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Successful implementation of radar monitoring system and increased intelligence capacity on Congo River
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)Inland water ways are significant component of the nation's marine transportation systems. Congo River Basin plays an active role in the economy of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and other surrounding countries such ... -
Suitability of the Openly Accessible 3D Printed Prosthetic Hands for War-Wounded Children
( Frontiers , 2021 , Article)The field of rehabilitation and assistive devices is being disrupted by innovations in desktop 3D printers and open-source designs. For upper limb prosthetics, those technologies have demonstrated a strong potential to aid ... -
Sukuk market development and Islamic banks’ capital ratios
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This paper investigates the impact of Sukuk market development on Islamic banks’ capital ratios using a sample comprising 230 Islamic banks spanning the period 2005–2014. We characterize Islamic bank capital along multiple ... -
Sukuk, banking system, and financial markets: Rivals or complements?
( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)Using the system GMM estimation technique, we study the effects of the financial development on Sukuk markets using a panel dataset of 11 countries from 1995 to 2015. First, we find that Sukuk and bank financing are ... -
Supplier selection for a sustainable supply chain: Triple bottom line (3BL) and analytic network process approach
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2017 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to integrate the "triple bottom line (3BL)" approach in the supplier selection decision. It also aims to consider the feedback effect of the decision on strategic factors that determine ... -
Supplier-initiated ingredient/component branding
( Emerald , 2020 , Article)Purpose: This paper aims to understand the process of initiating ingredient/component (IC) branding from the supplier's perspective. It proposes modeling entrepreneurial orientation (EO) as an antecedent factor and ... -
Supply chain management through the stochastic goal programming model
( Springer New York LLC , 2017 , Article)Supply chain (SC) design problems are often characterized with uncertainty related to the decision-making parameters. The stochastic goal programming (SGP) was one of the aggregating procedures proposed to solve the SC ... -
Supply chain resilience under economic-political risk: A case of developing economy
( Inderscience Publishers , 2022 , Article)The aim of this study was to identify enablers of supply chain resilience to economic-political risks and establish the relationships among them using interpretive structural modelling. A comprehensive review of the ... -
Supply chain risk and resilience in startups, SMEs, and large enterprises: a systematic review and directions for research
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose: This systematic literature review analyzes the academic literature to understand SC risk and resilience across different organizational sizes and industries. The academic literature has well discussed the causes ... -
Support for smallholder farmers through Islamic instruments: The case of Bangladesh and lessons for Nigeria
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2019 , Article)Purpose: In societies with strong presence of Islam, Islamic instruments with more scope for fairness and equity can be innovatively harnessed to play an increasing role in the development process and poverty alleviation ... -
A Surrogate Assisted Quantum-Behaved Algorithm for Well Placement Optimization
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2022 , Article)The oil and gas industry faces difficulties in optimizing well placement problems. These problems are multimodal, non-convex, and discontinuous in nature. Various traditional and non-traditional optimization algorithms ... -
A Survey on harnessing the Applications of Mobile Computing in Healthcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Solutions
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)The COVID-19 pandemic ravaged almost every walk of life but it triggered many challenges for the healthcare system, globally. Different cutting-edge technologies such as Internet of things (IoT), machine learning, Virtual ... -
Sustainability governance and legitimisation processes: Gulf of Mexico oil spill
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2020 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the emergence of sustainability governance through the unfolding hybridisation process between corporate governance and corporate social responsibility and the implications ... -
Sustainability metrics for a supply chain: The case of small and medium enterprises
( Inderscience Publishers , 2012 , Article)Using digraph and matrix method this research enunciates a simple method to quantify supply chain sustainability for small and medium enterprises. It proposes a numerical index which can be used to measure sustainability ... -
Sustainability reporting indicators used by oil and gas companies in GCC countries: IPIECA guidance approach
( Frontiers Media S.A. , 2023 , Article)The purpose of this article is to assess the quality of the sustainability reporting indicators used by oil and gas companies (OGCs) in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. This study utilizes the International Petroleum ... -
Sustainable development in Asian manufacturing SMEs: Progress and directions
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)This article identifies the factors that influence the environmental, social and financial performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector in Asia. Asian SMEs play an important role in ... -
Sustainable development-oriented regulatory and competitive pressures to shift toward a circular economy: The role of environmental orientation and Industry 4.0 technologies
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2023 , Article)Automakers' transition from a linear economy to a circular economy (CE) in response to sustainable development-oriented regulatory and competitive pressures is a challenging process that requires innovative, practical ... -
Sustainable family business: The role of stakeholder involvement, mindful organizing, and contingent human factors
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2019 , Article)Purpose: Family centered non-economic (FCNE) goals, such as environmental and social goals, are sometimes strenuous to "sell" to non-family members in a family business, and are often open to resistance. The purpose of ... -
Sustainable supply chains: A study of interaction among the enablers
(2010 , Article)Purpose: A focus on supply chains is a step towards the broader adoption and development of sustainability, since the supply chain considers the product from initial processing of raw materials to delivery to the customer. ... -
Systematic Analysis of Artificial Intelligence-Based Platforms for Identifying Governance and Access Control
( Hindawi , 2021 , Article)Artificial intelligence (AI) has become omnipotent with its variety of applications and advantages. Considering the other side of the coin, the eruption of technology has created situations that need more caution about the ...