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Mobile intelligence for reporting of supply chain KPI's
No full textA Supply Chain Manager is in the departure lounge at Munich airport waiting for her flight
to London to discuss size curves of the latest range of sports shoes with the Retail
Manager of the company’s flagship London retail store. The SC Manager opens up an
application on her smartphone that displays the stock levels for the season’s top selling
shoes. She immediately sees that the stock turnover for this range is much higher at the
London store than at other leading stores across Europe. The London Retail Manager
wants to change the range profile to better reflect UK customer sizes and tastes. The
SCM Manager has a printed version of last year’s size curves (showing how many of each
size were shipped and sold to the UK), however, she would like to see what the latest
figures are for this quarter. She simply opens the size curve application on her
smartphone and calls up the figures she needs.
This kind of scenario is increasingly being played out by executives and managers (many
of whom spend very little time in the office) as they travel to meetings remote from their
colleagues and the company intranet. It is fair to say that in many cases, retrieval of the
information that is required is not as easy as the above situation implies. There are many
reasons for this including restrictions on data sharing/retrieval, scattering of data across
formats/ databases and insufficient specification by the managers of their requirements.
Mobile intelligence systems utilise devices such as mobile phones and tablet computers
(smartphones, iPad, Playbook, etc.) as handheld workstations for users to access and
analyse real time information. Essentially they allow managers to access performance
information quickly and in an easy to communicate visual way (e.g. bar charts, pie charts
etc. see for example Figure 1). Mobile intelligence in a supply chain management
reporting context allows users to access supply chain-related information anywhere and
make quick, informed decisions. Supply chain specific examples include delivery
performance tracking and alerts for low inventory levels. Mobile phone applications
(‘Apps’) can now offer managers more opportunities to connect and share information
than, for example, a laptop due to the level of connectivity and network coverage around
the world
Evidence for the decay B0→J/ψω and measurement of the relative branching fractions of meson decays to J/ψη and J/ψη′
Get PDFFirst evidence of the B 0 → J / ψ ω decay is found and the B s 0 → J / ψ η and B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ decays are studied using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb -1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The branching fractions of these decays are measured relative to that of the B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0 decay:frac(B (B 0 → J / ψ ω), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 0.89 ± 0.19 (stat) - 0.13 + 0.07 (syst),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 14.0 ± 1.2 (stat) - 1.5 + 1.1 (syst) - 1.0 + 1.1 (frac(f d, f s)),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 12.7 ± 1.1 (stat) - 1.3 + 0.5 (syst) - 0.9 + 1.0 (frac(f d, f s)), where the last uncertainty is due to the knowledge of f d / f s, the ratio of b-quark hadronization factors that accounts for the different production rate of B 0 and B s 0 mesons. The ratio of the branching fractions of B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ and B s 0 → J / ψ η decays is measured to befrac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B s 0 → J / ψ η)) = 0.90 ± 0.09 (stat) - 0.02 + 0.06 (syst)
Measurement of the CP-violating phase \phi s in Bs->J/\psi\pi+\pi- decays
Get PDFMeasurement of the mixing-induced CP-violating phase phi_s in Bs decays is of prime importance in probing new physics. Here 7421 +/- 105 signal events from the dominantly CP-odd final state J/\psi pi+ pi- are selected in 1/fb of pp collision data collected at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV with the LHCb detector. A time-dependent fit to the data yields a value of phi_s=-0.019^{+0.173+0.004}_{-0.174-0.003} rad, consistent with the Standard Model expectation. No evidence of direct CP violation is found
Observations of Bºs→ψ(2S)η and Bº(s)→ψ(2S)π+π- decays
Get PDFFirst observations of the B0s
→ψ(2S)η, B0 →ψ(2S)π
+
π
− and B0s
→ψ(2S)π
+
π
− decays are made
using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb−1 collected by the LHCb experiment in
proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of
√
s = 7 TeV. The ratios of the branching fractions
of each of the ψ(2S) modes with respect to the corresponding J/ψ decays are
B(B0s
→ψ(2S)η)
÷
B(B0s
→J/ψη)
= 0.83± 0.14 (stat)±0.12 (syst) ±0.02 (B),
;
B(B0→ψ(2S)π
+
π
−
)
÷
B(B0→J/ψπ
+
π
−
)
= 0.56± 0.07 (stat)±0.05 (syst)± 0.01 (B),
;
B(B0s
→ψ(2S)π
+
π
−
)
÷
B(B0s
→J/ψπ
+
π
−
)
= 0.34± 0.04 (stat)±0.03 (syst)± 0.01 (B),
where the third uncertainty corresponds to the uncertainties of the dilepton branching fractions of the J/ψ
and ψ(2S) meson decays
Measurement of the ratio of prompt χ c to J / ψ production in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
Get PDFThe prompt production of charmonium χ c and J / ψ states is studied in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The χ c and J / ψ mesons are identified through their decays χ c → J / ψ γ and J / ψ → μ + μ - using 36 pb - 1 of data collected by the LHCb detector in 2010. The ratio of the prompt production cross-sections for χ c and J / ψ, σ (χ c → J / ψ γ) / σ (J / ψ), is determined as a function of the J / ψ transverse momentum in the range 2 < p T J / ψ < 15 GeV / c. The results are in excellent agreement with next-to-leading order non-relativistic expectations and show a significant discrepancy compared with the colour singlet model prediction at leading order, especially in the low p T J / ψ region
Our Story Collages
No full textOur Story digital collages of the Underwater Realm presented in Giannoulatou, I. D., Januchowski-Hartley, S. R., Sahni, A., Pawar, S. K., White, J. C., Lockheart, J., Baranduin, N., Herbst, D., Whittaker, B., Thackeray, S. J., Shooter, R., Darley, J. and Thomas, M. (in review). Collaging to find new connections and meaning about underwater places. cultural geographies. *Corresponding author: [email protected] </p
Measurement of the branching fraction
Get PDFThe B
0
s
→ J/ψK
0
S
branching fraction is measured in a data sample corresponding to 0.41 fb−1
of integrated luminosity collected with the LHCb detector at the LHC. This channel is sensitive to
the penguin contributions affecting the sin 2β measurement from B
0
→ J/ψK
0
S
. The time-integrated
branching fraction is measured to be B(B
0
s
→ J/ψK
0
S
) = (1.83±0.28)×10−5
. This is the most precise
measurement to date
Our Story Audio-Visual Media
No full textOur Story audio-visual media presented in Giannoulatou, I. D., Januchowski-Hartley, S. R., Sahni, A., Pawar, S. K., White, J. C., Lockheart, J., Baranduin, N., Herbst, D., Whittaker, B., Thackeray, S. J., Shooter, R., Darley, J. and Thomas, M. (in review). Collaging to find river connections and stimulate new meanings. cultural geographies.
The original video file was changed with an updated version on 21 September 2022 to include subtitles (English).
*Corresponding author: [email protected] </p
The hard state of black hole candidates: XTEJ1752-223
No full textWe present a 2-day long Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observation and simultaneous Swift data of the bright X-ray transient XTE J1752–223. Spectral and timing properties were stable during the observation. The energy spectrum is well described by a broken power law with a high-energy cut-off. A cold disc (?0.3 keV) is observed when Swift/X-Ray Telescope data are considered. The fractional root mean square amplitude of the aperiodic variability (0.002–128 Hz) is 48.2 ± 0.1 per cent, and it is not energy dependent. The continuum of the power density spectrum can be fitted by using four broad-band Lorentzians. A high-frequency (?21 Hz) component and two weak quasi-periodic oscillation-like features are also present. Time lags between soft and hard X-rays roughly follow the relation ?t???0.7, with delays dropping from ?0.5 (0.003 Hz) to ?0.0015 (?10 Hz) s. Our results are consistent with XTE J1752–223 being a black hole candidate, with all timing and spectral components very similar to those of Cyg X-1 during its canonical hard state
Measurement of the time-dependent CP asymmetry in B0 -> J/ψ KS0 decays
Get PDFThis Letter reports a measurement of the CP violation observables SJ/ψK0S and CJ/ψK0S in the decay channel B0→J/ψK0S performed with 1.0 fb−1 of pp collisions at s√=7 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment. The fit to the data yields SJ/ψK0S=0.73±0.07(stat)±0.04(syst) and CJ/ψK0S=0.03±0.09(stat)±0.01(syst). Both values are consistent with the current world averages and within
expectations from the Standard Model
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