bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Pouvoirs et autonomie des communautés d’habitants de la Vallée de Barcelonnette (Moyen Âge central-1790)
Authors: Surmely Laurent
Published: October 2019

À la fin de l’Ancien Régime, la Vallée de
Barcelonnette constitue un corps politique dépendant directement de
Versailles, une région administrative unique en son genre disposant
d’un régime fiscal particulier, de prérogatives politiques et
judiciaires larges. Une meilleure connaissance des institutions
locales durant les xviie et xviiie siècles nous permet aujourd’hui de mieux
cerner la réalité des pouvoirs exercés depuis le Moyen Âge central et
leur évolution durant plus de 400 ans. Nous pouvons désormais
entrevoir une histoire qui voit les communautés d’habitants se former
et s’autonomiser face aux seigneurs locaux dès le xiie siècle puis s’organiser collectivement
afin de conserver les pouvoirs et prérogatives acquis face aux États
princiers. À partir de la fin du xvie siècle s’ouvre une ère qui voit le duché
de Savoie, puis le royaume de France, engager un long travail de sape
visant à réduire l’autonomie dont bénéficient les communautés de la
Vallée de Barcelonnette.
La levée des troupes de montagne sur le front pyrénéen en 1793 : entre particularismes et intégration d’une culture tactique
Authors: Gainot Bernard
Published: October 2019

Par décret en date du 6 septembre 1792, la
Convention nationale décide la formation d’une Légion nationale des
Pyrénées. Cette décision est complétée par un second décret, en date
du 9 février 1793, qui autorise la formation d’une Légion des
montagnes. Il s’agit d’abord de préciser le contexte de ces formations
(une troisième légion, la légion des deux-mers, ne verra jamais le
jour), alors que la guerre avec l’Espagne n’est pas encore ouverte. La
spécificité tient aussi à l’identité de ces formations, dont le noyau
est composé des multiples compagnies franches de miquelets.
L’expérience particulière de ces troupes de montagne, auxquelles
l’Ancien Régime eut déjà largement recours, dessine les contours d’une
singularité au sein de l’armée nationale. Particularisme tactique ?
Particularisme social ? Esprit de corps tiraillé entre la
représentation négative de la désertion et de l’incivisme, et la
représentation plus valorisante de l’honneur et de la bravoure ? Nous
nous efforcerons de dresser un portrait contrasté à partir des données
fournies par les états de service de quelques compagnies, par les
mémoires des officiers qui les commandèrent, par les parcours
individuels de certains d’entre eux. La nécessaire recomposition de
l’armée en 1794 allait conduire à l’intégration de ces légions, donc à
gommer les particularismes. Le commandement ne peut pas pour autant se
dispenser de l’expérience des troupes de montagnes. Selon d’autres
modalités, la levée de ce type de troupes conduit les généraux à
reformuler le lien entre le recrutement local et l’organisation des
troupes réglées, entre les cultures tactiques et la visée
stratégique.
De la philosophie à l'école à une école philosophique. Redonner de la saveur aux savoirs pour lutter contre les inégalités scolaires
Authors: Chirouter Edwige
Published: October 2019

Le travail de recherche présenté dans cet article met à l’épreuve l’hypothèse que l’introduction de la philosophie dès le plus jeune âge dépasse largement la seule nécessité de démocratiser l’accès à cette discipline scolaire - et donc les questions de didactique. Ces pratiques expérimentales interrogent le sens même de la transmission des savoirs et la définition des missions de l’école. Une approche philosophique des savoirs permettrait de retrouver leurs « saveurs », pour reprendre l’expression de J-P. Astolfi (2008). Ainsi, plus que de simples moments de philosophie déconnectés des autres apprentissages (1 heure « d’atelier philo » par semaine), il s’agit plutôt de penser comment la philosophie peut insuffler du sens à ce que les élèves doivent apprendre au quotidien et dans toutes les disciplines. Ce qui nous amène à penser aux conditions de possibilité de ce que nous appellerons une « école philosophique », c'est-à-dire d’une école où les élèves seraient appelés à s’interroger au quotidien sur les fondements épistémologiques des savoirs enseignés, où ils seront invités à retrouver l’étonnement originel à la source des connaissances.
La professionnalité enseignante dans le débat en classe : une étude de cas en EMC pour faire émerger le milieu de vie de l’élève
Authors: Denny Jean-Luc , Flavier Eric
Published: October 2019

