Case Study Of Management Research Articles

A case study of Ayurvedic management of Katishool with reference to Senile Osteoporosis induced compression fracture of vertebrae

Low bone mass and micro architecture bone tissue degeneration that can cause fractures is the hallmarks of osteoporosis. The development of disease is influenced by numerous etiological factors, including physical, hormonal, dietary, and lifestyle factors. Low back discomfort, or Katishool, is one of them. Low back discomfort can have many different causes, including compression fractures, intervertebral disc prolapse (IVDP), lumbar spondylosis, spine tuberculosis, etc. At some point in their life, 39% of people report having low back pain, with females between the ages of 40 and 80 experiencing the condition more frequently. The reason of significant low back pain is one of the vertebral compression fractures (VCF). It is comparable to Katishool in Ayurveda. The care of fractures in modern science includes reduction, immobilization of the broken area, use of NSIAD, calcium supplements, etc. Numerous native substances that can aid in the healing of the fracture have been described in ancient treatises. In this instance, Ayurvedic treatments like Vijaya Extract, medicines and Kati Abhyangam are used to treat lower back pain.

Risk Mitigation in Project Management Theoretical Issues and Case Study

The objective of this article is to evaluate how the risk management process is used in the software development industry and how practitioners are managing risks in early stages of a project. Further, a description of how risk assessment might help to mitigate risks associated to events that could occur to different phases of a project life cycle will be presented. The core of the research is the theoretical approach for designing a simulation model to estimate costs prior to a project. In the application part, this model is implemented using a case study and the results of the estimation costs which are analyzed and simulated using the theoretical framework of Monte Carlo simulation model are presented. In the conclusions section the final recommendations are drawn up.

Hydrochemical indices as a proxy for assessing land-use impacts on water resources: a sustainable management perspective and case study of Can Tho City, Vietnam

Hydrochemical indices as a proxy for assessing land-use impacts on water resources: a sustainable management perspective and case study of Can Tho City, Vietnam

Improved assessment model for health-care waste management based on dual 2-tuple linguistic rough number clouds

The management of medical waste disposal is a major challenge faced by different cities in developing countries. The choice of optimal medical waste treatment technology is a complex multi-criteria group decision-making problem that requires consideration of multiple alternatives against conflicting criteria. Decision makers evaluating disposal municipalities may conduct random evaluations from different linguistic term sets according to different preferences and contexts. Various fuzzy numbers based approaches have been studied in HCWM (health-care waste management) process, however they have certain limitations such as lacking manipulation tools of diverse information, additional adjustments and suppositions, ignoring randomness and multi-granularity in experts’ judgements. In response, this research article proposes a novel mathematical models by integrating 2-tuple linguistic setting into rough approximations and cloud theory. First, three novel linguistic manipulation models, namely, 2-tuple linguistic clouds, 2-tuple linguistic rough numbers and dual 2-tuple linguistic rough number (D2tLRN) clouds are developed to handle uncertainty with randomness and multi-granularity simultaneously. Secondly, a hybrid weighting scheme is utilized to evaluate the relative importance of waste factors using both subjective and objective aspects of uncertainty. Thirdly, the proposed D2tLRN cloud model is integrated with the technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method to design an evaluation approach for the selection of HCWM technologies. Finally, the application of the proposed method is studied with an empirical case study of health care waste management in the most crowded municipality. The sensitivity analysis of the proposed approach is also discussed in detail to study the effect of various parameters on the results. The out-performance and significance of the proposed D2tLRN cloud TOPSIS method is illustrated by comparing it with existing approaches.

