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PurposeThis paper examined the deterministic and moderating impacts of skill on the behavioural (benevolence) and cognitive (credibility) dimensions of trust within small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) upstream (i.e. supplier-to-customer) relationships. A theoretically grounded research model was developed that comprised of three cognitive and three behavioural antecedents of benevolence and credibility. Impact of time (i.e. chronological influences) on skill-driven bi-dimensional trust development was assessed as well.Design/methodology/approachAll measures were borrowed from top ranking journals and adapted for use. An online questionnaire-based survey was conducted with UK SMEs executives who were involved in electrical and electronic components industry. A total of 231 useable questionnaires were received which represented a response rate of 15.4%. After validity and reliability checks, the collected data were subjected to partial least square analysis to verify the deterministic and/or moderating impact of skill on bi-dimensional trust.FindingsThe results supported a dual role (a moderator and a determinant) of skill on SMEs upstream relationship trust. However, the moderating effect of skill dominated the deterministic effect. Furthermore, the results indicated that skill tends to behave differently toward cognitive and behavioural dimensions of trust. Hence, how skill development is influenced by different dimensions of trust, and the role time plays in skill-driven trust enhancement should be carefully considered in SME upstream relationships. Therefore, it is suggested that the nature and context of each supplier–customer relational episode should be examined in terms of the outcomes it is designed to achieve in a relationship.Originality/valueThis study evaluated an in-depth association between skill and bi-dimensional trust development within SME upstream relationships. Specifically, deterministic and moderating impacts of skill on credibility and benevolence were investigated.

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Strategic Issues Management in the Commuter Airlines Industry

American Journal of Small Business ◽

10.1177/104225878400800304 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 17-30

Author(s):

Lawrence F. Cunningham ◽

John E. Young ◽

Wallace R. Wood

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Strategic Decision ◽

Strategic Decision Making ◽

Issues Management ◽

Strategic Decisions ◽

Strategic Issues ◽

Perceived Importance ◽

Strategic Position ◽

Airline Performance ◽

Deterministic Effect

In this article, the authors define current strategic issues in the commuter airlines industry. They demonstrate how strategic issues can present vulnerabilities to individual airlines, depending upon the airline's strategic position. External strategic issues are shown to create major strategic decisions for top-level airline executives which in turn can have a deterministic effect on airline performance. Surveys were administered to determine the perceived importance of strategic decisions facing commuter airline executives. Some characteristics of strategic decision-making and planning among commuter airlines were discovered. Suggestions for improving strategic decision-making and planning for commuter airlines were presented.

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A generic approach to explicit simulation of uncertainty in the NEMO ocean model

Geoscientific Model Development Discussions ◽

10.5194/gmdd-8-615-2015 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 615-643 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

J.-M. Brankart ◽

G. Candille ◽

F. Garnier ◽

C. Calone ◽

A. Melet ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Probabilistic Model ◽

Circulation Model ◽

Ecosystem Model ◽

Major Effect ◽

Ocean Model ◽

Dynamical Behaviour ◽

Implementation Approach ◽

Explicit Simulation ◽

Deterministic Effect ◽

Ice Model

Abstract. In this paper, a simple and generic implementation approach is presented, with the aim of transforming a deterministic ocean model (like NEMO) into a probabilistic model. With this approach, several kinds of stochastic parameterizations are implemented to simulate the non-deterministic effect of unresolved processes, unresolved scales, unresolved diversity. The method is illustrated with three applications, showing that uncertainties can produce a major effect in the circulation model, in the ecosystem model, and in the sea ice model. These examples show that uncertainties can produce an important effect in the simulations, strongly modifying the dynamical behaviour of these three components of ocean systems.

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Role of Time in Development of Trust Within Hi-Tech SME Business Relationships

International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management ◽

10.4018/jcrmm.2010040104 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 43-56

Author(s):

Khurram Sharif ◽

Salaheldin Ismail Salaheldin

Keyword(s):

Coercive Power ◽

Research Model ◽

Specific Investments ◽

Equipment Manufacturing ◽

Research Outcome ◽

The Uk ◽

Customer Trust ◽

Business To Business ◽

Deterministic Effect

This study investigated the function of time (as a moderator, determinant or quasi moderator) within hi tech Small to Medium Sized Enterprise (SME) downstream (i.e., customer) trust-based relationships. A four antecedent (i.e., competence, transaction specific investments, flexibility and coercive power) research model was developed to represent trust within the SME business-to-business (b-to-b) relationships. Time was conceptualized chronologically as duration of a relationship in years. The model was empirically tested with 117 respondents from the UK Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) sector. The research outcome supported a significant and positive moderating effect of time on competence to trust and flexibility to trust pathways. However, time had a negative moderating yet significant effect on the association between coercive power and trust. Correlation between Transaction Specific Investments (TSIs) and trust was significant but time showed neither moderating nor deterministic effect on the TSIs to trust link.

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A generic approach to explicit simulation of uncertainty in the NEMO ocean model

Geoscientific Model Development ◽

10.5194/gmd-8-1285-2015 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (5) ◽

pp. 1285-1297 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

J.-M. Brankart ◽

G. Candille ◽

F. Garnier ◽

C. Calone ◽

A. Melet ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Probabilistic Model ◽

Circulation Model ◽

Ecosystem Model ◽

Major Effect ◽

Ocean Model ◽

Dynamical Behaviour ◽

Implementation Approach ◽

Explicit Simulation ◽

Deterministic Effect ◽

Ice Model

Abstract. In this paper, a generic implementation approach is presented, with the aim of transforming a deterministic ocean model (like NEMO) into a probabilistic model. With this approach, several kinds of stochastic parameterizations are implemented to simulate the non-deterministic effect of unresolved processes, unresolved scales and unresolved diversity. The method is illustrated with three applications, showing that uncertainties can produce a major effect in the circulation model, in the ecosystem model, and in the sea ice model. These examples show that uncertainties can produce an important effect in the simulations, strongly modifying the dynamical behaviour of these three components of ocean systems.

