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From a traditional replenishment system to vendor-managed inventory: A case study from the household electrical appliances sector
No full textThis paper shows that vendor-inanaged inventory is also used fine in household electrical appliances sector. Taking Electrolux Italia as an example, the implementation of this technique is presented and analysed, highlighting the various processes involved (sales forecasting, capacity need forecasting, master planning, replenishment need calculation, dispatch planning, shipping), parameters (target stock, replenishment need, dispatch plan, assigned stock, etc.) needed to regulate vendor managed inventory. The paper points out the benefits obtained following the implementation of this technique and presents based on the case the variables that define and characterize the conditions under which it can be applied. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Dal sistema tradizionale di rifornimento al continuous replenishment: un caso studio del settore elettrodomestico
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The Continuous Replenishment Tecnique for the Integration of the Supply Chain: the Electrolux-Zanussi Case Study
No full textAre Italian nursing students healthy and having protective lifestyle behaviours? A pilot study.
No full textAim of the study was to investigate the lifestyles of nursing students attending the first year at an Italian school of nursing, before their knowledge of health promotion and health education can condition their behaviour. Research suggests that nurses themselves, in both the acute and primary care settings, perceive that health education is an important part of their role. The study consisted of a self-administered questionnaire with five sections: general data, and questions on nutrition, physical activity, smoking behaviour and alcohol. Response rate was 89.2% (149/167): 87.2% of respondents reported they were satisfied with their health status; 70.5% of students had a normal body mass index; 40.6% of males and 23.1% of females played a sport; 49.7% had never smoked in their life; 50.3% had smoked at least once; 62.7% were smokers and 75.2% of students had drunk alcohol at least once. The students surveyed adopt unhealthy behaviours like smoking, use of alcohol and poor physical activity even if they consider they are in good health. The study stresses the fact that the nursing population needs to be specifically trained to make positive changes. This is important for their education and also for their position as role models for patients they will care for in the future
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
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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