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Measuring the Economic, Environmental, and Social Sustainability of Short Food Supply Chains

2019

The production and distribution of food are among the hot topics debated in the context of sustainable development. Short food supply chains (SFSCs) are now widely believed to be more sustainable in comparison to mass food delivery systems. To date, very little quantitative evidence exists on the impacts of various types of food supply chains. Using a cross-sectional quantitative approach, this study assesses the sustainability of distribution channels in short and long food supply chains based on 208 food producers across seven countries: France, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam. Ten distribution channel types are used in this study. To provide a comprehensiv…

Sport Clubs in Spain

2015

Spain is a decentralised state with an approximate population of 47.1 million. It is a European Union member state since 1986 and the 13th largest economy in the world. According to the latest survey of sporting habits conducted in Spain (2010), 19 % of people over the age of 15 engage in some kind of sport or physical activity through a sports club or association. The corresponding figures in previous surveys were 24 % in 2005 and 25 % in 2000. Although the number of sports clubs in Spain has increased over the last 10 years, there has been an even greater rise in the number of people taking up recreational sport or physical activity without being formally linked to any sports federation o…

Thermographic quantitative variables for diabetic foot assessment: preliminary results

2018

The aim of this study was to define aspects of a protocol for a diabetic population by obtaining and evaluating thermographic images following thermal stress (cooling of the sole of the foot with c...

A Single-Center Experience on Below-The-Knee Endovascular Treatment in Diabetic Patients

2020

Diabetic ulceration of the foot is a major global medical, social and economic problem and is the most frequent end-point of diabetic complications. A retrospective analysis from February 2017 to May 2019 of diabetic patients presenting below-the-knee artery disease (PAD) was carried out. Only patients treated with endovascular techniques as first choice treatment were evaluated. Outcome measured was perioperative mortality and morbidity. Freedom from occlusion, secondary patency and amputation rate were all registered. Additional maneuvers including stenting or angioplasty with drug eluting balloon (DEB) were reported. A total of 167 (101 male/66 female) patients with a mean age of 71 year…

“Are They Singing the National Anthem?” : Football Followers’ Responses to the Ethnic Diversification of Finland Men’s National Football Team

2017

Fair play w życiu wierzącego sportowca na przykładzie Grzegorza Jakosza

2017

W swoim społecznym nauczaniu papież Jan Paweł II dokonał niejako teologicznej nobilitacji sportu, ukazując jego wartość religijną i kulturotwórczą. Stąd każdy angażujący się w tę aktywność ludzkiego postępowania za oczywistość powinien przyjąć odgórne zasady rywalizacji i gry fair play, które stanowią ważny czynnik w procesie wszechstronnego doskonalenia człowieka. W obecnej dobie pojawia się wielu świadków takiego postępowania pośród ludzi sportu. Jednym z nich jest zawodowy piłkarz i trener, Grzegorz Jakosz, który dzieli się swoimi spostrzeżeniami w tym temacie. Samemu stając się promotorem gry fair play, zwraca uwagę na jej nieodzowny aspekt w procesie wychowania młodego pokolenia.

Le documentaire historique pris au piège : la dialectique entre archives et témoignage

2012

Dès que le documentaire cinématographique se proposa de rendre compte de l’Histoire, les archives devinrent leur source première. Le XXe siècle étant couvert, avec plus ou moins de précision, par les médias, les documentaristes puisèrent surtout dans des sources visuelles (photographiques et cinématographiques) provenant des ciné-journaux, des documentaires, mais aussi des films de fiction. C’est ainsi que se stabilisa le modèle classique de documentaire historique, à savoir : une succession d’images d’archives guidée par une voix over amenée à garantir la continuité du discours. Or, ce modèle canonique est loin d’être le seul existant et, même s’il demeure encoremajoritaire sous diverses m…

Adaptations of foot in point fight athletes

2014

Race, ethnicity and ‘African-ness’ in football discourse : perspectives in the age of superdiversity

2018

Globalization, mass mobility, and economic and transcultural flows are changing the experience of diversity in many contemporary societies and communities. This is encapsulated in the notion of ‘superdiversity’, the growing complexity of what ‘diversity’ means, when new combinations of ethnicity and other variables, mobility, belonging, and identification intersect in complex, less predictable ways (see Creese & Blackledge 2010: 550–552; Blommaert & Rampton 2011). Also, the world of association football (soccer, henceforth ‘football’) is radically transformed by such processes of globalization (Giulianotti 1999; Giulianotti & Robertson 2009; Kytölä 2013). The mobility of ‘actors-in-the-fiel…

Non-elite conceptions of Europe: Europe as reference frame in English football fan discussions

2020

International audience; Discursive approaches to Europe usually focus on elite discourses and target a narrow political understanding of Europe. Against the backdrop of rising Euroscepticism and the known elite-mass divide on issues of European identity, it seems important to shift the focus toward non-elite discourses on Europe. Given that club football is largely Europeanised (player markets, continent-wide club competitions and broadcasting of matches), we analyse how fans of the English Premier League club Manchester United discursively construct ‘Europe’ in relation to their sport. Our main research question aims at identifying how identifications of fans have been unconsciously Europe…