bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
A proposal for a green supply chain strategy
Authors: Pinto Taborga Carola , Lusa Amaia , Coves Anna Maria 
Published: May 2018

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to establish a set of steps for helping companies to create a Green Supply Chain Strategy based on the reduction of their carbon footprint. The aim is to put forward a simple guideline that companies can follow and guide them in achieving their carbon emission targets, as well as obtaining attractive supply chain savings.Design/methodology/approach: Based on a literature review and benchmarking this paper proposes a methodology based on three pillars: 1) Corporate Carbon Strategy; 2) Carbon emission roadmap; and 3) Implementation and tracking. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) techniques were used in order to create a green strategy and support the decision-making processes to select the most interesting alternatives for carbon emission reduction and supply chain savings. The supply chain of a metallurgical company is used to illustrate the case study where the proposed methodology is used. The criteria used for the carbon alternatives selection was based on three factors: 1) the supply chain cost of the alternative; 2) carbon emission impact in terms of CO2 tonnes; and 3) marketing effect.Findings: The paper identifies some specific steps for developing a Green Supply Chain Strategy. The case study developed, demonstrates the importance of following a proper methodology based on a set of steps, it also demonstrates that some alternatives focus on improving the supply chain, such as the facilities location, can also improve the key performance indicator related with carbon emission. Originality/value: The study provides guidance for manufacturing companies in implementing their Green Supply Chain Strategy.
Appearance of β-dystroglycan precedes the formation of glio-vascular end-feet in developing rat brain
Authors: Kálmán Mihály , Oszwald Erzsébet , Adorján István 
Published: May 2018

Dystroglycan has an important role in binding of perivascular glial end-feet tothe basal lamina. Its β-subunit is localized in the glial end-feet. The investigation period lasted from E(embryonic day)12 to E20. Laminin and β-dystroglycan were detected by immunohistochemistry, the glial localization of the latter one was supported by electron microscopy. The immatureglial structures were visualized by the immunostaining of nestin. The β-dystroglycan immunoreactivity appeared at E16 following the laminin of basal lamina but preceding the perivascular processes of radial glia (E18) and astrocyte-like cells (E20). It occurred in cell bodies which attached to the vessels directly but not with vascular processes and end-feet. The presence of β-dystroglycan in such immature cells may promote their differentiation to perivascular astrocytes and influence the formation of the glio-vascular processes.
Evaluating a smartphone digits-in-noise test as part of the audiometric test battery
Authors: Potgieter Jenni-Mari , Swanepoel De Wet , Smits Cas 
Published: May 2018

Background: Speech-in-noise tests have become a valuable part of the audiometric test battery providing an indication of a listener’s ability to function in background noise. A simple digits-in-noise (DIN) test could be valuable to support diagnostic hearing assessments, hearing aid fittings and counselling for both paediatric and adult populations. Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the South African English smartphone DIN test’s performance as part of the audiometric test battery. Design: This descriptive study evaluated 109 adult subjects (43 male and 66 female subjects) with and without sensorineural hearing loss by comparing pure-tone air conduction thresholds, speech recognition monaural performance scores (SRS dB) and the DIN speech reception threshold (SRT). An additional nine adult hearing aid users (four male and five female subjects) were included in a subset to determine aided and unaided DIN SRTs. Results: The DIN SRT is strongly associated with the best ear 4 frequency pure-tone average (4FPTA) (rs = 0.81) and maximum SRS dB (r = 0.72). The DIN test had high sensitivity and specificity to identify abnormal pure-tone (0.88 and 0.88, respectively) and SRS dB (0.76 and 0.88, respectively) results. There was a mean signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) improvement in the aided condition that demonstrated an overall benefit of 0.84 SNR dB. Conclusion: The DIN SRT was significantly correlated with the best ear 4FPTA and maximum SRS dB. The DIN SRT provides a useful measure of speech recognition in noise that can evaluate hearing aid fittings, manage counselling and hearing expectations.
Influence of self-motivation and intrinsic motivational factors for small and medium business growth: A South African case study
Authors: Ncube Thandukwazi R. , Zondo Robert W.D. 
Published: May 2018

