Advancement Strategies Research Articles

The Prevalence of Systems Thinking in Supply Chain Management: a Systematic Literature Review.

In light of the maelstrom that global Supply Chains must struggle with, we contend that Systems Thinking in Supply Chain Management can be an enabling factor. Systems Thinking can support problem-solving in the reactive crisis mode that practitioners find themselves in, let alone when seeking ways to improve the end-to-end Supply Chain. This paper determines the prevalence of Systems Thinking methodologies within the literature and confirms if these contributions provide benefits to Supply Chain Management beyond the dyad through empirical research? Given the challenges of realising supply chain-wide progression, are these contributions supporting the discipline in pursuing industry advancement strategies? A systematic literature review methodology was employed, evaluating ninety-seven peer-reviewed papers regarding the breadth; from suppliers’ supplier to customers customer, and depth; from literature review to empirical research. Five research outcomes are identified, resulting in an established hypothesis. We argue that a positive correlation between Systems Thinking Maturity and Supply Chain Performance leads to a more significant opportunity to go beyond the dyad. The hypothesis led to a research construct that advocates the need to determine empirically whether a correlation exists between Systems Thinking Maturity and Supply Chain Performance.

Sustainable Consumption and Enhanced SDGs Utilizing Digital Techniques in Scenic Design

Quite possibly the most well-known types of amusement for individuals are a visit to the theatre. For quite a long-time individual have appreciated dramatization, satire, music, and different types of amusement. Truth be told, the historical backdrop of theatre can be followed back to the sixth century B.C. where the Antiquated Greeks were quick to introduce emotional introductions. The issues related to the topic will be discussed in the report how the theatres previously were facing issues and how can this be resolved using digital theatricals. The objective of the report is that points out the theatrical design. The aim of this research is to highlight an insight into how digital theatre performance and production can processes integrate sustainability literacy. This article describes the establishment and enhancement of theatre performance and green structures used to perform the work in two spaces. Free philosophies have so been employed across various times. Subjective techniques used in this examination incorporate practice drove inventive advancement strategies explicit to theatre and creation measures. In addition, the need for fundamental changes to digitalizing the theatrical design can quite beneficial the development goals for UN.

Achieving Sustainable Consumption and Enhance the SDGs Through the Utilization of Digital Techniques in Scenic Design

Abstract Quite possibly the most well-known types of amusement for individuals are a visit to the theatre. For quite a long-time individuals have appreciated dramatization, satire, music, and different types of amusement. Truth be told, the historical backdrop of theatre can be followed back to the sixth century B.C. where the Antiquated Greeks were quick to introduce emotional introductions. The issues related to the topic will be discussed in the report how the theatres previously were facing issues and how can this be resolved using digital theatricals. The objective of the report is that points out the theatrical design. The aim of this research is to highlight an insight into how digital theatre performance and production can process integrate sustainability literacy. This article describes the establishment and enhancement of theatre performance and green structures used to perform the work in two spaces. Free philosophies have so been employed across various times. Subjective techniques used in this examination incorporate practice drove inventive advancement strategies explicit to theatre and creation measures. In addition, the need for fundamental changes to digitalizing the theatrical design can quite beneficial the development goals for UN.

SMS Advertising & its Impact on Consumer Purchase Intention: A Comparative Study of Adults and Young Consumers in Pakistan

The growing technological advancement and marketing strategies are creating great competition between companies. Marketers constantly focus on developing attractive marketing strategies to promote their products and services to increase their customer base. SMS marketing lies in one of these strategies of marketers to reach each individual in order to make them their loyal consumers by offering their required products or services. As there are different kinds of consumers with different needs, consumption styles and preferences. And every country has its own culture, lifestyle, and consumer perceptions. This study covers the importance of SMS advertising and to know the responses of Pakistani youth and adults towards SMS advertising. Messages sent by advertisers to inform about their product, new innovation or launch are not accepted everywhere by some people. The aim of this study is to determine the acceptance and rejection attitudes of youth and adults towards SMS advertising and how SMS advertising influences consumers to purchase the product.

Sport Administrators' Perspectives on Advancing Safe Sport.

