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Publication date: 22 March 2022

Pham Duc Tai, Malcolm Ringland Anderson, Truong Ton Hien Duc, Tung Quang Thai and Xue-Ming Yuan

Information sharing is one of essential collaboration methods for building effective system-level disruption responses and communication for supply chain resilience. However…

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Purpose

Information sharing is one of essential collaboration methods for building effective system-level disruption responses and communication for supply chain resilience. However, supply chain members are often reluctant to share the members' business information for fear of losing competitiveness. To facilitate the cooperation among these members, the supply chain members' should be made aware of the value of information. As a result, the purpose of this paper is to quantify the benefit of information sharing and evaluate its magnitude under various factors.

Design/methodology/approach

In this paper, information sharing is measured in a two-stage supply chain containing a manufacturer and a retailer. A demand function is constructed as a linear combination of a first-order autoregressive [AR(1)] process, the retail and reference prices. The values of information sharing are quantified for four scenarios: (1) no information sharing, (2) full information sharing, (3) limited information sharing and (4) partial information sharing. Based on the four scenarios, the conditions for valuable information sharing are determined. In addition, the impact of several demand parameters on the usefulness of information sharing is analyzed.

Findings

When the demand function is a pure AR(1) process (i.e. there is no impact from the retail and reference prices), information sharing is always valuable regardless of the autoregressive coefficient. Under the influence of the retail price and consumer behavior via the reference price, information sharing is not always beneficial. The boundaries for useful information sharing are analytically constructed. In addition to full information sharing, this study also quantifies the value of information under a partial sharing scheme. The results indicate that the information is more valuable as long as the information is inducible.

Originality/value

This study highlights several specific conditions for a beneficial information sharing agreement in consideration of consumer behaviors. These conditions enable supply chain members to design a sustainable partnership.

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Industrial Management & Data Systems, vol. 122 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-5577

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Publication date: 25 November 2020

Yuanyuan Bai and Yuan Xue

The purpose of this paper is to derive the relationship between color schemes and emotion to serve for designers and consumers.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to derive the relationship between color schemes and emotion to serve for designers and consumers.

Design/methodology/approach

The three attributes of hue, brightness and saturation of the selected sample color are analyzed, and the Semantic Differential (SD) method is used for the emotional evaluation of color schemes, and data obtained from the emotional evaluation of color schemes is analyzed by using Excel software for mean statistics and SPSS software for factor analysis and cluster analysis.

Findings

From the results of the factor analysis, three main factors that affect the feeling of the color scheme can be extracted: “personality”, “gender” and “fashion”. Color emotions can be achieved by changing the level of color saturation and brightness, the cold and warmth of the hue and the way of color combination.

Research limitations/implications

Since it takes a long time to fill out the questionnaire, the number of valid questionnaires collected is a little less and the research data is limited. In addition, some problems are not taken into account such as geography and so on, so the results of the statistical analysis are not very precise and further research is needed.

Practical implications

It can provide information of emotional color schemes for designers and consumers, and based on the SD method, an emotional color matching questionnaire is designed and statistical analysis is conducted to establish the relationship between emotion and color schemes.

Originality/value

Based on the fashion color sample and color harmony theory, the color matching rules and color matching schemes are designed independently.

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International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology, vol. 33 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0955-6222

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Publication date: 8 June 2021

Eryong Liu, Yuan Xue, Yaping Bai, Jibin Pu, Shuangming Du and Huiling Du

The purpose of this paper is to improve the tribological properties of aluminum cylinder liner. Higher martensite contents were closely related to the higher hardness and…

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The purpose of this paper is to improve the tribological properties of aluminum cylinder liner. Higher martensite contents were closely related to the higher hardness and excellent wear resistance of Fe-based coatings. Furthermore, the grain size of the Fe-based coating was approximately 40 nm, which provides an excellent fine grain strengthening effect.

Design/methodology/approach

To improve the tribological properties of aluminum cylinder liners, a Fe-based martensite coating was prepared by internal plasma spraying technology, whose microstructure and tribological properties were then investigated.

Findings

Sprayed Fe-based coating possessed a low contact angle and strong adhesion with lubricating oil. In a simulated engine condition, Fe-based coating exhibited a decreased friction coefficient and increased wear resistance under oil lubrication, which was dominated by a stronger adhesive force with lubricating oil, higher martensite contents on the worn surface, higher hardness and higher H/E value than those of the reference HT 200 and Al-19Si cylinder material.

Originality/value

Nanostructure Fe-based martensite coating was sprayed on an aluminum cylinder liner, which demonstrated remarkable advantages over the reference cylinder material.

