Risk analysis in seaports plays an increasingly important role in ensuring port operation reliability, maritime transportation safety and supply chain distribution resilience. However, the task is not straightforward given the challenges, including that port safety is affected by multiple...

Since the development of organic food, to a great extent, depends on the needs of consumers, the studies on the consumer behavior of organic food would have far-reaching significance to the development of the whole organic food industry. The recent studies in this field mainly include the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of organizational culture (OC) on talent management (TM) by a case study of a real estate company. Design/methodology/approach The method of case study is adopted in the present study. Findings The authors present four propositions....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to maximize the expected revenue of the outpatient department considering patient preferences and choices. Design/methodology/approach – Patient preference refers to the preferred physician and time slot that patients hold before asking for...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to enhance control accuracy, energy efficiency and productivity of customized industrial robots by the proposed multi-objective trajectory optimization approach. To obtain accurate dynamic matching torques of the robot joints with optimal motion, an improved...

In this paper, a family of kurtosis orderings for multivariate distributions is proposed and studied. Each ordering characterizes in an affine invariant sense the movement of probability mass from the "shoulders" of a distribution to either the center or the tails or both. All even moments of...

Following a brief review of the current status of offshore safety regulations in the UK, several issues pertaining to the problems encountered in applying the existing reliability and safety analysis methods in quantitative safety appraisal studies, especially in the early concept design stage...

Informal social control is a central part of contemporary social disorganization theory. While there are a few studies examining how community factors affect informal social control, they are limited to Western societies, particularly the United States. This study examined whether correlates of...