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The Evolution of the Sustainability Mindset in Retailing and Service Management
No full textThe topic of sustainability is getting increasing importance around the globe since the 1987 Brundtland Report, by the World Commission on Environment and Development, introduced the concept of sustainable development. The need for organizations to answer the call to sustainability has prompted academics to take up the topic to support them, providing interpretations and management models. However, many relevant questions about sustainability remain unanswered, especially with reference to the retail and services companies. Producing a service offer and being the interface between production and consumption, they can influence pro-sustainability behaviors both upstream and downstream, making a major contribution to sustainability dissemination and achievement.
This chapter deals with the evolution of the sustainability mindset in retailing and service management through a literature review using SCIMAT. The bibliographic research process led to the identification of 363 papers in the period 2006–2022. While there were few scientific contributions until 2015, it is from that date—the year in which the 2030 Agenda was launched—that the interest of researchers has grown exponentially. The analysis revealed four clusters of themes on sustainability topic: the themes of utmost importance which are well-developed by scholars, the niche or marginal themes, the emerging or declining themes, and, finally, the relevant but still underdeveloped themes. The authors of this book have focused their attention on the latter to provide a structural guide to sustainability in the service industry, with an eye to specific emerging service sectors
Managing Sustainability. Perspectives From Retailing and Services
No full textCompanies and policy makers are prioritizing environmental, social, and governance goals as part of their strategies. Academic research has started to focus on these issues, but many important matters require deeper investigation and reflection, especially in specific sectors. This book focuses on the sustainability issues within the retailing and services sectors. Starting the discussion around research-knowledge on CSR, the authors discuss the strategic aspects of managing sustainability in retailing and service companies and offer recommendations to effectively manage the marketing levers for sustainability.
Readers will benefit from an in-depth analysis of the social responsibility practices of major retailers and their strategies. The authors also take an inside view of CSR by studying the angles of employee perception and job satisfaction, financial performance, and the more recent impact of COVID-19. Using this approach, they highlight the system of relationships existing between stakeholder-related concepts and organizational factors and how they affect sustainability strategy
Guyalna Boulard et Martinelli 1996
No full textB) Genre <i>Guyalna</i> Boulard et Martinelli, 1996 <p>Les fidicines de ce taxon, lesquelles ont aussi les yeux non saillants, diffèrent principalement des précédentes en développant des cymbacalyptes (protège-tymbales) presque complets, en forme de larges lobes arrondis, plus ou moins bombés, mais qui laissent exposer le sommet des cymbales.</p>Published as part of <i>Boulard, Michel & Martinelli, Nilza Maria, 2011, Nouvelles Cigales néotropicales de la sous-tribu des Guyalnina (Rhynchota, Cicadidae, Cicadinae, Fidicinini), pp. 219-232 in Lambillionea CXI (3)</i> on page 222, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10517877">10.5281/zenodo.10517877</a>
Sostenibilità ambientale: approcci urbani e regionali / Enviromental sustainability: regional and approach - Atti del seminario internazionale
No full textAll'interno del progetto di ricerca MURST 40% "Teorie, metodi ed esperienze di analisi e progettazione ecologica e sociale del territorio" si organizza nel 1996 il seminario "Enviromental sustainability:regional and approach" nel corso del quale si confrontano le riflessioni dei territorialisti italiani sul tema della sostenibilità ambientale. Le sessioni che sono altrettanti capitoli dei proceedings sono: 1. organizzazione e laboratori per l'autosostenibilità: modelli e pratiche; 2. modelli ecologici e modelli urbani; 3. sistemi intelligenti, indicatori e metodi per la valutazione della sostenibilità
B-(B)over-bar mixing in the HQET
No full textWe present a high statistics, quenched lattice calculation of the B-parameters B-Bd and B-Bs, computed at lowest order in the HQET. The results were obtained using a sample of 600 quenched gauge field configurations, generated by Monte Carlo simulation at beta = 6.0 on a 24(3) x 40 lattice. For the light quarks the SW-Clover action was used; the propagator of the lattice HQET was also tree-level improved. Our best estimate of the renormalization scale independent B-parameter is (B) over cap(Bd) = 1.08 +/- 0.06 +/- 0.08. (B) over cap(Bd) has been obtained by using ''boosted'' perturbation theory to calculate the renormalization constants which relate the matrix elements of the lattice operators to the corresponding amplitudes in the continuum. Due to the large statistics, the errors in the extraction of the matrix elements of the relevant bare operators are rather small. The main systematic error, corresponding to +/-0.08 in the above result, comes from the uncertainty in the evaluation of the renormalization constants, for which the one-loop corrections are rather large, The non-perturbative evaluation of these constants will help to reduce the final error. We also obtain (B) over cap(Bs)/(B) over cap(Bd) = 1.01 +/- 0.01 and f(Bs)(2) (B) over cap(Bs)/f(Bd)(2) (B) over cap(Bd) = 1.38 +/- 0.07
Fidicinoides sarutaiensis Santos, Martinelli & Maccagnan, sp. n.
