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A study on business development strategies and tactics in the shipping industry to increase customer satisfaction (logistics service providers)
No full textThe paper aims to find out whether organisations from shipping industry consider the use of disruptive technology (e.g. Big Data Analytics) due to the age of digitalisation to improve customer satisfaction. As the scope is in the container shipping industry, the author is focusing on Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) which is one of the major players in the container shipping ecosystem besides Shipping Lines and Port Sector.
Survey questions were customised according to LSPs, together with software providers and shippers to get comprehensive insights. In addition, the option for face to face interview was given to the respondents for further discussion and clarification. Selected excerpts of the interviews were used to substantiate on pointers raised in the discussion section.
The leadership of the organisation plays an important role to ensure its sustainability and distinctiveness not only through cost-cutting measures but with the use of technologies in the age of digitalisation. The consideration on whether the use of technology is considered as disruptive or advanced can be subjective. It will depend on whether the organisation uses it due to market and technology trends. It is also dependable on whether there are concrete thoughts and processes are implemented through close collaboration which can create a difference and resolve the “IT Gap”. The notion on whether the major players in the container shipping ecosystem can collaborate will depend on whether the shipping industry can find and determine what will benefit them in the long run. In addition, it is beneficial to have an influential chain master in the industry that is influential to drive the initiatives or changes that are customer-centric.
Lastly, the blockchain technology has been getting more coverage which sees the feasibility of actual collaboration among the major players of the container shipping ecosystem. Further in-depth research and discussion can be done to find its benefit for the shipping industry.Bachelor of Science (Maritime Studies
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Microwave curing of core-shell particle reinforced composites
No full textIn a world of modern and advanced technology, engineering industries are constantly growing at a tremendous rate, research on new techniques for manufacturing high-performance composites at an economical and competitive rate. Over the years, autoclave curing has been a common practice for composite curing, but this manufacturing process has a strong appetite for energy and time, causing it to be very expensive. An alternative solution over the conventional thermal curing to reduce the energy consumption and shorten the curing cycle-time is microwave curing. In this final year project, the curing of dispersed core-shell polymer particle (C/SH) modified Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) prepreg composites was effectively accomplished using microwave curing under controlled parameters such as temperature, curing time and pressure applied to the GFRP. Mode I and Mode II interlaminar fracture toughness tests were later performed on the manufactured GFRP specimen to study the delamination properties of microwave-cured C/SH particle modified GFRP composites.Bachelor of Engineering (Aerospace Engineering
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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