Numerous international high-profile cases of athlete abuses have led to efforts to advance what has been termed “Safe Sport.” Sport and coaching organisations are urgently designing and implementing policies, procedures and programmes to advance a culture of safe sport. However, we posit that these endeavours are occurring without a conceptual framework about what constitutes safe sport or how to achieve it. Without a consistent conceptual framework for safe sport, prevention and intervention initiatives may not be fully realised. As such, the purpose of the study was to explore sport administrators' perspectives of how to advance safe sport. Given the leadership positions sport administrators hold, understanding their perspectives may be helpful in informing a framework to guide the development and implementation of safe sport strategies. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 sport administrators from different sport and coaching organisations to elicit views on how best to advance safe sport. The findings indicated that a multi-faceted approach embracing multiple advancement strategies was reportedly essential for progressing safe sport. Specifically, the sport administrators recommended that sport organisations establish a universal framework of safe sport, design and implement education, implement and enforce policies, establish independent monitoring and complaint mechanisms and conduct research to ensure that advancement strategies are current and applicable. The participants suggested that these advancement strategies are necessary to evolve sport from a culture that embraces hegemonic masculine narratives, interpersonal violence and controlling coach–athlete relationships, to a culture of sport that extends the safe sport focus beyond the prevention of harm to the promotion of positive values and human rights. The findings were interpreted through a safeguarding lens to propose a framework for achieving safeguarding sport, defined by the prevention of harm and the promotion of positive values in sport.

The geography of metapopulation synchrony in dendritic river networks

Dendritic habitats, such as river ecosystems, promote the persistence of species by favouring spatial asynchronous dynamics among branches. Yet, our understanding of how network topology influences metapopulation synchrony in these ecosystems remains limited. Here, we introduce the concept of fluvial synchrogram to formulate and test expectations regarding the geography of metapopulation synchrony across watersheds. By combining theoretical simulations and an extensive fish population time‐series dataset across Europe, we provide evidence that fish metapopulations can be buffered against synchronous dynamics as a direct consequence of network connectivity and branching complexity. Synchrony was higher between populations connected by direct water flow and decayed faster with distance over the Euclidean than the watercourse dimension. Likewise, synchrony decayed faster with distance in headwater than mainstem populations of the same basin. As network topology and flow directionality generate fundamental spatial patterns of synchrony in fish metapopulations, empirical synchrograms can aid knowledge advancement and inform conservation strategies in complex habitats.

Experimental investigation and optimization on surface parameters of ZrO2 nano particles reinforced Al-7050 metal matrix composites for aeronautical applications

In this investigation, the composite metal framework material is created by Zirconium oxide nano powder (ZrO2) strengthening aluminum combination (Al-7050) manufactured and are set up by differing the level of weight division of the fortified particles as 5%, 10% of ZrO2 nano powder and the rest of the aluminum compound individually. The machining attributes that impact the surface harshness, for example, feed rate, profundity of cut and slicing speed were concentrated through trial work. In this exploratory work surface harshness has been done by two machining strategies dry turning machining and wet turning machining. The trial estimations of surface unpleasantness contrasted and advancement strategies. The system dependent on symmetrical exhibit Taguchi's method and Analysis of Variation (ANOVA) and Signals to clamor proportion (S/N Ratio) were utilized to streamline the surface unpleasantness. The aftereffects of surface harshness esteems were expanded by the boundaries, for example, cutting velocity, feed rate and profundity of cut were 15.694%, 80.379% and 1.375% separately.

Sustainable green materials for new construction

The development of green structures must begin with the decision and use of eco-obliging materials with related or favored features over standard structure materials. Building materials are commonly picked through handy, particular and budgetary necessities. In any case, with acceptability as a fundamental issue in the latest decades, the structure part, genuinely or in an indirect way causing a great piece of the yearly environmental debilitating, can take up the promise to add to viable progression by finding even more earth big-hearted methods for advancement and building. Among the orientation for courses of action is to be found in new material applications, reusing and reuse, acceptable formation of things or use of green resources, Careful assurance of eco-pleasing attainable structure materials may be the speediest way for engineers to start joining down to earth plan thoughts in structures. Generally, cost has been the fundamental idea when taking a gander at related materials or materials decided for near explanation. Before long, the expense of a structure part infers just the gathering and transportation costs, not social or environmental costs. Impressive exercises have been finished by the assessment arrange comprehensive, in order to discover elective sensible structure materials and low advancement strategies, which realize an undeniably acceptable and moderate improvement consenting to the comfort standards required today. Getting a handle on green structure materials is a respectable decision to meet to this objective. Thus, Selection of improvement materials that have least environmental loads is significant in the acceptable headway of a nation. The inspiration driving this paper is to highlight how reasonable structure material can add to lessen the impact of biological debasement, and make sound structures which can be affordable to the inhabitant similarly as our condition.

