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Demanding and Commanding Goods:The Eastleigh Transformation Told through the 'Lives' of its Commodities
No full textBeing Oromo in Nairobi's 'Little Mogadishu':Superdiversity, Moral Community and the Open Economy
No full textFacing the Future: the Changing Shape of Academic Skills Support at Bournemouth University
No full textThis paper explores the potential impact of changes to higher education in England on student expectations, engagement, lifestyles and diversity, and outlines implications for the development of digital literacy within academic skills support at Bournemouth University (BU). We will investigate how tackling resource constraints with organisational change can also enable efficient, centralised provision of support materials that utilise networks to overcome the risk of fragmented support for digital literacy. We will also look at how changing delivery modes for support can accommodate changing student lifestyles whilst tackling a weakness of centralised support for digital literacy: that it can become detached from the student’s subject-focused academic practice. Finally we will explore how involving students in developing support can help us to face changes to student expectations and engagement whilst ensuring that materials are authentic and speak to learners in their own voice
An evaluation of the factors that determine carrier selection
No full textThe selection of freight transport mode in cities like Hong Kong, with little land, is in some
respects obvious. The deciding criterion for mode/carrier selection is based on the selection
of either the lowest total transport cost or the shortest transit time for the cargo. The peculiar
nature of each transport mode, namely; rail, sea, road and air, will definitely earn their own
places when shippers need to make a decision on their shipments. The nature of the cargo
will also affect the choice of carrier/mode when they are transported in break bulk.
Fortunately, the invention of ISO containers in the late 1950s eliminated and overcame the
shortfall in some transport modes. With the extensive usage of ISO containers hereafter,
shippers can now enjoy a much freer choice of transport mode.
When China started its open-door policy in the late 1970s, many local (Hong Kong)
manufacturers relocated their factories to the Pearl River Delta (PRD) due to the low labour
and land costs. Delivery of shipments was mainly carried out by Hong Kong freight
forwarders as they had been in business with the shippers for decades. Road transport was the
only mode choice available at that time due to the inflexibilities in other transport modes such
as sea and rail. Progressively, these factories were relocated northwards at a later time due to
the gradually increasing labour and land costs. Freight forwarders were then faced with a
prolonged delivery time due to the stringent Customs regulations in China as well as a
progressive increase in the physical distance between the factory and the loading port in
Hong Kong. The continuous developments in adjacent ports in Southern China offered
freight forwarders an opportunity to revise the route of consignments so that the lowest cost
and shortest transit times were achievable. Nowadays, consignments from the PRD region can be transported to the loading ports via at least three transport modes, namely, sea (barge),
road (truck) and rail.
In addition to physical constraints in the mode/carrier selection, the mode choice in China is
further complicated due to the inflexible Customs regulations and government policies on tax
rebates.
Considerable research has been done on mode and carrier selection for bulk cargo in Western
countries. However there is no explicit study on the mode choice in China. This thesis studies
factors that will affect the shippers’ mode/carrier choice and ascertains the unique key factors
that will affect their mode/carrier choice in the PRD for their overseas consignments. From
this study, it was observed that shippers irrespective of the consignment size and cargo value
prefer to use a loading port that is reliable and efficienct in operation. This is the first thesis
written about carrier mode choice in China applying systematic and rationale methods to
express the mode selection criteria in PRD area. The results were achieved by using the
pairwise comparison method - Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method so that rigidity of
the results is academically accepted. Nevertheless, further study on the mode choice can be
carried forward through assessing buying behaviour and the shipper-carrier relationship
Why Privacy Matters: An Interview with Neil Richards
No full textProfessor Daniel J. Solove discusses the book \u27Why Privacy Matters\u27 and the future of privacy with the author, Professor Neil Richards
Interview with AntipodeFoundation.org: “Much More Than You Think: The Spatialities of Italian Autonomy” – Interview with Neil Gray, author of “Beyond the Right to the City: Territorial Autogestion and the Take over the City Movement in 1970s Italy”
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Jere Nash Interview with Neil McMillen (Part 2 of 2)
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with University of Southern Mississippi history professor Neil R. McMillen in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics discussed include Aaron Henry; race relations after the civil rights movement; and William Winter
Neil Carrier, Gernot Klantschnig, Africa and the war on drugs, lu par Vincent Foucher
No full textCARRIER (Neil) KLANTSCHNIG (Gernot), Africa and the war on drugs, Londres, Zed Books « African Arguments », 2012, 176 pages. Il s’agit là de la première synthèse de ce genre sur ce sujet, ou plutôt sur ces sujets, puisqu’il y est question à la fois des drogues en Afrique et de la lutte contre les drogues. Carrier et Klantschnig soutiennent que la communauté internationale traite de la question exclusivement sous l’angle sécuritaire, celui du rôle du continent africain comme point de transit p..
Maximizing Research Impact Through Institutional and National Open-Access Self-Archiving Mandates
No full textNo research institution can afford all the journals its researchers may need, so all articles are losing research impact (usage and citations). Articles made “Open Access,” (OA) by self-archiving them on the web are cited twice as much, but only 15% of articles are being spontaneously self-archived. The only institutions approaching 100% self-archiving are those that mandate it. Surveys show that 95% of authors will comply with a self-archiving mandate; the actual expe-rience of institutions with mandates has confirmed this. What institutions and funders need to mandate is that (1) immediately upon acceptance for publication, (2) the author’s final draft must be (3) deposited into the Institutional Repository. Only the depositing needs to be mandated; set-ting access privileges to the full-text as either OA or Restricted Access (RA) can be left up to the author. For articles published in the 93% of journals that have already endorsed self-archiving, access can be set as OA immediately; for the remaining 7%, authors can email the eprint in re-sponse to individual email requests automatically forwarded by the Repository
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