The transcripts which follow speak to the potency and promise of dialogue. They record two in a continuing series “COVID-19 In Conversations” hosted by Oxford Prospects Global Development Institute (OPGDI), an interdisciplinary research center Regent’s Park College, University Oxford. Dedicated promoting discussion inspiring new ideas on development China-U.K. relations context globalization, O...

• Needed Narrowing (NN) is the standard operational mechanism of functional logic languages. • The definition of NN makes use of the notion of a definitional tree. • A Definitional tree is a structure which contains all the information about the program rules defining a function and guides the computation. • A great effort has been done to provide these languages with high level implementations...

Design/methodology/approach: Based on a review of extant theory, the authors posit a new definitional construct for SCM – the Four Fundamentals – and investigated four research questions (RQs) that emerged from the theoretical review. The empirical work comprised three main phases: focussed interviews, focus groups and a questionnaire survey. Each phase used the authors’ definitional construct ...