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The main purpose of this study was to investigate the optimal use of digital tools and technologies for sustainability in Supply Chain Management (SCM). To achieve this, we examined various discussions, including economic, ecological, social, legal policy, value, and technological factors related to Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM). This thesis utilized a mixed-methods approach, incorporating qualitative analysis to identify and finalize the variables and measures of the research model through a systematic review of existing studies. The statistical analysis method employed SPSS software to examine relationships between variables, while structural equation modeling was conducted in... 

Flexible vegetation has a significant impact on the small-scale hydrodynamics of aquatic environments, which governs the dispersion of dissolved and particulate material. Flexible canopies bend and oscillate in both the in-line and cross-flow directions due to periodic forcing associated with vortex shedding. The resultant plant motion affects the vegetation wake structure and, hence, the rate of lateral dispersion in these environments. Despite a recently-developed understanding of dispersion in rigid canopies, a framework that can predict the effect of plant-induced vibrations on mixing in flexible canopy environments is still lacking. Here, we investigate the role of the flexibility of... 

Today, with the expansion of business relations at international levels, there are many organizations that operate in global supply chains. Activities at such levels face new types of challenges in various fields of "supply chain management" pillars, of which "supplier selection" is one of them. The possibility of unexpected events, the need to comply with environmental protection laws, as well as the need to take into account social considerations, are among the things that have increased by being in larger supply chains, making it challenging to provide the basic resources needed in such chains and forcing their managers to considering considerations other than what they have always... 

This research addresses the design and optimization of a sustainable supply chain for an environmental startup, with a focus on the collection and recycling of urban alkaline batteries in Tehran. This problem is motivated by the lack of proper management of this type of waste, its environmental pollution, and the resulting loss of natural resources. The main concern is the optimal selection of metro stations to be equipped with collection boxes and the determination of the transportation and recycling network structure in such a way that the economic performance of the network (total profit/cost) is optimized while environmental impacts (carbon emissions) are controlled simultaneously. To... 

The present work illustrates the results of an experimental study of ferrofluid flow in a tube subjected to a constant heat flux on its wall and filled with permeable material under the effect of magnetic field. The aim of this project is investigating the enhancement of heat transfer and obtaining a uniform temperature distribution inside the pipe. In order to achieve this, a porous medium with a porosity of 0.39 and ferrofluid with volume fractions of 0.6, 1.0 and 1.5 are used simultaneously, in the presence of magnetic field. The experiments are held for four different Reynolds numbers of 147.1, 167.3, 184.3 and 205.1. Also, four various modes of the oscillatory magnetic field are applied...