18,539 research outputs found
Actionable Supply Chain Management Insights for 2016 and Beyond
The summit World Class Supply Chain 2016: Critical to Prosperity , contributed to addressing a need that the Supply Chain Management (SCM) fieldâs current discourse has deemed as critical: that need is for more academia-Ââindustry collaboration to develop the fieldâs body of actionable knowledge. Held on May 4th, 2016 in Milton, Ontario, the summit addressed that need in a way that proved to be both effective and distinctive in the Canadian SCM environment. The summit, convened in partnership between Wilfrid Laurier Universityâs Lazaridis School of Business & Economics and CN Rail, focused on building actionable SCM knowledge to address three core questions: What are the most significant SCM issues to be confronted now and beyond 2016? What SCM practices are imperative now and beyond 2016? What are optimal ways of ensuring that (a) issues of interest to SCM practitioners inform the scholarly activities of research and teaching and (b) the knowledge generated from those scholarly activities reciprocally guide SCM practice?
These are important questions for supply chain professionals in their efforts to make sense of todayâs business environment that is appropriately viewed as volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. The structure of the deliberations to address these questions comprised two keynote presentations and three panel discussions, all of which were designed to leverage the collective wisdom that comes from genuine peer-Ââto-Ââpeer dialogue between the SCM practitioners and SCM scholars.
Specifically, the structure aimed for a balanced blend of industry and academic input and for coverage of the SCM issues of greatest interest to attendees (as determined through a pre-Ââsummit survey of attendees). The structure produced impressively wide-Ââranging deliberations on the aforementioned questions. The essence of the resulting findings from the summit can be distilled into three messages: Given todayâs globally significant trends such as changes in population demographics, four highly impactful levers that SCM executives must expertly handle to attain excellence are: collaboration; information; technology; and talent Government policy, especially for infrastructure, is a significant determinant of SCM excellence There is tremendous potential for mutually beneficial industry-academia knowledge co-creation/sharing aimed at research and student training
This white paper reports on those findings as well as on the summitâs success in realizing its vision of fostering mutually beneficial industry-academia dialogue. The paper also documents what emerged as matters that are inadequately understood and should therefore be targeted in the ongoing quest for deeper understanding of actionable SCM insights. Deliberations throughout the day on May 4th, 2016 and the encouraging results from the pre-Ââsummit and post-Ââsummit surveys have provided much inspiration to enthusiastically undertake that quest. The undertaking will be through initiatives that include future research projects as well as next yearâs summitâWorld Class Supply Chain 2017
Increasing rainwater yield in water sensitive cities using short-term rainfall forecasts
Rainwater harvesting performance is examined in Brisbane and Sydney for three rainwater tank configurations comprising: 1) A conventional 5kL tank; 2) A 5kL tank with a fixed leaking compartment for baseflow (240 L/d); and 3) As with leaking but including a variable diversion compartment (480 L/day) controlled by short-term rainfall forecasts. This concept is referred to as adaptive rainwater diversion (ARD). Result show the ARD system achieves superior emulation of pre-urban runoff frequencies, runoff volumes and baseflows, while maintaining the household rainwater supply to within 90% of conventional systems, and also while producing an additional water resources of up to 60kL/hh/y. With these outcomes, the ARD system could potentially create an avenue to approach water sensitive cities in Eastern Australia
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Congresso Internacional de Geologia de Timor-Lest
Inhibitive effect of ferrous gluconate on the electrochemical corrosion of aluminium alloy in H2SO4 solution
The use of ferrous gluconate as corrosion inhibitor on aluminium alloy in 0.5M H2SO4 solution was
studied using gravimetric and potentiodynamic polarization measurements. The surface morphology of
the aluminium alloy was studied after exposure to 0.5 M H2SO4 solution in the presence and absence of
inhibitor using high resolution scanning electron microscopy equipped with energy dispersive
spectroscopy (HRSEM â EDS). The adsorption behaviour of the inhibitor was investigated. The results of
the investigation show that increase in concentration of ferrous gluconate corresponds to an improvement
on inhibition efficiency. Equally, the results showed the ferrous gluconate to be an effective corrosion
inhibitor for the aluminium in the acidic medium. The results obtained from the two methods used were
found to correlate with each other
Translation and Translanguaging Pedagogies in Intercomprehension and Multilingual Teaching
Since 2007, California State University, Long Beach has developed and offered courses that highlight studentsâ pre-existing linguistic repertoires in English and in the Romance languages. These courses are unique in that they build upon a multilingual base for the acquisition of new languages through the method of intercomprehension. As an approach that moves among languages, Intercomprehension places learners in conditions that are conducive to translanguaging and translation. This paper discusses the role of translation and translanguaging in Intercomprehension as a pedagogical approach in these courses. Since our students are constantly moving between English and one or more Romance language(s), they actively bring the other Romance languages they are learning into the translingual repertoire they already practice through the multilingual learning strategies deployed in intercomprehension.
Depuis 2007, California State University, Long Beach dĂ©veloppe et offre des cours qui mettent en avant le rĂ©pertoire linguistique prĂ©existant des Ă©tudiants en anglais et en langues romanes. Ces cours sont uniques, car ils sâappuient sur un rĂ©pertoire multilingue pour permettre lâacquisition de nouvelles langues Ă travers la mĂ©thode dâintercomprĂ©hension. LâintercomprĂ©hension, approche transcendant les barriĂšres entre les langues, offre aux apprenants un contexte propice au translanguaging et Ă la traduction. Cet article discute du rĂŽle de la traduction et du translanguaging dans lâintercomprĂ©hension. Ătant donnĂ© que nos Ă©tudiants naviguent constamment entre lâanglais et une (ou, des) langue(s) romanes(s), ils font ainsi entrer de maniĂšre active les tierces langues romanes en cours dâapprentissage dans le rĂ©pertoire translangagier quâils utilisent dĂ©jĂ par le biais des stratĂ©gies intercomprĂ©hensives
ANNOTATION MODEL FOR LOANWORDS IN INDONESIAN CORPUS: A LOCAL GRAMMAR FRAMEWORK
There is a considerable number for loanwords in Indonesian language as it has been,
or even continuously, in contact with other languages. The contact takes place via different
media; one of them is via machine readable medium. As the information in different languages
can be obtained by a mouse click these days, the contact becomes more and more intense. This
paper aims at proposing an annotation model and lexical resource for loanwords in
Indonesian. The lexical resource is applied to a corpus by a corpus processing software called
UNITEX. This software works under local grammar framewor
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