L’article documente une pratique du débat en classe centrée sur le milieu de vie de l’élève visant la lutte contre toutes les formes d’inégalités. Il décrit l’impact de sa mise en œuvre sur la professionnalité enseignante en faisant émerger la dimension compréhensive et transformative induite par la démarche ergologique (Schwartz, 2000).Un dispositif longitudinal de recueil de données (enregistrements audiovisuels des débats et entretiens d’autoconfrontation avec trois enseignants) a été mis en place pendant une année scolaire. Les résultats montrent un développement professionnel à partir d’un triple processus menant de l’instrumentalisation du vécu des élèves à un sentiment d’inefficacité, d’un changement de référentiel à une déstabilisation du genre professionnel et de l’expérience du lâcher prise au renouvèlement des normes de métier.Cette étude aboutit à la conception d’un dispositif de formation qui vise l’analyse de l’activité comme processus formatif.
Ciaran Carson and the Equilibrium of Language(s)
Authors: Ní Ríordáin Clíona
Published: October 2019

This article makes a parallel between Ciaran Carson’s bilingualism and his search for linguistic equilibrium in his work. It suggests that this elusive search is influenced by Walter Benjamin and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Four works are examined: the poetry collections The Alexandrine Plan, In the Light Of, and From Elsewhere and the novel Exchange Place. Each of these volumes is influenced by a creative impulse that, it argues, stems from a desire for balance in language. The article examines the translational process of Carson in his translations of a variety of French poets (Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Follain); it highlights different methods employed by Carson at various stages of his career, including versions, straight translations, and transcreation. It details the intertextuality at play in the novel Exchange Place. In conclusion, it contends that at the heart of Carson’s oeuvre is the desire to invent a private language, freed from the linguistic constraints associated with national languages.
Immaterial matters in Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
Authors: Mianowski Marie
Published: October 2019

Often compared to Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman, Mike McCormack’s novel Solar Bones published in 2016 is built on tensions and paradoxes. The narrator of Solar Bones is a dead man coming back to his home and his village on All Souls Day 2008 to reflect on his life on earth. The one-sentence narrative sounds like a gasp between life and death, the past and the present, real facts and virtual facts. Just as this in-between status of the narrator is a key-feature of the novel, the narrative questions the meaning of place, embodiment, and life in Ireland at the end of the 20th century and the turn of the twenty-first century. The narrator’s death and his return coincide with the formidable end of the Celtic Tiger, so that the novel can be read as a dirge for Ireland, while the voice of the narrator, an ex-building engineer on a tightrope between the world of the dead and that of the living, implicitly questions what kind of future Ireland wants to construct. In Solar Bones reading becomes an exercise in balance between past and the future, materiality and abstraction, nature and constructs, life and death. And yet, for all its dramatic and morbid tone, this novel opens out moral, social, political and environmental perspectives and points at the need to draw lessons from the past in order to build a sounder future for the generations to come in Ireland.
Equilibre et déséquilibre des formes de la parole rapportée dans « The Mourning » et « Sitting with the Dead » de William Trevor
Authors: Brunet Michel
Published: October 2019

L’objet de cet article est d’étudier l’interaction des différentes catégories de représentation des paroles et des pensées, selon la nomenclature de Leech et Short, dans deux nouvelles de l’écrivain irlandais William Trevor : « The Mourning » et « Sitting with the Dead ». L’article présentera dans un premier temps une rétrospective de l’emploi de ces catégories dans la fiction brève de l’auteur au cours de sa carrière. L’étude d’un extrait de la première nouvelle démontrera qu’il n’y a pas de règles absolues en termes d’usage littéraire et d’effets de lecture et qu’une analyse des transitions entre formes de présentation des paroles et formes de présentation des pensées se doit de prendre en compte le point de vue. La seconde nouvelle, qui met essentiellement en texte un dialogue, présente également un certain nombre de cas complexes de types de présentation des paroles et des pensées. Une approche stylistique montrera que leur association et leur articulation savamment orchestrées ont pour effet de construire un récit apparemment fluide, caractérisé par des termes appartenant au lexique de la conversation et suggérant, par là-même, une lecture potentiellement métafictionnelle du récit. L’article démontrera, enfin, que dans ces deux nouvelles, la médiation d’un narrateur effacé mais omniprésent contribue à établir une juste mesure entre paroles, pensées et récit.
La recherche d’équilibre dans l’enquête Saville sur Bloody Sunday (1998-2010)
Authors: Barcat Charlotte
Published: October 2019

