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A Review of Digital Transformation on Supply Chain Process Management Using Text Mining
No full textIndustry 4.0 technologies are causing a paradigm shift in supply chain process management. The digital transformation of the supply chains provides enormous benefits to organizations by empowering collaboration among multiple internal and external organizations and systems. This study presents a narrative review explaining the existing knowledge on digital transformation in supply chain process management using text mining. It summarizes the existing literature to explain the current state of the art in supply chain digitalization. This comprehensive review identifies the most important topics and technologies and determines the future trends in this emerging field. We investigate the articles published in Web of Science and Scopus databases and use text mining techniques (clustering and topic modeling) on the article contents. Using VOS viewer, a bibliometric analysis of 395 articles with 12,700 references is analyzed. The contents of the articles are explored using text mining approaches. The synthesized results reveal that the most important topics in digital transformation are “sustainable supply chain management” and “circular economy and industry 4.0 technologies”. The study further discovers big data, data analytics, blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of Things as the most critical technologies for facilitating supply chain digital transformation. Finally, an overlay heatmap analysis of the research articles found that digital transformation, supply chain management, industry 4.0, decision-making, and sustainability are emerging trends in supply chain digitalization
A technology development framework for scenario planning and futures studies using causal modeling
No full textPlanning for the future plays a pivotal role in a competitive business world. Scenario analysis is a popular tool for exploring plausible futures and planning. However, the practice of scenario planning is often qualitative, unstructured, and time-consuming. We propose a structured technology development framework by categorising the qualitative variables impacting technology development and identifying their causal relationships. We then use causal loops and expert opinions and the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method for scenario planning and futures studies. We present a case study in the communications industry to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed framework
Non-Fungible Tokens: A Research Primer and Implications for Sport Management
Full text linkNon-fungible tokens (NFTs) have gained considerable media attention and sparked growing public interest. NFTs are unique units of data recorded on a permanent ledger or blockchain. NFTs are used to record ownership of both physical and digital goods. Prominent sport organizations have embraced NFTs for innovative growth opportunities such as generating revenue via novel digital products (e.g., digital collectibles). For example, the National Basketball Association (NBA) launched NBA Top Shot, an online marketplace to buy and sell digital sports highlights. Sport organizations are exploring future innovation opportunities where there is a need to reliably track and verify authenticity or ownership of digital or digitizable assets. This includes existing sport products (e.g., tickets) and novel fan engagement initiatives. To benefit from NFTs, sport managers need to reconceptualize how sport is marketed and managed in a digital domain. The purpose of this research primer is to acquaint readers with key concepts related to NFTs. Specifically, we provide an overview of NFTs, offer a review of the brief history of NFTs, conceptualize NFTs via parallels with collectibles, and address the speculative nature of the NFT market. We conclude by outlining innovative growth opportunities of NFTs for sport managers and future research directions for sport management scholars
Esports Scholarship Review: Synthesis, Contributions, and Future Research
No full textEsports, or competitive video gaming competitions, bring together aspects of sports, business, leisure, technology, and digital media, appealing to academics across multiple disciplines. Yet, esports scholarship remains highly fragmented, with scholars operating within traditional academic silos and forgoing opportunities to build on esports’ interdisciplinary nature. The purpose of this integrative review is to synthesize esports scholarship from across disciplines, identify critical scholarly issues, and develop a pragmatic, interdisciplinary research agenda. We find that extant esports scholarship is categorized by literature seeking to conceptualize and legitimize esports via sport parallels, with a focus on the consumers and culture of esports. Scholarly issues include researchers examining esports in their respective academic silos, omitting opportunities to connect conceptually similar streams of literature. Overall, we synthesize esports scholarship, bridge chasms between disjointed streams of literature, and outline a pragmatic research agenda which could benefit from interdisciplinary inquiries based on a shared understanding of esports
A private sustainable partner selection model for green public-private partnerships and regional economic development
No full textMany cities are struggling to keep pace with limited budgets and rapid growth. Economic development models involving public-private partnerships (P3s) can help drive economic revitalization. The choice of partners plays a vital role in the success or failure of sustainable P3 initiatives. In this study, we propose a novel integrated sustainable private partner selection framework in P3s. The proposed model is composed of the best-worst method (BWM), the weighted influence non-linear gauge system (WINGS), and the technique of order preference similarity to the ideal solution (TOPSIS). The BWM is used to identify the importance weights of the economic, environmental, social, and technological criteria. The WINGS method uses ideographic causal maps to analyze the intertwined criteria and their causal relations. TOPSIS is used to rank and select the private partners that will bring the “best value” to the partnership. We demonstrate the proposed method\u27s applicability in a P3 initiative for sustainability, gentrification and neighborhood revitalization, and economic development in a northeastern US city. In this initiative, low density, low cost, and biodegradable agricultural waste and mushroom fibers are grown in vacant buildings to be used as a Styrofoam packaging replacement
A Woman for Our Times: How Marriage and Motherhood Shaped Cornelia Connelly\u27s Religious Life
Full text linkThe Homing of the Word: Textual Intimacy in the Gospel of John
Full text linkChristian spirituality is rooted in the Gospels. In proclaiming the truth of Resurrection and the presence of the Risen Jesus, each Gospel stories Jesus into human imagining. The Gospel of John is experienced as radically different from the Synoptic texts. Something in it affects everything of it. It seemingly knows Jesus differently, engages a reader differently, Gospels differently, even and actually loves differently.
