Academic Articles & Research Papers

The impact of preservation technology investments on lot-sizing and shipment strategies in a three-echelon food supply chain involving growing and deteriorating items

Food production systems are complex industrial operations that often involve multiple parties. This study proposes inventory management strategies for a multi-echelon perishable food supply chain with growing and deteriorating items. The up...

RFID Applications and Security Review

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is widely used in several contexts, such as logistics, supply chains, asset tracking, and health, among others, therefore drawing the attention of many researchers. This paper presents a review of the m...

Conservation and Preservation for Endangered Mangrove Species: Comprehensive Case Study of Swamp Forest on North Coast Area of Malaysia

Mangrove forests are special type of coastal ecosystem characterized by their adaptations that enable plants to thrive in saline soil. Despite accounting for only about 1% of global forest coverage, mangroves are keystone ecosystems that pr...

Transfer of Risk in Supply Chain Management with Joint Pricing and Inventory Decision Considering Shortages

This study is the first to consider a distribution-free approach in a newsvendor model with a transfer of risk and back-ordering. Previously, in many articles, discrete demand is considered. In this model, we consider a newsvendor selling a...

A decision-support system for improving road transportation performance in Gauteng, South Africa: Developing a data acquisitioning system

This research describes how the systems approach can be applied to implement a holistic transportation decision-support system, which will measure transportation performance at the highest level and enable decision-making with respect to po...

ANALYSIS OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN THE NORTH-WEST REGION OF ROMANIA FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF CLUSTER EXCELLENCE

The cluster of excellence in the agri-food sector could function as a significant driver for promoting innovation and advanced technologies throughout all aspects of the supply chain. This collaboration can facilitate the exchange of knowle...

Pricing Decision-Making Considering Ambiguity Tolerance in Consumers: Evidence from Recycled Building Material Enterprises

Globally, recycled building materials have attracted much attention, but the ambiguity of the use of recycled building materials makes it difficult for the building material remanufacturer (BMR) to compete with the building material manufac...

Siberian Regional Identity in the Context of Historical Consciousness (Content Analysis of Tomsk Regional Media)

The article presents a model to study the Siberian regional identity in the context of historical consciousness, as well as the results of its practical application in the content analysis of the publications by the Tomsk regional media. On...

Analisa keberadaan lembaga kesejahteraan sosial anak (LKSA) di Kabupaten Sidoarjo

Di Indonesia, diperkirakan jumlah anak terlantar sekitar 3,5 juta jiwa. Ini pun terbatas pada kelompok anak-anak yang yatim piatu dimana dari jumlah itu hanya sedikit di antara mereka yang terjangkau pelayanan sosial. Di Kabupaten Sidoarjo ...

"Diversidad religiosa en los centros escolares de Cataluña: religiones y multiculturalidad" de Núria Llevot, Carme Molet, Jordi Garreta, Olga Bernad y Jordi Domingo

La llegada de población de origen extranjero a Cataluña ha supuesto la transformación de la realidad social del Principado. Si bien es cierto que el fenómeno migratorio no es nuevo para la sociedad catalana, nunca antes se había producido d...

Les émeutes urbaines à l’épreuve des situations locales

This article relies on a ground investigation lead in the town and many working class districts of Saint-Denis in France. Recalling the possible different sociological interpretations of the urban riots of November 2005, it proposes first t...

Género y nivel educativo en las narrativas autobiográficas de la infancia

The present work deals with autobiographic memory, educative background and gender roles. It is based in socio–cultural psychology research supporting the relationship between context and the development of cognitive processes. 96 structure...

Violence, Sex or Work? Claims-making against the Swedish ban on the purchase of sexual services on the Internet

Internationally there is an on-going political struggle regarding whether to define prostitution as violence, sex or work. In Sweden, however, the national law that bans purchase of sexual services, by defining prostitution as violence agai...

SABERES DO CUIDADO NO TRABALHO DE TÉCNICAS DE ENFERMAGEM E ENFERMEIRAS EM UM HOSPITAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL | Caring knowledge in the work of nursing technicians and nurses in a hospital of Rio Grande do Sul state

The article's theme is the dialogue between work and work knowledges in the production of health care, basing itself on the empyrical study realized by a hopsitalar institution in the Rio Grande do Sul. Our main objective is to describe and...

Disability-inclusive community development: A case of a community garden in Limpopo province in South Africa

Background: Persons with disabilities living in rural areas are marginalised and excluded in most developmental initiatives in South Africa. They face many economic, political and social problems; hence, improving their quality of life is a...

Jenny Preunkert, Eine Soziologie der Staatsverschuldung. Über die Finanzialisierung, Transnationalisierung und Politisierung von Staatsschulden in der Eurozone [Une sociologie de l’endettement public. Sur la transnationalisation et la politisation des dettes publiques dans la zone euro], Beltz Juventa, 2020, 144 p.

Analysis of the Factors Determining the Probability of Registered or Informal Employment for Wage Earners in Turkey

Informal employment takes place in labor markets as a gray area between unemployment and employment. It effectively continues to exist as a temporary shelter for the unemployed in countries with higher unemployment rates. Although Turkey’s ...

The Covid-19 pandemic and mental health of first-year college students: Examining the effect of Covid-19 stressors using longitudinal data.

PurposeThe Covid-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented stress to students and educational institutions across the world. We aimed to estimate the effect of the pandemic on the mental health of college students.MethodsWe used data on 419 fir...

Miscellanea

[Summary generated by ChatGPT] Overview: Babylonia 4/2005 is a miscellanea issue offering a wide range of reflections, research, and classroom practices rather than focusing on a single theme. Key concerns include language policy in Swis...

Deployment-related mental health support: comparative analysis of NATO and allied ISAF partners

Background: For years there has been a tremendous gap in our understanding of the mental health effects of deployment and the efforts by military forces at trying to minimize or mitigate these. Many military forces have recently systematize...