7,328 research outputs found
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
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
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
Synapsis puluongensis Bui & Bonkowski 2018, sp. nov.
No full textSynapsis puluongensis sp. nov. (Figs 1 A–F, 2A,C,E) Type locality. Vietnam, Thanh Hoa Province, Puluong Nature Reserve, 20º28′54″N 105º14′31″E, 950 m a.s.l. Type material. HOLOTYPE: ♁ ‘ VIETNAM | THANH HOA Prov. | Pu Luong Nat. Reserve, near Ban Ba vill. | 20º28’54’’N 105º14’31’’E, 950 m | primary forest | 10.–25.iv.2016 | Van Bac Bui leg.’ (VNUF). PARATYPES (five specimens): ♁, ‘ VIETNAM | THANH HOA Prov. | Pu Luong Nat. Reserve, near Ban Ba vill. | 20º28’55’’N 105º14’29’’E, 958 m | primary forest | 10.–25.iv. 2016 | Van Bac Bui leg.’ (VNUF); ♀, ‘VIETNNAM | THANH HOA Prov. | Pu Luong Nat. Reserve, near Ban Ba vill. | 20º28’54’’N 105º14’29’’E, 954 m | primary forest | 10.–25.iv.2016 | Van Bien Nguyen leg.’ (VNUF); 3♀♀, ‘ VIETNAM | THANH HOA Prov. | Pu Luong Nat.Reserve, near Ban Ba vill. | 20º28’56’’N 105º14’28’’E, 956 m | primary forest | 10.–25.iv.2016 | Van Bac Bui leg.’ (2 PLNR, 1 NMPC). Diagnosis. Body length 17.2–18.5 mm, body width 10.4– 11.5 mm; hypomeral cavities not covered by macrosetae; mesepisternal cavities absent; genae unexpanded; frons unarmed; anterolateral angles of pronotum not protruding; elytral striae strongly punctate; elytral intervals impunctate, convex and glossy, interval 2 near base not swollen; ventral sides of metafemora densely punctate. Description of holotype (male). Body length 18.38 mm, body width 11.32 mm. Whole surface black, very shiny and glabrous. Margins of legs and pronotum with reddish- brown macrosetae. Head broad (HeadL 3.67 mm, HeadW 7.44 mm), extremely rugose anteriorly; posterior part sparsely punctate; fine punctures surrounding eyes. Anterior margin of clypeus bidentate, V-shaped, flexed upwards, with few reddish setae. Distance between apices of clypeal denticles (DDC) 1.43 mm. Genae rectangular, quite distinctly separated from clypeus and frons by well-defined suture with sculptural punctures. Genae closely and evenly punctate, with scanty reddish macrosetae. Frons glabrous and very unevenly punctate. Area surrounding eyes bearing more closely spaced and coarser punctures than base. Frons unarmed, only slightly swollen. Antennae composed of 9 antennomeres. Antennomere I 1.34 mm in length, longer than antennomeres II–IV combined (1.25 mm in length). Antennomeres I and II darker, bearing more yellow macrosetae than remaining antennomeres. Prothorax. Pronotum transverse (PronL 4.9 mm, PronW 10.08 mm), widest at anterior quarter, with two distinct lateral carinae at each side. Area between carinae black, matte, glabrous and not punctate. Outer margin of outer carina with dense reddish-brown macrosetae. Anterolateral angles short and not protruding. Punctures not evenly distributed, denser at sides. Only small area at anterior edge of pronotal collar microrugose. Hypomeral cavities present but shallow, sparsely punctate and not covered with macrosetae. Meso-metaventrum quite smooth, with a few scattered fine punctures at its anterior end, bearing posterior median groove and deep excavation near metacoxae. Pterothorax. Elytra (ElyL 11.4 mm, MWoI123: 2.51 mm) convex, very shiny, deeply striate; elytral striae strongly, densely punctate (DP10, 15: 1.03 mm); intervals smooth and impunctate. Interval 2 near base not swollen. Mesepimeron and metepisternum flat, granulose and without macrosetae. Legs. Protibia (ProTiL 3.30 mm, ProTiW 2.35 mm, ProTiSL 1.21 mm) tridentate, terminal tooth as long as protibial spur and nearly as long as protibial tarsus. Mesotibia (MesoTiL 3.34 mm, MesoTiW 1.33 mm, 1 stMesoTiSL 2.09 mm, 2 ndMesoTiSL 0.9 mm) and metatibia (MetaTiL 4.95 mm, MetaTiW 1.27 mm, MetaTiSL 1.55 mm) with red scanty macrosetae and slender spurs. Metatarsomeres nearly similar in size (MetaTaL 3.72 mm, MetaTa1L 1.08 mm, MetaTa1W 0.68 mm, MetaTa5W 0.32 mm). Abdomen and pygidium. Abdominal ventrites opaque, sparsely punctate, and narrower at midline. Pygidium (PyL 2.46 mm, PyW 4.5 mm) feebly convex, densely and transversely punctate and scabrous. Aedeagus (Figs 1E, F). Phallobase length 3.57 mm in lateral view, with strong swelling in middle of basal suture. Parameres length 2.19 mm (in lateral view), triangle-shaped. Phallobase and parameres forming angle> 130º. Sexual dimorphism. Females differ from males in their weaker elytral striae, and meso- and metatrochanters with sparser reddish-brown macrosetae (absent in some specimens). Sexes also differ in the shape and strength of the metafemoral tooth, which is stronger in males. Compound eyes black in females but reddish brown in males. Morphometrics. See Table 1. Differential diagnosis. Synapsis puluongensis sp. nov. belongs to the S. birmanica group, as indicated by a combination of the following characters: hypomeral cavities present, genae unexpanded, frons unarmed, mesepisternal cavities absent, and upper longitudinal carina of male metatibia without brush of rusty setae. Species of the S. birmanica group may be clearly distinguished from those of S. ovalis, S. brahmina and S. tmolus groups by the presence of hypomeral cavities. The S. ritsemae group has expanded genae, in which it differs from the species of the S. birmanica group whose genae are unexpanded. Synapsis puluongensis sp. nov. can be distinguished from other known species of the group by the following characters: in S. puluongensis the elytral interval 2 is not swollen near the