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O contrato coletivo de direito comum e as regras do sistema de negociação coletiva no Texto Único sobre a Representação de 10 de janeiro de 2014
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Exploring B2B customers’ perceptions and buying behaviour of remanufactured products
Full text linkPurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the key drivers influencing B2B buyers' adoption of remanufactured products (REMAN). Using the theory of reasoned action, it examines psychological, economic, environmental and social factors shaping attitudes towards REMAN, and trigger purchasing behaviour towards this product class.Design/methodology/approachTo collect the data, a survey was constructed. The survey was distributed to farmers/owners of agricultural machinery through collaboration with a leading brand in the agricultural equipment industry, i.e. New Holland during the 2022 EIMA exhibition. Data from 234 surveys were analysed using PLS-SEM.FindingsPerceived quality, warranties and awareness of green production processes drive positive attitudes towards REMAN. Attitude and subjective norms significantly influence purchase intentions. Brand loyalty and green brand equity play a moderating role. Purchase intention positively influences switching intention and willingness to pay for REMAN.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest targeted communication emphasizing product quality, warranties and sustainability benefits, alongside fostering strong supplier-buyer relationships to build trust and long-term engagement. These strategies can help businesses address buyer concerns effectively and promote REMAN adoption.Originality/valueThis research fills a gap in B2B marketing literature on REMAN. It offers actionable insights for promoting REMAN adoption, emphasizing the role of sustainability, quality and trust in driving purchase decisions
Why are you telling me this? The availability and timing of relevance inferences
No full textPart of successful communication involves recognising the purpose of, or the intentions underlying, what speakers choose to say. Often, such pragmatic inferences are studied with an emphasis on informativity. The present work however moves beyond the types of inferences typically studied in prior work and instead investigates inferences from more naturalistic utterances, specifically those whose triviality may invite addressees to reason about why a speaker would have made such a discourse contribution. We present four studies (total N=777) using offline and online methods to investigate how and when listeners derive relevance inferences from trivial utterances. We manipulate speaker knowledge, speaker style, and linguistic properties of the utterances to show that, even in the absence of explicit emphasis cues, trivial utterances such as “the library walls are blue” are likely to be understood as conveying more than what is stated explicitly (e.g. that the walls used to be a different colour), and that these inferences are more likely to arise when produced by a speaker who is knowledgeable about the situation and who does not typically talk a lot. Our results suggest that comprehenders have pervasive expectations of cooperativity which, when seemingly violated by a speaker’s trivial utterance, prompt reasoning about a speaker’s motivation for speaking to determine how the communicated content is relevant. We then turn to the processing costs of computing triviality-driven inferences and find evidence that there may be a cost to deriving relevance inferences. These findings extend previous work on inferencing, which typically targets specific classes of words that give rise to inferences and demonstrates that broader, systematic inferencing that can arise when addressees reason about speaker goals even in the absence of cues to pragmatic enrichment
The Evolutionary Dynamics of Cultural Change (As Told Through the Birth and Brutal, Blackened Death of Metal Music)
No full textHow does culture change? We unify disconnected explanations of change that focus either on individuals or on public culture under a theory of cultural evolution. By shifting our analytical lens from actors to public cultural ideas and object, our theory can explain change in cultural forms over large and long frames of analysis using formal evolutionary mechanisms. Complementing this theory, the paper introduces a suite of novel methods to explain change in the historical trajectories of populations of cultural ideas/objects (e.g., music groups, hashtags, laws, technologies, and organizations) through diversification rates. We deploy our theory and methods to study the history of Metal Music over more than three decades, using a complete dataset of all bands active between 1968 and 2000. Over the course of its history, we find strong evidence that the genre has been fundamentally shaped by competition between ideas for the cognitive resources actors can invest in learning about and reproducing this cultural form over time. Extensive tutorials for the methods are available at http://www.dysoc.org/cesmodules/diversification_module/tutorials
Heat Demand in Non-Residential Buildings: Renovation and Subsidy Effects
No full textConsidering Europe’s green agenda and established climate goals, discussions often center around energy efficiency and the responsible use of energy. Building renovation is recognized as a crucial step towards achieving these objectives. While most renovation discussions focus on residential buildings, the non-residential sector is frequently overlooked. In Riga, non-residential properties account for 25 % of the heat demand in buildings connected to the district heating system. This brings forth the concern that the contribution of non-residential buildings to reduce heat demand and the necessity for renovation is not adequately evaluated. This research utilizes available statistical data and system dynamics modelling to address this issue. The results show that the total annual heat demand may decrease by 27 %, while the alternative heating may be increasing by 5 % in 2050 relative to 2023. Using the currently available financial funds, renovating up to 89 % of municipal buildings and 91 % of educational institutions in state facilities is possible
Oltre i confini. Prospettive storiografiche sullo spettacolo italiano negli Stati Uniti (1850-1930)
No full textEsito delle ricerche condotte dalle Università di Bergamo e di Firenze nell’ambito del PRIN 2022, il volume analizza l’esperienza di attori, musicisti, danzatori e impresari italiani approdati negli Stati Uniti tra il 1850 e il 1930. In una stagione di profondi mutamenti, la mobilità artistica si rivela essenziale per l’innovazione scenica e la ridefinizione identitaria.
Attraverso un’indagine interdisciplinare che coniuga musicologia, storiografia dello spettacolo e archivistica digitale, i contributi qui raccolti delineano la trama di reti transnazionali e la sedimentazione di nuovi paradigmi estetici. L’opera intende colmare una sensibile lacuna critica, restituendo la fisionomia di un’esportazione culturale capace di agire quale principio di sperimentazione per la scena nordamericana, offrendo agli studiosi la diaspora quale sofisticato laboratorio di scambi tecnologici, professionali ed artistici
The hidden intricacy of loot box design: A granular description of random monetized reward features
No full textLoot boxes are the focus of growing research and regulatory attention. While they are frequently treated as a monolithic feature of games by researchers and policymakers, loot box implementations are not uniform: the features of loot boxes vary from game to game in ways that may have important consequences for player spending and behaviour. Despite this, previous attempts to classify loot boxes have either not focused on the impact of loot box features on player behaviour and spending, or have not attempted to fully map the different forms that loot boxes currently take. In this work, we attempt to illustrate the nuance present in loot box implementation in a featural model. Using our lived experience, a qualitative coding exercise, and consultation with an industry professional, we identify thirty-two features of loot box-like mechanics that might be expected to influence player behavior or spending, which we group into five domains: point of purchase, pulling procedure, contents, audiovisual presentation, and salience. Each feature is broken down into two or more categorization tags for a given loot box, and illustrative examples of each feature are provided. This work may serve to guide researchers in studying how different types of loot boxes may affect players, aid regulators in ensuring that any proposed legislation is sufficiently nuanced to handle the wide variation in loot box design, and help parents and players to better understand the inner workings of loot boxes during play
Curriculum management and graduate programmes’ viability: The mediation of institutional effectiveness using PLS-SEM approach
No full textThis study used a partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) to estimate curriculum management's direct and indirect effects on university graduate programmes' viability. The study also examined the role of institutional effectiveness in mediating the nexus between the predictor and response variables. This is a correlational study with a factorial research design. The study's participants comprised 149 higher education administrators (23 Faculty Deans and 126 HODs) from two public universities in Nigeria. A structured questionnaire designed by the researchers was used for data collection. The questionnaire was duly validated with an acceptable scale and item content validity indices. The dimensionality of the instrument was determined using exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Convergent validity was based on Average Variance Extracted (AVE), whereas discriminant validity was based on Fornell-Lacker criteria and the Hetero-Trait Mono-Trait (HTMT) ratio. Acceptable composite reliability estimates of internal consistency were reached for the three sub-scales. Following ethical practices, the questionnaire was physically administered to respondents and retrieved afterwards. Smart PLS (version 3.2.9) and SPSS (version 26.0) programs were used for all the statistical analyses. This study uncovered significant direct and direct effects of curriculum management on the viability of graduate programmes. Institutional effectiveness significantly impacted graduate programmes’ viability while mediating the nexus between curriculum management and graduate programmes’ viability. Curriculum management and institutional effectiveness jointly explained a significant proportion of graduate programmes’ viability variance. The result of this study proved that graduate programmes’ viability depends, to a great extent, on how much curriculum is managed and how effective institutions are with their services. The result of this study can enable institutions seeking to run viable graduate programmes to re-evaluate their curriculum management practices and the effectiveness of their services
The affirmative answer to Singer's conjecture on the algebraic transfer of rank four
No full textIn recent decades, the structure of the mod-2 cohomology of the Steenrod ring has become a major subject of study in the field of Algebraic Topology. One of the earliest attempts to study this cohomology through the use of modular representations of the general linear groups was the groundbreaking work [Math. Z. \textbf{202} (1989), 493-523] by W.M. Singer. In that work, Singer introduced a homomorphism, commonly referred to as the "algebraic transfer," which maps from the coinvariants of a certain representation of the general linear group to the mod-2 cohomology group of the ring Singer's conjecture, in particular, which states that the algebraic transfer is a monomorphism for all homological degrees, remains a highly significant and unresolved problem in Algebraic Topology. In this research, we take a major stride toward resolving the Singer conjecture by establishing its truth for the homological degree four