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About: City University London is a education organization based out in London, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 5735 authors who have published 17285 publications receiving 453290 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors distinguish visibility from supply chain transparency, by which they mean a company disclosing information to consumers, investors, and other stakeholders about compliance to consumerexpected norms in its supply chain operations and products.
Abstract: More firms than ever before are disclosing provenance of their products, results of product testing, and suppliers’ labor-practice compliance with western norms in annual reports, sustainability reports, and press releases, besides making it available on third-party websites The problem remains however that companies find collecting and disclosing such information not only to be costly and complicated, but also do not understand the benefits To motivate further research on supply chain transparency, we first report recent examples of companies providing supply chain transparency We also present potential benefits of supply chain visibility and supply chain transparency separately for the company While terminology has not yet been standardized, this paper distinguishes visibility – managers’ efforts to learn more about operations upstream in their supply chains – from supply chain transparency, by which we mean a company disclosing information to consumers, investors, and other stakeholders about compliance to consumerexpected norms in its supply chain operations and products Finally, we propose some topics for research on supply chain transparency arranged by stakeholder
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TL;DR: It is argued that these benefits derive from binocular disparity processing linked to changes in relative hand–target distance, and that this depth information is independently used to regulate the progress of the approaching hand and to guide the digits to the (pre-selected) contact points on the object, thereby ensuring that the grip is securely applied.
Abstract: Theoretical considerations suggest that binocular information should provide advantages, compared to monocular viewing, for the planning and execution of natural reaching and grasping actions, but empirical support for this is quite equivocal. We have examined these predictions on a simple prehension task in which normal subjects reached, grasped and lifted isolated cylindrical household objects (two sizes, four locations) in a well-lit environment, using binocular vision or with one eye occluded. Various kinematic measures reflecting the programming and on-line control of the movements were quantified, in combination with analyses of different types of error occurring in the velocity, spatial path and grip aperture profiles of each trial. There was little consistent effect of viewing condition on the early phase of the reach, up to and including the peak deceleration, but all other aspects of performance were superior under binocular control. Subjects adopted a cautious approach when binocular information was unavailable: they extended the end phase of the reach and pre-shaped their hand with a wider grip aperture further away from the object. Despite these precautions, initial grip application was poorly coordinated with target contact and was inaccurately scaled to the objects’ dimensions, with the subsequent post-contact phase of the grasp significantly more prolonged, error-prone and variable compared to binocular performance. These effects were obtained in two separate experiments in which the participants’ performed the task under randomized or more predictable (blocked) viewing conditions. Our data suggest that binocular vision offers particular advantages for controlling the terminal reach and the grasp. We argue that these benefits derive from binocular disparity processing linked to changes in relative hand–target distance, and that this depth information is independently used to regulate the progress of the approaching hand and to guide the digits to the (pre-selected) contact points on the object, thereby ensuring that the grip is securely applied.
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TL;DR: A model of carbohydrate metabolism has been implemented as a causal probabilistic network, allowing explicit representation of the uncertainties involved in the prediction of 24-h blood glucose profiles in insulin-dependent diabetic subjects, and in several cases seemed more appropriate than the doses actually administered to the patients.
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TL;DR: In this article, the risks of having a non-obvious disability, Asperger's syndrome [AS], are explored, focusing on the riskiness associated with being on the margins of normality, where personal experience (and theoretical concepts) of being ‘different’ and ‘normal’ merge.
Abstract: In this paper the risks of having a non-obvious disability, Asperger's syndrome [AS], are explored. The key focus is the riskiness associated with being on the margins of normality, where personal experience (and theoretical concepts) of being ‘different’ and ‘normal’ merge. When labelling people in any way other than normal is unpopular, those on such margins remain at risk of being misunderstood and neglected. With AS there continues to be controversy over the diagnostic label, as well as a theoretical tension between the negative versus positive effects of applying such a diagnosis. The basis for this discussion is the findings of a qualitative study exploring the experiences of young adults with AS and those of their parents. Methods used include purposive sampling, unstructured interviews and constant comparative analysis – whereby analysis became organised around the core emergent category of ‘not quite fitting’ – and the kinds of risk associated with the subjectively felt experience, the perception...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of financial reporting frequency on information asymmetry and the cost of equity and showed that higher reporting frequency reduces information asymmetric and the costs of equity, and they are robust towards considerations of the endogenous nature of firms' reporting frequency choice.
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Andrew M. Jones | 103 | 764 | 37253 |
F. Rauscher | 100 | 605 | 36066 |
Thorsten Beck | 99 | 373 | 62708 |
Richard J. K. Taylor | 91 | 1543 | 43893 |
Christopher N. Bowman | 90 | 639 | 38457 |
G. David Batty | 88 | 451 | 23826 |
Xin Zhang | 87 | 1714 | 40102 |
Richard J. Cook | 84 | 571 | 28943 |
Hugh Willmott | 82 | 310 | 26758 |
Scott Reeves | 82 | 441 | 27470 |
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore | 81 | 211 | 29660 |
Mats Alvesson | 78 | 267 | 38248 |
W. John Edmunds | 75 | 252 | 24018 |
Sheng Chen | 71 | 688 | 27847 |
Christopher J. Taylor | 71 | 415 | 30948 |