• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.52 no.2
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• pp.221-239
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• 2024

Purpose: This study explores how supplier and customer integration impact a firm's disruption absorption capability, with a focus on IT alignment moderation. Methods: We conducted surveys with 296 Chinese manufacturers and utilized hierarchical regression for analysis. Results: : Our results reveal a positive correlation between supplier/customer integration and disruption absorption capability. Additionally, positive IT alignment bolsters the relationship between supplier integration and disruption absorption capability, while it doesn't affect the link between customer integration and disruption absorption capability. Conclusion: These findings underscore the significance of integration and IT alignment for enhancing a firm's disruption absorption capability, providing crucial insights for supply chain management practitioners.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.1105-1113
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• 2004

Disinfection of a waterborne pathogenic protozoa, Giardia lamblia, by the conventional chlorine method has been known to be difficult. An alternative disinfection has been carried out by using a UV -light illuminating optical­fiber photoreactor. Light intensity diffused from one piece of a clad-removed optical-fiber was $1- 1.5{\mu}Em^{-2}s^{-1}$. Disinfection capability in a UV -light irradiated optical-fiber reactor suspended with 0.01 g $TiO_{2}\;dm^{-3}$ was 1.4 times that in the same reactor without $TiO_{2}$ photocatalysts. To resolve the absorption and scattering of UV light by the particles themselves as well as the difficulty of recycling particles in the slurry­type reactor, $TiO_{2}$ which was obtained by a hydrothermal method, was immobilized on clad-removed optical fibers. Such pretreatment of fiber surface resulted in an excellent transparency, which enhanced the UV light to diffuse laterally from a fiber surface. Coating time of the prepared solution by the hydrothermal method was not effective after more than two times. Disinfection capability in the $TiO_{2}$-immobilized optical-fiber reactor was $83\%$ in 1 h at $40^{\circ}C$, which was slightly higher than $76\%$ at $22^{\circ}C$ and $68\%$ at $10^{\circ}C$. Disinfection capability at $22^{\circ}C$ increased from $74\%$ at an initial pH of 3.4, through $76\%$ at pH 6.5, to $87\%$ at an initial pH of 10. Oxygen supply with air-flow rate of 5 $cm^3\;min^{-1}$ did not seem to increase the disinfection capability with UV /immobilized $TiO_2$.