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Hydrogen production and storage: fundamentals and recent advances
No full textChapter 11 presents an overview of both established and emerging technologies in hydrogen production and storage. A primary emphasis lies in addressing challenges pertaining to physical infrastructure within technology advancement efforts. This chapter also reviews the use of nanomaterials for hydrogen storage, such as carbonnanotubes, other carbon-based nanomaterials, and metal-organic frameworks
Circular value creation through environmental entrepreneurship initiatives: a case-based exploration
Get PDFThe present study builds on the domain of circular economy and its subdomain circular value creation to explore the entrepreneurial process of a small business in India. It aims to find how circular entrepreneurship as a process may unfold and how it may lead to value creation at different levels. The case study method is used to address the research objectives and a case study of a small entrepreneur based in India is selected for the same purpose. The analysis of the case and within case patterns (three subcases) illustrates circular entrepreneurship as a process with motivation, action and value creation as three main stages. The motivation of the entrepreneur leads to several actions related to business processes that are aimed at circular value creation. Subsequently, this leads to value creation at multiple levels such as the economy, business and society. Hence, the findings support the circular economy concept and its role in the creation of value at the small business level. The findings support the theoretical tenets of circular value creation and circular entrepreneurship using an interpretive approach
Teachers’ experiences of online/distance teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in mainstream classrooms with vulnerable students in Cyprus
Get PDFThe COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent school lockdowns in many countries forced teachers to deliver lessons online to ensure that students continued their studies. This shift, which caused major challenges for school systems worldwide, significantly affected the Cypriot education system, which is highly centralised and in which teacher-centred practices are widely used. In many countries, teachers and students were unfamiliar with the new teaching and evaluation methods, and learners in the most marginalised groups were deemed to be at risk of falling behind. For these reasons, an online survey was undertaken in Cyprus from March to September 2020 as part of an international online survey initiated by a university in the Northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. The survey examined teachers’ perspectives on the new online pedagogical practices; the challenges they faced; and the impact of these practices on the learning progress of all students, including two vulnerable groups, i.e., individuals with learning disabilities and immigrant students aged 6–18 years. Key findings suggest that the teachers were unprepared to design inclusive student-centred digital activities and deliver online lessons and that distance teaching may have negatively affected students’ learning experiences, especially in the vulnerable groups
Coppice construction: George Fereday explores the potential of coppiced sweet chestnut in buildings
No full textAn opinion piece for 'Talking Timber' in the Timber Trades Journal. Coppicing provides fast growth, regenerative hardwood, net-gain biodiversity and supports local woodland jobs. Despite these benefits, very little coppiced sweet chestnut is converted to useful timber. Unmanaged or ‘overstood’ coppiced trees are typically burnt as biomass or logs, releasing decades of sequestered carbon into the atmosphere. This article summarises findingfs from two studies into the use of coppiced sweet chestnut timber; ‘Home Grown Cabin’ and ‘Home Grown House.
The myth of meritocracy: an interview with Sam Friedman
Get PDFAn interview with Sam Friedman on notions in the media (and wider) industries of the myth of meritocracy, privilege mistaken as talent, the class ceiling and class pay gap
Human nature: why ‘urban rewilding’ is good for us
No full textSince our very evolution in the forests, humans have had an innate need for nature. In cities, immersion in natural spaces and encounters with other species can be hard to come by, yet these experiences are especially crucial for city residents to counter their stressful lives. Increasing urban nature would benefit the quality of life of many people, given that in England 80% of us live in cities. Urban rewilding has been defined by the author as ‘reinstating vegetation, water, and other wildlife habitat in towns and cities to enhance biodiversity, climate-change resilience, and human wellbeing’. Rewilding principles can be applied to most buildings in cities, including homes, hospitals, schools, offices, and public outdoor spaces. And there are plenty of tools and inspiring case studies we can use to drive change
Not becoming a leader
No full textIn this chapter, we question the possibility of developing a leader identity and explore the emancipatory opportunities of a focus on ‘not becoming’ a leader. We do this through a focussed review of leadership applications of Jacques Lacan’s approach to identity construction. By taking this lens, we intend to make visible the fallacy of both leader/ship scholarship and practice’s preoccupation with the positive notion of leader identity construction and becoming. We also provide guidance on how to study the dynamics of desire and lack by looking at what is present and absent in narratives of the self and where ruptures in these narratives may signal failed identification processes. Finally, we offer ways forward for leadership research and practice by drawing conclusions on the implications of a focus on ‘Not becoming’ a leader for leadership studies
Premier Bulletin Trimestriel IBSEN - Mai 2024
Get PDFL'article de ce bulletin d'information analyse le développement du Réseau International d'Éducation à la Sécurité Nucléaire (INSEN), fondé par l'Agence Internationale de l'Énergie Atomique (AIEA) en 2010. Cette recherche examine les pratiques exemplaires de l'INSEN, les défis auxquels il a été confronté et en tire les conclusions pour le Réseau International d'Éducation à la Sécurité Biologique.