No full textFidicinoides sarutaiensis Santos, Martinelli & Maccagnan, sp. n. Etymology. The name of the species refers to the type locality. Type material. Holotype male “ BRASIL. São Paulo: Farm Lauro Barroso, Sarutaiá, SP. X. 2003. (Ribeiro, R.) (FCAV / UNESP). Paratypes: 14 3 and 15 ♀ same data as holotype (FCAV / UNESP). Description. Head (figs. 1 A and B). Dorsum of head light brown, covered with many black bristles; brown with golden bristles ventrally. Arched vertex, with large black patch, of irregular contours, bordering frontoclypeal suture anteriorly, extending posteriorly to encompass ocelli. Median ocellus occupying frontal position, each lateral ocellus in ocular tubercle. Distance between lateral ocelli nearly two and half times less than distance separating each one from corresponding eye. Eyes prominent, oblique, forming short and wide ellipsoids, subocular patch on dorsal and posterior region black (fig. 1 A). Postclypeus short and wide in superior view, arched, with sagittal groove (fig. 1 B). Postclypeus blackened in frontal view with sagittal sulcus, arched laterally, with eight transverse grooves. Anteclypeus covered by golden bristles, two black patches laterally (fig. 1 B). Rostrum brown with black apex, reaching metathoracic legs. Thorax (fig. 1 A). Pronotum light brown with black pile, longer than on head, posterior margin of internal area with two punctiform marks united or separated; suprahumeral lobes reduced. Mesonotum chestnut brown covered with black bristles; median black marks comma shaped; lateral marks only blackened at the base; scutal depression black. Cruciform elevation wide, flattened, with posterior apices not prominent and separate from one another to level of mesoscutellar expansions (fig. 1 B). Male operculum brown, covered with golden bristles; short, posterior-lateral angle slightly obtuse, posterior margin sinuate (fig. 2 A). Meracanthus vestigial. Legs brown, anterior femur with three black spines, primary spine completely inclined towards keel, secondary spine upright, and small tertiary spine inclined in anterior direction (fig. 1 D). Abdomen (fig. 1 C). Tergites black centrally with lighter posterior margin, covered with black bristles. Timbal covering arched, black. Sternites brown with golden bristles. Male sternite VIII with concavity on posterior margin. Genitalia as in figs. 2 B and C. Wings. Fore wing hyaline with basal cell, proximal clavus and basal membrane blackened (fig. 1 E). Hind wing wide and as long as half of the fore wing; blackened at base (fig. 1 F). Male measurements (in mm). N = 15 males, average (range). Body length: 26.9 (26.1–27.8); fore wing length: 35.2 (34.2–37.4); fore wing width: 10.7 (10.0– 11.5); hind wing length: 18.2 (17.4–19.4); hind wing width: 8.1 (7.2–8.7); head width: 12.1 (11.6–12.5); mesonotum width: 9.9 (9.4–10.6); ocellus–ocellus distance: 1.6 (1.5–1.7); ocellus-eye distance: 3.5 (3.45–3.65). Female measurements (in mm). N = 15 females, average (range). Body length: 27.7 (25.5 –32.0); fore wing length: 38.4 (35.1–42.1); fore wing width: 11.0 (10.1–12.2); hind wing length: 19.3 (16.8–22.1); hind wing width: 8.6 (8.8–9.1); head width: 12.8 (11.0–14.0); mesonotum width: 10.0 (9.0–11.0); ocellus-ocellus distance: 1.6 (1.4–1.8); ocellus-eye distance: 3.5 (3.1 –4.0). Note. Analysis of the distribution of the nymphs and exuviae of F. sarutaiensis in coffee crops was presented by Ribeiro et al. (2006). Diagnosis. The genitalia of F. sarutaiensis are unique among known species of Fidicinoides. Fidicinoides sarutaiensis sp. n. can be differentiated from F. rosabasalae Santos & Martinelli, F. brunnea Boulard & Martinelli, F. besti Boulard & Martinelli, F. sucinalae Boulard & Martinelli, F. saccifera Boulard & Martinelli, F. jauffreti Boulard & Martinelli, F. dolosa Santos & Martinelli, F. pseudethelae Boulard & Martinelli, F. duckensis Boulard & Martinelli, and F. poulaini Boulard & Martin elli by the lack of infuscation of the transverse nerves of the apical fore wing cells as found in all of these species. The nonsmoky apical fore wings of F. sarutaiensis sp. n. differentiate it from F. opalina (Germar) and F. sericans (Stål). Fidicinoides pauliensis Boulard & Martinelli, F. picea (Wallker), F. pronoe (Walker), F. roberti (Distant), F. lacteipennis (Distant), F. determinata (Walker) and F. steindachneri (Kuhlgatz & Melichar) all have lateral mesonotal markings exceeding half the length of the mesonotum which are lacking in F. sarutaiensis sp. n. The mesonotal markings differentiate F. sarutaiensis sp. n. from F. spinicosta (Walker) and F. passerculus (Walker). The medial mesonotal marking of F. carmenae Santos & Martinelli and F. brisa (Walker) are roughly triangular rather than comma shaped as in F. sarutaiensis sp. n. Finally, the mesonotal marking of F. sarutaiensis sp. n. extends onto the submedian sigilla but is restricted to the parasidal suture in F. distanti (Goding) and whose abdomen possesses two arching transverse black marks.Published as part of Santos, Rodrigo Souza, Martinelli, Nilza Maria, Maccagnan, Douglas Henrique Bottura, Sanborn, Allen F. & Ribeiro, Renato, 2010, Description of new cicada species associated with the coffee plant and an identification key for the species of Fidicinoides (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from Brazil, pp. 48-56 in Zootaxa 2602 on pages 50-52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2602.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/19762
Hydrodynamics induced by low-crested rubble-mound structures: wave basin experimental analysis and 2DH numerical simulations
No full textThis paper analyses waves and current flows around low-crested structures through wave basin tests and numerical simulations. The experimental data set is composed of the 3D tests performed in the wave basins at Aalborg University on a fixed bed (Lamberti & al., 2003) and at Bari University on a mobile bed (Martinelli & al., 2004). Experimental results, focusing on rip current intensities, are presented and dis-cussed in relation to the most significant parameters as freeboard, wave intensity, gap over structure length. Experimental results for submerged structures are compared to simulations carried out with the 2DH nu-merical tool MIKE 21, showing that flow patterns are qualitatively reproduced and rip current intensities can be predicted, whereas set-up intensity is generally overestimated due to some limitations in the numerical model
Figura 2 in Primeiro registro de Fidicinoides picea (Walker, 1850) e Fidicinoides poulaini Boulard & Martinelli, 1996 no Brasil
No full textFigura 2 - Fidicinoides poulaini: A. Cabeça e tórax (vista dorsal); B. Abdome (vista ventral); C. Asa anterior direita; D. Último urosternito (m.a. – margem anterior; m.l. – margem lateral e m.p. – margem posterior).Published as part of Santos, Rodrigo Souza & Martinelli, Nilza Maria, 2008, Primeiro registro de Fidicinoides picea (Walker, 1850) e Fidicinoides poulaini Boulard & Martinelli, 1996 no Brasil, pp. 559-562 in Ciência Rural 39 (2) on page 562, DOI: 10.1590/s0103-84782008005000086, http://zenodo.org/record/838012
Guyalna densusa Boulard & Martinelli 2011
No full text<i>Guyalna densusa</i> Boulard & Martinelli, 2011 <p>(Fig. 10)</p> <p> <i>Guyalna densusa</i> Boulard & Martinelli 2011: 224.</p> <p> <b>Type locality.</b> Route from Vitória to Belo Horizonte, Km 118, 850 m, Espirito-Santo, Brazil.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> The species is a medium sized animal for the genus, black and dark green with a slight lateral expansion to the abdomen prior to the terminal segments. It possesses a timbal cover that expands over the lateral timbal cavity with the rounded apex (Fig. 10). Body length 25 mm, fore wing length 35–37 mm (Boulard & Martinelli 2011).</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> The species is known currently from the type series collected in southeastern Brazil (Boulard & Martinelli 2011).</p>Published as part of <i>Sanborn, Allen F., 2016, The cicada genus Guyalna Boulard & Martinelli, 1996 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Fidicinini): generic description, twelve new combinations, and a key to species, pp. 430-454 in Zootaxa 4105 (5)</i> on page 439, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.5.2, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/255425">http://zenodo.org/record/255425</a>
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
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