Sourcing in Text Comprehension: a Review of Interventions Targeting Sourcing Skills

Sourcing Environmental PAHs: A Review

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are organic pollutants that accumulate in the environment as a result of both natural and human processes. The molecular and isotopic signatures of these compounds vary depending on production conditions, and can be exploited to trace PAH contaminants in the environment to a particular source or responsible party. Environmental forensics investigations re...

Crowd Sourcing Literature Review in SUNFLOWER

1. ABSTRACT OF THE INVITED TALK Reviewing literature is painful albeit intellectually rewarding. I will describe SUNFLOWER, a system we developed in collaboration with Bloomsbury, a publisher of scientific material , member of Qatar Foundation. SUNFLOWER combines the power of search and collaborative editing to review and summarize a large number of articles around a topic. It works in three st...

Single sourcing versus dual sourcing under conditions of learning

This paper considers a buyer who has to decide whether to select a single or two sources of supply for a homogeneous product. The production processes of the suppliers are subject to learning effects, which reduce the production costs and increase the production capacities of the suppliers. This, in turn, enables the suppliers to reduce the sales price, which results in lower acquisition costs ...

The Mexico-China Sourcing Game: Teaching Global Dual Sourcing

W describe a three-hour class on global dual sourcing built around a game that demonstrates the challenges in making operational decisions, and transfers recent academic insights to the classroom. Student teams manage a firm with access to a responsive but expensive supply source (Mexico) and a cheap but remote source (China). Each team must determine a sourcing strategy to satisfy random deman...

Sourcing from China