863 research outputs found
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
New insight into cofactor-free oxygenation from combined experimental and computational approaches
No full textMolecular oxygen (O2), in spite being a potentially strong oxidant, typically displays very poor reactivity with organic molecules. This is largely due to quantum chemical reasons as O2 in its ground state is a diradical (3O2) whilst common organic substrates are in a singlet state. For this reason catalysis involving O2 as a reactant is typically mediated by enzymes containing redox metal and/or organic co-factors. Cofactor-independent oxygenases (and oxidases) are therefore intriguing enzymes from a fundamental viewpoint. This review looks at recent advances that have been made in understanding of this class of intriguing biocatalysts highlighting the power of an inter-disciplinary approach involving structural biology, spectroscopy and theoretical methods
Smartphone identification database
No full textThis folder is composed of six .mat files containing the data used in the article ''Smartphone Identification via Passive Traffic Fingerprinting: a Sequence-to-Sequence Learning Approach'' by Francesca Meneghello, Michele Rossi and Nicola Bui.
The Python source code is available at https://github.com/signetlabdei/smartphone_identification.
If you use this dataset, please cite our paper:
@article{Meneghello2020Network,
author={Francesca Meneghello and Michele Rossi and Nicola Bui},
title={Smartphone Identification via Passive Traffic Fingerprinting: a Sequence-to-Sequence Learning Approach},
journal={IEEE Network Magazine},
volume={},
number={},
pages={},
year={2020}
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
Comparison of pollution diffusion between river mouth inflow (RMI) and beach uniform inflow (BUI) in sudden water accident
No full textRecently high-frequency sudden pollution originated from an explosion of industrial plants, transportation accidents and oil spills was often continuously diffused into downstream water. In this paper, the features of pollution diffusion including the boundary shape, concentration gradients and covered area from the two typical sudden water accidents of river mouth inflow (RMI) and beach uniform inflow (BUI) were investigated and compared by utilizing computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model and lab-scale experiments. It was found that a circular boundary shape was formed when diffusion velocity was slower than threshold velocity of 0.0016 m/s, however, a long strip of boundary was replaced at the speed of more than 0.0016 m/s from RMI, using CFD simulation under lab-scale. The coincidence degree of diffusion over time in terms of covered area and boundary shape between CFD simulation and the lab-scale experiment was reached to 97.6–99.6% both in RMI and BUI. The result indicated that CFD was applied to simulate the pollution diffusion from the two patterns of sudden water accidents under full-scale. Results showed that a sharp peak was capable of appearing in mainstream and there was a ring current appearing in side wing from RMI. However, the mainstream with a gentle peak and the side wing with symmetrical diffusion were arising in BUI. In addition, a high concentration gradients and a clear concentration contours were both exhibited in RMI and BUI. The results may assist in offering emergency response to control sudden pollution diffusion, further supporting the scope of pollution hazard assessment and ecological remediation to recover pollution region.The author acknowledges the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31070401), the College Natural Science Foundation of Major Project of Anhui, China, the Foundation of Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotic Environment and Ecological Safety in Anhui
Laura Schwartz : "Feminism and the Servant Problem: Class and Domestic Labour in the British Women's Suffrage Movement" (11/04)
No full textLaura Schwartz, de University of Warwick, présentera sa communication "Feminism and the Servant Problem: Class and Domestic Labour in the British Women's Suffrage Movement" le jeudi 11 avril 2019 de 17h30 à 19h. Maison de la Recherche, 28 rue Serpente, Paris 6e , salle D421 "In the early twentieth century, more and more women fought for the right to professional employment and political influence outside the home. Yet if liberation from household ‘drudgery’ meant employing another woman ..
"""I feel impelled to write"": male intimacy, epistolary privacy, and the culture of letter writing during the American Civil War"
No full textThis dissertation sheds light on the gendered and commemorative history of the Civil War. Many historians have recognized the importance of soldiers' letters as evidence of the cultural and ideological mentalities of Americans in wartime. Yet the scholarship has failed to notice the urgency with which soldiers sought to control and maintain the privacy of their correspondences. For millions of combatants, the Civil War presented problems of maintaining privacy unknown in civilian life. Yankees and rebels alike defined their letters as a form of personal property and regarded unauthorized access to their letters not simply as theft but as violations of their person. The safeguards they sought to impose on their mail reveal how these soldiers tried to defend the boundaries of privacy in the midst of a military environment generally devoid of personal space.
This dissertation draws on thousands of soldiers' letters held at over three dozen archives and libraries across the United States. The prevailing model of combat motivation emphasizes the ideological components of cause and country. Soldiers' wartime letters suggest they fought not just for nation and ideology but also for the personal stakes associated with their public standings as honorable men. Women on the home front played key roles as the epistolary confidants of soldiers. After the war, these women, as well as veterans themselves, sought to maintain the public façade of masculine heroism by silencing the wartime admissions of fear, doubt, and desertion.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2018-05-01The student, Long Bui, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-21 at 17:43.The student, Long Bui, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2016-04-21 at 17:49.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-04-22 at 15:15.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9424 on 2016-07-07 at 13:50:35Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-07T20:27:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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