base (swollen in S. yama from northern and central Vietnam and Laos, S. horaki from northern Vietnam, S. dickinsoni from northern Thailand: Phukieo, S. ochii from northern Thailand: Chiang Mai and in S. masumotoi from Taiwan). Characters on the metafemora and elytral striae clearly differentiate S. puluongensis sp. nov. from the other species of the S. birmanica group recorded in Vietnam: both S. puluongensis sp. nov. and S. horaki have densely punctured metafemora on the ventral side, while S. yama has no punctures on the metafemur. In addition, S. puluongensis sp. nov. has coarse and closely spaced punctures on the elytral striae, which are absent or extremely weak in S. horaki (Figs 2 A–D). Synapsis puluongensis sp. nov. has hypomeral cavities without macrosetae, which distinguishes it from S. birmanica (hypomeral cavities are covered by a brush of rusty macrosetae). The new species has deep striae, whereas in S. birmanica the striae are feeble (Figs 2 E–F). Synapsis puluongensis sp. nov. is morphologically similar to S. naxiorum in its black and shiny dorsal side. However, the new species can be distinguished from S. naxiorum in having more punctures on the ventral side of the metafemora; elytral striae more densely punctate, intervals not punctate, and hypomeral cavities devoid of rusty setae (Figs 2A,G). The entire surface of S. puluongensis sp. nov. is black and shiny, in contrast to the opaque surface of S. punctata from Myanmar and S. roslihashimi from Malaysia. In addition, S. puluongensis sp. nov. has convex intervals, whereas S. roslihashimi and S. punctata have flat or only weakly convex intervals. In S. punctata and S. roslihashimi all margins of intervals are punctate, whereas they are impunctate in the new species. The new species can also be distinguished from S. punctata and S. roslihashimi by the absence of hypomeral rusty macrosetae. Etymology. The specific epithet puluongensis refers to the name of the type locality, Nature Reserve Puluong, Thanh Hoa Province, central Vietnam; adjective. Biology. The new species was collected in primary forests on limestone bedrock. The primary forests are characterized by a complex structure with various storeys, comprising an upper storey with emergent trees more than 35 m tall, belonging to Dipterocarpaceae and Combretaceae, a dominant lower storey (various tree species from 15 to 30 m tall), and a brush layer on the forest floor containing various herbs (Urticaceae, Araceae, Begoniaceae), lianas and parasitic plants (Connaraceae, Fabaceae, Orchidaceae, Loranthaceae).Published as part of Bui, Van Bac & Bonkowski, Michael, 2018, Synapsis puluongensis sp. nov. and redescription of S. horaki (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), with a key to Vietnamese species, pp. 407-418 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 58 (2) on pages 408-413, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0032, http://zenodo.org/record/450489
Tagging of Biomedical Articles on CiteULike: A Comparison of User, Author and Professional Indexing
No full textThis paper examines the context of online indexing from the viewpoint of three different groups: users, authors, and professional indexers. User tags, author keywords and descriptors were collected from academic journal articles, which were both indexed in Pubmed and tagged on CiteULike, and analysed. Descriptive statistics, informetric measures, and thesaural term comparison shows that there are important differences in the use of keywords between the three groups in addition to similarities which can be used to enhance support for search and browse. While tags and author keywords were found that matched descriptors exactly, other terms which did not match but provided important expansion to the indexing lexicon were found. These additional terms could be used to enhance support for searching and browsing in article databases as well as to provide invaluable data for entry vocabulary and emergent terminology for regular updates to indexing systems. Additionally, the study suggests that tags support organisation by association to task, projects and subject while making important connections to traditional systems which classify into subject categories
Mapping tourism, sustainability, and development in Southeast Asia
No full textTourism in Southeast Asia traces back many years, with early forms of travel including pilgrimage, and travel for trade, land, resources, missions and warfare. Tourism is thus a long-established economic, religious, and social activity in the region though mass tourism is a rather recent phenomenon which largely began to expand in the 1970s. In the past decades, tourism in Southeast Asia has seen unprecedented growth while the region has also undergone major changes in relation to markets, mobility and integration between countries in economic and political terms. The creation and expansion of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations from a defence alliance to a political and economic relationship between member countries is significant in the formation of the Southeast Asian identity. The Philippines were isolated from airline connections for many years but experienced tourism growth as access options improved. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book
Asie
No full textBui Xuan Quang, E. P. Asie. In: Politique étrangère, n°1 - 1984 - 49ᵉannée. pp. 214-217
Asie
No full textBui Xuan Quang, E. P. Asie. In: Politique étrangère, n°1 - 1984 - 49ᵉannée. pp. 214-217
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