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Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, vol. 73 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0036-8792

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Publication date: 2 January 2018

Binbin Pei, Haojun Xu, Yuan Xue, Wei Chen and Anwei Shen

The purpose of this work is to develop an in-flight icing risk assessment methodology by quantification of changing flight dynamic characteristics under icing conditions.

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Purpose

The purpose of this work is to develop an in-flight icing risk assessment methodology by quantification of changing flight dynamic characteristics under icing conditions.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper develops an approach for the quantitative assessment of flight risk under icing conditions. Using the six degree-of-freedom simulation model, the icing effects model is used to obtain the extreme values of the key parameters relevant to fight safety, allowing calculation of accident probability based on extreme value theory. The risk portion of the flight risk index is designed to account for different levels of flight risk and to provide criteria to allow pilots’ decision-making. Numerical examples are carried out by a series of simulated elevator overshoots of various levels and different distributions of ice accretion to compare the risk index under different icing conditions.

Findings

Case results show that the proposed methodology is able to analyze conditions of different severity and distribution of icing and assess quantitatively how these different parameters affect flight safety.

Practical implications

The quantification of flight risk in icing conditions demonstrated here can be applied to provide an objective and intuitive instrument to facilitate decisions by the aircrew or air traffic controller, especially prior to the aircraft entering into areas with adverse meteorological conditions.

Originality/value

Existing flight risk assessments under icing conditions are typically guided by aerodynamic changes, ice accumulation process or the subjective feeling of the pilot. Here, it is proposed to use the probability of flight risk event to measure different icing intensity levels in a quantitative way. This quantitative metric combines the alteration of aerodynamic characteristics, flight dynamic characteristics and limitation of critical parameters, providing a new and comprehensive viewpoint to measure in-flight icing risk. This may be a promising and more reasonable way to assess the risk.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 90 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1748-8842

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Publication date: 24 June 2020

Yilu Zhou and Yuan Xue

Strategic alliances among organizations are some of the central drivers of innovation and economic growth. However, the discovery of alliances has relied on pure manual search and…

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Purpose

Strategic alliances among organizations are some of the central drivers of innovation and economic growth. However, the discovery of alliances has relied on pure manual search and has limited scope. This paper proposes a text-mining framework, ACRank, that automatically extracts alliances from news articles. ACRank aims to provide human analysts with a higher coverage of strategic alliances compared to existing databases, yet maintain a reasonable extraction precision. It has the potential to discover alliances involving less well-known companies, a situation often neglected by commercial databases.

Design/methodology/approach

The proposed framework is a systematic process of alliance extraction and validation using natural language processing techniques and alliance domain knowledge. The process integrates news article search, entity extraction, and syntactic and semantic linguistic parsing techniques. In particular, Alliance Discovery Template (ADT) identifies a number of linguistic templates expanded from expert domain knowledge and extract potential alliances at sentence-level. Alliance Confidence Ranking (ACRank)further validates each unique alliance based on multiple features at document-level. The framework is designed to deal with extremely skewed, noisy data from news articles.

Findings

In evaluating the performance of ACRank on a gold standard data set of IBM alliances (2006–2008) showed that: Sentence-level ADT-based extraction achieved 78.1% recall and 44.7% precision and eliminated over 99% of the noise in news articles. ACRank further improved precision to 97% with the top20% of extracted alliance instances. Further comparison with Thomson Reuters SDC database showed that SDC covered less than 20% of total alliances, while ACRank covered 67%. When applying ACRank to Dow 30 company news articles, ACRank is estimated to achieve a recall between 0.48 and 0.95, and only 15% of the alliances appeared in SDC.

Originality/value

The research framework proposed in this paper indicates a promising direction of building a comprehensive alliance database using automatic approaches. It adds value to academic studies and business analyses that require in-depth knowledge of strategic alliances. It also encourages other innovative studies that use text mining and data analytics to study business relations.

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Information Technology & People, vol. 33 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0959-3845

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Publication date: 9 November 2012

Wei Ping He

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of China's contemporary banking regulatory system, with particular focus on regulatory control of foreign banks trading in…

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The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of China's contemporary banking regulatory system, with particular focus on regulatory control of foreign banks trading in China. The paper addresses three aspects of Chinese banking regulation: what does China regulate; why does China regulate; and how does China regulate. Much of the discussion is concerned with China's regulatory agencies particularly with the role of the CBRC as the principal regulator in China's banking sector.

Design/methodology/approach

In the first instance the paper presents an overview of banking regulatory models gained from a review of theoretical literature in the area. Then through a wide ranging review of Chinese publications, both academic and official, the paper seeks to relate the course of regulatory reform in China, both in terms of compliance with orthodox regulatory theory, and the unique regulatory requirements of the Chinese banking system.

