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Interaction of Chinese institutions with host governments in dam construction: the Bui Dam in Ghana
No full textThe study analyses the role of Chinese companies and financing institutions and Ghanaian governmental agencies in planning and constructing the Bui Dam. The analysis focuses on the division of responsibilities between Sinohydro and China Exim Bank on the one side and the Ghanaian government on the other side. The findings show that environmental and resettlement planning for Bui was commissioned and financed by the Government of Ghana without Sinohydro’s involvement. The obligation of the firm is to abide by the environmental regulations that are monitored by the regulatory authorities. The role of Sinohydro consists in building the dam, maintaining the construction site, contracting workers, and providing for workers’ health and safety. The firm has no role in resettlement, which is carried out by the Bui Power Authority. While there is clear evidence that the Bui Power Authority does not follow the recommendations of the Resettlement Planning Framework, Sinohydro appears to abide largely by the conditions set out in the Environmental Impact Assessment study whose implementation is monitored by the Ghanaian Environmental Protection Agency and the Ghanaian Water Resources Commission
Top Management Team Diversity: A systematic Review
No full textEmpirical research investigating the impact of top management team (TMT)
diversity on executives’ decision making has produced inconclusive results.
To synthesize and aggregate the results on the diversity-performance
link, a meta-regression analysis (MRA) is conducted. It integrates more
than 200 estimates from 53 empirical studies investigating TMT diversity
and its impact on the quality of executives’ decision making as reflected
in corporate performance. The analysis contributes to the literature by
theoretically discussing and empirically examining the effects of TMT diversity
on corporate performance. Our results do not show a link between TMT
diversity and performance but provide evidence for publication bias. Thus,
the findings raise doubts on the impact of TMT diversity on performance
Green marketing as showcase of sustainable coffee shop business
No full text Validating the potentiality of adopting the concept of sustainable development in the field of food and beverage is the objective of the thesis. By taking advantage of the validated data, the author is able to build a green marketing plan as a showcase of the sustainable coffee shop. Additionally, the thesis aims to raise awareness of environmental issues and conservation through reducing negative impacts on the environment in business operations. The author concentrated on gathering data relating to sustainabile development and green marketing including the framework of sustainable development, the beneficial impacts of the concept, green marketing definition, and the advantage of applying green marketing into a business. The research section of the thesis is developed according to the theoretical framework.
The author adopts semi-structured in-depth interview, and a combination of non-participant and participant observation to gather the research date. The interview was conducted with the co-founder of the L restaurant with a list of questions. The interview was divided into four phases. The interview focuses on exploring the feasibility of the sustainable business model in the city of Ho Chi Minh and society's sense of a new concept. The observation investigates how the G restaurant presents their sustainable development through the marketing effort. The observation research is implemented by following the guidelines, which weres created based on the marketing mix 4ps.
A complete green marketing plan for a new sustainable coffee shop is the outcome of the thesis by applying the theory framework and the research results. This thesis allows the author to explore and expand the knowledge of a sustainable framework and sustainable development in the restaurant industry. Furthermore, the author is able to utilize the concept to reduce environmental impacts and attract more customers with the same concerns. The study can also function as a guideline for other restaurants in operating sustainably by providing them with marketing actions that lead to a more efficient business operation
Chinese hydropower companies and environmental norms in countries of the global South: the involvement of Sinohydro in Ghana’s Bui Dam
No full textThe paper examines the role of environmental norms in Chinese overseas investment in hydropower dams, exemplified by Sinohydro’s involvement in the Bui Dam in Ghana. While the investment of Western companies in hydropower dams in the global South is decreasing owing to changing notions of sustainability in the West, the investment of Chinese companies in hydro dams in Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America is accelerating at great speed. The emergence of Chinese companies in international markets in the context of China’s Going Abroad strategy has sparked a debate on whether China can be considered a norm-changer in international development. The paper considers this question in the context of the status of environmental norms in Sinohydro’s investment in Ghana’s Bui Dam. The paper argues that the role of international norms in Chinese investment is dependent on two factors: the contractual arrangements under which Chinese companies operate abroad and the political institutions of host countries
Seguiment d'obra del projecte Bio Bui(L)t amb tècniques de construcció Low Tech
No full textEl treball final de grau que es presenta està localitzat en l'àmbit de la construcció sostenible, ecològica i del respecte pel medi ambient, centrat en la autoconstrucció d'un espai social construït amb materials naturals i de baix impacte ambiental. L'espai Bio Bui(L)t, és el projecte de l'associació BAM, BioArquitectura Mediterrània, inclòs en la iniciativa Pla BUITS (Buits Urbans amb Implicació Territorial i Social) de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona. Aquest treball presenta els diferents sistemes constructius i material no tradicionals utilitzats al projecte Bio Bui(Lt). Els quals amb el l’espai Bio Bui(L)t es mostren a la societat les grans possibilitats i característiques que tenen per ser utilitzats en la construcció actual clima mediterrani. Amb aquest treball es pretén recopilar les dades de valoració necessàries per donar a conèixer millor els diferents sistemes i materials utilitzats durant el casi un any que ha durat la construcció
Seguiment d'obra del projecte Bio Bui(L)t amb tècniques de construcció Low Tech
No full textEl treball final de grau que es presenta està localitzat en l'àmbit de la construcció sostenible, ecològica i del respecte pel medi ambient, centrat en la autoconstrucció d'un espai social construït amb materials naturals i de baix impacte ambiental. L'espai Bio Bui(L)t, és el projecte de l'associació BAM, BioArquitectura Mediterrània, inclòs en la iniciativa Pla BUITS (Buits Urbans amb Implicació Territorial i Social) de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona. Aquest treball presenta els diferents sistemes constructius i material no tradicionals utilitzats al projecte Bio Bui(Lt). Els quals amb el l’espai Bio Bui(L)t es mostren a la societat les grans possibilitats i característiques que tenen per ser utilitzats en la construcció actual clima mediterrani. Amb aquest treball es pretén recopilar les dades de valoració necessàries per donar a conèixer millor els diferents sistemes i materials utilitzats durant el casi un any que ha durat la construcció
Sharp L^p estimates for Schrödinger groups on spaces of homogeneous type
No full textWe prove an L^p estimate for the Schrodinger group e^{-itL}
generated by a semibounded, selfadjoint operator L on a metric measure space
X of homogeneous type. The assumptions on L are a mild L^{p_0} to L^{p_0}'
smoothing estimate and a mild L^2 to L^2 off--diagonal estimate for the
corresponding heat kernel e^{-tL}
A full genomic characterization of the development of a stable Small Colony Variant cell-type by a clinical Staphylococcus aureus strain
No full textAbstract not availableLong M.G. Bui, Stephen P. Kid
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
(L-R) Lynne Cameron (BCAC Chair), Anh Bui, Brian Keith (Dean of Library Services)
No full textAnh Bui receives second place in the graduate category.https://thekeep.eiu.edu/lib_awards_2024_photos/1008/thumbnail.jp
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