) directors (DIRS), fifty nine (59) regional managers (RMS) and one hundred, eighty four (184) shop managers (SHMS) and one hundred and eighty four (184) customers service representatives (CSRS). The study used a sample size of 210 respondents. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select the sample within each of the five sub-groups to ensure objectivity. The study used survey design in the collection of data which were administered through use self-administered questionnaires to collect data and was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: The study found that customer-linking capabilities, market sensing capabilities, knowledge management capabilities and inter-functional coordination capabilities have a positive and a significant effect on performance of mobile telecommunication firms. Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The findings help the mobile phone companies to refine the order of the effects that ultimately results in corporate profitability, thereby providing a strong indication that it may be difficult to track the extent to which market orientation contributes to the profitability and that effects should be tracked and measured on other dimensions such as rate of innovation and customer satisfaction.
Aid, NGOs and the Realities of Women's Lives: A Perfect Storm

assurances offer no protection from abuse’, www.hrw. org/news/2006/11/09/swedenviolated-torture-ban-cia-rendition/ (10November) (last checked by the authorOctober 2013) Seymour Richard (2013) ‘The SWP leadership has turned the party into a sinking ship’, www.guardian. co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/22/swp-cover-up-rape-complaint/ (22 March) (last checked by the author October 2013) Trotta Daniel and Basil Katz (2011) ‘Prosecutors tell NY judge to drop Strauss-Kahn case’, Reuters, www.reuters. com/article/2011/08/22/us-strausskahn-idUSTRE77J20620110822/ (last checked by the author October 2013)
Percutaneous hemiepiphysiodesis for the treatment of knee angular deformities

Dezoito pacientes portadores de deformidade angular nos joelhos foram submetidos à hemiepifisiodese percutânea. Treze apresentavam genuvalgo e cinco, genuvaro. A idade óssea média por ocasião da cirurgia foi de 13 anos para o sexo feminino e de 13 anos e 10 meses para o masculino. Clinicamente, os pacientes portadores de genuvalgo apresentavam distância intermaleolar média de 10cm e os de genuvaro, distância intercondilar média de 7cm. O ângulo tibiofemoral médio pré-operatório nos pacientes com genuvalgo foi de 14o e naqueles com genuvaro, de 9o. Para determinar a época adequada para realizar o procedimento foram usados o gráfico de Bowen e a idade óssea. A técnica utilizada foi a hemiepifisiodese percutânea, medial ou lateral, conforme a deformidade. O procedimento cirúrgico foi realizado somente no fêmur em nove pacientes, somente na tíbia em oito e em ambas as epífises em um paciente. Observou-se correção radiológica média de 9o para o genuvalgo e de 10o para o genuvaro. Em um paciente ocorreu hipercorreção e em dois, hipocorreção. A ABSTRACT
Effect of Sex on Slaughter and Carcass Traits of Beltsville Small White Turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ) under Indian Hot Humid Climatic Condition

The study was conducted to know the effect sex on slaughter and carcass quality traits of Beltsville Small White turkey (Meleagris gallopavo). Beltsville Small White male and female Turkeys were reared under intensive system was used for this study. 40 Turkeys (20 Male and 20 female) were slaughtered by following standard procedures and slaughter and carcass characteristics were recorded. The mean live weight (kg) , carcass weight(kg), dressing percentage (%) , blood (%),intestines (%), giblets (%),abdominal fat (%),neck (%),wings (%), back (%) and breast (%) values were significantly (P>0.01) higher in male turkeys. However, significantly (P>0.01) reverse trends were observed in thighs (%) and drumstick yield which was higher in female turkeys. Feathers (%), feet (%) and head (%) yield values between male and female turkeys did not differ significantly. From these results, it is concluded that, sex had a very significant effect on slaughter and carcass characteristics of Beltsville Small White turkeys. Male turkey is more suitable for to obtain better slaughter and carcass traits and higher meat production under Indian hot humid climatic condition.
Performance Investigation of Improved High Step-up MPPT using Fuzzy Logic Controller for BLDC Motor Drives

In this paper, the conventional DC-DC converter is replaced with a High Step-up Converter for the Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) in solar power applications. The performance of converter-inverter technology to drive a brushless DC motor is analysed. The converter switching power losses is eliminated by zero-voltage method in this proposed converter. The fuzzy controlled high step-up converter increases the output voltage from the panel compared to the conventional type. The DC to DC converter is operated at an adjustable duty cycle by the fuzzy logic controller. The advantage of the proposed high step-up converter for the MPPT compared to the conventional type are, the output is efficiently increased and regulated by the boost operation. This avoids the parallel buck operation. The ZVS technique further reduces the power loss due to frequent switching. The proposed fuzzy controlled unidirectional operation of the high-step up MPPT converter is analysed. The experimental results are compared for different inputs and analysed.
School Nurses’ Management for Children and Adolescents with Diabetes