An explorative neural networks-enabled approach to predict stress perception of traffic control operators in dynamic working scenarios

Traffic control operators are usually confronted with a high level of stress. Minimizing stress in traffic control operations has always been the main objective of redesigning management systems, updating procedures, and developing training programs. However, there is a lack of methods that are able to feed stress analysis at the design stage and bring results that can be used in decision-making. In an effort to facilitate the proactive management of stress, we introduced a stress prediction model which can predict the operator’s stress perception of a working scenario based on task, human, and environmental information. First, a framework of scenario-based stress investigation was proposed for data collection. Second, a neural networks-enabled novel model for stress prediction was developed based on the Job Demands-Resources(JD-R) theory. Third, a personalization module and a Mixture-of-Expert (MoE) module were introduced into the prediction model to overcome the problem of individual differences. A case study of vessel traffic management showed that the model can predict an individual’s stress perception of a working scenario with a mean absolute error of 0.33. A comparative study was conducted to validate the effectiveness of proposed model.

A case study of benign nodular episcleritis and management

Episcleritis is an inflammatory condition that affects episcleral tissue underlying the sclera and conjunctiva.1,2 It is a recurrent and mild self-remitting surface disease. Its etiology is unknown but may be associated with systemic diseases.3–5 It has been recognized for over a century as sub-conjunctivitis or subconjuctivitis phlegmatous. The condition is unilateral in two thirds of cases and bilateral in one third. Two major clinical types are noticed diffuse and nodular. The case outlined Nodular episcleritis and its clinical diagnosis and management. The condition was mild and didn’t progress to a more severe disorder. An episcleral nodule adjacent to the cornea is very rare.

Higashi ajia no naka no mantetsu (The South Manchuria Railway in East Asia)

In the past few years, Lim Chaisung has published major works on the history of railways. In this ambitious book, he takes on explaining the railway management of the South Manchuria Railway (SMR), the sprawling enterprise at the centre of East Asian railway history. However, Lim’s book is not simply an SMR case study. He also explains SMR’s involvement in the process of turning the Empire of Japan into a distinctive railway empire. As a result, this book is spurring discussions among scholars of imperial history and colonial economic history, as well as among railway historians. The following paragraphs will introduce the book’s chapters, along with a little commentary. The book’s preface, ‘Railway empire and the SMR’, begins with a discussion of the framing of prewar Japan as a railway empire. It also recounts how SMR has been portrayed as emblematic of Japan’s absorption of Western technology and as an intermediary in transferring technology to its colonies. SMR overcame its technological disadvantage against its European counterparts and is credited with exceeding the transport capacity of Japan’s domestic railways. While noting the value of viewing SMR as a case study of Japanese settler colonialism and colonial management, Lim explains how the history of SMR is important to the history of the metropole as well.

Examining the performance of alternative harvest regulations for short-lived taxa: A case study of Florida Bay scallop management

The life history schedule of short-lived species compresses the temporal window available for harvest and exacerbates harvest timing decisions. For annual species whose populations are made up of a single year class, it is challenging yet essential to limit harvest to a level that will allow sufficient spawning escapement to sustain the population. Unexpectedly, intense harvest prior to reproduction could extirpate a population in a single season. Larger-scale commercial fisheries for annual or semelparous species are often managed using sophisticated pre-season abundance forecasts or in-season depletion estimates combined with intensive monitoring of catches and enforcement of catch limits. However, sufficient monitoring and harvest control are rarely feasible in recreational fisheries. We demonstrate the use of an age-structured simulation model to identify robust management regulations for recreational harvest season and bag limits applied to the Florida bay scallop fishery. We compared the outcomes of current harvest regulations with a suite of alternative harvest regulations in a recreational fishery for Florida bay scallops. To account for uncertainty in the stock status and dynamics of the fishery, we evaluated alternative harvest options across three levels of initial stock exploitation and two scenarios for future fishing effort. Our results show that biologically-informed regulations which allowed for more bay scallops to spawn prior to harvest, such as a later harvest season and daily harvest limit increasing over the season, performed well across all treatments and outperformed many of the current regulations when the initial stock state was more exploited, as well as when future effort doubled. These results suggest that (1) harvest regulations that more closely match the biology and life history are likely to perform better for short-lived, annual taxa than simpler regulations that may not explicitly consider these factors, and (2) simpler regulations can perform well, but require precise, annual monitoring to prevent potentially catastrophic overharvest or costly underutilization.