Antecedents of career self-management: home country and international careers in Kuwait

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine how leadership aspiration mediates the effect of career self-efficacy on employees' engagement in career self-management (CSM; i.e. deployment of career advancement strategies concerning access to power, psychological boundaryless and self-promotion), whether self-efficacy directly influences CSM, and whether these relations are conditional upon nationality (which is a proxy for domestic and international careers in Kuwait).Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire was completed by 615 highly educated young Kuwaitis and self-initiated expatriates (SIEs; Arab and South Asian nationals) working in Kuwait.FindingsThe results demonstrate that self-efficacy, directly and indirectly (mediated by leadership aspiration), influences the three types of career advancement strategies. Moderated-mediation analyses suggest that SIEs and Kuwaitis engage in similar CSM behaviors when it is motivated by self-efficacy, which is mediated by leadership aspiration. Also, self-efficacy has greater direct effect on SIEs' CSM than Kuwaitis', but Kuwaitis have higher tendency for CSM behavior.Practical implicationsInterventions aiming to improve employees' engagement in CSM may focus on enhancing their psychological capital and contexts, while minding the differential effects of nationality and self-efficacy on CSM of Kuwaitis and SIEs.Originality/valueThe study provides unique information about CSM utilizing understudied populations namely, Middle-Eastern and self-initiated expatriate employees. It confirms the effects of self-efficacy and leadership aspiration on CSM and reveals different effects of nationality depending on the motivators at play.

Antecedents of Career Self-Management: Home-Country and International Careers in Kuwait

The purpose of this paper is to examine how leadership aspiration mediates the effect of career self-efficacy on employees’ engagement in career self-management (CSM; i.e., deployment of career advancement strategies concerning access to power, psychological boundaryless and self-promotion), whether self-efficacy directly influences CSM, and whether these relations are conditional upon nationality (which is a proxy for domestic and international careers in Kuwait). A questionnaire was completed by 615 highly educated young Kuwaitis and self-initiated expatriates (SIEs; Arab and South Asian nationals) working in Kuwait. The results demonstrate that self-efficacy, directly and indirectly (mediated by leadership aspiration), influences the three types of career advancement strategies. Moderated-mediation analyses suggest that SIEs and Kuwaitis engage in similar CSM behaviors when it is motivated by self-efficacy, which is mediated by leadership aspiration. Also, self-efficacy has greater direct effect on SIEs’ CSM than Kuwaitis’, but Kuwaitis have higher tendency for CSM behavior. It is suggested that interventions aiming to improve employees’ engagement in CSM may focus on enhancing their psychological capital and contexts, while minding the differential effects of nationality and self-efficacy on CSM of Kuwaitis and SIEs. The study provides unique information about CSM utilizing understudied populations namely, Middle-Eastern and self-initiated expatriate employees. It confirms the effects of self- efficacy and leadership aspiration on CSM and reveals different effects of nationality depending on the motivators at play.

Korean SMEs’ Strategy to Enter the New Northern Market

Purpose - This paper presented strategies for successful market entry into new northern countries. Design/Methodology/Approach - We analyzed characteristics and approaches by region and country to promote Korean SMEs’ entry into the new northern countries, and based on Porter’s diamond model, we derived some export and FDI strategies to advance into the new northern market. Findings - First, in terms of factor conditions, it is necessary to develop a policy to discover and support cooperative projects through technology based on the complementary industrial structure between Korea and the new northern countries. Second, in terms of demand conditions, in order to establish a trade cooperation system capable of co-prosperity with the new northern countries, it is necessary to promote economic cooperation that can build a sustainable relationship based on understanding the requirements of the new northern countries. Third, in terms of related and supporting fields, it is necessary to establish a strategy to match effectively by closely examining government policies, contents of support, and possible cooperation fields among countries to be entered. Fourth, in terms of the business environment (or strategy, structure and rivalry), it is also necessary to devise a strategy to advance using investment incentive policies and support, such as mitigating private investment risks by using governmental policy funds and enhancing the ease of financing for SMEs. Research Implications - Recently, new markets with greater opportunities arise, and depending on the capabilities of Korean SMEs, these can serve as new growth engines for Korea. Therefore, Korean SMEs should try to find new business models and values for these advancement strategies into the new northern market.

Design, operation and technology configurations for enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) process: a review

Phosphorus as a fundamental element for growth and metabolism of living organisms, yet problematic to water quality, is an irreplaceable component. Application of enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) technology in wastewater treatment plants offers phosphorus removal and recovery in addition to potential eutrophication prevention. This process is dependable on enrichment of phosphorus accumulating organisms in activated sludge to accumulate great amount of poly-phosphate inside their cell interior for enhancement of phosphorus removal. Yet, inadequate removal performance in pilot and full-scale systems, rises the need for optimization in operation and design of applicable configuration. In addition to applying advancement strategies to minimize the growth of undesirable microorganisms through cost effective phosphorus removal along with potential P-recovery and sustainability. Preceding research has certainly advanced the insight on this area of investigation. Notwithstanding, there are still numerous unresolved issues to be undertaken. This comprehensive review paper aims to revisit the current knowledge and fundamental understanding on microbiology and biochemical transformations in EBPR process. In view of application and structure, EBPR design and operation considerations along with process configurations is critically reviewed. This comprehensive review hopes to touch on the critical points of operation to help in understanding the overall EBPR process and to farther provide insights on future work onto EBPR process developments.