Background: This study investigates the influence of intrinsic motivational factors for small and medium enterprise (SME) growth in the eThekwini District Municipality in South Africa (SA). Aim: It examines whether self-motivation of business owners operating in the furniture manufacturing sector has an influence on SME growth. Setting: Of the 127 SMEs operating in the eThekwini District Municipality, 112 participated in the study representing 88% of the target population. Methods: Descriptive, chi-square and correlative analyses were used to test the two objectives. That is, to determine the influence of self-motivation of business owners for SME growth, as well as to establish the intrinsic motivational factors that stimulate creativity for SME growth. Results: The study revealed that the intrinsic motivational factors of business owners do influence SME growth in SA. These factors include exerting effort for business growth interest, finding new solutions to business problems to achieve growth, growing business for recognition, belief to produce the desired outcomes, taking responsibilities for business expansion, the need for advancement, and growth aspiration that enables the business owner to take risks in order to grow the business. Conclusion: The outcome is that a self-motivated business owner has the ability to grow the business. The study provides valuable data relating to intrinsic motivational factors. Such factors are the enablers of creativity and business growth. It provides initial baseline data upon which to base future work.
Extending green supply chain management activities to manufacturing small and medium enterprises in a developing economy
Authors: Mafini Chengedzai , Loury-Okoumba Welby V. 
Published: May 2018

Background: The implementation of green supply chain management activities as a business strategy remains unfamiliar to many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries such as South Africa. Setting: Implementation of green supply chain management activities by South African SMEs is necessary, given both the high failure rate of such enterprises in the country and the proven ability of such activities to promote the success of businesses. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between green supply chain management activities, operational performance and supply chain performance in manufacturing SMEs in South Africa. Methods: Data were collected from 219 manufacturing SMEs operating within Gauteng. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to assess the psychometric properties of measurement scales. Hypotheses were tested using structural equation modelling. Results: Four green supply chain management activities, namely green purchasing, reverse logistics, environmental collaboration with suppliers and green manufacturing, exerted a positive influence on operational performance. Environmental collaboration with suppliers exerted the highest influence on operational performance when compared to green purchasing, reverse logistics and green manufacturing. In turn, operational performance exerted a strong positive influence on supply chain performance. Conclusion: The results of the study suggest that manufacturing SMEs in developing countries could benefit by adopting green supply chain management activities, with improvements being realised in terms of increases in both operational and supply chain performance.
Prediction for pathological image with convolutional neural network
Authors: Yin Wenshe , Hu Yangsheng , Dong Qingqing , Yi Sanli , Zhang Jun , He Jianfeng 
Published: May 2018

ABSTRACT

Background and Objectives:
The diagnosis of cancer is concerned, and the prediction of cell carcinoma is of great importance for the treatment.

Materials and Methods:
First, we obtain a series of slices of tumor cell pathology in clinical data, with being followed training sets and test sets gained by adding data model. Then, we design a convolutional neural network training and prediction model. After that, we optimize parameters for training and prediction model, combining experience.

Results:
In experiment, the accuracy of the model predicting for cell carcinoma is 87.38%.

Conclusions:
This study provides a reference that predicts the extent of cell carcinoma progression by using deep learning model.
Trusted Spotter Network Austria – a new standard to utilize crowdsourced weather and impact observations
Authors: Krennert Thomas , Kaltenberger Rainer , Pistotnik Georg , Holzer Alois M. , Zeiler Franz , Stampfl Mathias 
Published: May 2018

