scholarly journals Netflix Nostalgia: Screening the Past on Demand, edited by Kathryn Pallister, and The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV: Production Design and the Boomer Era, by Alex Bevan

2020 ◽  
pp. 230-241
Author(s):  
Martin Fradley
Keyword(s):  
On Demand ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tv Production

Challenges and Opportunities in Global Supply Chain Integration

2011 ◽  
pp. 99-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Holcomb
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Supply Chain Integration ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Past ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Versus Supply

Although the level of sophistication in supply chain management has grown at a dramatic rate over the past decade, many firms are still struggling to eliminate functional boundaries. Some companies, however, have begun the process of evolving to a more integrative state – both internally and across their supply chain. Increasing supply chain complexity and the relentless pressure to reduce costs, has made firms realize that attaining the desired level of performance will only be possible through the end-to-end integration of the supply chain. This chapter examines the challenges and opportunities that firms face in trying to achieve this goal. An in-depth review of the literature related to supply chain integration is presented, culminating in a framework that focuses on demand and supply integration. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the desired end state for integration efforts, which is to create an adaptive supply chain that is capable of competing in the environment of “supply chain versus supply chain.”

Digitization, Internet publishing and the revival of scholarly monographs: An empirical study in India

First Monday ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rojers P. Joseph ◽  
Shishir K. Jha
Keyword(s):  
Production Costs ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Digital Models ◽  
Significant Drop ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Demand ◽  
Internet Publishing

This research shows the growing utility of internet-based digital models in reviving the crisis-stricken traditional print monograph publishing. The rising prices of scientific journals in the past three decades forced academic and research libraries to resort to cutbacks on monograph budgets. The declining sales to libraries and rising production costs led to a significant drop in global demand for print monographs, rendering monograph publishing financially unattractive. Combining the flexibility of digitized content with the global reach of the Internet, three emerging digital models — print on demand, bundled e-books, and e-consortia — are beginning to revamp the monograph publishing business.

scholarly journals Beyond catch-up

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Interactive Experience ◽  
Interactive User

The past 5 years have seen a rapid acceleration in the development of online television in the United Kingdom and beyond, with rise in ownership of Internet-connected television sets, smartphones and tablets, increased access to broadband and the growing penetration of transaction and subscription video-on-demand (VoD) services. This article asks how free-to-air terrestrial broadcasters are adapting to a media marketplace in which, according to Ofcom, on-demand television is becoming mass market, through an analysis of ITV Hub – the VoD player for the United Kingdom’s largest free-to-air advertiser-funded broadcaster. Focusing on the mature UK VoD market and the broadcaster whose business model is most threatened by online television, the article combines trade press and textual analysis to demonstrate how ITV has developed a VoD service highly structured by the logics of broadcasting. Centering its analysis on the interface for ITV Hub, the article argues that this increasingly quotidian form of television ephemera offers a vital site through which to understand the changing nature of television as a medium. The article concludes that with contemporary developments in VoD, the distinctions between linear/broadcast and non-linear/on-demand television (flow vs. file, passive viewer vs. interactive user) are breaking down in ways that challenge prevailing arguments that on-demand television can be understood as offering a distinctly different (and more empowered and interactive) experience for viewers.

scholarly journals Gig Economy: Value Comparison Against Noncontingent Income and Corporate Employment Benefits

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ateeb Ayaz Khan
Keyword(s):  
Free Market ◽  
Retirement Plans ◽  
Contingent Work ◽  
Employment Benefits ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Past ◽  
Contingent Worker ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Nontraditional Employment ◽  
Corporate Employment

The free-market approach of work has risen for the past few years. The on-demand workforce has a preference to stay in nontraditional employment and are generally satisfied with their income and the elasticity of employment that contingent work offers. Independent workers are also less likely to grow their careers in the same manner as a traditional job ensues, and market prevalence influences their wages comparatively more. This paper analyzes the influence which gig economy has posed on the growth of the employee and examines the benefits and deficits of contingent pay and noncontingent pay. In the assessment of conventional employment, corporate compensations such as retirement plans and health insurance add significant value to organizational service. The uncertainty of payment, as well as variable timelines of compensation, disallow a contingent worker to privately retain insurances and savings plans, whereas an employer in a firm typically offers such allowances as standard. This comparison suggests that the value lost in the gig economy is, in fact, the corporate occupational benefits and not the steady noncontingent salary.

scholarly journals Dynamic integration of distributed, Cloud-based HPC and HTC resources using JSON Web Tokens and the INDIGO IAM Service

2020 ◽  
Vol 245 ◽  
pp. 07020
Author(s):  
Danele Spiga ◽  
Stefano Dal Pra ◽  
Davide Salomoni ◽  
Andrea Ceccanti ◽  
Roberto Alfieri
Keyword(s):  
Enabling Technology ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Past ◽  
Batch Systems ◽  
Batch System ◽  
Opportunistic Computing ◽  
User Communities ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Cloud Infrastructures ◽  
Distributed Cloud

