University of Derby

Patient perspectives from the BEYOND Delphi panel: burden of remaining symptoms and their fluctuations, despite treatment, in patients with generalised myasthenia gravis

Abstract Background Patients with generalised myasthenia gravis (gMG) can experience remaining symptoms despite treatment. Our study aimed to describe how remaining symptoms and their fluctuations may affect a person’s daily life while living with gMG. Methods A modified-Delphi p...

Globalization and Market Power

ABSTRACT We use a large episode of trade liberalization in Spain to test a rich set of channels linking trade and markups. The effect of reductions in import tariffs on firm‐level and aggregate markups is pro‐competitive, but there are offsetting effects via other channels. We sh...

The joint effects of digital transformation technologies and human lean practices on firm performance: an empirical investigation

Purpose This study examines how human lean practices (HLP), Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies, technical lean practices (TLP), operational performance (OP) and sustainable performance (SP) interact within the manufacturing sector of emerging economies under the constraints of a le...

Management of high-risk (B3) breast lesions in symptomatic practice: evidence review and practical recommendations for multidisciplinary care

Borderline breast lesions (B3 lesions, also termed lesions of uncertain malignant potential or high-risk lesions) represent a heterogeneous group of entities associated with variable risks of malignancy. While the management of screen-detected B3 lesions has become increasingly s...

Processing and property relationships in material extrusion additive manufacturing of PLA using a hybrid predictive model for tensile strength optimization

Material-extrusion additive manufacturing produces polymer components with region-dependent mechanical behaviour arising from raster orientation, shell geometry, and layer-wise deposition. This study develops a region-based hybrid model for predicting the tensile strength of PLA...

Data-driven decision support for inventory planning: A Lean, Agile, Resilient, and Green (LARG) perspective

This study proposes a data-driven decision support framework for Maintenance, Repair, and Operation (MRO) inventory planning from a Lean, Agile, Resilient, and Green (LARG) perspective. The first stage of the proposed framework involves demand forecasting, which is implemented us...