Abstract. Information from voluntary storm spotters has been an increasingly important
part for the severe weather warning process at the Zentralanstalt für
Meteorologie and Geodynamik (ZAMG), Austria's National Weather Service, for
almost 15 years. In 2010 a collaboration was formalized and an annual
training was established to educate voluntary observers into “Trusted
Spotters”. The return of this investment is a higher credibility of their
observations after these spotters have undergone a basic meteorological
training and have become aware of their responsibility. The European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL) was included to this
collaboration to adopt their successful quality control system of severe
weather reports, which is employed in the European Severe Weather Database
ESWD. That way, reports from Trusted Spotters automatically obtain a higher
quality flag, which enables a faster processing by forecasters on duty for
severe weather warnings, when time is a critical issue. The concept of
combining training for voluntary storm spotters and a thorough quality
management was recognized as a “Best Practice Model” by the European
Meteorological Society. We propose to apply this concept also in other European countries and
present its advancement into an even broader, pan-European approach. The
European Weather Observer app EWOB, recently released by ESSL, provides a
novel and easy-to-handle tool to submit weather and respective impact
observations. We promote its use to provide better data and information for
a further real-time improvement of severe weather warnings.
Arctic lead detection using a waveform mixture algorithm from CryoSat-2 data
Authors: Lee Sanggyun , Kim Hyun-cheol , Im Jungho 
Published: May 2018

Abstract. We propose a waveform mixture algorithm to detect leads from CryoSat-2 data, which is novel and different from the existing threshold-based lead detection methods. The waveform mixture algorithm adopts the concept of spectral mixture analysis, which is widely used in the field of hyperspectral image analysis. This lead detection method was evaluated with high-resolution (250 m) MODIS images and showed comparable and promising performance in detecting leads when compared to the previous methods. The robustness of the proposed approach also lies in the fact that it does not require the rescaling of parameters (i.e., stack standard deviation, stack skewness, stack kurtosis, pulse peakiness, and backscatter σ0), as it directly uses L1B waveform data, unlike the existing threshold-based methods. Monthly lead fraction maps were produced by the waveform mixture algorithm, which shows interannual variability of recent sea ice cover during 2011–2016, excluding the summer season (i.e., June to September). We also compared the lead fraction maps to other lead fraction maps generated from previously published data sets, resulting in similar spatiotemporal patterns.
Too True to Be Good at the 1932 Malvern Festival
Authors: Ananisarab Soudabeh 
Published: May 2018

ABSTRACT
The Malvern Festival was established in 1929 by the founder and then director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Sir Barry Jackson. While the Festival began as an event solely dedicated to Shaw, Jackson's guiding philosophy of the Festival soon changed its direction in later seasons as Jackson sought to present a glorified sense of England's past to an audience of international visitors by means of an emphasis on lesser-known classics in English theater. This article explores the reception of Shaw's Too True to Be Good (1932) in this context to argue that Shaw's increasingly dystopian visions of England's future as depicted in his later plays clashed with Jackson's organization of the Festival and that Shaw's inclusion in the repertoire and presence in Malvern largely contributed to the Festival's failure in reconciling its images of the past and present.
Joined Together as One: The Animal Dances in Androcles and the Lion
Authors: Dorwick Keith 
Published: May 2018

ABSTRACT
When directors begin work on a new production of Shaw's Androcles and the Lion, they must decide what exactly to make of the dances between Androcles and the lion in the Prologue and in Act II. These dances are not part of the well-known literary and visual adaptations of the Androcles legend; thus, they seem to be an innovation of Shaw's. Their likely source is the widely read Comic Almanack of 1846 that includes a poem and an image of Androcles and the lion dancing on facing pages. The Androcles legend in its well-known variants neatly fits into Shaw's beliefs concerning the need for human compassion toward animals as evidenced in his letters and other materials, but the Almanack's version is also an exploration of the idea of a real, if dangerous, unity that affirms the human as part of, not separate from, the animal kingdom.
John Wesley, Heterodoxy, and Dissent
Authors: Ditchfield G. M. 
Published: May 2018

ABSTRACT
While John Wesley's opposition to Calvinism is well known, he also devoted much of his later life to counteracting what he regarded as serious threats to Christian orthodoxy, namely the denial of original sin and the rejection of the doctrine of the Trinity. As a result he became involved in controversy with several leading Protestant Dissenters, including John Taylor of Norwich and Joseph Priestley. This article examines the relationship, sometimes friendly but more frequently uneasy, between Wesley and his followers and the Dissenting denominations. When prominent ministers among those denominations promulgated heterodox teaching over original sin and the Trinity, Wesley responded with a degree of vehemence that emphasized and indeed widened the differences between Methodism and the older Dissent, and hence shaped the identity of Wesleyan Methodism in the early nineteenth century.
Variación espacial y temporal de la diversidad y abundancia de cianobacterias del Lago de Yojoa (2014-2015)
Authors: Hernandez Oviedo Alba Isbela , Marin Mirna 
Published: May 2018

