16 research outputs found
Organizational resilience and sustainability: a bibliometric analysis
No full textAbstractAmidst uncertain and disruptive environments, the significance of Organizational Resilience and Sustainability cannot be overstated, as they are crucial for businesses to thrive. By integrating sustainability and resilience practices into strategies, organizations can better navigate disruptive environments and position themselves for sustainable success. The aim of conducting a bibliometric study on organizational sustainability and resilience is to gather knowledge of the literature already written in these fields and spot trends, patterns, and research gaps. The present study sheds light on the four Organizational Resilience pillars: Preparedness, Responsiveness, Adaptability, and Learning. These pillars are crucial in enhancing an organization’s ability to withstand and recover from disruptive events. Using the Scopus Database, a comprehensive analysis was conducted on 120 documents that satisfied the inclusion criteria and were published between 2010 and 2022. Descriptive Statistical Analysis was employed to examine and comprehend the extent to which previous research has explored organizational resilience and sustainability within Business Management. The analysis focused on factors such as production productivity, country productivity, affiliation productivity, author productivity, and the most cited document
Unveiling the dynamics of farmer producer organizations in India: a systematic review of status, challenges, and future directions
No full textAbstract India, a developing country heavily reliant on the agricultural sector, has witnessed the emergence of farmer producer organizations (FPOs) as a transformative collective model for farmers as an alternative to traditional cooperatives. The FPOs aim to solve the problems encountered by small and marginal farmers, especially those about better access to capital, technical improvements, and efficient inputs and markets. A comprehensive review of the literature in this field is essential because of the rapid advancement of FPO research articles. Scholars have published several review articles on FPO from different perspectives to tackle this issue. However, there is not a considerable number of published studies on FPO that incorporate bibliometric analysis. In the present study, an attempt is made to investigate the FPO publications with bibliometric analysis. This study employs a systematic literature review methodology, focusing on research published between 2002 and 2023. From an initial pool of 3796 research articles, 64 relevant studies from the Scopus database were identified for the study. These papers were analyzed using publication, journal, country, and author productivity, as well as the highest cited documents, co-citation analysis, bibliographic coupling analysis, and cluster analysis. The findings reveal that most studies focus on assessing the performance of FPOs, with limited attention to critical areas like institutional support, leadership, and policy execution. The cluster analysis results revealed that agricultural marketing, sustainable agriculture, the impact of membership on performance, women in agriculture, manufacturing, sustainability driving innovation, and technological efficiency of the food supply chain are the emerging themes in the literature. This paper provides policy recommendations on some significant challenges FPOs face, such as streamlining documentation, enhancing market access, ensuring fair tax treatment, allowing fertilizer distribution rights, and promoting farmer-led leadership
A simple construction of positive loops of legendrians
No full textWe construct positive loops of Legendrian submanifolds in several instances. In particular, we partially recover G. Liu’s result stating that any loose Legendrian admits a positive loop, under some mild topological assumptions on the Legendrian. Moreover, we show contractibility of the constructed loops under an extra topological assumption.The first author is also thankful to ICTP, Trieste (Italy), where part of this work was
carried out when the author visited there as Simons associate. Second and third
authors are supported by the Spanish National Research Projects SEV-2015-0554,
MTM2016-79400-P and MTM2015-72876-E
A simple construction of positive loops of Legendrians
No full textWe construct positive loops of Legendrian submanifolds in several instances. In particular, we partially recover G. Liu's result stating that any loose Legendrian admits a positive loop, under some mild topological assumptions on the Legendrian. Moreover, we show contractibility of the constructed loops under an extra topological assumption.We are grateful to R. Casals, V. Colin, V. Ginzburg, G.Liu and A. del Pino, for useful discussions. The first author is grateful to the Marie Curie Research programme “Indo European collaboration on moduli spaces”
that allowed him to visit ICMAT during the development of this project. The first author is also thankful to ICTP, Trieste (Italy), where part of this work was carried out when the author visited there as Simons associate. Second and third authors are supported by the Spanish National Research Projects SEV-2015-0554, MTM2016-79400-P and MTM2015-72876-EXP. Finally, we want to mention the good work of the referee. He has contributed to significantly improve the grammar and mathematical readability of this article
Experimental investigation on micromachining of epoxy/graphene nano platelet nanocomposites
No full text\ua9 2020, The Author(s).This paper investigates the effect of graphene nano platelet (GNP) content (%weight fraction) on the machinability of epoxy/GNP nanocomposites. The machinability of nanocomposites with varying loadings of GNP content was evaluated experimentally through the characterisation of cutting forces, surface morphology, chip morphology and tool wear. The minimum chip thickness phenomena of epoxy/GNP occurred at feed per tooth (FPT) between 0.2 and 0.4 μm. In order to achieve to better surface quality, the FPT should be over 0.4 μm. Epoxy/GNP with 1.0 wt% nanocomposite has produced the highest cutting force of a feed rate of ~ 3 N at 12 μm/rev. Epoxy/GNP nanocomposites exhibit the different cracking tendencies compared with plain epoxy, and the tool wear for GNP/epoxy nanocomposites is very small compared with metal nanocomposites. There is no significant difference in slot width accuracy between different types of tools, such as uncoated tool, diamond-like carbon-coated and diamond-coated tools
Mining housekeeping genes with a Naive Bayes classifier
No full textThe first author was supported by the Student Awards Agency for Scotland. The second author is supported by BBSRC grant BBS RC BB/D006473/1, and under the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC), which is sponsored by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under grant number GR/N15764/01.Background: Traditionally, housekeeping and tissue specific genes have been classified using direct assay of mRNA presence across different tissues, but these experiments are costly and the results not easy to compare and reproduce. Results: In this work, a Naive Bayes classifier based only on physical and functional characteristics of genes already available in databases, like exon length and measures of chromatin compactness, has achieved a 97% success rate in classification of human housekeeping genes ( 93% for mouse and 90% for fruit fly). Conclusion: The newly obtained lists of housekeeping and tissue specific genes adhere to the expected functions and tissue expression patterns for the two classes. Overall, the classifier shows promise, and in the future additional attributes might be included to improve its discriminating power.Peer reviewe
Transcriptomic identification of starfish neuropeptide precursors yields new insights into neuropeptide evolution
No full textPublished by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.This work was supported by a PhD studentship funded by QMUL and awarded to D.C.S. and a Leverhulme Trust grant (RPG-
2013-351) awarded to M.R.E. Sequencing of the A. rubens neural transcriptome was funded by an EPSRC grant (EP/J501360/1