L’enquête publique sur Bloody Sunday, ou « enquête Saville », mise en place en 1998 par le parlement britannique, fut la seconde enquête publique portant sur les événements du 30 janvier 1972 en Irlande du Nord, plus connus sous le nom de « Bloody Sunday ». La notion « d’équilibre » est ici envisagée à travers le prisme de la justice et des notions qui lui sont associées : impartialité et équité. En effet, la tâche de l’enquête Saville consistait en quelque sorte à rétablir un équilibre : afin de rétablir la confiance après la déception suscitée par la première enquête, la version officielle de Bloody Sunday devait être réécrite d’une manière susceptible de convaincre l’opinion publique que la vérité avait enfin été dite. Dans ce contexte, l’enquête se devait d’apparaître « équilibrée » : il s’agissait de convaincre les participants que le tribunal d’enquête pouvait se montrer juste et impartial. Cela signifiait parfois devoir trouver un équilibre entre diverses considérations : les droits des victimes et ceux des soldats, la vérité et la justice, l’identification de responsabilités individuelles et collectives. Dans le contexte plus large du processus de paix, la question de l’équité se posait également : le seul fait que l’Etat britannique ait accepté d’accorder une enquête de cette ampleur afin de répondre à un grief de la communauté nationaliste, n’était pour certains qu’un marché politique destiné à satisfaire le Sinn Féin, tandis que d’autres y voyaient plutôt la compensation d’une injustice qui durait depuis trop longtemps.
A Framework for Longitudinal Analysis of University Spin-Offs
Authors: Almeida Fernando , Cunha Eugénio
Published: October 2019

The creation of university spin-offs plays a fundamental role in the technology transfer process between universities and the business field. Universities have developed for themselves internal processes within their technology transfer offices in order to collect this information. However, this data is only available locally and often outdated. Furthermore, the number of frameworks that allow the study and simultaneously access to this data in an integrated way is still small on a global scale, and in Portugal, there isn't a repository which contains this information. This study proposes the establishment of a framework for longitudinal analysis that could identify and characterize the evolution and performance of Portuguese university spin-offs. The repository is built exclusively in open source technologies and offers the potential to characterize and analyze the evolution and performance of university spin-offs in different perspectives, such as individual factors; organizational factors; institutional factors; and scientific, educational, and commercial outputs.
A General Approach for Financial Quantification of Climate Change Risk for Enterprises
Authors: Kanak Mahesh Gangaram , Purushottam Sunita
Published: October 2019

Climate change is a major risk for the global economy. Increased frequency of climatic events coupled with unsustainable economic development without considering environmental & social aspects has resulted in runaway climatic impacts. It became evident for all stakeholders to work in unison; which led to formation of Task force on climate-related financial disclosures (TCFD). Financial quantification of climate risk is a new area to be explored & could be an effective measure to tackle climate change. This chapter provides a general approach for financial quantification of climate change risk for businesses to understand & prioritize climate action. Though the approach is limited to the manufacturing sector, it can be used with some modifications for other sectors. It will help find impacts that climate change could pose to supply chain using various tools & evaluation of its usefulness. As 'Climate Action' is part of Sustainable Development Goals; it will be useful to understand how integrating TCFD could help enterprises tackle climate change by localizing SDG-13 into their businesses.
Engaging Millennial in Corporate Governance
Authors: Mohare Rahul
Published: October 2019

Millennials, born starting from the 1980s, who are also called Nexters, the Net Generation, and Generation Y represent a new workforce in a global market and have high aspiration. Because of their digital, liquid, and collective mindset, they are adapting the way people generate the future. But now we have three generations representing the workforce at the same time . Before them, the world had two other generation groups: Generation X, born between 1965 and 1980, and the Baby Boomers who were born between 1946 and 1964 . Following the Strauss-Howe generation theory, each type of generation falls on a certain cycle of social and economic development, namely high, awakening, unraveling, and crisis. As a result, the Baby Boomers were born during the high, Generation X during the awakening, and millennials entered the unraveling period.
Real Options Theory
Authors: Tadeu Hugo Ferreira Braga , Silva Jersone Tasso Moreira , Jamil George Leal
Published: October 2019

The objective of this chapter is to present the real options theory (ROT) as an alternative methodology applicable to investment analyses in research and development projects (R&D). The authors intend to simulate the evaluation of an R&D project as a real option, compare real options theory outcomes to a conventional R&D project evaluation technique, and review real options theory as a trend in innovation project evaluation. The outcomes were compared to those obtained via the traditional net present value (NPV) method and a brief practical discussion regarding project management decision making is held. Finally, although ROT is still in a developmental and consolidation stage, the authors suggests that it can be used as a promising tool in the decision-making process concerning R&D projects. ROT is presented as a research field that would integrate a set of emerging management technologies, becoming a theoretical base for new tools and methods to support project management (PM) decision making.
Sustainable Innovation Projects From Patent Information to Leverage Economic Development
Authors: Maravilhas-Lopes Sérgio
Published: October 2019

Patent information can provide a growing competitiveness through the technology transfer it fosters, and be economically important because of the innovation it leverages. Organizations are not monetizing their potential related to the use of patent information that could encourage more innovation and the largest number of patent applications, resulting in more businesses and greater economic growth. This chapter sustains that a coherent and effective use of patent information, containing information from research and development (R&D) activities with industrial application, can contribute to solving problems, fostering innovation through the resulting products and processes. Sustainable solutions can be realized, using unexploited inventions, as by the formulation of new products based on R&D that can be adapted to new global needs, creating jobs and protecting the environment and its resources.
Information Management for the University-Enterprise Interaction
Authors: Santos de Miranda Morjane Armstrong , Maravilhas-Lopes Sérgio , Marques dos Santos Ernani , Junior Antonio Eduardo de Albuquerque , Silva Daniella Barbosa , Fonseca Platini
Published: October 2019