El objetivo del estudio fue identificar y analizar las variaciones temporales y espaciales de la diversidad y abundancia de las cianobacterias en el lago de Yojoa entre mayo 2014 y marzo 2015. Se analizaron 184 muestras identificandose 9 familias y 48 especies de cianobacterias, dominando Microcystis aeruginosa, Aphanocapsa delicatissima y Oscillatoria limosa. El promedio de cel/ml de cianobacterias por muestreo disminuyeron progresivamente, el mayor 58,274 en muestreo1 y el menor 1,665 en muestreo 6. Es posible que la floración algal haya ocurrido días antes del muestreo 1, ya que se observó una nata superficial color café verdoso correspondiente a Oscillatoria limosa y Lyngbya sp. en proceso de descomposición, muchos fitoflagelados y vorticelas entre las colonias de Microcystis; coincidiendo con valores altos de nitrógeno y ortofosfato de ese muestreo.La diversidad espacial y temporal fueron similares. La dominancia temporal fue mayor que la espacial, dominando: Microcystis aeruginosa, Chrococcus limneticus, Chrococcus sp, Aphanocapsa delicatissima, Aphanocapsa mucicola, Aphanocapsa elachista, Lyngbya sp, Gleocapsa sp y Pseudoanabaena mucicola. Se recomienda un plan de monitoreo y manejo de floraciones de cianobacterias tóxicas.
Impacto económico del XXI Campeonato de España “Open” de Invierno Master de Natación de Pontevedra 2015
Authors: Sánchez Fernández P. , Salgado Barandela J. , Rodríguez Rodríguez A. , Barajas Alonso A. 
Published: May 2018

<p>El presente artículo surge con el objetivo de analizar los efectos de la celebración de un evento deportivo en una localidad. En concreto, se presta atención al impacto económico de la celebración en el municipio de Pontevedra del XXI Campeonato de España “Open” de Invierno de Natación Master de Natación en febrero de 2015. Paralelamente se analiza el perfil de los asistentes a dicho evento desde un punto de vista del perfil de “turista deportivo” a partir de la realización de una encuesta específica para el evento. </p>
Cinquante années d’étude du crime dans la revue Criminologie
Authors: Boivin1 Rémi 
Published: May 2018

Le crime est l’unité d’analyse de base des approches classique et néoclassique en criminologie. Cet intérêt pour l’acte délictueux a été mis de côté pendant une bonne partie de l’histoire de la criminologie, mais a été remis de l’avant avec la publication, en 1968, d’un texte marquant de Gary S. Becker. Le présent article vise à décrire la place du crime parmi les contributions publiées par la revue Criminologie depuis sa fondation, la même année. Après un bref rappel des grands principes de l’approche néoclassique, il est démontré que le crime a occupé une place marginale dans la revue ; les onze articles ayant spécifiquement analysé une forme de crime sont ensuite décrits de façon à déterminer les points communs entre les articles. L’article se conclut avec quelques remarques et observations sur l’avenir de la recherche sur le phénomène criminel diffusée par la revue Criminologie.
Evidence for Chemicals Intermingling at Silicon/Titanium Oxide (TiOx) Interface and Existence of Multiple Bonding States in Monolithic TiOx
Authors: Dwivedi Neeraj , Yeo Reuben J. , Tan Hui R. , Stangl Rolf , Aberle Armin G. , Bhatia Charanjit S. , Danner Aaron , Liao Baochen 
Published: May 2018