The Evolution of Dendritic Cell Immunotherapy against HIV-1 Infection: Improvements and Outlook.

Dendritic cells (DC) are key phagocytic cells that play crucial roles in both the innate and adaptive immune responses against the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). By processing and presenting pathogen-derived antigens, dendritic cells initiate a directed response against infected cells. They activate the adaptive immune system upon recognition of pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) on infected cells. During the course of HIV-1 infection, a successful adaptive (cytotoxic CD8+ T-cell) response is necessary for preventing the progression and spread of infection in a variety of cells. Dendritic cells have thus been recognized as a valuable tool in the development of immunotherapeutic approaches and vaccines effective against HIV-1. The advancements in dendritic cell vaccines in cancers have paved the way for applications of this form of immunotherapy to HIV-1 infection. Clinical trials with patients infected with HIV-1 who are well-suppressed by antiretroviral therapy (ART) were recently performed to assess the efficacy of DC vaccines, with the goal of mounting an HIV-1 antigen-specific T-cell response, ideally to clear infection and eliminate the need for long-term ART. This review summarizes and compares methods and efficacies of a number of DC vaccine trials utilizing autologous dendritic cells loaded with HIV-1 antigens. The potential for advancement and novel strategies of improving efficacy of this type of immunotherapy is also discussed.

Benchmarking in Vietnam universities: teaching and research and revenue efficiencies

Assessing university resource allocation or misallocation is necessary to understand its impact on research and teaching productivity. To achieve this insight, this study conducts a two-stage data envelopment analysis to judge the “teaching and research efficiency” and “revenue efficiency” of 61 universities in Vietnam. We analyze what variables have the most effect on the efficiencies of the universities through improving results. Moreover, this research applies scale elasticity to distinguish the benchmark performance leader among Vietnam universities. Results indicate that universities are more efficient in terms of “revenue efficiency” than “teaching and research efficiency.” The scale elasticity decomposition findings show that multidisciplinary universities perform better than those specializing in science and technology and social science and economics. Finally, the competitive map to performance advancement strategies is exhibited. This map helps the university management to enhance their efficiencies.

Long-Term Effects of a Sectorial Advancement Strategy: Costs, Benefits, and Impacts from the WorkAdvance Demonstration

This report summarizes the long-term findings of a rigorous random assignment evaluation of the WorkAdvance model, a sectoral training and advancement initiative. Launched in 2011, WorkAdvance goes beyond the previous generation of employment programs by introducing demand-driven skills training and a focus on jobs that have identifiable career pathways. The model is heavily influenced by the positive findings from the Sectoral Employment Impact Study completed in 2010, as well as prior research on job retention and career advancement strategies. The WorkAdvance model was implemented between June 2011 and June 2013 by four providers — Per Scholas, St. Nicks Alliance, Madison Strategies Group, and Towards Employment — and a total of 2,564 individuals enrolled in the study. Several previous reports described the implementation, participation, cost, and interim impact findings of WorkAdvance and showed encouraging evidence for the WorkAdvance model. The impact findings presented in those reports covered the first three years of follow-up. While those findings showed earnings gains for some programs in some years, whether WorkAdvance could consistently increase earnings in the long term was still an open question. This report presents the long-term economic impacts of WorkAdvance and covers a two-year period occurring between four and eight years after individuals entered the study. The economic outcomes are based on National Directory of New Hires data and include 2017 and 2018. The report also builds on a previous cost analysis and presents findings from a full benefit-cost analysis to examine whether the effects of WorkAdvance resulted in gains or losses from the perspective of WorkAdvance participants, the government, and society.

