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Trends in logistics and supply chain management: a focus on risk

The logistics and supply chain management domain faces a number of ongoing trends and resultant issues including costs, the globalisation of supply and markets, time compression, product complexity and shrinking product life cycles, quality of performance and service, a shortage of logistics and supply chain management talent, their impact on the natural environment, and risk and disruption and supply chain security. This paper discusses and synthesises these important trends and focuses on risk as an issue that, besides costs, underlies and/or affects almost every other trend. These trends are also related to the context of Thailand and Asia due to their importance in the run-up to the Asian Economic Community (AEC) 2015. Some suggestions are provided for risk mitigation strategies that will address the other trends.
Undisclosed risk : corporate environmental and social reporting in emerging Asia

This report focuses on corporate transparency on environmental risks, and lays the groundwork for understanding environmental disclosure and reporting in emerging markets through an investor lens. Undisclosed Risk is the second report in a series establishing the link between issues such as climate change, air pollution, water, and natural resource depletion and traditional financial analysis on corporate value and financial strength for companies in these six key Asian economies. Together with the Emerging Risk report, Undisclosed Risk sets the stage for a series of sector-specific reports published by WRI and HSBC. The reports examine the financial impact of environmental risks and opportunities in the region's food and beverage, real estate and power generation sectors for India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
Housing reform in socialist economies

This paper summarizes the main conclusions of a seminar on housing reforms in socialist economies. The seminar was initiated to discuss the transition from socialist systems, where government control and public ownership dominate, to market-based housing systems. This transition to markets is new to everyone, and several questions shaped the agenda, including : 1) is there agreement about the ultimate goal of housing reform? and 2) how significant is housing reform to overall economic reform? The paper consists of two main parts. The first part, the legacy of central planning and transition issues for housing was prepared prior to the seminar and sets the stage for the development of a reform framework. Its emphasis is analytical rather than operational. The second part, a framework for housing reform in socialist economies, presents the results of the seminar and provides a concise reference point for development of the national reforms according to each country's specific conditions. The framework identifies priority issues and indicates directions for change in four functional areas : i) clarification and adjustments of property rights and the scope of privatization of publicly owned housing; ii) reduction of distortions in rents; iii) development of sound and viable market-oriented finance mechanisms during a difficult transition; and iv) the reorganization of housing production.
Infants Return to Two-Handed Reaching When They Are Learning to Walk

Abstract The authors examined whether infants of about 1 year return to 2-handed reaching when they begin to walk independently. Infants (N = 9) were followed longitudinally before, during, and after their transition to upright locomotion. Every week, the infants' reaching responses and patterns of interlimb coordination were screened in 3 tasks involving different adaptive reaching responses. Before the onset of upright locomotion, the infants responded to each task adaptively. Following walking onset, they increased their rate of 2-handed responses in all tasks. The 2-handed responses declined when the infants gained better balance control. The results suggest that infants' return to 2-handed reaching is experience dependent. Those findings are discussed in terms of the integration of new developing motor skills into existing cognitive and motor repertoires.
Modeling and Optimization of Hull Building Process Based on P-TPN

Due to the low efficiency of hull building, this paper applies Timed Place Petri net to model and optimize the process of hull construction scheduling. We adjust the Orientation Block, eliminate the Hatch Coaming Section, repartition the complicated blocks and reduce the construction difficulty. Modularization building and flow line construction are realized for most blocks. The result shows the efficiency has been enhanced greatly. Finally, according to the reasonable existing time of the markings, whether a given construction state is on rational construction schemes can be judged.
Self- and Sociocultural Representations of Future Teachers

The purpose of this study is the analysis of the reflective journals of university preservice teachers as they engaged in their first experience of observing and teaching in a classroom. The journals are analyzed from the perspectives of self- and sociocultural representations of the preservice teachers (as well as how they perceive the self- and sociocultural representations of students and cooperating classroom teachers) as they examine pedagogical theory in relation to classroom practice. Themes emerging from analysis of the journals include gender issues, the teaching styles of cooperating teachers, and discipline and classroom management. Finally we utilize Paolo Freire’s concept of “conscientization” as a tool for analyzing the variety of preservice teacher self- and sociocultural representations evidenced in their journals. Much has been written about the teacher as a reflective professional and the need to design programs to encourage reflection in teacher education. In the past it was thought that mastering technical skills was the primary goal of classes in teacher education. However, the development of reflective habits in preservice teachers is an equally important goal connecting what the preservice teacher learns from their own student experiences from their course work and what the preservice teacher sees being practiced in the classroom. It is important that future teachers learn important reflective strategies
Why Ownership Matters?: Politicization and Entrepreneurship in the Restructuring of Enterprises in Central Europe