Learning to manage as learning to fail: The lessons of running

Management learning aims to ensure managerial success and while failure is acknowledged, learners are encouraged to adopt a growth mindset and to bounce back from failure. However, the complexity of contemporary managerial work and the degradation of the managerial labour process mean that managers increasingly experience failures. Managers therefore need to learn not merely from failure but to learn to tolerate failure, that is, to fail well. The article differentiates types of failures and focuses on intractable failures that leave managers feeling inadequate and that corrode their sense-of-self. Therefore, an affective and embodied identity-based understanding of managerial failure is developed and an empirical case study of managers who engage in the most popular managerial sporting activity, running, is used to theorise the process of learning to fail-well. The mixed-methods empirical study using artefact elicitation participant data and autoethnographic authorial data is detailed and suggestions for more reflexive managerial education are advanced.

Government Policy in Community Waste Management: A Case Study of Waste Management in Subang Regency

Waste management must start from the initial waste disposal site, both at household, institutional and temporary disposal sites. The involvement of shareholders is very much needed in waste operational activities, because they have their respective duties which include starting from the stages of taking, processing, then final disposal, and utilizing waste. Likewise, the government certainly has other ways of controlling waste by involving the participation of the community. Because the role of the government is very crucial, it can be in the form of direct assignments to the community through the relevant agencies, or in the process of enforcing the rules that have been applied. The research used is a qualitative-interpretative descriptive method with a phenomenological approach as an exploration in the application of the e-performance system to government employees in Subang district. This study focuses on the Subang Regency government's policy in managing community waste. The purpose of this study is to measure the extent to which the Subang Regency Government implements policies related to waste management. 5 of 2018 has not run optimally, the availability of facilities and infrastructure such as government-owned waste banks so that the management of waste services is still low, then socialization has not been maximized so that people lack awareness in disposing of waste.

A new inclusion measure-based clustering method and its application to product classification

Appropriate product classification can not only promote the sale of products but also highly improve the profits of manufacturers and retailers. To derive a desirable clustering of products, we need to consider qualitative (e.g., customers’ evaluation) and quantitative (e.g., product sales) information simultaneously. However, traditional methods such as K-means clustering, hierarchical clustering, and density-based clustering fail to depict the fuzzy cognitions of decision makers (DMs) in real cases. This article investigates clustering methods to aid DMs in their classification management of products. To do so, an intuitionistic multiplicative set (IMS), a new form of information expression, is applied to express the DMs’ evaluations of products due to its strong ability to handle unbalanced or asymmetric information. This study includes an in-depth analysis of inclusion measures of IMSs to measure the inclusion relationships between products under the given evaluation criteria. We propose two types of clustering techniques—the intuitionistic multiplicative (IM) transitive closure clustering method and the IM netting clustering method—to tackle the clustering problem with IMS information. Lastly, a case study of product classification management is presented to illustrate the applicability of the proposed methods. Furthermore, the validity and superiority of these clustering methods are verified by theoretical and practical comparisons.

Research on Upgrading Path of Major under the Background of New Infrastructure: A Case Study of Intelligent Management of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Projects

Research on Upgrading Path of Major under the Background of New Infrastructure: A Case Study of Intelligent Management of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Projects

Neutrosophic Multi-Criteria Decision-Making for Flood Risks Management: A Comprehensive Analysis

The terrible consequences that floods are having on human life and property can be seen all around the globe. The flood risks management problem is subject to uncertain and imprecise data, and it is influenced by several different factors. As a result, the assessment procedure in question might be seen as an instance of a challenging uncertain multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) issue. Within the context of single-valued neutrosophic sets (SVNSs), this research aims to present a novel integrated methodology that is based on the Combined Compromise Solution (CoCoSo) technique under a neutrosophic environment. Both the decision-makers and the weights of the criteria are completely unknown. The average technique is used in the proposed methodology to calculate the weighting of the criteria, and an updated version of the CoCoSo method is used within the context of the SVN to decide which option is the most appropriate. In addition, an example case study of flood risk management is explored to highlight the entire execution process of the suggested technique. In addition, a comparison with other approaches that already exist is described to evaluate the validity of the results that were achieved.

