The goal of this paper is to investigate the impact of floods on the global economy through supply chains, and to propose what components should be considered to measure supply chain risk. This study will examine, in particular, Thailand’s 2011 flood since it is the most notable example of the impact of floods both on industries and the whole economy. Since the prolonged floods affected the pri...

This paper investigates the impact of floods on the global economy through supply chains, and proposes measures for the related supply chain risk. We examine Thailand’s 2011 flood since it is a notable example of the impact of floods both on industries and the whole economy. The protracted floods affected the primary industrial sectors in Thailand, i.e., the automotive and electronics industrie...

This paper uses the kinematic mapping into the image space of spherical displacements to design a cooperating spherical robot system for workpiece orientating. The kinematic chain formed b y the cooperating robots grasping the workpiece forms a multi degree of freedom closed chain which is also known as a robotic mechanism. The spherical robots considered are spherical RPR open chains and they ...

Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) is one of the waste materials that highway agencies promote to use in new construction or rehabilitation of highways pavement. Since the use of RAP can affect the resilient modulus and other structural properties of flexible pavement layers, this paper aims to employ two different artificial neural network (ANN) models for modeling and evaluating the effects of ...

We study the problem of detecting hierarchical ties in a social network by exploiting the interaction patterns between the actors (members) involved in the network. Motivated by earlier work using a rank-based approach, i.e., Rooted-PageRank, we introduce a novel timesensitive method, called T-RPR, that captures and exploits the dynamics and evolution of the interaction patterns in the network ...

the conceptualization of resilience as a general or multidimensional construct and recognizing the inhibitors and facilitators of it are the main issues in the resilience literature. therefore, the present study investigated the discriminant variables of educational resilient and emotional resilient groups in person-focused approach, to examine the general or multidimensional construct of resil...

Food waste reduction and security are the main concerns of agri-food supply chains, as more than thirty-three percent global food production is wasted or lost due to mismanagement. The ongoing challenges, including resource scarcity, climate change, generation, etc., need immediate actions from stakeholders develop resilient chains. Previous studies explored chains their barriers, enablers, etc...