This paper, base on a study of mid-sized firms in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, examines the sources of performance differences between state and privatized firms, particularly those that may be due to politicization and differences in the degree of entreprenurship. The paper presents empirical evidence that politicization of decision making is responsible for the observed inefficiencies in the cost behavior of state enterprises, but does not explain their inferior revenue performance, which is independent of the degree of state involvement.
Exchange rates and import prices in Finland : estimation of exchange rate pass-through

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between import prices and exchange rates in Finland.The concept of pass-through is associated with how prices of internationally traded goods are affected by changes in exchange rates. Pass-through is said to be complete when the exporter of the good does not adjust prices in his home currency.This means that exchange rate fluctuations are totally reflected in local import prices abroad.On the contrary, if import prices in local currencies remain stable, it is the prices received by exporters that must adjust to exchange rate movements.This paper presents a simple static theoretical model for pass-through.After that, some estimation results for Finnish import prices are shown.Estimation results are mixed, but it is evident that depreciation of markka increases import prices.
Valuation in Multifinance Acquisition by Bank MDR: A Case Study

Bank MDR as one of leading banks in Indonesia, aims to capture 20 to 30% of revenue share in each of their businesses, including Consumer Finance. One crucial sub-segment in Consumer Finance Business is Automotive Loan, which currently dominated by Multifinance companies. To increase the pace of becoming dominant in Automotive Loan, ”inorganic initiatives” are required to supplement the organic efforts to grow the revenue shares of Bank MDR. In early 2009, Bank MDR engages in inorganic investment by acquiring a multifinance company, Tunas Finance. The main purpose of this study is to examine an alternative approach to value an acquisition of a multifinance company, as well as to observe whether the acquisition done by Bank MDR is creating value for its shareholders. Valuation of an acquisition is not fundamentally different from valuation of any firm, however, valuing a multifinance company poses particular challenges. Given that Bank MDR has announced that it would pay 290 billion rupiahs for 51% shares of Tunas Finance, this study, following Excess Return Model Valuation (Damodaran, 2002), shows results that acquirer shareholders still earn positive value from the acquisition.
Accounting and accountability : changes and challenges in corporate social and environmental reporting

* Social Accounting and Systems Thinking: The Failures of Accounting and Liberal Economic Democracy. * Social Accounting and Accountability. * Corporate Social Reporting, Social Responsibility, Accounting and Accountants. * The Development of Social and Environmental Accounting and Reporting. * Corporate Social Reporting Practice: An International Perspective. * Corporate Social Reporting Practice: Current Trends in Western Europe. * Social Accounting and the Management Information System. * Social Investment. * The Social Audit Movement. * Accountability, Transparency and Sustainability: The Future for Corporate Social Reporting? Financial Statement Analysis.
Magnetic-Core and Air-Core Inductors on Silicon: A Performance Comparison up to 100 MHz

What is the future of integrated inductor design on silicon for power conversion applications at frequencies up to 100 MHz-is it magnetic-core or air-core inductors. This study presents measured results for two microfabricated inductors (magnetic core and air core), which have been designed to operate at 20 MHz and occupy a substrate area of less than 10 mm2. The inductor technology and design are briefly discussed. An optimized inductor design study is, then, presented. Both magnetic-core and air-core inductor designs are compared and evaluated, in terms of inductance and efficiency per unit area for frequencies up to 100 MHz. The design of the microinductors is discussed and an analytical design optimization program is used to model the devices for the maximum efficiency and inductance. The introduction of laminations with high-frequency core inductors will also be examined within the study. A 100 MHz magnetic-core inductor design with three laminations gives a 36 nH inductance, with 96.4% efficiency and an area of 3 mm2 . A comparable air-core design also gives a 36 nH inductance, with 93.45% efficiency and an area of just 2.6 mm2.
Proposal Computational Social Roles : Identify , Recommend and Configure Emergent Social Roles in Online Communities

