9 research outputs found
Sustainability transparency in road freight distribution in Sweden
No full textBackground: An extensive literature review pointed out the limited knowledge on the value of sustainability transparency in road freight distribution. This is researched in the context of non-compliance to current sustainability issues in Sweden. Additionally, the value of sustainability transparency for the procurement activity of a transport buyer was not explored. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to reflect on the value of sustainability transparency in the light of procurement activity of transport buyers. First, the author related sustainability and transparency to road freight distribution. Afterwards, the author used a theoretical model to explain the value of sustainability transparency for transport buyer in two cases. First, during the monitoring of the execution of a distribution service and second to understand sustainability variation on the market. This theoretical model assumes that a higher transparency would lower transaction costs and information asymmetry for a transport buyer. Methodology: A qualitative methodology based on a grounded theory approach was applied in this study. One research question was answered through a literature study. The other two research questions were answered with semi-structured interviews with experts to obtain empirical data. Results: This study suggested that transparency is a signaling activity which could help a transport buyer to differentiate between distribution service providers who “talk the talk” from the ones who “walk the talk” in relation to sustainability. Literature study showed that sustainability transparency creates a value to road freight distribution because it creates a better understanding of the sustainability conditions along outsourced distribution chain. Empirical study showed that most transport buyers do not monitor the sustainability of their distribution service. As a result transaction costs for the transport buyer might be higher than anticipated because of high possibility of opportunistic behavior. Although, a few transport buyers who performed a monitoring activity, argued for the importance of sustainability transparency for a more effective sustainability monitoring. A table of sustainability monitoring techniques is presented as a contribution to the research. Additionally, the empirical study showed a high variation of the sustainability among road freight distribution service providers, which creates information asymmetry for the transport buyer. A table of results is presented and shows how sustainability varies on the market. Finally, it was discussed also how sustainability transparency can facilitate buyers to distinguish easier both sustainable and unsustainable distribution service providers. Importance: A lack of sustainability transparency may result in the development of a bad market and drive legitimate businesses out of existence since transport buyers have very limited information when they select distribution service providers. Consequently, it can affect a local society, government’s income and environment as a whole
Experiments and numerical simulation of wire and arc additive manufactured steel materials
No full textIn recent years, wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) has increasingly attracted attention in the construction sector because of its ability to optimize the production of large metallic structural parts, and for use in connections suitable for easy execution and potential reuse. The technology has become mature leading to shorter fabrication times and less expensive total costs due to lower raw material costs. Therefore, it is timely to conduct the material tests to evaluate the plastic flow and fracture of the WAAM steel plate to gain material characterization for an efficient design of connections. In this paper, the coupon specimens are cut from the WAAM plates in different directions in relation to the printing orientation to investigate possible material anisotropy. Results of uniaxial coupon specimens, the stress-strain curve, are analyzed in three stages: the elastic stage, the plastic stage and the coupled plastic-damage stage. The FE simulation is performed to calibrate the true stress and strain curves in different stages.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Concrete StructuresSteel & Composite Structure
Psychometric Properties of the Romanian Version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS)
No full textPhase transfer catalysis in polycondensation processes XXIV. On the thermal stability of some aromatic polyethers containing a propylenic spacer
No full textThe National Struggle and The Republic in İlhan Tarus's Litarary Works
No full textCumhuriyet Dönemi yazarlarımızdan İlhan Tarus, şiir haricinde hemen her anlatı türünde eser vermiştir. Türk halkı için birer dönüm noktası olan Millî Mücadele'ye ve Cumhuriyet'e eserlerinde yer veren yazarın bu konulara yaklaşım tarzı çalışmamızın esasını teşkil etmektedir. Ön Söz, Giriş, Sonuç ve Kaynakça dışında üç bölümden oluşan çalışmanın birinci bölümünde doğumu, öğrenimi, memuriyet hayatı ve sanat anlayışı hakkında bilgi verilmiştir. İkinci bölümde yazarın Millî Mücadele'yi konu edinen romanlarının tahlili yapılmıştır. Üçüncü bölümde yazarın cumhuriyetin ilanından sonra kaleme aldığı eserlerine odaklanılmış, yeni rejim ile gelen yeni fikir ve değerlerin yazar tarafından anlatılara nasıl yansıtıldığı incelenmiştir.İlhan Tarus, one of the authors of the Turkish Republican Period, produced works in almost every narrative genre except poetry. This study mainly focuses on the author's approch to the turning points for Turkish people, The Independence War and Turkish Republic, which he includes in his works. The first chapter of study, which in addition to Foreword, Introduction, Conclusion and Bibliography consist of three chapters, gives information abouh the author's birth, education, career in civil service and his view on art. The second chapter analyzes the author's novels about the Independence War. The Third chapter focuses on the author's works written after the proclamation of the Republic and examines how the author reflects the new ideas and values that came along with the new regime on his narratives
Heat spike and ballistic contributions to mixing in Si
No full textWe have studied atomic mixing in silicon by the classical molecular dynamics method, and directly compared the simulated data to experimental measurements. The relative importance of ballistic collisions and heat spike to the mixing is considered. We obtain a fairly good agreement between experiments and simulations. The heat spike contribution to the total mixing seems to be much lower than that of ballistic collisions. keywords: silicon, simulation, mixing PACS numbers: 34.10.+x,61.82.Fk,64.75.+g 1 Introduction Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have proved to be a valuable tool for examining ion--solid interactions. The reliability of the results of MD simu- 1 Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] Preprint submitted to Elsevier Preprint 12 September lations depend on the quality of the interatomic potential used. Testing the validity of those potentials for ion-solid interactions is problematic, since few experimentally measurable quantities depend direc..