This chapter analyzes the importance of Information Management for the phenomenon of University-Enterprise (U-E) interaction, based on the Directory of Research Groups (DGP) in Brazil, of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). The methodology used consisted in analyzing, by the empirical-analytic research and descriptive-analytical approach, the data available on this database. The data is about the activities of the research groups of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), interacting with companies from 2002 to 2010. Results show information management is important for this occurrence because it contributes to the recognition of interest and the conditions of interaction of the actors, enhancing the transfer of knowledge and technologies.
Sustainable Procurement to Enhance Organizational Performance in Supply Chain Management
Authors: Sánchez-Flores Rebeca B , Cruz-Sotelo Samantha E. , Ojeda-Benitez Sara , Navarro-Gonzalez Carlos R.
Published: October 2019

The purpose of this chapter is to present an overview of current research on sustainable procurement identifying practices and case studies in supply chain that have been said to improve its performance from a global perspective. As an introduction, this chapter describes the importance of sustainability in supply chain, driving the discussion into the procurement process. Theoretical perspectives used in sustainable supply chain literature are presented, focusing on procurement management and the three dimensions of sustainability. The chapter discusses current procurement practices as a source of competitive advantage. It also highlights techniques, tools, and methodologies from research case studies, and presents sustainable procurement practices as a driver of performance improvement. Finally, this chapter provides further research directions and confirms sustainable procurement as a key process to performance enhancement in supply chain management, and as a source for global business improvement and competitive advantage achievement.
A Plan to Improve Recycled Raw Material Supply in a Production Company of RPET
Authors: Lopez Clara , Jäeger Franz , Ramirez Karina , Chong Mario
Published: October 2019

The world is facing a problem caused by the management of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) packaging. In the Peruvian context, the studied company is the only local company that has a factory which is able to process post-consumer plastic bottles in order to transform them into recycled resin; this is why it performs a fundamental role. This recycled resin is used for elaborating new packages, generating a circular economy into line with the new global paradigm of switching to a model that seeks to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Finally, it was concluded that the collection center implementation will allow the recycling unit to purchase an average of 76 TN additional annual raw materials. The project would have a cost of US$ 151,383, generating a Net Present Value (NPV) of US$ 144,500 with a 25.9% of Internal Rate of Return (IRR), making it viable in a moderate scenario with a recovery period of five years.
Effect of Green Attributes in Obtaining Benefits in the Manufacturing and Marketing Process
Authors: Mendoza-Fong José Roberto , García-Alcaraz Jorge Luis , Avelar Sosa Liliana , Díaz Reza José Roberto
Published: October 2019

New environmental tendencies have been incorporated into supply chains, and suppliers are playing an important role. However, the main problem when selecting a green supplier is determining the attributes that contribute to a green supply chain. Moreover, a lot of companies ignore the benefits gained from green suppliers on economic performance and marketing. Therefore, this chapter reports a structural equation model with three latent variables (Green attributes of suppliers, Marketing benefits, and Manufacturing processes benefits) and three hypotheses are proposed with relationship among them. The model is validated with information from 253 questionnaires administered to Mexican maquiladoras and evaluated using partial least squares. Findings demonstrate that maquiladoras that consider Green attributes in supplier selection process are gaining marketing and economic benefits, contributing to a green supply chain, and improving the corporate image as socially responsible organizations.
Procurement Process and Supply Chain
Authors: Valentina Florea Nicoleta
Published: October 2019

Organizations are operating in an environment which offers opportunities but also dangers, risks, changes, and challenges. To face these changes, organizations must develop effective strategies based on relationships with stakeholders and profit decisions, and cost-based in order to obtain competitive advantage. To satisfy customers' needs, the organizations seek a position of superiority over its competitors. To deploy its activities and to achieve its objectives, any organization must dispose resources such as material, human, financial, informational, and technological. This chapter treats a very interesting theme, that of procurement, as commercial activity, in the complex activities of organizations. The chapter starts with the literature in the field and presents the evolution of the process, the objectives, the roles, the functions, the activities, and the typology. The author presents the impact the new technologies have on procurement process, using a simulation model, based on mathematical and statistical models and IT programs.
Logistic Strategies to Minimize Losses and Waste in Food Supply Chains
Authors: Ruiz-Morales Betzabé , Miranda-Ackerman Marco A. , Espitia-Moreno Irma Cristina
Published: October 2019

