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Case ReportOpen accessEvery word in the titleUsing Lean Six Sigma to Increase Efficiency of a Grain Receipt Process of a Brazilian Agroindustry CooperativeSeiti Moraes Sakumoto, Daiane Maria De Genaro Chiroli, Ana Caroline DzulinskiDue to the competitiveness of companies to increase market share, they have been more and more interested in topics related to cost reduction, process efficiency, new customers and continuous improvement. Considering this scenario, this study conducted analyses and implemented improvements using the Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology in a grain receipt process of a Brazilian agroindustrial cooperative to increase its … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 12, Issue 2 · 17 Jun 2019 · 7,612 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleHorizontal Cooperation Practices in Internet-based Higher Education, Computational Logistics and TelecommunicationsJesica de Arma, Thanasis Daradoumis, Anastasios A. Economides, Angel A. JuanGlobalization and advances in information and communication technologies have boosted the use of Horizontal Cooperation (HC) practices in many industry sectors. In the current international market, these ‘alliances’ become especially relevant for small and medium organizations, which are forced to compete with large-scale corporations. This paper analyzes benefits and challenges of HC practices in three service sectors that are critical … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 15, Issue 1 · 31 Jan 2019 · 7,421 accessesView PDFCite
Review ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleCooperation in Rural Areas as a Local System Development OpportunityEmanuele Schimmenti, Giovanni Battista Collura, Giuseppina Migliore et al.The development of rural areas requires the adoption of technology innovation and market approach strategies without departing from the specific features of local production systems, such as agricultural practices and the wealth of knowledge of operators. It is even better the exploitation of these resources to characterize the competitive positioning of territorial systems. In this framework, the cooperative Rinascita, which … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 12 · 3 Jan 2018 · 8,270 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleFactors Affecting Sustainable Development of Agricultural Cooperatives in the Mekong River Delta, VietnamHa Nguyen HongThe objective of the article is to identify factors that impact on sustainable development of the Mekong River Delta agricultural cooperatives. The article uses multivariable regression to find the factors affecting the business performance of cooperatives through the survey of 80 agricultural cooperatives in three provinces of TraVinh, Ben Tre and SocTrang in the Mekong River Delta from April to … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 10 · 27 Oct 2017 · 8,274 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleTHE ROLE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS ON THE GROWTH OF ITALIAN SOCIAL COOPERATIVESFrancesco Agliata, Caterina Ferrone, Danilo TuccilloThe Third Sector in Italy records a slow but constant growth due to the increase of the number of entities but not of their dimension. The difficulties in financial management, generated by a low attraction of debt and equity financial resources and a low level of managerial skills characterized the non profit organizations. Focused on the social cooperatives, the article … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 5 May 2014 · 8,925 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleAGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE FIRMS: BUDGETARY ADJUSTMENTS AND ANALYSIS OF CREDIT ACCESS APPLYING SCORING SYSTEMSGiuseppe Bonazzi, Mattia IottiCooperatives are one of the most important types of companies in the agricultural sector. Cooperatives allow overcoming the limitations of the fragmentation of agricultural property, increasing the level of production of small-sized farms and selling the product so that it reaches a sufficient critical mass. Moreover, cooperatives are often characterized by undercapitalization and even difficult credit access because banks conduct … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 7 · 5 May 2014 · 6,916 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleFemale Entrepreneurship and Agritourism Cooperatives in the Greeκ Periphery: An OverviewDimitrios Stavroulakis, Stefanos Karagiannis, Roido Mitoula, Aristides PapagrigoriouThis study investigates the status of female entrepreneurs in the Greek countryside as formed in the recent years owed to the emergence of agritourism. Agritourism has provided opportunities for additional income in localities through the utilization of knowledge of traditional customs, recipes, folk art. Women entrepreneurs in the sector often function within a context of adverse circumstances, pertaining to their … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 5, Issue 4 · 13 Mar 2014 · 7,572 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleFACTORS AFFECTING COOPERATION AMONG PHYSICIANS IN SHARING INFORMATION WITHIN THE HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT: A STUDY OF TWO HOSPITALSNawzat Sadiq Ahmed, Norizan Mohd YasinHealthcare Information Systems (HISs) in hospitals have become an influential factor to provide cooperation among physicians in sharing healthcare information. Many cooperative HIS models were proposed. However, they focused on management of the patients’ information and do not address the issue of improving the physicians’ skills due to many factors. In this study, a mixed data collection approach is used … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 5 · 15 Jan 2014 · 6,455 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleNON-COOPERATIVE IRIS RECOGNITION: A NOVEL APPROACH FOR SEGMENTATION AND FAKE IDENTIFICATIONM. Rajeev Kumar, M. Dilsath Fathima, K. Kiruthika, M. S. SaravananIris recognition, the ability to recognize and distinguish individuals by their pattern, is the most reliable biometric in terms of recognition and identification performance. However, performance of these systems is affected by the heterogeneous images (regarding focus, contrast, or brightness) and with several noise factors (iris obstruction and reflection) when the cooperation is not expectable from the subject. Current Iris … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 9, Issue 9 · 6 Aug 2013 · 6,744 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleDistributed Amplify and Forward Cooperation While Maintaining Transmission FreedomL. Chen, R. Carrasco, I. WassellProblem statement: This study proposes a novel Distributed Amplify and-Forward (DAF) cooperative scheme, achieving higher diversity order and yet maintaining the same transmission freedom as the conventional Amplify-and-Forward (AF) scheme. In the DAF scheme, a user’s transmitted symbols are partitioned into several sequences in order to be relayed by different users. Approach: In the cooperative network, each user still uses … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 4 · 2 Aug 2012 · 7,376 accessesView PDFCite