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Designing the venue logistics management operations for a World Exposition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
World Expositions, due to their size and peculiar features, pose a number of logistics challenges. This paper aims at developing a design framework for the venue logistics management (VLM) operations to replenish food products to the event site, through ...
Colicchia, Claudia   +2 more
core   +1 more source

A sustainable business ecosystem: a case study demonstrating biochar's potential

open access: yesBiofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.
Abstract The need for renewable, climate‐friendly resources has become urgent as legislators worldwide have sought to find ways to cut emissions while ensuring resource security for consumers. The use of biochar could help to achieve these goals. This study examines the current state of commercial biochar production and the maturity of the related ...
Kivijakola Juuso   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Manufacturers' Outsourcing to Employment Services [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
We estimate the effects of manufacturers' use of employment services—comprised primarily of temporary help and professional employer organizations—on measured employment and labor productivity in manufacturing between 1989 and 2004. A major contribution of the paper is the construction of panel data on employment by occupation and industry from the ...
Matthew Dey   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

‘They just want the perfect kids on show’: The illegal exclusion of children with special educational needs and disabilities from primary schools

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Guidance from the Department for Education stipulates that permanent exclusions should only be used as a last resort and where there is potential for harm to come to anyone in the school setting. Suspensions are positioned as a tool to communicate to a pupil that their behaviour is in breach of the school's behaviour policy.
Megan Whitehouse
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Offshore Outsourcing of Business Services [PDF]

open access: yesCompetition & Change, 2011
The re-organization of production across national boundaries has been extensively practised in industries such as motor manufacturing and clothing for the past four decades. This follows a realization by companies that competitive advantage would flow from retaining certain business functions ‘in-house’, while disaggregating, or externalizing, elements
Hollinshead, Graham   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Academic misconduct appeal services in China: Platform logics, self‐platformization and implications for integrity education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Academic misconduct appeal services have quietly emerged within China's education marketplace, with commercial agencies promoting themselves on social media to assist international students facing misconduct hearings. While existing research on academic integrity has emphasized prevention and detection, far less attention has been paid to what
Gengyan Tang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Outsourcing of Clinical Laboratory Services in Pakistan

open access: yesThe International Journal of Frontier Sciences, 2018
Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department of Punjab Government, Pakistan owns 25 district headquarter hospitals, 100 tehsil headquarter hospitals and a number of rural health centres and basic health units. Currently, the department started process of
Muhammad Shoaib Akhtar
doaj   +1 more source

Tracking Chart 2004 Fifth & Pacific, Sri Lanka 08037024C [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Fair Labor Association
core   +1 more source

Information systems offshore outsourcing: a descriptive analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Purpose - The present paper has as its aim to deepen in the study of Information Systems Offshore Outsourcing, proposing three essential steps to make this decision: weighing up the advantages and risks of Offshore Outsourcing; analysing the taxonomy of ...
Gascó, José L.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Integrating Digital Technologies Into Biochemistry Education: A Decade of Efforts, Pandemic Impacts, and Emerging Insights

open access: yesBiochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review critically examines the integration of Digital Information and Communication Technologies (TDICs) in biochemistry education over the past decade, highlighting both the benefits and challenges from a critical theoretical perspective. A systematic review was conducted to identify relevant literature, followed by thematic analysis and
Francis Pereira‐Dias   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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