Millions of people participate in online communities, exchange expertise and ideas, and collaborate to produce complex artifacts, such as Linux and Wikipedia. They engage in a variety of roles, which strongly influence the amount and types of work they do, and how they coordinate their activities. Better understanding members’ roles benefits members by clarifying how they should behave to participate effectively and also benefits the community overall by encouraging members to contribute in ways that best use their skills and interests. Social sciences have provided rich theoretic taxonomies of social roles within groups, while natural language processing techniques enable us to automate the identification of social roles in online communities. However, most social science work has focused on generic roles without accommodating the activities associated with tasks in specific contexts or automating the process of role identification. While there has been work to date about automatic role inference, identification of social roles has not had a corresponding strong emphasis in the language technologies community. A variety of methods were developed to extract specific “roles”, patterns, or components in different contexts, lacking of generalized definitions about what are roles and systematic methods about how to extract roles. Moreover, how roles change over time and how the awareness of roles influence role holders’ performance and the group production, have not been adequately researched in both fields. In this thesis, I advocate for both theories of social science and models of text analysis to better define roles, develop ways to extract roles, optimally recommend roles to users, and configure roles within the community. Concretely, I focus on four perspectives. The first work constructs profiles of users from what they do and with whom they interact in online cancer support groups, from which we then extract social roles in an unsupervised manner. The second work predicts when and how members transit from one role to another and examines how role contrast helps explain the occurrences of different transitions. Third, I model how the presence of different types of roles and their interaction with task level, group tenure, and group type, predicts group performances. The last perspective investigates whether making role expectation explicit increases group performance. I will produce both theoretical and computational results: this thesis will develop new algorithms to mine behavioral data to extract social roles and recommend roles, tasks, and groups to target an optimal group configuration; it can also advance the development of social science theories on how roles and role collaboration affect participation in online communities.
Relative contribution of the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger, mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum in the regulation of cytosolic Ca2+ and catecholamine secretion of bovine adrenal chromaffin cells

The relative importance of mitochondria, the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger (NCX) and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in the regulation of the cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) were examined in bovine chromaffin cells using fura‐2 for average [Ca2+]i and amperometry for secretory activity, which reflects the local Ca2+ concentration near the exocytotic sites. Chromaffin cells were stimulated by a high concentration of K+ when the three Ca2+ removal mechanisms were individually or simultaneously inhibited. When the mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake was inhibited, the [Ca2+]i decayed at a significantly slower rate and the secretory activity was higher than the control cells. The NCX appears to function only in the initial phase of [Ca2+]i decay and when the ER Ca2+ pump is blocked. Similarly, the ER had a significant effect on the [Ca2+]i decay and on the secretion only when the NCX was blocked. Inhibition of all three mechanisms leads to a substantial delay in [Ca2+]i recovery and an increase in the secretion. The results suggest that the three mechanisms work together in the regulation of the Ca2+ near the Ca2+ channels and exocytotic sites and therefore modulate the secretory activity. When Ca2+ diffuses away from the exocytotic sites, the mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake becomes the dominant mechanism.
Selecting Target Markets-A Key to Effective Marketing

The idenJ:! fication and selection of target markets is a key marketing decision. It influences and directly determines all of the ensuing decisions regarding types of services, their distribution, pricing, and communication. Selecting target markets is a two stage process. The first stage is to divide a market into segments that constitute potential target markets. The paper briefly identifies the criteria required for delineating effective segments and describes the two alternate approaches that may be adopted in defining potential target markets. Common descriptions used to define segments are presented with examples intended to illustrate their application. The second stage in the process is to select which of the potential target markets the agency will endeavor to serve with a particular offering. Three alternate strategies for servicing the potential target markets are addressed and the dilemma that confronts agencies in prioritizing the potential target markets to be serviced is discussed.
Managing ethical consumption in tourism

1. Introduction: managing ethical consumption in tourism -compromises and tensions Clare Weeden and Karla Boluk Section 1: Debates on ethical consumption in tourism 2. What does it mean to be good in tourism? Kellee Caton 3. You can check out anytime but you can never leave: can ethical consumption in tourism ever be sustainable? C. Michael Hall 4. Slow tourism: ethics, aesthetics and consumptive values Michael Clancy 5. The evolution of environmental ethics: reflections on tourism consumption Andrew Holden Section 2: Situating the self in ethical consumption 6. A fresh look into tourist consumption: is there hope for sustainability? Adriana Budeanu and Tareq Emtairah 7. Tourism's relationship with ethical food systems: fertile ground for research Carol Kline, Whitney Knollenberg and Cynthia S. Deale 8. Travelling goods: global (self) development on sale Maria Koleth 9. Exploring the ethical discourses presented by volunteer tourists Karla Boluk and Vania Ranjbar 10. Ethical tourism: the role of emotion Sheila Malone Section 3: Helping consumers make ethical decisions 11. Tread lightly through this Lonely Planet: examining ethical information in travel guidebooks Sarah Quinlan Cutler 12. Business travel and the environment: the strains of travelling for work and the impact on travellers' pro-environmental in situ behaviour Wouter Geerts 13. Medical tourism: consumptive practice, ethics and health care - the importance of subjective proximity Kirsten Lovelock and Brent Lovelock 14. Marketing responsible tourism Clare Weeden 15. Concluding remarks: ethics and responsibility in tourism Karla Boluk and Clare Weeden
Hypohidrosis‐related symptoms in pediatric epileptic patients with topiramate