Purpose: The study purposes were to explore school nurses’ experience, perceived barriers, and education needs in diabetes management at school. Methods: This study was a cross sectional study and the study participants were recruited conveniently at continuing education seminars for school nurses at Incheon Metropolitan City. Results: Data for 101 school nurses were analyzed. The nurses were all women and their mean age was 46.9±9.3 years. About 66% of them had experience with children with diabetes at school. The school nurses reported that 74.6% of the students tested their blood glucose by themselves, the school clinic was the most common place for blood glucose tests (47.8%) and insulin injections (50.8%) and the nurses knew students’ diagnosis through the student health survey (58.2%). About half of the nurses (53.7%) reported that glucagon should be available at school and 49.2% were willing to inject glucagon when necessary. The most frequently reported barrier in diabetes management was role confusion (6.0±1.3) and the most common educational need was emergency responses (5.9±1.4). Conclusions: School health policy for diabetes management and diabetes resources are necessary to minimize role confusion of school nurses, improve emergency response, and facilitate health promotion activities in diabetes management.
Recognition of Third-party Pair-bond Relationships in Budgerigars , Melopsittacus undulatus

Recognition of third-party pair-bond relationships in budgerigars, Melopsittacus undulatus Sub Title Author 一方井, 祐子(Ikkatai, Yuko) 伊澤, 栄一(Izawa, Eiichi) 渡辺, 茂(Watanabe, Shigeru) Publisher Centre for Advanced Research on Logic and Sensibility The Global Centers of Excellence Program, Keio University Publication year 2011 Jtitle CARLS series of advanced study of logic and sensibility Vol.4, (2010. ) ,p.135140 Abstract Notes Part 1: Brain and Evolution Genre Research Paper URL http://koara.lib. keio.ac. jp/xoonips/modules/xoonips/detail.php? koara_id=KO12002001-20110331 -0135
Research on the Risk Management of Auditor — — Evidence from the Listed Companies of Restatement in China

This study want to research the risk management of auditor. Because restatement means listed companies possibly has risk, we think auditors will implement the risk management. The result shows auditors increase the audit fees of listed companies which disclose restatement significantly. And auditors pay more attention to the restatement caused by fraud. Furthermore the risk management of auditor to the restatement caused by fraud is much greater that the others. The results indicate that the risk management of auditor is very effective. Keyword: Restatement; Risk Management; Auditor
Topological Structure of Linear Manifold Clustering

In topological data analysis, the ﬁrst step is a construction of a simplicial complex from a discrete points set D sampled from some manifold. In this paper, we present an algorithm for the eﬃcient computation of such simplicial complex which utilizes a clustering structure, comprised of subspace clusters, of the point set for speeding up a complex construction procedure while keeping relevant topological invariants of the underlying sampled manifold. Experiments show that the proposed construction algorithm produces simplicial complexes with less number of simplices and noise which gives a better homological picture than other construction methods as well as an improved construction performance and a topological invariant interpretability on a geometrical level.
Pinus radio to Needle Studies : Fine Structure of Epidermal Cells of the Needle

Epidermal tissue covers all parts of the primary body of vascular plants . The study of epidermis is deemed important for several reasons: 1) this tissue layer pro vides the plant with a means of regulating the transfer of gases and water vapours to the atmosphere, 2) it provides protection to internal tissues of the plant body and discourages infection by pathogens or attack by predators. Unfortunately, little is known about the fine structure of epidermal cells in gymnospermous plants
Tissue-specific transcriptional regulation of epithelial/endothelial and mesenchymal markers during renovascular hypertension

Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition are processes that can occur under different biological conditions, including tissue healing due to hypertension and oxidative stress. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the differences in gene expression of epithelial/endothelial and mesenchymal markers in different tissues. A two-kidney, one-clip (2K1C) renovascular hypertension rat model was used. Hypertension was induced by the clipping of the left renal artery; the rats were randomized into sham and 2K1C groups and monitored for up to 4 weeks. The gene expressions of E-cadherin (E-cad), N-cadherin (N-cad), α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA), collagen I (COL1A1), collagen III (COL3A1) and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) were determined by reverse transcription-PCR. The levels of the cytokines transforming growth factor-β1, tumor necrosis factor-α, interleukin (IL)-4, IL-6 and IL-10 were evaluated using ELISAs. The levels of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances and thiol groups were measured to evaluate oxidative stress. All analyses were performed on the liver, heart and kidneys tissues of sham and model rats. The 2K1C animals exhibited a higher systolic blood pressure, as well as cardiac hypertrophy and atrophy of the left kidney. Fibrotic alterations in the heart and kidneys were observed, as was an increase in the collagen fiber areas, and higher levels of inflammatory cytokines, which are associated with the increased expression of fibroproliferative and anti-fibrotic genes. Renovascular hypertension regulated epithelial/endothelial and mesenchymal markers, including E-cad, N-cad, α-SMA and COL1A1 in the kidneys and heart. EMT in the kidneys was mediated by an increased level of inflammatory and profibrotic cytokines, as well as by oxidative stress. The data in the present study suggested that the expression of epithelial/endothelial and mesenchymal markers are differentially regulated by hypertension in the liver, heart and kidneys.
Children’s perception of degraded speech at normal vs. fast speech rate

This study investigated the effect of degraded listening conditions and speech rate on children’s answer accuracy and response time in a speech perception task. Fifty-three normally-developing children (aged 5-6 years) listened to 72 pseudo-word pairs presented at two different speech rates (normal and fast) and four different listening conditions (normal voice in silence [control], dysphonic voice in silence, normal voice in speech-shaped noise (SSN) at 0 dBA SNR, and dysphonic voice in SSN at 0 dBA SNR). The participants had to decide whether the pseudo-words were the same (e.g. /filam/ /filam/) or different (e.g. /mafin/ /nafin/). For either speech rate, degraded listening conditions were found to significantly decrease answer accuracy. Regarding response time, speech rate interacted with listening condition: At fast as opposed to normal speech rate, children responded slower to normal voice in SSN but faster to the three other listening conditions. Our findings suggest that speech signal degradations may disrupt children’s speech perception even at normal speed. Speech rate might influence the extent of listening effort associated with adverse listening conditions. A good quality and adequate transmission of the speech signal may help children to listen effectively.
Optical Studies of the Conduction Band Offset at the CdCr2Se4/AlxGa1-xAs Interface

CdCr2Se4 grown on a GaAs or AlxGa1-xAs substrate is a candidate for efficient spin injection necessary to exploit the spin degree of freedom in electrons for semiconductor devices. Recent measurements, however, have shown a very low spin injection efficiency, which is believed to be due to a paramagnetic state of the semiconductor, even in temperature regions when ferromagnetism is expected. To measure the magnetic character of the absorption edge, or the energy band gap (Eg), a simple transmission/absorption measurement may be taken. The band gap of CdCr2Se4 is highly dependent on temperature, and below the Curie temperature should display ferromagnetic character, i.e. it should decrease with decreasing temperature due to the splitting of the spin bands. Measurements of the bandgap would help verify the relationship between the magnetism and the bandgap. As we see, however, other forms of absorption dominate, and this measurement cannot be made. A second measurement that would help explain the poor spin injection is to measure the conduction band offset directly. The offset between the two layers can be measured by inducing a photocurrent and determining the threshold value. In this paper we measure the conduction band offset for light emitting diode samples, and detect very slight ferromagnetic character.
Data Driven Heating Energy Load Forecast Modeling Enhanced by Nonlinear Autoregressive Exogenous Neural Networks

As the building sector consumes considerable portion of energy worldwide, effective management of building energy is of great importance. In this regard, forecasting building energy consumption is essential to use and manage the energy efficiently. This paper describes hourly heating energy load forecasting method with the load dataset of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)'s Research Support Facility (RSF) in the United States using both typical Artificial Neural Network and Nonlinear Autoregressive with Exogenous Inputs (NARX) Neural Network. The accuracy of the model is evaluated by MBE (Mean Bias Error) and CvRMSE (Coefficient of Variation of the Root Mean Square Error). The NARX neural network model showed a better performance than typical ANN model and it is confirmed that the model satisfies the acceptable error range proposed by ASHRAE guideline 14. This research explored a way to build a better performing neural network model for heating energy load prediction based on accumulated dataset.
Faster Transformers for Document Summarization

The field of sequence transduction has been dominated by complex networks with an encoder/decoder structure. In recent years, the best performing models for various tasks, such as text summarization and machine translation, have included an attention mechanism. The current state of the art is obtained by transformers (19), but these models are inefficient and intractable with long inputs. In this paper, we aim to experiment with design architectural improvements to attentions in thee encoder that improves performance in long inputs but also able to achieve results comparable to the state of the art. We introduce two novel architectural changes: a multi-head compressed attention module that groups words using convolutions, and a strided neighborhood attention that relaxes and reduces long term dependencies. We then apply these models to large document summarization and show empirically a speedup of 5.5% in training and 6.8% in inference time, while obtaining better ROUGE-2 precision and F1 scores, suggesting that our architectures may be successfully applied to other language understanding tasks.
Research on Design and Application of Table Tennis Teaching Based on VR