This chapter proposes sustainable supply chains in agrifoods, achieved through logistical strategies to minimize food waste and losses. Proposals will recover organic and inorganic waste and reincorporate it into the supply chain or add it to new chains through new products generated from food waste. A literature review is presented regarding the causes of food losses and waste within the supply chain and the strategic opportunities in the logistical process to reduce such losses. The creation of models that include the three dimensions of sustainability in food logistics is required in order to achieve a reduction in waste and food losses in transport, as well as to minimize costs and environmental impacts. If a correct sustainable logistics is carried out, it would favor the reincorporation of waste into new supply chains.
African Migrant Narratives, Modern Slavery, and Human Rights Violations in Libya
Authors: Ajayi Lady Adaina , Ajayi Anijesushola O. , Folarin Sheriff F. , Tiamiyu Abdulrahman Oluwaseyi , Nnajidema Chioma Eucharia , Ogunnowo Oluwaseyi Emmanuel
Published: October 2019

Libya has served as the entrepôt for the modern slave trade from Africa to Europe for many decades. In recent years, however, international bodies, as well as the media, have raised deep concerns on the unimaginable horrors Sub-Saharan African migrants are forced to witness and experience during their stay and transit through Libya. It is against this background that this study through the ‘narrative research approach' sought to examine the various patterns of human rights violations experienced by African migrants in Libya as well as the role of the media in exposing the horrific trends of modern slavery. The study finds horrific patterns of human right violations perpetuated by both state and non-state actors in Libya. In addition, the media has played significant roles in serving as a major and reliable source of information on this phenomenal migration of the new age as well as a mediating body between policymakers and migrants. However, the complacency of governments whose citizens have and are being abused represents a more complex migration issue that needs to be addressed.
Channels Television on YouTube
Authors: Afolabi Oluwafolafunmi Omoladun , Kayode-Adedeji Tolulope , Adesina Evaristus , Adeyeye Babatunde , Usaini Suleimanu , Okorie Nelson
Published: October 2019

The migration of people in large numbers from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and South Sudan, to receiving countries such as South Korea, America, Canada, Russia, and Germany among others remains a challenge because of its attendant violence and conflicts. This study, using descriptive content analysis, examined the comments of Channels Television's YouTube channel commenters, as it relates to migration stories reported online. A total number of 30 YouTube videos on migration were selected based on their recency. Comments under the YouTube videos from January 2018 until April 2019, were examined using descriptive analysis to extract themes from these comments. The theories adopted for this study were the Framing and Priming theories. The analysis of public comments was to understand public discussions on migration and observe future implication of this discourse on inter-national relationships. Results revealed a possible future cultural divide among nations affected by migration if necessary actions are taken globally. The authors fear that such outcome could further promote disunity across nations and deprive individuals of their search for the greener pastures. The prevalent perceptions of the audience on the issue of migration which are advanced by these online comments can lure audience who read these comments but not involved in the discussions to believe and act it out.
Media Advocacy
Authors: Olanrewaju Faith O. , George Tayo , Ayodele Olaniyi T. , Olanrewaju Adekunle O.
Published: October 2019

Across the world, media has been used to promote policies, including those associated with general public health and those targeting vulnerable groups such as internally displaced persons (IDPs). Since 2002, North-eastern Nigeria has suffered immensely from the Boko Haram insurgency causing thousands of deaths and the displacement of persons. Drawing on secondary data and employing descriptive analysis, the chapter discusses the common health crises IDPs in Nigeria face and addresses how media advocacy can be adopted in improving better health interventions for IDPs in Nigeria. The study found that the poor health care interventions in IDP camps are direct reflections of the poor health system of the Nigerian state. It recommends media advocacy both for the immediate intervention of relevant actors especially the government in providing better health care for IDPs as well as the long-term interventions in the initiation of better health care policies for IDPs.
Secure System Model for Replicated DRTDBS
Authors: Shrivastava Pratik , Shanker Udai
Published: October 2019

Security in replicated distributed real time database system (RDRTDBS) is still explorative and, despite an increase in real-time applications, many issues and challenges remain in designing a more secure system model. However, very little research has been reported for maintaining security, timeliness, and mutual consistency. This chapter proposes the secure system model for RDRTDBS which secures the system from malicious attack. To prevent the request/response from malicious attack, authors have extended the system model with a cryptographic algorithm. In the cryptographic algorithm, a key must be secretly known only to the sender and receiver. Thus, in this chapter, authors have used the key generation algorithm to generate a key using an image. This secure system model maintains the confidentiality of the replicated data item and preserves its data integrity. It performs better in terms of malicious attack compared to other non-secure system models.
Strategies for Effective Worldwide Supply Chains
Authors: Aboutalebi Reza
Published: October 2019

