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The salt marsh
It is a year since Sam's father died, but she cannot lay his ghost to rest. Jim was an undercover agent living a double life, and Sam has quit university to find out the truth about his work. Her journey will take her from the nightclubs of 80s Soho to the salt marshes and shingle spits of Norfolk and Kent. Here, in a bleak windswept landscape dotted with smugglers' huts and buried bones, Jim's secret past calls to her like never before. Now Sam must decide. Will she walk away and pick up her own life? Or become an undercover operative herself and continue her father's work in the shadows ...
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A structural mathematical model on two echelon supply chain system
As the people are becoming conscious about protection of the environment from pollutant caused by human beings, businesses are adopting green technology to procure green products to save the environment from pollution. Consequently, it is a challenging task at the firm manager to capture the market providing best green quality at fair price in a given economy. The paper plans to discuss two situations in two models. In model 1, the optimal green quality and sales prices of the manufacturer and the retailer in both decentralize and centralize systems of a two-echelon supply chain system are investigated. The profit functions of the manufacturer and the retailer include procurement costs, selling prices and cost for green level development and then it is analyzed by calculus method to obtain the optimal values of the decision variables. The model 2 focuses on price competition of two substitute products where demand of the end customers depends on price and quality of green product. Both the firms of green and regular products manufacturer are corporate social responsible. In this model, profit functions of the firms 1 & 2 are formulated separately considering revenues from sales items, cost of green quality and contribution for activities of social responsibility. The main objective is to find out optimal prices and green quality in order to maximize the profit functions of individual and integrated systems. The proposed models are analyzed mathematically and numerical examples are illustrated to justify the feasibility of the model in reality.
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Saving Bravo : the greatest rescue mission in Navy SEAL history
\"The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and was sought by the entire North Vietnamese and Russian military machines. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner had to sneak past them all to save him\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Rhetoric and reality in air warfare
A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American ideas about \"strategic\" bombing were formed and implemented. It argues that ideas about bombing civilian targets rested on--and gained validity from--widespread but substantially erroneous assumptions about the nature of modern industrial societies and their vulnerability to aerial bombardment. These assumptions were derived from the social and political context of the day and were maintained largely through cognitive error and bias. Tami Davis Biddle explains how air theorists, and those influenced by them, came to believe that strategic bombing would be an especially effective coercive tool and how they responded when their assumptions were challenged.
Biddle analyzes how a particular interpretation of the World War I experience, together with airmen's organizational interests, shaped interwar debates about strategic bombing and preserved conceptions of its potentially revolutionary character. This flawed interpretation as well as a failure to anticipate implementation problems were revealed as World War II commenced. By then, the British and Americans had invested heavily in strategic bombing. They saw little choice but to try to solve the problems in real time and make long-range bombing as effective as possible.
Combining narrative with analysis, this book presents the first-ever comparative history of British and American strategic bombing from its origins through 1945. In examining the ideas and rhetoric on which strategic bombing depended, it offers critical insights into the validity and robustness of those ideas--not only as they applied to World War II but as they apply to contemporary warfare.
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Designing a sustainable closed-loop pharmaceutical supply chain in a competitive market considering demand uncertainty, manufacturer’s brand and waste management
Pharmaceutical supply chain (PSC) is one of the most important healthcare supply chains and the recent pandemic (COVID-19) has completely proved it. Also, the environmental and social impacts of PSCs are undeniable due to the daily entrance of a large amount of pharmaceutical waste into the environment. However, studies on closed-loop PSCs (CLPSC) are rarely considered real-world requirements such as competition among diverse brands of manufacturers, the dependency of customers’ demand on products’ price and quality, and diverse reverse flows of end-of-life medicines. In this study, a scenario-based Multi-Objective Mixed-Integer Linear Programming model is developed to design a sustainable CLPSC, which investigates the reverse flows of expired medicines as three classes (must be disposed of, can be remanufactured and can be recycled). To study the competitive market and deal with demand uncertainty, a novel scenario-based game theory model is proposed. The demand function for each brand depends on the price and quality provided. Then, a hybrid solution approach is provided by combining the LP-metrics method with a heuristic algorithm. Furthermore, a real case study is investigated to evaluate the application of the model. Finally, sensitivity analysis and managerial insights are provided. The numerical results show that the proposed classification of reverse flows leads to proper waste management, making money, and reducing both disposal costs and raw material usage. Moreover, competition increases PSCs performance and improves the supply of products to pharmacies.
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Optimal pricing and ordering digital goods under piracy using game theory
In this paper, we consider a supply chain with a single manufacturer and two competing retailers. The manufacturer sells his digital goods, which may be pirated, to customers through a traditional and a digital retail channel. It is assumed that the manufacturer takes a leader role and the retailers follow it. We investigate the contracts that the manufacturer offers to the retailers and our goal is to find the optimal pricing and ordering decisions made by retailers and the best contract that includes maximum profit for the supply chain. Also, we study a numerical example and examine the proposed contracts. On the other hand, in the sensitivity analysis section, we analyze the impact of each parameter of the problem, in particular, the impact of piracy on the profit of supply chain members and decision variables.
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War at sea
In graphic novel format, explores \"how German U-boat commander Otto Weddigen sank three British cruisers in the North Sea, how German Admiral Scheer's plan to destroy two British squadrons at the naval Battle of Jutland almost succeeded, [and] what happened during the daring Zeebrugge Ship Canal Raid by the British navy and marines off the Belgian coast\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Why do servitized firms fail? A risk-based explanation
Purpose
– In an effort to further explain why manufacturing firms that move towards service provision often do not achieve the financial benefits they would expect, the purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of service additions on the risks affecting the firm.
Design/methodology/approach
– Using data drawn from a sample 129 bankrupt manufacturers (75 servitized and 54 non-servitized) and a categorization framework of failure risks, the study explores the impact of the presence of a service business on environmental and internal bankruptcy risks that a manufacturing firm must face.
Findings
– The study finds that the presence of a service business leads to a greater number of bankruptcy risks for the supplying firm. This is essentially because of greater internal risks. In addition, two types of service offerings are identified – demand chain and product support services. When firms offer demand chain services, they are also exposed to greater environmental risks.
Research limitations/implications
– The study provides empirical evidence on the relationship between servitization and bankruptcy risks, and on how this is influenced by the type of service offering. The research should be extended by a more comprehensive assessment of organizational risks in order to further validate and develop the conclusions.
Practical implications
– The study suggests that, as adding services introduces new risks for firms, managers have to seek means of mitigating these risks to ensure successful introduction of services.
Originality/value
– The paper addressed the gap in the literature for structured analyses of the risk consequences of service strategies.
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