Comparative Analysis of Quantitative Analysis and Case Study in Chinese Management

This paper systematically listed out the theoretical background, core elements and research paradigm of quantitative analysis and case study, composed comparative analysis of two research methods from sixteen key elements. Summarized three principles and six structural steps of quantitative analysis and case study writing, and deduced the development of Chinese management research methods, which provides more choices of research methods and paradigms for grasping the future fusion trend of quantitative analysis and case study. This also provides a solid foundation for helping beginners and researchers in the field of management to improve the comprehensive application ability of quantitative analysis and case study, and provides a useful reference for future management research rooted in Chinese situation to develop in the direction of local theory and leading management practice.

Faculty of Information Technologies, Belgrade Metropolitan University Belgrade, Serbia

In the ever-expanding field of software engineering, the challenge of trust between different users and stakeholders of a software solution is becoming more prevalent. Software end users aim to be fully certain that the solution and/or service is in accordance with their requirements, with no deviations in quality of the selected or ordered solution and/or service. All actors in such a system are incentivized to secure and protect their own data, which is ultimately stored, processed and transferred within such a software system. In this paper, we demonstrate the applicability of an innovative approach to data storing and processing, and information exchange by implementing blockchain technologies, presented in a supply chain management case study. After selecting the appropriate technology, we focus on the security aspects which blockchain technology provides for our use-case. Finally, we test the model with transparency and information integrity hypotheses, network security challenges, and inappropriate actor behavior.

Unconventional Plays: Water Management’s Evolution and Forecast

_ Prior to 2012, water management for unconventional oil and gas plays was in its infancy and was trying to keep up with operations. Questions about the scale of the unconventionals, water-sourcing limitations, economics of water reuse, infrastructure needs, and sustainability were already being considered. Industry volatility, seismicity, and regulatory challenges were major factors continuously during this evolution. Today, many of the initial challenges have been resolved but new challenges persist. Regional water management variations and challenges are apparent. What does the future hold for water in the US onshore unconventional plays? Water Management 10 Years Ago Water management for the US onshore unconventionals has come a long way in 10 years. In the 2011–2012 timeframe, it was still not clear which shale plays would be most viable. Some plays like the Barnett and Haynesville have come, gone, and come back again. In the Permian 10 years ago, operators were asking where they would get the water to complete thousands of wells. Produced water reuse was mostly being evaluated in pilot tests by producers such as Apache, Devon, and Pioneer, but was not considered viable due to the high cost of treatment and transportation by truck. Much of Texas and the West was experiencing a significant drought that also raised concerns about water sourcing for hydraulic fracturing. Despite these challenges, sustainability was considered a factor in these new development areas, but usually was not sufficient to override cost differences. Ten years ago, it was apparent that each basin had unique water management considerations. Some basins such as the Bakken and Marcellus had significant surface water sources available, whereas Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico were regularly quite dry. Most areas had good formations available for disposal, with Pennsylvania and West Virginia being the exceptions. A third area of difference was how much produced water flowed from the new wells. The wells in the Permian stood out as having the highest water/oil ratio seen in US onshore production. All of these differences impacted how each region was best able to manage its water challenges. In 2012, the water management strategy to build out water pipeline networks to move large volumes of water was not yet seriously considered by most operators. Earthquakes were not a significant factor in any of the US basins. However, some of the water management issues were changing. For example, the historically independent nature of producing companies began to change as water challenges became viewed as shared problems. Regional water groups were established as companies began to share ideas pertaining to water management. The Energy Water Initiative (EWI) was formed as a group of oil and gas companies trying to improve water practices. Their 2015 report on water management case studies broke new ground for industry collaboration. The EWI report documented seven trends including the ability to use non-freshwater sources and technology innovations making produced water reuse more feasible. Water Management 5 Years Ago Jumping ahead 5 years to around 2017, several macroeconomic events impacted water management for unconventionals. Perhaps most notable was the dramatic oil price collapse in late 2014 from roughly $100 to about $50/bbl. The increase in US onshore oil and gas production impacted global oil prices. The lower commodity pricing resulted in substantial pressure on costs, including water sourcing and disposal. At the same time, producers were increasing the length of horizontal wells and the volume of water required to complete the well.