This study considers what the Gospel of John does to a reader. Though not an exegetical study in the strict sense, it depends on a most simple, most beautiful, and most intimate line in all of Scripture: that the Word became flesh and dwells among us. It names Incarnation as the unfinished and evolving mystery that creates, shapes, and energizes the difference of the Fourth Gospel, staking a definitive claim on the whole of the biblical text and intimating the presence of an irrevocable and pursuing passion in God for human being and becoming, for choosing to dwell particularly in and depend on the human person in the evolving and expanding fullness of creation. It considers how Incarnation gives itself as gift to the poiesic textuality of the Gospel so as to do God differently within the bodied experience of each reader. It argues that the raison d’ etre of the Fourth Gospel is experiential intimacy with God through-with-in the person and presence of Jesus.
Beginning with an overview of the biblical text as the dwelling place of revelatory presence and divine mystery, it situates intimacy with God as integral to biblical thinking and imagining. In considering the Christian experience, it names the Gospels as Spirit-boldened events of linguistic art that engage and transform a reader through intimacy with Jesus. Drawing from the hermeneutical insights of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur, an understanding of textuality and the complexity of language is offered, serving as a bridge into the reality of the difference and the more of the Fourth Gospel. These biblical and linguistic foundations create space for exploring a Johannine dynamic of intimacy centered in the mystery of Incarnation and dependent upon the potent and poiesic fullness of the narrative as Word and word, an intimacy that fleshes living faithfulness through-with-in the real and bodied experiences of a reader encountering the real and bodied Resurrected presence of Jesus in the Gospel
UA.01.055 Dr. Roland Holroyd Collection
Full text linkCollection Number: UA.01.055
Repository: La Salle University Archives
Title: Dr. Roland Holroyd Collection
Date [inclusive]: 1904-1981
Extent: 5.5 Linear feet
Language: English
Scope and Contents: This collection contains the documents of Dr. Roland Holroyd, who was the driving force behind the development of La Salle University’s Biology Department. These documents include course material, department papers, publications, correspondence, and photographs. The Academic Material series is comprised of lecture notes from when Holroyd was a student at the University of Pennsylvania and notes from when he was teaching at La Salle University. It also includes course schedules, midterm and final exam, tests, handouts, and final student grades. The latter has been separated from the other materials and is restricted. The bulk of the courses focus on biology, botany, and genetics. Academic Material series contains some sensitive material in the form of final grades of students. These have been separated from the other materials and should be restricted. The department papers include registration information and information on the professors in the department. The Correspondence series includes writings from colleagues of Holroyd who sent him letters and certificates that Holroyd himself received. The Journals and Publications series contains publications that were also sent to him from his colleagues. These publications are from 1899 to around 1973 and they touch on the plant life from different parts of the world. Two photographs were found in the collection; one is a photo of an unknown group, the second is of a La Salle graduate preforming surgery on a U.S. submarine during World War II. The Travel series contains maps, postcards and souvenirs from Holroyd\u27s international trips. Finally, the Personal collection contains religious materials that belonged to Dr. Holroyd as well as a family crest. When processing this collection, it was determined that the order the collection arrived to the archives was not created for the archives, it was more of someone cleaning out an office and putting the contents into boxes. Taking this into consideration the material found was re-ordered in a way that would make sense. However, if documents were found to be filed in a certain way by Dr. Holroyd, those documents were kept in the original filing order.https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/finding_aids/1053/thumbnail.jp
An Evidence-based Teaching Plan to Increase Awareness of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists to Patient Safety Threats due to Provider Fatigue and to Offer Effective Strategies to Mitigate Fatigue
Full text linkThe mental, physical, and emotional effects of stress and fatigue pose significant patient safety risks resulting from impaired concentration, coordination, and overall productivity in certified registered nurse anesthetists. Fatigue is commonly experienced by nurse anesthetists. Fatigue is an occupational hazard that affects not only nurse anesthetists but also patients, colleagues, and other healthcare stakeholders. Certified registered nurse anesthetists are most affected by fatigue due to the prolonged duration of extensive patient monitoring during surgical and complex medical procedures. Due to their central role in ensuring patient safety and comfort during surgery and other procedures requiring anesthesia, certified registered nurse anesthetists are also highly susceptible to organizational and clinical adjustments, such as changes in work schedules and medical/obstetrical emergencies. Fatigue negatively impacts the personal and professional well-being of certified registered nurse anesthetists. Provider fatigue is well-documented as a causative factor in patient safety threats, errors, and decreased quality of anesthesia care. This doctoral project used a quality improvement design related to a provider education program to inform certified registered nurse anesthetists of safety threats related to fatigue and to provide evidence-based strategies to reduce the effects of fatigue. An evidence-based teaching plan was developed based on analysis of the literature. Experts evaluated the content areas of the teaching plan. The final form of the teaching plan was modified based on expert comments and ranks. In the future CRNAs may attend an educational program that was structured within the teaching plan
La Salle Magazine Spring 2022
Full text linkhttps://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine/1242/thumbnail.jp