Findings

The paper recognises that China has embraced the need for banking regulation with the establishment of an institutional structure that is responsive to both banking supervision and government policy. Within that structure the role of the CBRC, the pervasive manner in which that agency operates, and the content of its regulatory output have been identified and critically reviewed.

Originality/value

In its review of the modernization of China's banking regulatory system, the paper achieves originality from the author's research into, and critical reflections on Chinese generated literature, both institutional and academic, which is then communicated in a manner that will be understood by readers familiar with Western banking regulatory theory.

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Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, vol. 20 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1358-1988

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Publication date: 11 November 2009

Ilan Alon, Romie F. Littrell and Allan K.K. Chan

This article reviews and discusses issues in the translation of international brand names to Chinese, and provides a framework for international brand managers who want to expand…

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This article reviews and discusses issues in the translation of international brand names to Chinese, and provides a framework for international brand managers who want to expand into China. Linguistic differences between Chinese and English are wide and deep, making translation of brand names difficult. Cultural context, pronunciation, written vs. oral language, and the meaning of characters are just a few examples of such difficulties. We discuss four global product‐naming strategic alternatives available to country/brand managers, along with their usage. The four approaches include (1) dual extension, (2) brand meaning extension, (3) brand feeling extension, and (4) dual adaptation. We also provide examples of brands utilizing the different approaches.

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Multinational Business Review, vol. 17 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1525-383X

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Publication date: 1 August 2005

Haixia Zhang, Yuan Xue and Shanyuan Wang

Spandex fibers have superior stretch and elastic recovery ability, which is why clothes containing spandex fibers fit well and are comfortable. The most common methods of…

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Spandex fibers have superior stretch and elastic recovery ability, which is why clothes containing spandex fibers fit well and are comfortable. The most common methods of producing elastic yarns are core-spun on a modified ring frame and hollow spindle technique. Rotor spinning has many advantages over ring spinning and has been adopted worldwide. In this paper, a method of producing the cotton/spandex composite yarns on a modified open-end rotor spinning is introduced. By changing the draft ratio and linear density of spandex filaments, different kinds of cotton/spandex composite yarns are produced on a modified rotor spinning frame, and their appearance and properties are tested and analyzed at the same time. The results show that the spandex draft ratio has great influence on the appearance and properties of rotor spun cotton/spandex composite yarns. The linear density of spandex filaments also has influence on the properties of composite yarns.

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Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, vol. 9 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1560-6074

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Publication date: 11 May 2010

Jian‐hong Yang, Ying Wei, Xueyuan Cai and Jin‐zhi Ran

The paper aims to investigate the influences of the tensile strain and the threading dislocations (TDs) in the germanium (Ge) epitaxial layer on the performance of the Ge vertical…

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Purpose

The paper aims to investigate the influences of the tensile strain and the threading dislocations (TDs) in the germanium (Ge) epitaxial layer on the performance of the Ge vertical p‐i‐n photodetectors on Si substrate.

Design/methodology/approach

The dark current, photo responsivity and time responsivity of detector were calculated using two‐dimensional drift‐diffusion device modeling and compared with experimental data.

Findings

The incorporation of the tensile strain and the reduction of the TDs in the Ge epilayer can increase the performance of the detector.

Originality/value

An optical design of detector is suggested with lower TD in the Ge buffer layer, which can exhibit superior performance.

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Microelectronics International, vol. 27 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1356-5362

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Publication date: 6 September 2024

Saeed Loghman and Azita Zahiriharsini

Research focusing on psychological capital (PsyCap) has been mainly conducted at the individual level. However, recent research has expanded investigations to the collective level…

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Research focusing on psychological capital (PsyCap) has been mainly conducted at the individual level. However, recent research has expanded investigations to the collective level with a greater focus on team-level PsyCap. Although, as demonstrated by recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses, the relationships between individual-level PsyCap and the desirable/undesirable outcomes are fairly established in the literature, less is known about such relationships for team-level PsyCap. One of these important, yet least investigated, research areas is the research stream that focuses on the relationship between team-level PsyCap and the outcomes of health, Well-Being, and safety. This chapter aims to highlight the role of individual-level PsyCap as an important predictor of employees’ health, Well-Being, and safety outcomes, but also to go beyond that to provide insights into the potential role of team-level PsyCap in predicting such outcomes at both individual and team levels. To do so, the chapter first draws upon relevant theories to discuss the empirical research findings focusing on the relationship between individual-level PsyCap and the outcomes of health, Well-Being, and safety. It then focuses on team-level PsyCap from theoretical, conceptualization, and operationalization perspectives and provides insights into how team-level PsyCap might be related to health, Well-Being, and safety outcomes at both individual and team levels. Thus, this chapter proposes new research directions in an area of PsyCap that has been left unexplored.

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