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Supply chains and energy security in a low carbon transition [PDF]

, 2014
This special edition to be published in Applied Energy brings together a range of papers that explore the complex, multi-dimensional and inter-related issues associated with the supply or value chains that make up energy systems and how a focus on them ...
Arent, Bustamante, Catherine Mitchell, Chiara Candelise, Eising, Florian Kern, Genus, Goe, Gouveia, Gracceva, Guy, Heffron, Hoggett, Hoggett, IEA, Jinyue Yan, Kiriyama, Mitchell, Mulhall, Månsson, Portugal-Pereira, Rendón, Richard Hoggett, Roelich, Ronan Bolton   +24 more
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Building Supply Chain Resilience [PDF]

International Transport Forum Discussion Papers, 2014
For several decades, textbooks, articles and consultancy reports in supply chain management (SCM) have expounded the virtues of low inventory, just-in-time delivery, single-sourcing, centralization and tightly-coupled processes. Heeding their advice, many companies have effectively implemented this ‘lean’ approach and managed to achieve impressive cost
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Meta‐Rod Mechanical Metamaterials With Programmable Reconfiguration

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Existing mechanical metamaterials achieve programmable large deformations in planar square or cubic configurations, restricted by required complex boundary conditions. This research proposes a 1D metamaterial, Meta‐rod, with linear, bending, twisting, area, and volume deformation modes.
Atharva Pande, Lyes Kadem, Hang Xu
wiley   +1 more source

Collaborative Regulation and Supply Chain Resilience: A Conceptual Paper

SHS Web of Conferences, 2018
This paper is a conceptual study that introduces the role of collaborative regulation into the supply chain resilience debate. The manufacturing supply chain of halal pharmaceuticals in Malaysia forms the context of the paper.
Aigbogun Osaro, Ghazali Zulkipli, Razali Radzuan   +2 more
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Bio‐Inspired Molecular Events in Poly(Ionic Liquids)

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Originating from dipolar and polar inter‐ and intra‐chain interactions of the building blocks, the topologies and morphologies of poly(ionic liquids) (PIL) govern their nano‐ and micro‐processibility. Modulating the interactions of cation‐anion pairs with aliphatic dipolar components enables the tunability of properties, facilitated by “bottom‐up ...
Jiahui Liu, Marek W. Urban
wiley   +1 more source

The Financial Supply Chain Management: a New Solution for Supply Chain Resilience [PDF]

, 2013
In the present article, the author aims to find solutions to optimize the supply chain for the cash flow – a flow of products reversed from the physical one and the two-ways flow of information.
Popa, Virgil
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Fluorine‐Free Soft Nanocomposites for High‐Speed Liquid Impact Repellence

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Fluorine‐free soft nanocomposite coatings are developed using silicone oil‐mediated mechanical‐stiffness control, enabling ‘dry’ liquid‐repellent surfaces that resist high‐speed water jet impacts up to ∼60 m/s. By tuning nanoparticle loading and oil content, the coatings also achieve >90% optical transparency, amphiphobicity with impact resistance to ...
Priya Mandal, Vikramjeet Singh, Rohit Gupta, Prasenjit Kabi, Manish K. Tiwari   +4 more
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Evaluation Research on Resilience of Coal-to-Liquids Industrial Chain and Supply Chain

Systems
The objective of this study is to enhance the resilience of the coal-to-liquids (CTL) industrial chain and supply chain to withstand increasing shock pressures.
Anbo Wu, Pingfan Li, Linhui Sun, Chang Su, Xinping Wang   +4 more
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GResilient index to assess the greenness and resilience of the automotive supply chain [PDF]

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to suggest an Index entitled GResilient Index to assess the greenness and resilience of the automotive companies and corresponding supply chain. Design/methodology/approach: An integrated assessment model is proposed
Azevedo, Susana G., Carvalho, Helena, Cruz-Machado, V., Govindan, Kannan   +3 more
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Just and sustainable? : examining the rhetoric and potential realities of UK food security [PDF]

, 2011
The dominant discourse in 20th century UK food and agricultural policies of a liberal, free trade agenda was modified at the turn of the 21st to embrace ecological sustainability and "food security." The latter term has a long international history; the ...
Dowler, Elizabeth, MacMillan, Tom
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