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Operations Management
No full textThis book is intended for a course in operations management offered by business schools and
management departments at universities. It should be appropriate for graduate level management
programmes at some engineering colleges and operations specialization students as well. In
particular, the syllabus of the core course in operations management for Masters in Management
Studies at the University of Mumbai has been covered together with some programmes at other
universities in India and Europe. The aim is to provide the basic concepts with absolute clarity
and develop solid understanding of the essential analytical tools necessary to solve operations
management problems. Since the text addresses the set syllabi of universities, students would fi nd it
useful for revisions during the examination period. In this text, Indian and European case studies,
research and literature reviews have been utilized to present various qualitative and quantitative
aspects of modern operations management in a comprehensive yet balanced manner. The
mathematical treatment has been kept focused and limited as required for the basic, core courses,
and instead, managerial implications, current management discussions and relevant examples
have been incorporated. Moreover, the needs of students from non-engineering background have
been taken into consideration by including some additional topics. The stress is on building the
understanding and interest of the students, along with defi nite relevance in modern industries,
besides enabling to gain better credit in examinations.
There are several facets of this book that set it apart from others in the fi eld, the most important
being that the book focuses on students, rather than researchers and staff members. We have
observed that during the course of studies many students are clueless and sometimes even panicky
because the operations management books available in the market are either too abstruse, heavy,
overly quantitative or even meant only for staff members. Hence, for those looking for quick grasp,
implementation, enjoyable studies and yet professionalism, there is a gap in the market that this
book intends to fi ll. Furthermore, the operations management fi eld is expected to rise considerably
and people from all backgrounds, not only engineering, will be required for a variety of jobs in both
manufacturing and service sectors. Such personnel need requisite understanding of some typical topics in operations and again this book would serve their needs adequately. It has been a passionate
aim to have the latest formulations in the book and our Indo-European experiences, research and
support from colleagues across the world would humbly epitomize the same. This book provides
the modern, state-of-the-art knowledge of the fi eld and hopes to fulfi l the requirements of the
academic audience
Lean Product Development Implementation Approach: Empirical Evidence from Indian Lean Manufacturers
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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