In this study, after analyzing hundreds of papers and books by using a meta-analysis technique, it was revealed that supply chain management suffers from a lack of strategies for many aspects of real-world supply chain activity. Existing supply-related strategies are very primitive and incomplete. Real-world activities in modern supply chains are complicated and multidimensional; consequently, supply chain strategies should reflect and manage these realities. This study aims to reduce the existing shortcomings in current supply chain strategies by proposing the taxonomy of supply chain strategies.
Factors Affecting Willingness of Industries to Adopt Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Authors: Kohli Amarpreet S. , Peng Cheng
Published: October 2019

This research examined the willingness of businesses and industries to adopt RFID. It was postulated that motivation to adopt RFID is influenced by the technological context, organizational factors, and perceived benefits of using RFID. Data was collected from Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals members using a 19-question web-based survey. Relative advantage that firms can achieve and the perceived benefits in improving product quality and information sharing along with better traceability in the supply chain were significant predictors of RFID adoption. Within the technological contexts, the visible obstacles of RFID adoption through quality of transmission and reliability, understanding of overly high investment costs, and importance of the privacy concerns were all significant. The IT readiness of a firm was also a significant predictor of RFID adoption in the organizational factor, however the size of an organization was not at all linked to the RFID adoption decisions. The results point to a number of important conclusions that are informative for various business and industries that might be contemplating to adopt RFID technology in their operations.
Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Recession Recovery
Authors: Dey Debasri
Published: October 2019

The challenges presented by recent changes in the business environment have sharpened the focus on the need for robust approaches to supply chain improvement. For most companies around the world, resources have been reduced, inventory drained, technology spending curtailed, and core processes scaled back in order to adjust to the current reality of reduced demand. So, this paper mainly concentrates on giving some tips based on recession recovery strategies. Firstly, this paper discussed the supply chain management trends in and up to 2015, then general concept of recession and the relation between recession and supply chain management system, then some fatal mistakes of recession recovery according to the supply chain experts and recession and recovery related literature reviews are summarized to identify ultimately the recession recovery strategies for the manufacturer. The paper ended with some supply chain management related predictions, tips for reducing supply chain barriers. Moreover, a brief section of this paper also here highlights the supply-chain infrastructure helpful for recession recovery that is one of the important factors for the reason of cost-reduction, resource planning and maintenance etc. in today's supply chain management and related environment.
Data-Driven Inventory Management in the Healthcare Supply Chain
Authors: Xu Shuojiang , Tan Kim Hua
Published: October 2019

From 21st century, enterprises combine supply chain management with big data to improve their products and services level. In China healthcare industry, supply chain decisions are made based on experience, due to the environment complexities, such as changing policies and license delay. A flexible and dynamic big data driven analysis approach for supply chain decisions is urgently required. This report demonstrates a case study on CRT forecasting model of inventory data to predict the market demand based on pervious transaction data. First a basic statistic approach has been applied to represent the superficial patterns and suggest some decisions. After that a CRT model has been built based on the several independent variables. And there is also a comparison between CRT and CHAID models to choose a better one to further build an improved model. Finally some limitations and future work have been proposed.
Research on Coordination Mechanism and Low-Carbon Technology Strategy for Agricultural Product Supply Chain
Authors: Changchun Liu
Published: October 2019

As the future orientation of economic and agricultural development, low-carbon agriculture is devoted to reducing the energy inputs and greenhouse gas emissions during the agriculture production. So, it's urgent to take some actions to transit from the current high carbon economy to a low-carbon and high resource efficient economy. This paper examines a two-echelon agricultural product supply chain with a producer and a processor and the market demand is influenced by the retail price and the level of low-carbon technology. The optimal solutions in the decentralized and centralized agricultural product supply chain with or without low-carbon technology are studied. To make the decentralized agricultural product supply chain perform as well as the centralized agricultural product supply chain, the coordination mechanism of the low-carbon supply chain that few of papers focused explicitly on is designed. Finally, extensive numerical experiments are conducted to study the behaviors of supply chain members.
Operations Research in Healthcare Supply Chain Management Under Fuzzy-Stochastic Environment
Authors: Priyan S. , Uthayakumar R
Published: October 2019

Operations research is for mankind in almost all aspects of our life. Applying the scientific method to the management of organizations, industry, government and other enterprises play a vital role in OR. It is used to increase productivity, to improve customer service, to improve quality and to reduce costs. Healthcare has attracted a great attention of governments in order to provide sufficient health services to the people. The provision of healthcare is very complicated and very responsible, that the right drug to the right people at the right time and in good condition to fight the disease. Today, the importance and significance of planning in healthcare can hardly be over emphasized when providing proper and adequate service continues to be a key concern of most countries. Operations research provides a wide range of methodologies that can help health care systems to significantly improve their operations. It helps to solve approximately all the problems involved in healthcare with its useful modeling techniques.
The Internet of Things (IoT)
Authors: Lee In
Published: October 2019