(IBSEN) Project First Newsletter (May 2024) - Building an International Biological Security Education Network
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Exploring the relationship between digitalisation, resilient agri-food supply chain management practices and firm performance
Get PDFPurpose: This study aims to explore the mediating role of digital technologies-based Supply Chain Integrating (SCI) strategies on the agri-Supply Chain Performance (SCP) and Firm Performance (FP). This research has introduced recently emerged digital technologies such as IoT. Further, based on theoretical support and an extensive literature review, this research has proposed some hypotheses which have been quantitatively validated for their significance.
Design/methodology/approach: A conceptual model was formulated based on an extensive literature review. Data for this research was gathered from a survey completed by 119 respondents from different departments of agri-firms. Further, Partial Least Square (PLS) based Structured Equation Modelling (SEM) was used to test the proposed hypothetical model.
Findings: The results confirm that IoT-based digital technologies and supply chain processes (organisation integration, information sharing and customer integrations) have a significant positive correlation. Furthermore, supply chain practices are positively associated with SCP. Finally, it has been found that FP is positively impacted by SCP.
Research implications: This research is used to analyse the mediating impacts of digital supply chain processes as a linking strategy for SCP and FP. For practical purposes, this research provides investment decisions for implementing digital technologies in SC strategies. The findings have proposed implications for managers and practitioners in agri-firms based on existing theories - contingency theory and relational view theory. Also, this study suggests the deployment of smarter electronically based tags and readers which improve the data analytics capabilities based on auto-captured data. Thus, the availability of quality information improves the data-driven decisional capabilities of managers at company level.
Originality/value: This is a unique and original study exploring the relationship between digitalisation, resilient agri-food supply chain management practices and firm performance. This research may be extended to other industries in view of the results from SCP and impact of digitalisation
Analysis of barriers of mHealth adoption in the context of sustainable operational practices in health care supply chains
Get PDFPurpose: The goal of this research is to analyse the obstacles to the implementation of mobile health (mHealth) in India and to gain an understanding of the contextual inter-relationships that exist among those obstacles.
Design/methodology/approach: A combination of a review of the relevant literature and consultation with subject matter experts is used to identify the barriers to widespread adoption of mHealth. The identified barriers are then analysed using an Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) technique to study the interplay existing among them and represent these in a hierarchical manner.
Findings: The study explores a total of 15 factors that reduce the efficiency of mHealth adoption in India. The findings of the MICMAC investigation show that the economic situation of the government, concerns regarding the safety of intellectual technologies, and privacy issues are the primary obstacles because of the significant driving power they have in mHealth applications.
Practical implications: Promoters of mHealth practices may be able to make better plans if they understand the social barriers and how they affect each other; this leads to easier adoption of these practices. The findings of this study might be helpful for governments of developing nations to produce standards relating to the deployment of mHealth; this will increase the efficiency with which it is adopted.
Originality/Contributions: At this time, there is no comprehensive analysis of the factors that influence the adoption of mobile health care with social cognitive theory in developing nations like India. In addition, there is a lack of research in investigating how each of these elements affects the success of mHealth activities and how the others interact with them. Because developed nations learned the value of mHealth practices during the recent pandemic, this study, by investigating the obstacles to the adoption of mHealth and their inter-relationships, makes an important addition to both theory and practice