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Does higher technical efficiency induce a higher service level? A paradox association in the context of port operations
2020
Abstract Researchers and practitioners are benchmarking technical efficiency of ports and exploring the drivers of high efficiency. Paradoxically, this study argues that high technical efficiency (TE = 1) is not always essential, but an optimal level needs to be achieved while balancing the port service level. This study applies data envelopment analysis (DEA) and free disposal hull (FDH) methods to perform efficiency rankings of 38 container terminals from 17 different ports in 12 Asian countries. Four terminals are technically efficient (TE = 1) in all frontier approaches, thereof one Bangladeshi, one Chinese, one Indian and one Vietnamese. Furthermore, this study presents a case study co…
Determining the best shipper sizes for sending products to customers
2014
A distribution company has to send products, packed into shippers, from the warehouse to retail shops. The number of different shipper types is regarded as a parameter given by the user, who is looking for a balance between transportation costs and stock and procurement costs. The problem is to decide the sizes of the shipper types to keep at the warehouse so as to minimize the cost of meeting the forecasted demand over the planning horizon. In this paper, we describe an integer linear programming formulation for the problem and obtaining feasible solutions. Other models, based on multiknapsack and p-median and facility location models, are for obtaining lower bounds. We study several ways …
The humanities are not our patient
2021
When inviting contributions to a special issue of this journal titled ‘Management Learning and the Unsettled Humanities’ the guest editors did not simply encourage contributors to explore possibilities ‘for reciprocal integration’ between the two realms. Stressing that ‘the humanities . . . [are] facing a complex crisis on their own’, they stated that ‘the humanities . . . need to be enriched, nuanced, and critiqued through . . . the ideas and perspectives of organisational research’. While we may agree that all is not well in the humanities and share their scepticism towards ‘just prescribing the value of the humanities to ameliorate the ills of management education’, we are less confiden…
Formulating 'principles of procedure' for the foreign language classroom: A framework for process model language curricula
2015
This article aims to apply Stenhouse's process model of curriculum to foreign language (FL) education, a model which is characterized by enacting principles of procedure which are specific to the discipline which the school subject belongs to. Rather than to replace or dissolve current approaches to FL teaching and curriculum development, this article seeks to improve and enrich communicative and task-based orientations with an additional criterion for assessing the educational worth of the tasks through which these orientations are developed. Unlike the objectives and competences models, principles of procedure provide an intrinsic justification of school curriculum by enacting the epistem…
A Tool to Assess Architectural Education from the Sustainable Development Perspective and the Students' Viewpoint
2021
[EN] Architectural education plays a fundamental role in achieving sustainable development by training future professionals who can contribute to sustainability through their practice. Nevertheless, to ensure the introduction of sustainable development in the education of future architects, it is fundamental to understand what is being done and what could be improved. Despite this, a big gap has been detected in the assessment of architectural education in Spain and worldwide. Thus, a close-ended questionnaire for students has been designed based on the outcomes from a literature review, exploratory interviews with specialists, and the qualitative analysis of two schools of architecture. Ad…
Sociología, Derecho y desigualdades sociales. Una propuesta de docencia universitaria crítica
2019
Fil: Di Nella, Dino. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Río Negro, Argentina. Fil: Almeda, Elisabet. Universidad de Barcelona. Catalunya, España. Fil: Camps Calvet, Clara. Universidad de Barcelona. Catalunya, España. Fil: Giordana, Patricia. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Río Negro, Argentina. Fil: Loggiacco, Camila. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Río Negro, Argentina. Fil: D'Alfonso, Luis. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Río Negro, Argentina. Critic education in human rights and social inequalities must be able to capture holistic and mutidmiensional sphere that Human Rights requires. This study introduces the basis in which critic university teaching proposal is carectarized by…
Descripción y análisis de un caso de enseñanza y aprendizaje de la demostración en una comunidad de práctica de futuros profesores de matemáticas de …
2010
El propósito de la investigación es analizar el aprendizaje de la demostración matemática de un grupo de estudiantes de un curso universitario de geometría plana, de un programa de formación de profesores, en el cual se llevó a cabo una instrucción experimental en la que se pretendía lograr la conformación de una comunidad de práctica. El marco teórico se circunscribe a la teoría de la práctica social propuesta por Wenger. En tal sentido, caracterizamos el aprendizaje como sinónimo de participación en la actividad demostrativa que se despliega para construir colectivamente, profesora y estudiantes, una porción de un sistema axiomático. Junto con la materialización de dicha práctica en un co…
Research in mathematics education as a component in the initial training of early childhood teachers
2013
En este trabajo presentamos una experiencia didáctica llevada a cabo en la asignatura Didáctica de la Matemática en Educación Infantil impartida en 4º curso del Grado de Maestro en Educación Infantil de la Universidad de Valencia. A través de esta experiencia hemos pretendido acercar la investigación en el campo de la didáctica de la matemática a los futuros maestros de infantil. Con el fin de poder evaluar el impacto que dicha experiencia ha tenido, hemos procedido a administrar un pre-test y un post-test que indagan en el conocimiento que los estudiantes poseen sobre las investigaciones en educación matemática infantil y la utilidad que le otorgan. Hemos analizado los datos obtenidos y en…
Ogres iedzīvotāji, saimniecība un kultūra (1918.-1940.)
2020
Bakalaura darba tēma ir „Ogres iedzīvotāji, saimniecība un kultūra (1918.–1940.)”. Darba mērķis ir pētīt Ogres apdzīvotās vietas saimniecisko, sabiedriski-kulturālo un kūrorta izaugsmes attīstību, ņemot pamatā darbā iekļautās hronoloģiskās robežas no 1918. līdz 1940. gadam. Pētījuma gaitā tiek aplūkoti dati par Ogres demogrāfiskajiem rādītājiem, dots ieskats Ogres sabiedrības pilsoniskajās aktivitātēs un pilsētas saimnieciskajās nozarēs. Darbā tiek dots ieskats arī pilsētas apbūves raksturā, administratīvajā sektorā un Ogres iedzīvotāju ikdienas dzīves norisēs. Pētījuma gaitā secināms, ka Ogres pilsēta pirmās Latvijas neatkarīgās valsts laikā gan saimniecisko, gan sabiedrisko dzīvi pakārtoj…
Transition vers des systèmes agricole et agroalimentaire durables : quelle place et qualification pour les légumineuses à graines ?
2017
Cet article propose une analyse historique du processus de verrouillage du système agroalimentaire en défaveur des légumineuses à graines, à l’aune des théories évolutionnistes. Plusieurs mécanismes d’autorenforcement permettent de comprendre pourquoi ces espèces sont de moins en moins cultivées en France face à un système agro-industriel qui s’est spécialisé en faveur des céréales, favorisant à l’amont l’usage d’engrais azotés de synthèse et limitant à l’aval les investissements pour les légumineuses en alimentation humaine. Cet article s’interroge alors sur les perspectives de déverrouillage.