As the Internet of Things (IoT) opens up new business opportunities, firms are trying to understand the impacts of the IoT revolution on their supply chain. Despite the tremendous interest by supply chain managers to leverage the IoT, there are still a paucity of studies that integrate the management side of supply chain with the technical side of the IoT. This chapter attempts to fill the current gap in research. This chapter discusses capabilities of the IoT-based supply chain applications. Then, it presents a conceptual framework of the IoT applications essential for smart supply chain. Finally, this chapter discusses technical and managerial challenges faced by supply chain managers in implementing the IoT.
Supply Chain Resilience
Authors: Vecchi Alessandra , Vallisi Valentina
Published: October 2019

The chapter will consist of a literature review that will be framed to address the following three questions. The first question is “What is a resilient supply chain?” The aim is to provide an in-depth understanding of resilience and to distinguish a supply chain which is resilient from one which is not. The second question is “Why companies should build a resilient supply chain?” Some factors have increased firms' vulnerability and the losses associated with unpredictable events. Companies should understand that the advantages linked to building resilience do not become evident only in case of disastrous events, but also during the ordinary operations execution. The third question is: “How to build resilience?” The most relevant ways to build resilience will be illustrated by drawing on some short case studies that were purposefully chosen in order to present a practical implementation of some of the different techniques used to create resilience. At the end of the chapter, conclusion, managerial implications, limitations and directions for future research will be provided.
A Telecommunications Approach in Systems for Effective Logistics and Supply Chains
Authors: Pessoa Cláudio Roberto Magalhães , Júnior Manuel da Rocha Fiúza Branco
Published: October 2019

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a multidisciplinary field. The marketing and organizational aspects, aiming at competitiveness, productivity and efficiency commonly call more directly the attention of entrepreneurs, managers and organizations in this area. However, to achieve these goals, several support systems are needed especially Information Systems. Treated as a problem of Information Technology (IT), these systems do not attract much attention of the supply chain managers. Usually, these systems need to collect information stored in various databases in different companies and formats and geographically scattered. To be successful, information systems need the support of efficient telecommunication systems that enable this collection of information with the agility needed in the modern world of business. This chapter highlights the telecommunications systems that support SCM, its features and limitations. It also shows the technological environment, innovations in telecommunications that are already available and future technologies that could directly impact this type of management.
Meta-Heuristic and Non-Meta-Heuristic Energy-Efficient Load Balancing Algorithms in Cloud Computing
Authors: Priyadarshini Rojalina , Barik Rabindra Kumar , Mishra Brojo Kishore
Published: October 2019

The number of users of cloud computing services is drastically increasing, thereby increasing the size of data centers across the globe. In virtue of it, the consumption of power and energy is a major concern for system designers and developers. Their goal is now to develop power and energy-efficient products at the same time maintaining the quality and cost of products and services. For managing the power and efficiency, several aspects are taken into consideration in cloud computing paradigm. Load balancing, task scheduling, task migration, resource allocation are some of the techniques, which need to be efficiently employed to minimize the energy consumption. This chapter represents the detailed survey of the existing solutions and approaches for energy-efficient load balancing algorithms used in cloud environments. The research challenges as well as future research directions are also discussed in this chapter.
Distributed Algorithms for Finding Meta-Paths of a Large Heterogeneous Information Network on Cloud
Authors: Do Phuc
Published: October 2019

Meta-path is an important concept of heterogeneous information networks (HINs). Meta-paths were used in many tasks such as information retrieval, decision making, and product recommendation. Normally meta-paths were proposed by human experts. Recently, works on meta-path discovery have proposed in-memory solutions that fit in one computer. With large HINs, the whole HIN cannot be loaded in the memory. In this chapter, the authors proposed distributed algorithms to discover meta-paths of large HINs on cloud. They develop the distributed algorithms to discover the significant meta-path, maximal significant meta-path, and top-k meta-paths between two vertices of HIN. Calculation of the support of meta-paths or performing breadth first search can be computational costly in very large HINs. Conveniently, the distributed algorithms utilize the GraphFrames library of Apache Spark on cloud computing environment to efficiently query large HINs. The authors conduct the experiments on large DBLP dataset to prove the performance of our algorithms on cloud.
Internet of Things-Based Authentication Mechanism for E-Health Applications
Authors: Kameswara Rao M.  , Santhi S. G.
Published: October 2019

The sturdy advancements of internet of things are being changed into a methodology of associating smart things. E-health applications in this vision are a standout amongst IoT's most energizing applications. Indeed, security concerns were the fundamental boundary to the establishment. The encryption of various interlinked substances and the classification of the swapped information are the real concerns which should be settled for clients. This chapter proposes an e-health application using lightweight verification mechanism. The proposed model utilizes nonces as well as keyed-hash message authentication (KHAC) for checking the validity of verification trades.
Patient Health Monitoring System and Detection of Atrial Fibrillation, Fall, and Air Pollutants Using IoT Technologies
Authors: Rajaseskaran Rajkumar , Jain Rishabh , Sruthi M.
Published: October 2019

