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How blockchain technology improves sustainable supply chain processes: a practical guide
Get PDFBlockchain technology has rapidly grown in the last decade and supply chain management has started to emerge as one of its possible fields of application. Blockchain is estimated to have a transformative impact and potentially transform and disrupt supply chains. However, despite recognizing its enormous opportunity, there is still an incomplete, dispersed, and fragmented knowledge of blockchain applications beyond cryptocurrencies. Very few business people still deeply understand how blockchain works and how it can concretely benefit supply chains. This paper contributes to closing this gap, providing a holistic approach to analyzing blockchain technology's applications and benefits in supply chain management. This study aims to support academics and practitioners in adopting a holistic perspective and realizing the potential this technology can offer in different areas of the supply chain, its managerial impact, challenges, and limitations. A "closed-loop" value chain perspective is adopted to analyze the benefits at each core process of the supply chain, from sourcing to final customer and reverse logistics. This paper conducts qualitative research using case studies analysis based on secondary data. Further, it builds a theoretical framework for blockchain-enhanced supply chain performance based on the results of the qualitative research. Finally, the paper discusses the major drawbacks and barriers to blockchain implementation, which help managers evaluate its real net benefits
How do collaborative culture and capability improve sustainability?
Get PDFAchieving competitive advantages from a resource-based view is hardly sustainable in today's operational environment. This study emphasizes the need to build partnering capabilities and improve sustainability in the supply chain by coping with the fast-changing business environment. This research underlines the crucial roles of relation- and resource-sharing based collaboration, capabilities, and commitment in developing sustainable supply chain performance. This is the first study to empirically test the theory of developing triple bottom line-based sustainability involving dynamic capabilities and collaboration. Dynamic capability enables firms to create, modify, and reconfigure their available resources to compete in the fast-changing market environment, while collaboration is to work together to achieve a better performance and helps building dynamic capability. Results show that collaboration and commitment play a crucial role in building capabilities, which, in turn, allow firms to achieve sustainable supply chain performance. Collaboration, representing resource sharing and collaborative culture, influences sustainability directly and is mediated by capabilities and commitment. For effective capabilities and sustainability, both upstream and downstream collaboration are required. Culture- and commitment-related traits are strong for downstream collaborating firms
The Cassandras in Exile: A Study of the Diasporic Sensibility in the Poetry of Meena Alexander, Sujata Bhatt, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Moniza Alvi and Jean Arasanayagam
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Frontmatter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization, Author Index
No full textThis proceedings volume has the papers presented at the 30th annual conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2010), held at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, during 15–18 December 2010.
The conference attracted 128 submissions from 35 countries in 6 continents, most of them of very high quality. We thank the authors who submitted for making this such a competitive conference. The PC succeeded in obtaining the help of 216 external reviewers, in all producing 400 referee reports which were of immeasurable help in deciding the 38 contributed papers which have made it to this publication
Training machine learning algorithms using actor framework in multi-core or cluster system
Get PDFSubmission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2021-08-01The student, Harshita Meena, accepted the attached license on 2019-07-12 at 16:03.The student, Harshita Meena, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2019-07-12 at 16:13.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2019-07-15 at 13:28.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14311 on 2019-11-26 at 14:04:15Machine learning algorithms have shown great promises in many applications, the increase of data has fueled the production of great frameworks that could leverage the combination of data with tools. There have been focus on providing applications to ease the process of training different learning models like Apache Spark, Tensor flow that unifies streaming, batch, and interactive big data workloads. The Actor model is asynchronous message passing protocol for computations in distributed systems and is suitable for exploiting large-scale parallelism. The support that actor system brings with it like fault tolerance, actor spawning, multi-core usage makes it a good model for building Machine learning applications that wants to benefit in local and distributed cloud computing.
