Discussions on long-term financial choice
We analyse focus group discussions about long-run (retirement) financial decisions, and explore the extent to which participant responses are related to the oft-used behavioural explanations of...
View ArticleThe New Public Financial Management (NPFM) and accrual accounting in Sri Lanka
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the reasons why Sri Lanka adopted International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) recently. Many less developed countries (LDCs) have introduced IPSAS...
View ArticleLipid production in association of filamentous fungi with genetically...
Background: Numerous strategies have evolved recently for the generation of genetically modified or synthetic microalgae and cyanobacteria designed for production of ethanol, biodiesel and other fuels....
View Article(In Press) How the Social Economy Produces Innovation
© 2015 The Association for Social Economics Social economics has long been concerned with the effects on human societies of market-coordinated processes of economic innovation. But the social economy...
View ArticleSupplier selection for managing supply risks in a supply chain: A fuzzy approach
Supplier selection is one of the most important tasks for supply chain decision making, and there are many quantitative and qualitative factors that affect this process. This paper develops a simple...
View ArticleManaging risk and disruption in production-inventory and supply chain...
This paper presents a literature review on risk and disruption management in production-inventory and supply chain systems. The review is conducted on the basis of comparing various works published in...
View ArticleSustainable operator assignment in an assembly line using genetic algorithm
This paper addresses the operator assignment in predefined workstations of an assembly line to get a sustainable result of fitness function of cycle time, total idle time and output where genetic...
View ArticleDevelopment of a production inventory model with uncertainty and reliability...
This paper addresses a problem of an imperfect production system under fuzzy demand and inventory holding cost. Production process reliability is considered because of the imperfect production process....
View ArticleA disruption recovery plan in a three-stage production-inventory system
This paper proposes a recovery plan for managing disruptions in a three-stage production-inventory system under a mixed production environment. First, a mathematical model is developed to deal with a...
View ArticleManaging disruption in an imperfect production-inventory system
In this paper, a disruption recovery model is developed for an imperfect single-stage production-inventory system. For it, the system may unexpectedly face either a single disruption or a mix of...
View ArticlePerformance evaluation of control charts for multiple assignable causes using...
With a view to monitoring and controlling manufacturing processes in industries, control charts are widely used and needed to be designed economically to achieve minimum quality costs. Many authors...
View ArticleNonlinear vibration characteristics of graphene/piezoelectric sandwich films...
This paper reports the result of an investigation into the nonlinear vibration frequencies of graphene/piezoelectric sandwich films under electrical loading based on nonlocal elastic theory by...
View ArticleClarifying the characteristics of youth who have engaged in appetitive violence
Appetitive violence is a form of proactive violence; its purpose is to generate or maintain a positive emotional state and, possibly, to strengthen social bonds. Portrayals of an increasing frequency...
View ArticlePolice officers' views of their encounters with people with personality disorder
In Australia, people experiencing personality disorder have featured little in policing studies and policy or mental health policy and legislation, and in the absence of specific guidance their...
View ArticleDo prior histories of violence and mental disorders impact on violent...
Despite sustained large-scale educational campaigns, public attitudes towards mental illness have remained persistently negative. Associated with this, recent research from Victoria, Australia,...
View ArticleThe perception of positive and negative facial expressions in unilateral...
How the brain is lateralised for emotion processing remains a key question in contemporary neuropsychological research. The right hemisphere hypothesis asserts that the right hemisphere dominates...
View ArticleDecision making in a human population living sustainably
The Tiwi people of northern Australia have managed natural resources continuously for 6000-8000 years. Tiwi management objectives and outcomes may reflect how they gather information about the...
View ArticleVariations in the bioavailability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in...
The aim of this study was to demonstrate the variations in bioavailability remaining in industrial and agricultural soils contaminated by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) after bioremediation....
View ArticleThe impact of treatment on hostile-dominance in forensic psychiatric...
This study explored the impact of psychiatric and psychological treatment on hostile-dominance in 51 offenders with personality disorder in a secure psychiatric unit. Hostile-dominance was assessed at...
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