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Finnish dairy farmers’ perceptions of justice in the transition to carbon-neutral farming
2022
Highlights • Finnish dairy farmers' perceptions of issues with carbon neutrality were examined. • Concerns include farming profitability, farmer blaming, and use of peatlands. • Public policy guidance is needed for carbon-neutral, sustainable agriculture. Environmental and political debate concerning the role of agriculture in sustainability has long been on the agenda. However, owing to climate change, an analysis of the transition to a low-carbon society must also be considered from the perspective of justice. Dairy farming, in particular, faces pressure in this context, when contemplating changing consumer behaviors and reduction in the carbon footprint of dairy products. Accordingly, ma…
THE ROLE OF PATIENT-PHYSICIAN RELATIONSHIP IN CARE PROCESSES AND IN THE TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSITION OF HEALTHCARE
2023
Papel de los sistemas de control de gestión en el éxito de la trasformación digital: influencia en las capacidades dinámicas digitales
2023
La rápida evolución de las tecnologías de la información (TI) y sus aplicaciones empresariales está obligando a las organizaciones a realizar esfuerzos constantes para seguir siendo competitivas. La nueva economía digital, así como el entorno disruptivo y cambiante en el que operan las empresas, fuerza a los directivos a priorizar estratégicamente procesos de adaptación y transformación, replanteando su perspectiva estratégica más allá de la implantación de nuevas tecnologías (Rogers, 2016), para provocar un cambio profundo en toda la organización. Este proceso es conocido, aunque no siempre es bien entendido, como transformación digital (TD). La TD modifica el alcance y la velocidad del la…
Digitalisaation vaikutukset yksilön kuluttajakäyttäytymiseen
2018
Digitalisaatio on integroitunut osaksi kaikkea nyky-yhteiskunnissa, ainakin län-simaissa, eikä kulutusympäristö ole poikkeus. Muuttuva kulutusympäristö asettaa uusia haasteita niin yksilöille, kuin organisaatioillekin käynnissä olevan digitaalisen muutoksen aikana. Muutokset ovat nopeita ja laajoja. Teknologia sekä niiden sovellukset kehittyvät ennennäkemättömällä vauhdilla, joka johtaa myös tuotteiden ja palveluiden nopeaan kehittymiseen sekä uusien ideoiden ja konseptien syntymiseen. Tämä tutkimus pyrkii selvittämään, mitkä ovat digi-talisaation merkittävämpiä muutoksia yksilön kuluttajakäyttäytymiselle ja tar-kastelemaan niiden merkittävyyttä. Tutkimus toteutettiin kirjallisuuskatsauk-se…
Value Co-Creation Opportunities: Managerial Transformation of Digitisation Risks into Success Factors
2018
This chapter examines the challenges and risks managers in the healthcare sector perceive in relation to the development and implementation of digitised services in a healthcare case organisation. Using data collected from managers, focus group interviews and observation method within the case organisation, the authors present an analysis that demonstrates that the risks and success factors that influence the development and implementation of digital healthcare services are related to (1) setting a clear digital strategy and implementation plan, (2) integration of digital services with the overall process and ICT, (3) committed resources and engagement of personnel, and (4) the organisation…
Automated detection and localization system of myocardial infarction in single-beat ECG using Dual-Q TQWT and wavelet packet tensor decomposition
2020
Background and objective. It is challenging to conduct real-time identification of myocardial infarction (MI) due to artifact corruption and high dimensionality of multi-lead electrocardiogram (ECG). In the present study, we proposed an automated single-beat MI detection and localization system using dual-Q tunable Q-factor wavelet transformation (Dual-Q TQWT) denoising algorithm. Methods. After denoising and segmentation of ECG, a fourth-order wavelet tensor (leads × subbands × samples × beats) was constructed based on thediscretewavelet packet transform (DWPT), to represent the features considering the information of inter-beat, intra-beat, inter-frequency, and inter-lead. To reduce the t…
International Retirement Migration: Transforming Societies Through Purchasing Power?
2016
Despite a more than 40-year-old tradition of international retirement migration (IRM) in Europe, relatively little social scientific research has been carried out in this field. Retired European migrants have not been considered to be politically controversial (i.e. they are not viewed as having been the causes of social problems or as needy, poor or deprived). Often, the terms used in the 1980s and early 1990s to describe these populations have been linked not to a migration model but to the model of the social agent of a tourist. The chapter is divided into three parts: (1) a general overview of the flows and socio-economic characteristics of IRM in Europe, addressing the main regions of …
Expression of tenascin in human cervical cancer--association of tenascin expression with clinicopathological parameters.
1999
Tenascin is an extracellular matrix glycoprotein, relevant for embryonal and fetal development, which is reexpressed in the stroma of benign and malignant tumors. Little is known about the molecular interaction of tenascin during neoplastic transformation and tumor progression in cervical cancer.We studied the expression of tenascin in normal tissue of the cervix uteri, cervical carcinoma in situ, and invasive cervical carcinoma in paraffin sections by immunohistochemistry using a monoclonal antibody. Tenascin immunoreactivity was compared with various prognostic parameters.In normal cervical tissue (n = 5) and in cervical carcinoma in situ (n = 10) only vessel walls showed a weak tenascin …
Interplay Between MicroRNAs and Oxidative Stress in Ovarian Conditions with a Focus on Ovarian Cancer and Endometriosis
2019
Ovarian cancer and endometriosis are two distinct gynaecological conditions that share many biological aspects incuding proliferation, invasion of surrounding tissue, inflammation, inhibition of apoptosis, deregulation of angiogenesis and the ability to spread at a distance. miRNAs are small non-coding RNAs (19–22 nt) that act as post-transcriptional modulators of gene expression and are involved in several of the aforementioned processes. In addition, a growing body of evidence supports the contribution of oxidative stress (OS) to these gynaecological diseases: increased peritoneal OS due to the decomposition of retrograde menstruation blood facilitates both endometriotic lesion developmen…
Efficient Conversion of Light to Chemical Energy : Directional, Chiral Photoswitches with Very High Quantum Yields
2020
Abstract Photochromic systems have been used to achieve a number of engineering functions such as light energy conversion, molecular motors, pumps, actuators, and sensors. Key to practical applications is a high efficiency in the conversion of light to chemical energy, a rigid structure for the transmission of force to the environment, and directed motion during isomerization. We present a novel type of photochromic system (diindane diazocines) that converts visible light with an efficiency of 18 % to chemical energy. Quantum yields are exceptionally high with >70 % for the cis–trans isomerization and 90 % for the back‐reaction and thus higher than the biochemical system rhodopsin (64 %). T…