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Approach direction prior to landing explains patterns of colour learning

10.1101/381210 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Keri V. Langridge ◽

Claudia Wilke ◽

Olena Riabinina ◽

Misha Vorobyev ◽

Natalie Hempel de Ibarra

Keyword(s):

Learning Outcomes ◽

Learning Strategies ◽

Visual Information ◽

Visual Cues ◽

Body Movement ◽

Visual Learning ◽

Learning Tasks ◽

Sensory Learning ◽

Overall Ratio ◽

Deterministic Effect

SummaryGaze direction is closely coupled with body movement in insects and other animals. If movement patterns interfere with the acquisition of visual information, insects can actively adjust them to seek relevant cues. Alternatively, where multiple visual cues are available, an insect’s movements may influence how it perceives a scene. We show that the way a foraging bumblebee approaches a floral pattern could determine what it learns about the pattern. When trained to vertical bicoloured patterns, bumblebees consistently approached from below centre in order to land in the centre of the target where the reward was located. In subsequent tests, the bees preferred the colour of the lower half of the pattern that they predominantly faced during the approach and landing sequence. A predicted change of learning outcomes occurred when the contrast line was moved up or down off-centre: learned preferences again reflected relative frontal exposure to each colour during the approach, independent of the overall ratio of colours. This mechanism may underpin learning strategies in both simple and complex visual discriminations, highlighting that morphology and action patterns determines how animals solve sensory learning tasks. The deterministic effect of movement on visual learning may have substantially influenced the evolution of floral signals, particularly where plants depend on fine-scaled movements of pollinators on flowers.

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ABOUT CALCULATION OF THE DETERMINISTIC EFFECT OF PROTEINURIA IN EMPLOYEES OF ENRICHMENT PLANTS OF NUCLEAR INDUSTRY

Hygiene and Sanitation ◽

10.18821/0016-9900-2018-97-4-315-321 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 97 (4) ◽

pp. 315-321 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

S. P. Babenko ◽

Andrey V. Badin

Keyword(s):

Working Conditions ◽

Human Body ◽

Occupational Diseases ◽

Theoretical Method ◽

Uranium Hexafluoride ◽

Nuclear Industry ◽

The Body ◽

Toxic Substances ◽

Urologic Diseases ◽

Deterministic Effect

In this paper, we consider the impacts of gaseous uranium hexafluoride used at concentrating plants of the nuclear industry on the human body. The appearance of uranium hexafluoride in the air of the working premises is accompanied by hydrolysis and the formation of substances that can enter the human body and bring atoms of uranium and fluorine. The article describes the method of the determination of the working conditions preventing the development of occupational diseases in employees. The method is based both on the calculation of the number of toxic substances entering the human body in routine working conditions and comparison of this number with the threshold values for different deterministic effects. The proteinuria (protein content in urine) is selected as the considered deterministic effect. We used the published statistics on the threshold of the daily release from the human body toxic substances, long-entering the body in small doses and seem to be responsible for the occurrence of urologic diseases. The calculation was performed in the framework of a complex model describing the air pollution with products of hydrolysis of uranium hexafluoride entering of toxic substances in the human body, in working premises, as well as the passing of uranium and fluorine through the body. This model constructed by the authors of this article was described in previous publications. To ensure that the theoretical methods give the same results as the experimental, the results obtained by the standard method for employees of one of the enterprises of nuclear industry were compared with the data obtained using the theoretical method under the same working conditions. The considered theoretical method can complement and enrich the existing experimental methods for the identification of the onset of occupational diseases based on the sampling of different biomaterials from the employees working at enterprises.

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Foetal Radiation Dose and Risk from Diagnostic Radiology Procedures: A Multinational Study

ISRN Radiology ◽

10.5402/2013/318425 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2013 ◽

pp. 1-7 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ernest K. Osei ◽

Johnson Darko

Keyword(s):

Radiation Dose ◽

Childhood Cancer ◽

Pregnant Patient ◽

Diagnostic Radiology ◽

Radiation Doses ◽

Multinational Study ◽

Unborn Child ◽

Radiation Induced ◽

Deterministic Effect

In diagnostic radiology examinations there is a benefit that the patient derives from the resulting diagnosis. Given that so many examinations are performed each year, it is inevitable that there will be occasions when an examination(s) may be inadvertently performed on pregnant patients or occasionally it may become clinically necessary to perform an examination(s) on a pregnant patient. In all these circumstances it is necessary to request an estimation of the foetal dose and risk. We initiated a study to investigate fetal doses from different countries. Exposure techniques on 367 foetuses from 414 examinations were collected and investigated. The FetDoseV4 program was used for all dose and risk estimations. The radiation doses received by the 367 foetuses ranges: <0.001–21.9 mGy depending on examination and technique. The associated probability of induced hereditary effect ranges: <1 in 200000000 (5×10-9) to 1 in 10000 (1×10-4) and the risk of childhood cancer ranges <1 in 12500000 (8×10-8) to 1 in 500 (2×10-3). The data indicates that foetal doses from properly conducted diagnostic radiology examinations will not result in any deterministic effect and a negligible risk of causing radiation induced hereditary effect in the descendants of the unborn child.

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