A rhetorical analysis of the Unitarian Universalist Association Organizational Chart as operations management case study

The purpose of this report is to interpret processes that transpired at the Unitarian Universalist 2023 General Assembly using the lens of historical polity and to do so as an operations management case study. I believe a fundamental venue for addressing such phenomena is to focus on the Unitarian Universalist Association Organizational Chart as it serves as a foundation for what transpired at the June 21–25, 2023 Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly. The Unitarian Universalist Association Organizational Chart provides context for much of what transpired in that it frames the manner of approach that is practiced.

Biomass-powered thermal weeding in wine farms: An environmental and economic assessment

The energy transition in agriculture must be accompanied by agronomic practices that shift production towards organic regimes. Among the energy consuming processes that today find resistance in organic conversion there is certainly the removal of weeds from crops, that is mainly carried out through herbicides. This analysis evaluates the economic and environmental implications that the introduction of innovative thermal weeding systems, powered by biomass gasification, can have in the substitution of traditional chemical and mechanical weeding technologies. The comparison is carried out through a combination of cost–benefit analysis, environmental analysis and sensitivity analysis applied to the case study of vineyard management in northern Italy. The results show that the biomass-powered weeding system is economically feasible when it can benefit from economic incentives that reward organic production. In all cases, biomass-powered weeding system provides for a reduction in equivalent CO2 emissions which reaches −75% in the case of replacement of glyphosate-based chemical weeding methods. The analysis points out that gasification-powered weeding process can also achieve carbon neutrality through the co-production of biochar, which should lead policy makers to support this practice under the environmental objectives at national and European level.

One-stage ventral correction of the secondary thoracolumbar kyphosis in a patient with failed transpedicular fixation of Th12 fracture

The main surgical treatment technique of thoracic and lumbar spine acute injuries is transpedicular fixation, the failure of which, according to the literature data, occurs in 1015% of cases. There are no common views on tactics and the surgical technique used to deal with the consequences of unstable transpedicular spondylosynthesis. And the publications devoted to the use of isolated anterior interventions are the least common.
 We present a case study of the surgical management of the 71 years old patient with secondary thoracolumbar kyphosis that progressed after failed transpedicular fixation of Th12 fracture. The deformity was corrected with one-stage anterior approach and ventral crew system.

Cupping Therapy and Lymphatic Drainage: A Case Study of Non-Surgical Management for Bilateral Varicocele

An internal spermatic vein condition known as a varicocele is characterized by deformability and varicosity of the pampiniform plexus surrounding the testes. In the male population, the rapid spread of treatment-related cases from 5 to 20%, and it is frequently linked to fertility and a decline in male fertility. The patient was diagnosed with symptoms and indicators of dull discomfort and enlargement in the testicular region, and an ultrasound revealed a left-sided varicocele. Three times over the course of three months, selected locations underwent cupping therapy, and lymphatic drainage was conducted 35 times. The patient`s left seminal vesicles had enhanced anastomotic blood circulation, and no narrow or adhesive sections were seen during the colour ultrasound. Pampiniform Plexi, which measure about 2.8mm Valsalva when upright, were also detected using ultrasound. Such is not definitive for varicocele. This study is the first to demonstrate that scrotal thermography evaluation-based varicoceles in individuals may be treated with cupping therapy and lymphatic drainage. The results of this study need to be confirmed by another research for them to be reliable.