Although researchers have analysed how environmental strategy affects firm competitiveness, they often overlooked the potential influence at supply chain level. Building on resource-based view and behavioural theory of firm, this study examines effect buyers’ orientation their green innovation influencing role suppliers’ critical slack resources (i.e., inventory slack, capacity technology slack...

Sodium-activated potassium (K(Na)) channels have been suggested to set the resting potential, to modulate slow after-hyperpolarizations, and to control bursting behavior or spike frequency adaptation (Trends Neurosci 28:422-428, 2005). One of the genes that encodes K(Na) channels is called Slack (Kcnt1, Slo2.2). Studies found that Slack channels were highly expressed in nociceptive dorsal root ...

The authors demonstrate that people discount delayed outcomes as a result of perceived changes over time in supplies of slack. Slack is the perceived surplus of a given resource available to complete a focal task. The present research shows that, in general, people expect slack for time to be greater in the future than in the present. Typically, this expectation of growth of slack in the future...

This paper proposes a procedure for avoiding delay faults in field with slack assessment during standby time. The proposed procedure performs path delay testing and checks if the slack is larger than a threshold value using selectable delay embedded in basic elements (BE). If the slack is smaller than the threshold, a pair of BEs to be replaced, which maximizes the path slack, is identified. Ex...

The research analyzes the impact of environmental regulation on industrial green development using panel data from 30 provinces in China 2006 to 2018. We employ Super-slack-based measuring (SBM) model measure level domestic and use ordinary model, threshold spatial for empirical estimation. results reveal that index plays a significant role promoting such development. Environmental index, comma...

Multi-objective optimization is the simultaneous consideration of two or more objective functions that are completely or partially inconflict with each other. The optimality of such optimizations is largely defined through the Pareto optimality. Multiple objective integer linear programs (MOILP) are special cases of multiple criteria decision making problems. Numerous algorithms have been desig...

This research attempts to identify how Agile systems development methodologies like SCRUM are affected by three behavioural issues student syndrome, team member stress and organisational slack. The student syndrome applies when humans start tasks as late as possible and waste safety margins thus increasing time pressure and stress levels. Stress can be both good and bad in a project situation. ...

Improving energy efficiency has been widely regarded as one of the most cost-effective ways to improve sustainability and mitigate climate change. This paper presents a sequential slack-based efficiency measure (SSBM) application to model total-factor energy efficiency with undesirable outputs. This approach simultaneously takes into account the sequential environmental technology, total input ...

An evolving fuzzy-neural rule with slack diversification is proposed in the present work to improve the performance of job dispatching in a wafer fabrication factory. The evolving fuzzy-neural rule is a modification from the two-factor tailored nonlinear fluctuation smoothing rule for mean cycle time (2f-TNFSMCT) by diversifying the slack values of jobs to be dispatched dynamically, which has b...