Background: Topiramate is one of the most commonly prescribed newer antiepileptic drugs. However, we have encountered quite a few cases of pediatric epileptic patients on topiramate complaining about the symptoms related to hypohidrosis. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence and define the clinical characteristics of hypohidrosis‐related symptoms with topiramate in pediatric patients.
GRID PRICING: VALUING CATTLE QUALITY INFORMATION

Grid pricing is increasingly prominent in cattle markets. This study compares selling 11,703 head of fed cattle using grid, live, and dressed weight pricing. Cattle sold on a grid had price variability twice that of live or dressed. Average pricing inefficiency by not selling cattle on a grid exceeded $30/head.
Developmental Differences in Children's Statistical Learning Abilities

Infants, children and adults are constantly exposed to repeating patterns in their environment, and manage to learn and generalize from them. This ability – often called statistical learning (SL) is postulated to be one of the important mechanisms in language acquisition [1]. Research over the past twenty years has shown that SL is present already from early infancy and found in a variety of tasks and modalities [2,3]. Though SL is well established for infants and adults, only few studies examine the developmental trajectory of SL abilities across childhood [4]. Even less work has compared auditory and visual learning throughout development. Moreover, studies of SL focus on the group level: learning is demonstrated when participants (as a group) show performance that is significantly above chance (50%). Yet recent work suggests that only a subset of participants show significant learning when looking at individual performance [5]. These findings raise questions about individual differences in SL, and the ability to correlate performance on SL tasks with other linguistic measures. To address these issues, we conducted a large-scale developmental study of both auditory and visual SL across a wide age-range (4-14, N=238), with three questions in mind: (1) Does auditory and visual SL improve with age? (2) Are there differences in SL abilities between modalities? And (3) What is the pattern of individual performance in children?
Investigation of statistical retention of filamentary analog RRAM for neuromophic computing

The retention requirements of analog RRAM for neuromorphic computing applications are quite different from conventional RRAM for memory applications. Meanwhile, filamentary analog RRAM exhibits different retention behavior in comparison to strong-filament RRAM. For the first time, the statistical behaviors of read current noise and retention in a 1Kb filamentary analog RRAM array are investigated in this work. The conductance distribution of different levels is found to change with time, and the physical mechanism of the retention degradation is elucidated. From the experimental data, a compact model is developed in order to predict the statistical conductance evolution, which can effectively evaluate the impact of read noise and retention degradation in neuromorphic computing systems.
40 GHz all-optical clock recovery using cross-absorption in an electro-absorption modulator inside a fiber ring laser

We demonstrated 40 GHz all-optical clock recovery system using an erbium-doped fiber laser that incorporates a 10 GHz electro-absorption modulator and a linear optical amplifier. We successful recovered 40 GHz clock signals from a 40 Gb/s pseudo random bit sequences. Stable pulses with pulsewidth of 6 ps and timing jitter of 300 fs are obtained.
Pengaruh Brand Image dan Product Knowledge Terhadap Purchase intention Produk Tas Tiruan Di Kota Denpasar

This study explains the impact of brand image and product knowledge to purchase intention imitation handbag products in Denpasar. The purpose of the study was to determine the impact of brand image and product knowledge on purchase intention imitation handbag product users in the city of Denpasar. 120 respondents involved in this study that were choosen by purposive sampling technique. The data obtained were then analyzed using multiple linear regression analysis. The results showed that the brand image and product knowledge and a significant positive effect on purchase intention of products imitation bag in Denpasar. It can be concluded that brand image and product knowledge can affect the purchase intention of products imitation bag in Denpasar
Goblet Cells Contribute to Ocular Surface Immune Tolerance—Implications for Dry Eye Disease

Conjunctival goblet cell (GC) loss in dry eye is associated with ocular surface inflammation. This study investigated if conjunctival GCs contribute to ocular surface immune tolerance. Antigens applied to the ocular surface, imaged by confocal microscopy, passed into the conjunctival stroma through goblet cell associated passages (GAPs) in wild type C57BL/6 (WT), while ovalbumin (OVA) was retained in the epithelium of SAM pointed domain containing ETS transcription factor (Spdef) knockout mice (Spdef−/−) that lack GCs and are a novel model of dry eye. Stimulated GC degranulation increased antigen binding to GC mucins. Induction of tolerance to topically applied OVA measured by cutaneous delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) was observed in WT, but not Spdef−/−. OTII CD4+ T cells primed by dendritic cells (DCs) from the conjunctival draining lymph nodes of Spdef−/− had greater IFN-γ production and lower Foxp3 positivity than those primed by WT DCs. These findings indicate that conjunctival GCs contribute to ocular surface immune tolerance by modulating antigen distribution and antigen specific immune response. GC loss may contribute to the abrogation of ocular surface immune tolerance that is observed in dry eye.