This thesis provides one such framework for iterative machine Learning algorithms that train the models by asynchronous message passing. We show results of a number of ML algorithms and analyze the benefits of using a scalable (horizontal and vertical) platform of actors to do large-scale data model training. The thesis implements two protocols to do scalable training and compares their performance.Made available in DSpace on 2019-11-26T20:59:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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“Writing in Search of a Homelandâ€: Re-creating Home in Meena Alexander’s Fault Lines: A Memoir
No full textIn this article I investigate Indian-American author Meena Alexander's autobiographical memoir, Fault Lines (2003). Multiply fragmented by relocations and remembrances, flights and motions, Alexander‟s memoir is relentlessly marked by her ceaseless quest for stability – at home and in exile. As she repeatedly emphasises her irresistible impulse to write since her childhood and particularly to write her self, I will attempt in this article to explore the importance of self-writing in diaspora. Consequently, I will argue that diasporic self-writing not only induces a therapeutic wholeness amidst disjunction and displacement, but also effectively de-creates and re-creates shifting and changing paradigms of the diasporic homes
Interview with Ruth Meena
No full textThe Global Feminisms Project (http://www.umich.edu/~glblfem/en/index.html) is a collaborative international oral history project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements, and academic women's studies in sites around the world. The current archive includes interviews with women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in China, India, Nicaragua, Poland, and the United States. We are currently working on adding interviews from Brazil and Russia. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the U.S. site research team. Our international collaborators include: - Laboratorio de Historia Oral e Imagem - UFF (the Laboratory of Oral History and Images at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro) and Nucleo de Historia, Memoria e Documento - NUMEM (the Center for History, Memory, and Documentation at the Federal State University in Rio de Janeiro), BRAZIL - China Women's University in Beijing, CHINA - SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, INDIA - Movimiento Autonomo de Mujeres de Nicaragua (Autonomous Women's Movement), NICARAGUA - Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, POLANDProf. Ruth Meena (known as Dada Ruti) was born in Moshi in 1946; she is a feminist, human right activist, scholar and author of several publications on gender and women empowerment. She was the first female Tanzanian Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration and served 27 years at University of Dar es salaam, after serving 9 years at both teachers colleges and secondary schools. In 1991 she coordinated the Gender Program for East and Southern Africa under SAPES, based in Harare, Zimbabwe, forming a network of scholars that produced a book titled Southern Africa, Conceptual and Theoretical Issues.She is a co-founder and the first chairperson of the board of Environmental and Human Rights, Care and Gender Organization, an active member of the Tanzania Gender Networking Program (TGNP) co-founder and member of the Board of Trustees of the Women Fund-Trust, (WFT-Trust). In 2013 she actively engaged in the women's rights movement in demanding incorporation of women's rights in the constitutional review process. She has published, authored or co-authored and edited various books, reports, journal articles, and papers on gender, women empowerment and feminist discourses.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstreams/bf0f8c00-39b7-4d97-9b14-aa21730610f1/downloadhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstreams/11877819-0349-4c1e-959d-109a1023318c/downloa
Dravidian Futurities: A Creative Process
No full textIn this article, author and artist Meena Murugesan analyzes their creative process and research in the making of Dravidian Futurities, a multi-channel video installation with live performance. Methodologies of auto-ethnography, visual aesthetics, embodied movement practices, Tamil historiographies, queer futurities, caste analysis, and poetics are applied to treat the issues at hand. Dravidian Futurities draws connections between communities of South Indian and Sri Lankan Shudra and Dalit caste backgrounds, Dravidian, and Afro-Indian peoples, depending on the historical era examined. As someone of the Shudra caste, the author draws connections between agriculture, land, and earth, as being rooted in Shudra identities, and in opposition to brahminical systems. Therefore, the movement forms of somatics, improvisation, and nature-based embodiment practices are investigated as possible embodied inroads to grapple with caste within brahminized bharatanatyam. Notions of futurity and place-making are unearthed from the depths of the Indian Ocean with a hypothetical sunken landmass called Lemuria or Kumari Kandam that might have once connected South India, Sri Lanka, and Madagascar. Dravidian Futurities also dreams into existence this speculative landmass as a possible utopia we might co-build, similar to that which Dalit mystic saint Guru Ravidas imagined five hundred years ago with Begumpura (“land without sorrow”) as a casteless, stateless utopia
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