AbstractMetal oxides (MOs) are used in photovoltaics and microelectronics as surface passivating layers and gate dielectrics, respectively. The effectiveness of MOs predominantly depends on their structure and the nature of the semiconductor/MO (S/MO) interface. While some efforts are made to analyze interface behavior of a few MOs, greater fundamental understanding on the interface and structural behaviors of emerging MOs is yet to be established for enhanced scientific and technological developments. Here, the structure of atomic layer deposited titanium oxide (TiOx) and the nature of the c‐Si/TiOx interface on the atomic‐ to nanoscale are probed. A new breed of mixed oxide (SiOx+TiOx) interfacial layer with a thickness of ≈1.3 nm at the c‐Si/TiOx interface is discovered, and its thickness further increases to ≈1.5 nm after postdeposition annealing. It is observed that both as‐deposited and annealed monolithic TiOx films comprise multiple bonding states at varying film thickness, with an oxygen‐deficient TiOx layer located close to the mixed oxide/TiOx interface. The stoichiometry of this layer improves when reaching the middle and near surface regions of the TiOx layer, respectively. This work uncovers several critical structural and interface aspects of TiOx, and thus creates opportunities to control and design improved photovoltaic and electronic devices for future development.
Biomimetic Supramolecular Fibers Exhibit Water‐Induced Supercontraction
Authors: Wu Yuchao , Shah Darshil U. , Wang Baoyuan , Liu Ji , Ren Xiaohe , Ramage Michael H. , Scherman Oren A. 
Published: May 2018

AbstractSpider silk is a fascinating material, combining high strength and elasticity that outperforms most synthetic fibers. Another intriguing feature of spider silk is its ability to “supercontract,” shrinking up to 50% when exposed to water. This is likely on account of the entropy‐driven recoiling of secondary structured proteins when water penetrates the spider silk. In contrast, humidity‐driven contraction in synthetic fibers is difficult to achieve. Here, inspired by the spider silk model, a supercontractile fiber (SCF), which contracts up to 50% of its original length at high humidity, comparable to spider silk, is reported. The fiber exhibits up to 300% uptake of water by volume, confirmed via environmental scanning electron microscopy. Interestingly, the SCF exhibits tunable mechanical properties by varying humidity, which is reflected by the prolonged failure strain and the reversible damping capacity. This smart supramolecular fiber material provides a new opportunity of fabricating biomimetic muscle for diverse applications.
Virion‐Like Membrane‐Breaking Nanoparticles with Tumor‐Activated Cell‐and‐Tissue Dual‐Penetration Conquer Impermeable Cancer
Authors: Zhang Xiao , Xu Xianghui , Li Yachao , Hu Cheng , Zhang Zhijun , Gu Zhongwei 
Published: May 2018

AbstractPoor drug penetration into tumor cells and tissues is a worldwide difficulty in cancer therapy. A strategy is developed for virion‐like membrane‐breaking nanoparticles (MBNs) to smoothly accomplish tumor‐activated cell‐and‐tissue dual‐penetration for surmounting impermeable drug‐resistant cancer. Tailor‐made dendritic arginine‐rich peptide prodrugs are designed to mimic viral protein transduction domains and globular protein architectures. Attractively, these protein mimics self‐assemble into virion‐like nanoparticles in aqueous solution, having highly ordered secondary structure. Tumor‐specific acidity conditions would activate the membrane‐breaking ability of these virion‐like nanoparticles to perforate artificial and natural membrane systems. As expected, MBNs achieve highly efficient drug penetration into drug‐resistant human ovarian (SKOV3/R) cancer cells. Most importantly, the well‐organized MBNs can pass through endothelial/tumor cells and spread from one cell to another one. Intravenous injection of MBNs into nude mice bearing impermeable SKOV3/R tumors suggests that the MBNs can recognize the tumor tissue after prolonged blood circulation, evoke the membrane‐breaking function for robust transvascular extravasation, and penetrate into the deep tumor tissue. This work provides the first demonstration of sophisticated molecular and supramolecular engineering of virion‐like MBNs to realize the long‐awaited cell‐and‐tissue dual‐penetration, contributing to the development of a brand‐new avenue for dealing with incurable cancers.