ON THE NUMEROUS MEANINGS AND SYNONYMY OF THE RUSSIAN LYUBIT’ ‘TO LOVE’
No full textDwie programowe i teoretyczno-metodologiczne cechy postawy badawczej N.I. Tołstoja bliskie są autorowi artykułu: idea ścisłej więzi między językiem a widzeniem świata, tj. pojęcie językowego obrazu świata oraz postulat integralności lingwistycznego opisu obiektu. Oba one legły u podstaw Nowego objaśniającego słownika synonimów języka rosyjskiego opracowanego przy udziale autora. Artykuł jest swoistym portretem rosyjskich czasowników ljubit’ i obožat’ w ich wzajemnym synonimicznym powiązaniu. Czasownik ljubit’ ma trzy znaczenia, którym odpowiadają użycia, takie jak: (1) Ona ljubit’ drugogo; (2) Sestry Cvetaevy lubili svoj dom v Taruse; (3) On ljubit’ davat’ interv’ju. W odróżnieniu od niego, czasownik obožat’, pomimo zdolności do występowania w analogicznych kontekstach semantycznych i syntaktycznych, nie da się rozczłonkować na odrębne znaczenia. Teza ta następnie zostaje potwierdzona obserwacją szeregu właściwości obu wyrazów: cech semantycznych, morfologicznych, ich możliwości derywacyjnych oraz syntaktycznych, włączając w to zdolność do pełnienia funkcji wskaźnika rematu. Analiza wykazuje, że ten szereg właściwości realizuje się różnie w każdym z trzech znaczeń czasownika ljubit’, czego nie stwierdza się w przypadku czasownika obožat’. W szczególności, nie jest możliwe użycie go w zdaniach przeczących (*On ne obožal slušat’ muzyku) i pytających (*Vy ego obožaete?).Two programmatic and theoretic-methodological features of N. I. Tolstoy’s research attitude are continued by the author of the present article: (1) the idea of a close link between language and perception of the world, i.e. of a linguistic worldview, and (2) the postulate of the linguistic integrity of an object. Both of these constitute the basis of a new dictionary of Russian synonyms, coedited by the abovementioned author. The article presents a picture of Russian verbs lyubit’ and obozhat’ in their mutual synonymic bond. Lyubit’ has three meanings and three parallel usages: (1) Ona lyubit’ drugovo ‘She loves someone else’; (2) Sestry Tsvetaevy lubili svoy dom v Taruse ‘Tsvetaeva’s sisters liked their house in Tarus’; and (3) On lyubil davat’ interv’yu ‘He liked to give interviews’. Although obozhat’ can also appear in analogical semantic and syntactic contexts, it cannot be split into separate meanings. The observation is corroborated by a number of properties of the two words: their semantic, morphological, derivational and syntactic features, including the ability to function as indicators of the rheme. The abilities are realized differently in each of the three meanings of lyubit’, which for obozhat’ is not the case. In particular, it is impossible to use the latter in negatives (*On ne obozhal slushat’ muzyku ‘He didn’t love/adore to listen to the music’) or interrogatives (* Vy evo obozhayete? ‘Do you-PL love/adore him?’)
The 2007 Iranian 'hostage crisis' : an Orientalist captivity narrative
No full textConcerned with the deployment of discourses within the representing culture and not principally with that which it seeks to portray. These accounts, in terms of their mediation by the newspapers concerned as well as their anticipated reception by a British readership, would be denuded of much of the urgency of their meaning without the availability of deeply embedded discourses that we can group under the umbrella of Orientalism