Human-computer interaction is one of the research hotspots of virtual reality. With the popularization of virtual reality technology, the research on human-computer interaction technology based on virtual reality has a wide application value. The latest virtual reality technology is becoming more and more mature, and it is applied in college physical education. Reality technology must become a reality, and the integration of VR technology can bring a new page to physical education. This paper focuses on the combination of human-computer interaction technology and virtual reality technology, and establishes a table tennis teaching prototype system integrating entertainment and fitness. Through the reasonable and effective application of VR technology, the teaching effect and teaching quality can be effectively improved.
Bianchi Type II, VIII, and IX Perfect Fluid Dark Energy Cosmological Models in Saez-Ballester and General Theory of Gravitation

The paper deals with spatially homogeneous anisotropic Bianchi type II, VIII , and IX dark energy cosmological models filled with perfect fluid in the framework of Saez-Ballester (1986) theory, and Einstein's general relativity. Assuming that the two sources interact minimally and therefore their energy momentum tensors are conserved separately, we have considered different cases and presented anisotropic as well as isotropic cosmological models. Some important physical and geometrical features of the models, thus obtained, have been discussed.
Ch. 20: Deep Carbon through Deep Time: Data-Driven Insights

Recommended Citation Hazen, Robert; Bromberg, Yana; Downs, Robert; Eleish, Ahmed; Falkowski, Paul; Fox, Peter; Giovannelli, Donato; Hummer, Daniel; Hystad, Grethe; Golden, Joshua; Knoll, Andrew; Li, Congrui; Liu, Chao; Moore, Eli; Morrison, Shaunna; Muscente, A.D.; Prabhu, Anirudh; Ralph, Jolyon; Rucker, Michelle; Runyon, Simone; Warden, Lisa; and Zhong, Hao, "Ch. 20: Deep Carbon through Deep Time: Data-Driven Insights" (2019). School of Earth & Environment Faculty Scholarship. 19. https://rdw.rowan. edu/see_facpub/19
Digestive System and Behavior Disorders Related to Weaning in Mammals

Weaning is a natural and inevitable phase of mammalian development. In both animals and humans, this process represents a transition from a milk based diet (low carbohydrate content) to a solid diet (relatively rich in carbohydrates). Both, the dietary change and the decline of the mother's attention during this critical period cause a state of stress in the offspring. The present review was designed to analyze the impacts of the weaning procedure on the digestive system and the behavior of mammals such as humans, rodents and pigs. Based on literature data, it appears that weaning is a complex process that requires physiological, microbiological and immunological adjustments in the digestive tract. The physiological changes are manifested by alterations of the intestinal anatomy, the activity of the digestive enzymes and the function of intestinal absorption. The composition of the intestinal flora undergoes changes depending of food and the environment. Weaning results also in the activation of the intestinal immune system following the introduction of new food and microbiological antigens. It involves also behavioral changes which depend largely on the age at which this process is performed. Thus, these data highlight the influence of diet on one of the early stages of mammalian development that may have an effect on the health during adulthood.
Plant cuticular waxes : a review on functions , composition , biosyntheses mechanism and transportation

Plants are simultaneously exposed to various biotic and abitic stresses which effect growth and development of plants causing to reduce yield. The term plant wax is collectively used to describe the lipid components of cuticles covering the areal parts of plants. Cuticular wax layer protects the plants against environmental stresses and work as a waterproof barrier. It reduces the residual transpiration, minimize the nonstomata water loss, shelter plants from ultraviolet radiations, decrease the water deposition on plant surface, minimize the retention of pollens, dust and air pollutants. Plant waxes provide the protection against bacterial, fungal pathogens and reduces plant-insect interactions. Generally cuticular wax is comprised of long chain aliphatic lipids, tritrepenoids, sterols and flavonoids. Aliphetic compounds are synthesized in epidermal cells to from very long chain fatty acids. These very long chain fatty acids are changed to their derivatives to form wax. The aim of present review is to exploit the available information about the composition, functions, biosyntheses process of plant epicuticular wax and factors involved in its regulation so that the information may be helpful for plant biologists to improve the potential of crop plants against environmental stresses. [Ahmad HM, Rahman MU, Ali Q Awan SI. Plant cuticular waxes: a review on functions, composition, biosyntheses mechanism and transportation. Life Sci J 2015;12(4s):60-67]. (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com. 8