In the past couple of years, we have been actively developing the Dynamic On-Demand Analysis Service (DODAS) as an enabling technology to deploy container-based clusters over hybrid, private or public, Cloud infrastructures with almost zero effort. DODAS is particularly suitable for harvesting opportunistic computing resources; this is why several scientific communities already integrated their computing use cases into DODAS-instantiated clusters, automating the instantiation, management and federation of HTCondor batch systems. The increasing demand, availability and utilization of HPC resources by and for multidisciplinary user communities, often mandates the possibility to transparently integrate, manage and mix HTC and HPC resources. In this paper, we discuss our experience extending and using DODAS to connect HPC and HTC resources in the context of a distributed Italian regional infrastructure involving multiple sites and communities. In this use case, DODAS automatically generates HTCondor batch system on-demand. Moreover it dynamically and transparently federates sites that may also include HPC resources managed by SLURM; DODAS allows user workloads to make opportunistic and automated use of both HPC and HTC resources, thus effectively maximizing and optimizing resource utilization. We also report on our experience of using and federating HTCondor batch systems exploiting the JSON Web Token capabilities introduced in recent HTCondor versions, replacing the traditional X509 certificates in the whole chain of workload authorization. In this respect we also report on how we integrated HTCondor using OAuth with the INDIGO IAM service.

Hereditary angioedema: On-demand treatment of angioedema attacks

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. S26-S29
Author(s):  
Sandra C. Christiansen ◽  
Bruce L. Zuraw
Keyword(s):  
Vascular Permeability ◽  
Hereditary Angioedema ◽  
Acute Treatment ◽  
Prophylactic Treatment ◽  
Unmet Needs ◽  
Burden Of Illness ◽  
Early Administration ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Past ◽  
Normal Life

The availability of effective acute treatment for angioedema has been fundamental in reducing the burden of illness for patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE). In building on the foundation of scientific advances that elucidate the pathomechanism(s) of attacks related to vascular permeability, novel targeted on-demand treatments have been developed and approved. These therapies have provided the means to arrest episodes of swelling, which, in the past, had the potential to inexorably lead to morbidity, and even mortality, for patients with HAE. Access to these medications, along with an emphasis on early administration and guidance that all attacks are candidates for treatment, has shifted the management paradigm for HAE. Although unmet needs remain, these acute therapies, coupled with advances in prophylactic treatment, have furthered the goal for all patients with HAE to live a normal life.

scholarly journals Engineering Complexity in Bacterial Regulatory Circuits for Biotechnological Applications

mSystems ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cauã Antunes Westmann ◽  
María-Eugenia Guazzaroni ◽  
Rafael Silva-Rocha
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Biotechnological Applications ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Past ◽  
Regulatory Circuits ◽  
Short Palindromic Repeat ◽  
Regulatory Complexity ◽  
Dna Editing ◽  
Microbial Systems

ABSTRACT Engineering microbial systems allows the generation of new technologies having significant impact in the biotechnological industry and on human health. In the past few years, several synthetic biology approaches have been implemented in bacteria to allow precise engineering of novel regulatory circuits for several applications. The advent of high-throughput technologies and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/Cas9-based DNA editing techniques have been pivotal in this process. Yet, despite the tremendous advances experienced recently, there are still a number of bottlenecks that need to be overcome in order to generate high-performance redesigned living machines, and the use of novel computer-aided approaches would be essential for this task. In this perspective, we discuss some of the main advances in the field of microbial engineering and the new technologies and approaches that should allow the construction of on demand synthetic microbial factories through the redesign of regulatory complexity.

Sexuality information for older people in the technological age

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliette DG Goldman ◽  
Graham L Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Older Person ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Past ◽  
Educational Structures ◽  
Technological Age ◽  
The Right ◽  
Personal Understanding ◽  
Selection Of

In this new millennium, in response to increasing knowledge and technological change, life-long education is becoming important for everyone, including older people. Life-long education also includes sexuality information. Everyone has the right to access sexuality information. In the past, this has been available for older people from sources such as books, magazines, peers, and television. The technological age upon us now provides yet another source. The Internet has a growing number of sites specifically for sexuality information for the older person. Such information is technology-derived, personal, instantaneous, on demand, accessible anytime, individualised, and not controlled by social, institutional, or educational structures. The opportunities this promotes are almost limitless for enhanced personal understanding and improved inter-personal relationships for older people. Here, a selection of relevant sites is identified and presented for their developmental, psychological and sociological appropriateness.

The UK Economy

1995 ◽  
Vol 154 ◽  
pp. 7-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garry Young
Keyword(s):  
House Prices ◽  
Aggregate Demand ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Output Growth ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Negative Contribution ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rate Of Growth ◽  
The Uk

There are now widespread fears that the slowdown in the rate of growth of the UK economy might worsen and turn into another recession, Those holding this view can point to a variety of evidence to support their claim. In particular, retail sales in September were 0.4 per cent lower then a year earlier, house prices were 1.8 per cent lower than a year earlier, manufacturing output, which had grown by over 4 per cent in 1994, was only 0.6 per cent higher in September than it had been a year earlier. In addition, they can emphasise that stockbuilding cannot be expected to make the same positive contribution to output growth that it has made over the past year and is likely to make a negative contribution when excessive stocks are run down. They can also argue that any reduction in public spending relative to existing plans, to make way for reductions in taxation, will tend to reduce aggregate demand since cuts in spending have a larger effect on demand than equivalent cuts in taxation because the latter affect saving as well as spending.

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