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Designing Vendor Selection and Evaluation Systems for Supply Networks
No full textSupply chain management requires traditional tools for vendor selection (VS) and evaluation (VE) to be modified to foster customer-supplier collaboration and coordination. In this way it is possible to reduce information asymmetries and opportunistic behaviours of counterparts in supply networks. The aim of this paper is (1) to describe an integrated tool for VS and VE that overcomes the limits of the traditional tools in supply networks, (2) to give a detailed description of the implementation of such a tool and (3) to explain how the use of this tool can improve customers-suppliers relationships. These issues are discussed through the analysis of a successful case of a Italian company leader in the modular kitchen industry, and its supplier network, who implemented a balanced and transparent web-base platform for vendor selection and evaluatio
Frequently Asked Questions in Patients With Adrenal Insufficiency in the Time of COVID-19
Full text linkAdrenal insufficiency (AI) is a life-threatening disorder, with increased morbidity and mortality, especially in case of an acute illness that can increase the requirement of cortisol. A novel infectious disease, termed Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), appeared in 2020. Therefore, AI patients are experiencing a novel challenge: the risk of infection. In our experience, a prompt contact to the Endocrine center (with a telemedicine consultation) and a full awareness of diseases (cortisol deficiency, COVID-19 and the self-management of an adrenal crisis) are important to motivate patients. Vaccine is an effective treatment to prevent hospitalization and aggressive course of COVID-19. Some patients manifest challenges due to inequitable access and vaccine hesitancy, resulting in a delay in the acceptance of vaccines despite the availability of vaccination services. Therefore, an effort of all physicians must be conducted in order to advise patients with AI. In this short review, we try to answer some frequently asked questions regarding the management of patients with AI
RESOLUTION OF HYPERTENSION AND SECONDARY ALDOSTERONISM AFTER SURGICAL TREATMENT OF PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM.
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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
Designing vendor selection and evaluation systems for supply networks
No full textSupply chain management requires traditional tools for vendor selection (VS) and evaluation (VE)
to be modified to foster customer-supplier collaboration and coordination. In this way it is possible
to reduce information asymmetries and opportunistic behaviours of counterparts in supply
networks. The aim of this paper is (1) to describe an integrated tool for VS and VE that overcomes
the limits of the traditional tools in supply networks, (2) to give a detailed description of the
implementation of such a tool and (3) to explain how the use of this tool can improve customerssuppliers
relationships. These issues are discussed through the analysis of a successful case of a
Italian company leader in the modular kitchen industry and its supplier network, who implemented
a balanced and transparent web-base platform for vendor selection and evaluation
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
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