The objective of IoT in healthcare is to empower people to live healthy lives by wearing connected equipment. The healthcare industry has perpetually been in the forefront in the adoption and utilization of information and communication technologies (ICT) for the efficient healthcare administration). Detection of atrial fibrillation is done by checking the variations in the period of the heart rate. If a patient has atrial fibrillation, the period between each heartbeat will vary. A gas sensor is used to check the quality of air and a MEMS sensor to detect the fall of the body. The MEMS sensor is a compact device that collects comprehensive physical information and uses the gateway and cloud to analyze and store information.
Obtaining and Using Biogas in Agricultural Production
Authors: Devyanin Sergey Nikolaevich , Markov Vladimir Anatolyevich , Savastenko Andrei Alexandrovich
Published: October 2019

In recent years, an increased interest has been shown in fuels derived from renewable energy resources of animal and vegetable origin, raw materials of which are practically unlimited. The use of biofuels makes it possible not only to replace petroleum motor fuels with alternative ones, but also to improve exhaust gas toxicity indicators (as a rule, there is a marked decrease in emissions of toxic exhaust gas components). This work is devoted to the study of the possibilities of solving these problems in order to adapt diesel to biogas, a theoretical study of ways to create an experimental model of a power plant for generating electricity from biogas, a theoretical study on the processes occurring in the main components of the plant being developed and the creation of this plant.
The Representation of Women in Feminist Cinema
Authors: Akçora As Elçin , Parsa Alev Fatoş
Published: October 2019

In the art of cinema, which fulfills the function of a “dream factory” with its male-dominated narrative structure, men are represented in active roles with their actions, while women in passive roles that do not or cannot interfere with the flow of events with their inactions. This perception, which dominates the cinema, showed a change with the reflection of intellectual context of the Second Wave Feminism to the films. In this sense, in the study, Fried Green Tomatoes, regarded as a feminist film example by movie critics and directed by Jon Avnet in 1991, was chosen as a sample. In the study, structuralist narrative codes that construct meaning in the film are analyzed in the context of feminist thought and film theory paradigms. In the film, the “strong female character representations,” which are placed in the center of narrative and positioned to advance the story, are subjected in the foreground; these characters also stand against the known stereotyped roles imposed on women by traditional narrative cinema.
Images of Women Resisting the Tide
Authors: İpek Özgür
Published: October 2019

Many popular movies reproduce dominant cultural life, dominant viewpoints, and norms that we encounter in everyday life. And we also see a public sphere where the discourse of men is displayed as more important, but women are displayed as inferior and powerless in the movies. Against this problematic approach of popular films, the feminist film theorists take this issue into public debate. This study focuses on the concept of social gender through the female characters presented in the movies from a general perspective.
Topical Lidocaine Patch for Postthoracotomy and Poststernotomy Pain in Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit Adult Patients
Authors: Liu Michael , Wai Mabel , Nunez James
Published: October 2019

Background

Transdermal lidocaine patches have few systemic toxicities and may be useful analgesics in cardiac surgery patients. However, few studies have evaluated their efficacy in the perioperative setting. Objective To compare the efficacy of topical lidocaine 5% patch plus standard care (opioid and nonopioid analgesics) with standard care alone for postthoracotomy or poststernotomy pain in adult patients in a cardiothoracic intensive care unit.

Methods

A single-center, retrospective cohort evaluation was conducted from January 2015 through December 2015 in the adult cardiothoracic intensive care unit at a tertiary academic medical center. Cardiac surgery patients with new sternotomies or thoracotomies were included. Patients in the lidocaine group received 1 to 3 topical lidocaine 5% patches near sternotomy and/or thoracotomy sites daily. Patches remained in place for 12 hours daily. Patients in the control group received standard care alone.

Results

The primary outcome was numeric pain rating for sternotomy/thoracotomy sites. Secondary outcomes were cardiothoracic intensive care unit and hospital lengths of stay and total doses of analgesics received. Forty-seven patients were included in the lidocaine group; 44 were included in the control group. Mean visual analogue scores for pain did not differ between groups (lidocaine, 2; control, 1.9; P = .58). Lengths of stay were similar for both groups (cardiothoracic intensive care unit: lidocaine, 3.06 days; control, 3.11 days; P = .86; hospital: lidocaine, 8.26 days; control, 7.61 days; P = .47).

Conclusions

Adjunctive lidocaine 5% patches did not reduce acute pain in postthoracotomy and post-sternotomy patients in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit.