2,753 research outputs found
The Wine Attributes with the Greatest Influence in the Process of Consumer Choice in Spain
No full textThe commercialisation of wine in Spain is problematic due to two concrete circumstances: the decrease in wine consumption because of a consumer shift toward substitute drinks and the greater presence of national and foreign wine in the interior market, which involves an increase in business competitiveness. The increase in competitiveness of quality Spanish wine depends on producing enterprises’ knowledge of wine consumer preferences so they can offer consumers what they demand. In order to respond to this matter and better adapt supply, 421 wine consumers were surveyed using the Best-Worst Scaling methodology. Various segmentations were also made by consumer income and age groups. The results indicate that the two main attributes which condition consumers in choosing wine are the region of origin and having tasted it previously. The region of origin attribute is valued in general by consumers over 34 years old who have a monthly family income above 1,500 €. The attribute of having tasted it before, which on many occasions is associated with the price attribute, is valued particularly by younger consumers and those with lower incomes.Consumer behaviour, Wine attributes, Food Marketing, Consumer/Household Economics,
Dinâmica de sistemas caóticos simples: movimentos pendulares
No full textEste relatório tem como objetivo descrever as etapas efetivamente cumpridas da atividade de Iniciação Científica (IC) do estudante Gabriel Souza de Jesus, da Licenciatura de Física da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), orientado pelo professor Dr. Rodolfo Alves de Carvalho Neto, do Departamento de Física (DFIS)
Dr. Rodolfo D. Torres talk at University of Washington Tacoma: After Latino Metropolis
No full textThe role of class and spatial politics in Latino Los Angeles will be the subject of this timely talk. Professor Rodolfo D. Torres is co-author of the highly acclaimed book, Latino Metropolis (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). He will revisit this important book
How corporate governance and globalization can run afoul of the law and good practices in business: The Enron's disgraceful affair.
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to set out the Enron’s demise into the perspective of Corporate and Global Governance. To accomplish this target, the incremental cash flow model is expanded to give room for governance issues, while a functional introduction to information sets is developed, including bounded rationality, asymmetric information, opportunistic behavior, transaction costs and agency problems. Then, corporate governance is linked to globalization by means of some recent approaches that go beyond a narrow economic mindset to encompass a far-reaching dynamics. Taking advantage of such background, the Enron’s story is tracked down over a span of fifteen years since its starting day to its bankruptcy filing. Leading events are explained from corporate and global governance viewpoints, while an in-depth analysis is worked out on Enron’s complex game of deception and breach of contracts: the outrageous affiliated limited partnerships, the lavish pay package to its executives, the involvement with global governance through the Indian affair and the Taliban connection. It is for the incremental cash flow model to explain malfeasance with cash flows from assets, and how cash flows to creditors were actually contrived. Furthermore, to highlight how cash flows were swindled from stockholders and, finally, how Enron made wheeling and dealing with cash flows on behalf of its managers.corporate governance, global governance, incremental cash flow model, globalization, information sets, good practices.
Rodolfo Lenz
No full textIn this article the author intends to offer an overall profile of Dr. Rodolfo
Lenz’ versatile personality, portraying him as the man, the phonetician, the
expert scholar in Araucanian, the orthographer, the methodologist, the
compulsive scientist. All these personality traits contributed to renovate in
Chile the interest in language, in foreign language methodology and the
institutionalization of folklore as a science, which earned him the Chilean
nationalityEn este trabajo el autor se propone dar una visión de conjunto de la polifacética
personalidad del Dr. Rodolfo Lenz: el hombre, el fonetista, el araucanista, el
lexicógrafo, el gramático, el ortógrafo, el metodólogo, el científico compulsivo.
Aspectos todos que contribuyeron a renovar profundamente en Chile el
estudio de las ciencias del lenguaje, la metodología de la enseñanza de las
lenguas extranjeras y la fundación del folclor como ciencia, por todo lo cual
el Gobierno le confirió nuestra nacionalida
Lacistema ligiae (Lacistemataceae), a new species from Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil, with notes on micromorphology
No full textMarinho, Lucas Cardoso, Pimenta, Karena Mendes, Oliveira, Débora Cavalcante De, Alves, Rodolfo De França, Amorim, André Márcio (2021): Lacistema ligiae (Lacistemataceae), a new species from Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil, with notes on micromorphology. Phytotaxa 514 (2): 140-148, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.514.2.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.514.2.
El funcionalismo de rodolfo lenz
No full textSummary
This paper deals with the contributions to Hispanic Linguistics by the German-Chilean linguist Rodolfo Lenz (1863–1935), some of whose proposals – often attributed to other scholars – may be seen as an alternative to the ideas of the prestigious Andrés Bello (1781–1865). The paper first reviews those aspects of his work which anticipate some of the basic tenets of Functional Grammar, such as the notion of ‘transposition’ (function shifting), his views on sentential structure, and his treatment of passives as attributive constructions. The paper also explores Lenz’s contributions to Indo-European linguistics and his theoretical affinities with, if not anticipations of, the work of other well-known linguists like Búhler, Tesnière, Hjelmslev, and Benveniste. In sum, the author seeks to vindicate Rodolfo Lenz and his insightful views in both general linguistic theory and Spanish grammar.</jats:p
Rodolfo Lenz
No full textIn this article the author intends to offer an overall profile of Dr. Rodolfo Lenz’ versatile personality, portraying him as the man, the phonetician, the expert scholar in Araucanian, the orthographer, the methodologist, the compulsive scientist. All these personality traits contributed to renovate in Chile the interest in language, in foreign language methodology and the institutionalization of folklore as a science, which earned him the Chilean nationality.En este trabajo el autor se propone dar una visión de conjunto de la polifacética personalidad del Dr. Rodolfo Lenz: el hombre, el fonetista, el araucanista, el lexicógrafo, el gramático, el ortógrafo, el metodólogo, el científico compulsivo. Aspectos todos que contribuyeron a renovar profundamente en Chile el estudio de las ciencias del lenguaje, la metodología de la enseñanza de las lenguas extranjeras y la fundación del folclor como ciencia, por todo lo cual el Gobierno le confirió nuestra nacionalida
Aplicação de antialiasing em cenas gráficas utilizando filtragem espacial de imagens
No full textMonografiaThe effect of aliasing on graphic scenes stems from the discretization that must be
applied to the scene image. This discretization takes place due to the physical limitation that
the pixels impose in the representation of the colors compromising the visual aspect of the
created scene. As a result, a reduction in quality and visual attractiveness is achieved.
Antialiasing methods were proposed in order to minimize the effects caused by aliasing. They
work on color smoothing reducing abrupt variation in certain regions of the scene. Most of
these antialiasing methods work in the division of pixels generating new elements, called
subpixels that are used for the more precise calculation of the color of a pixel. Despite the visual
improvement in the scenes, they become quite costly in terms of memory consumption and
processing, which makes it impossible to apply effectively in real-time applications such as
simulators or games. An inherent limitation to these methods is that they are designed to act on
rasterization of specific figures such as straight lines or special curves. The purpose of this work
is to use spatial image filtering methods to create a new generic method that uses the generated
pixels to correct the aliasing effect. This approach is based on spatial filtering, which is more
efficient in memory utilization and processing. This strategy allows the combination of different
geometric transformations to detect different forms of objects. The method groups the enhanced
and smoothing filters allied with geometric transformation of rotation to perform operations on
the spatial domain of the image.O efeito do aliasing em cenas gráficas decorre da discretização que deve ser aplicada na
imagem da cena. Esta discretização decorre em virtude da limitação física que os pixels impõem
na representação das cores comprometendo o aspecto visual da cena criada. Como resultado,
obtêm-se uma redução na qualidade e na atratividade visual. Neste contexto, métodos de
antialiasing foram propostos com o intuito de minimizar os efeitos causados pelo aliasing. Eles
atuam na suavização das cores diminuindo a variação brusca em certas regiões da cena. A
maioria destes métodos de antialiasing atuam na divisão dos pixels gerando novos elementos,
denominados subpixels, que são utilizados para o cálculo mais preciso da cor de um pixel.
Apesar da melhora visual nas cenas, eles se tornam bastantes custosos em termos de consumo
de memória e de processamento, o que inviabiliza a sua aplicação efetiva em aplicações de
tempo real como simuladores ou jogos, por exemplo. Uma limitação inerente a estes métodos
é que são projetados para atuarem na rasterização de figuras específicas como retas ou curvas
especiais. O presente trabalho tem como proposta utilizar os métodos de filtragem espacial de
imagens para criar um novo método genérico que utilize os pixels gerados com o objetivo de
corrigir o efeito de aliasing. Esta abordagem baseia-se em filtragem espacial, no qual é mais
eficiente na utilização da memória e em processamento. Além disso, esta estratégia permite a
combinação de diferentes transformações geométricas para detecção de diversas formas de
objetos. O método agrupa os filtros de aguçamento e suavização aliados com transformação
geométrica de rotação para realizar as operações no domínio espacial da imagem.Trabalho não financiado por agência de fomento, ou autofinanciad
Tres propuestas escénicas para "La Granada" de Rodolfo Walsh
No full textLa obra dramática de Rodolfo Walsh mereció muy poco atención por parte de la crítica. La autora de este artículo analiza tres diferentes puestas en escena de La granada (1965, 1985 y 2003), como un modo de hacer justicia a la tarea creativa del prestigioso escritor, desaparecido por la última dictadura miliar argentina, en 1977.The dramatic texts of Rodolfo Walsh have received little critical attention. The author of this paper focuses on three different stagings of La Granada (1965, 1985 y 2003), as a way of rendering of what is due to the prestigious writer, desaparecido by the argentine military dictatorship on 1977.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació
- …