Climate Variability, Change and the Impacts on Livelihood Vulnerability of Farming Households in Koronadal, South Cotabato, Philippines

This study examined the changes and variability in temperature and rainfall patterns in the past 31 years (1981-2012) and assessed their impacts on livelihood vulnerability of farming households in the City of Koronadal, South Cotabato, a less studied area in Mindanao located in Southern Philippines. Using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) framework, household vulnerability was assessed using survey data from 265 respondents, complemented with focus group discussion, and field observations from 2013 to 2015. Results showed significant changes in monthly mean minimum (increased by 0.74 C, p <0.01) and mean maximum (decreased by 0.65C, p <0.01) temperature. Rainfall patterns showed a decreasing trend and revealed significant changes in June (p<0.01), August, and December (p<0.05), signifying that climate change and variability took place as manifested by floods, landslides, and drought experienced by farming households. The study confirmed that majority of the farming households had “moderate to high vulnerability” to climate variability and change. As climate change brings new forms of risks, appropriate adaptation strategies are needed to address both current and future vulnerability and require robust vulnerability assessment founded on recent scientific advancement and innovative strategies congruent to this study.

The Key Characteristics of Teaching Excellence Programs for Academic Leaders. A Review of High-Ranking Universities’ Experiences Reflected in International Publications

Teaching excellence and academic leadership programs have been emerging and growing in response to the increasing demand for better teaching quality and educational change in universities all over the world. International publications analyzing the experiences of high-ranking universities in developed economies (USA, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, and Australia) are reviewed in this article to identify the characteristics of successful professional development programs for teaching quality and academic leadership in higher education designed to foster educational change. Some fundamental concepts are investigated, such as teaching excellence, teaching quality, instructional development, and academic leadership; their fuzziness and partial overlapping are demonstrated. The article also describes the characteristics of teaching excellence programs for academic leaders, such as key stakeholders (governmental, institutional, and teacher demands) and major approaches to promoting teaching excellence and academic leadership, which include the concept of reflective practice, andragogical theory, transformative learning approach, self-directed learning, inquiry-based learning, and refocusing from teacher to student. The core design features of teaching excellence and academic leadership programs are discussed, such as selection criteria, frequency and duration, principles and formats of implementation, performance and effectiveness assessment. Special emphasis is placed upon the potential obstacles in program realization, in particular the role of internal administrative policies and institutional environment on program effectiveness and the embeddedness of such programs into the university system of educational quality assurance, teacher performance monitoring, career advancement, and human resource strategies.

Retrieval of Context and Content based Images using Enhanced Crow Search Optimization

In late decades, Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has been one on the most distinctive research zones in the field of Computer applications. The critical goal of this examination is to improve the recovering presentation of CBIR framework by fusing advancement strategies to foresee suitable centroid in Fuzzy C-Means (FCM).The expectation of consolidating streamlining method to anticipate FCM centroids positively decrease intricacy and computational time. The outcomes clear that consolidation of ECSO with FCM uncovers better outcomes over challenge procedures when compared with existing procedures like PWO, SSO and CSO.

Economic advancement and reputation strategies: Seventeenth‐century Dutch women writing for profit

AbstractThis essay examines how economic circumstances and imperatives influenced strategies of self‐representation employed by women writing in the Dutch Republic. At the core of the analysis is the poetry of Maria Margaretha van Akerlaecken (1605–after 1662) and Katharina Lescailje (1649–1711). Economic advancement for literary authors in the Dutch Republic was defined by the marginality of literary patronage in court culture and few possibilities to profit through the market. Van Akerlaecken, however, succeeded in finding patrons abroad, and Lescailje, who ran a publishing house, could print her own works and thus profited directly from their sales. The respective modes of self‐representation of these women in their published works moved in opposite directions because of these differing modes of earning, but each can be traced back to the same issue: they were women and writers striving for economic advancement and this combination turned out to be a problematic one, asking for strategic reputation management.

Fitting in: Different Types of Person-Environment Fit as Drivers of Career Self-management in Kuwait

Contributing to emerging efforts to integrate the understudied career self-management (CSM) with person- environment fit research, this study aims to assess the unique effects of person-organization, person-coworkers and needs-supplies fits on employees’ deployment of career advancement strategies. A questionnaire was completed by 548 highly educated young Kuwaitis and self-initiated expatriates (Arab and South Asian) working in medium and large Kuwaiti organizations. The simultaneous effects of the three types of fits is assessed and the findings demonstrate that an increase in person-coworkers fit and decrease in person-organization and needs-supplies fits consistently encourage the deployment of career advancement strategies concerning accessing influential networks, self-promotion, competence building and psychological boundaryless. A relatively more robust effect of person-coworker fit has been detected. It is attributed to the Arab collectivistic culture and to the construct being a career competency and a contextual factor as per the “intelligent career” theory. Interventions should be mindful of the differential effects of different types of fit on CSM. Developing organizational ‘standards of fit’ and CSM skills are essential for individual career development and organizational success. The study provides unique information about the understudied constructs of CSM and person-environment fit in a traditional and high inequality Arab Middle Eastern country, and infers the causes of the inconsistent effects of contextual factors reported by previous studies.