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Studies on money and labour market dynamics and goods market imperfections
2010
Trust: the basis of the collaborative interaction
2005
This contribution focuses on the role of trust in developing collaborative learning. Both in face-to-face and online environments, four types of learning interactions are required: interaction with resources, with teachers, with peers and with an interface. Collaborative interaction, and therefore collaborative learning, requires people to trust one another. Several factors, such as shared social norms, repeated interactions and shared experiences, have been suggested to facilitate the development of interpersonal trust; as far as temporary teams are concerned, the concept of "swift trust" has been proposed. It is suggested that collaborative online interactions - compared to face-to-face o…
Asymptotic behavior of positive solutions of a Dirichlet problem involving supercritical nonlinearities
2013
Business and News Media Perspectives on the Power of Social Media Publics : Case Finland
2018
The Internet, social media, and their varied online publics have affected the working processes of public relations (PR) practitioners and journalists. The digital era has enabled access for various online publics, both individuals and communities, to create, share and search information online and also potentially to increase their communicative power by using networks for influencing, challenging or holding businesses and news media accountable. This interview study investigated Finnish PR practitioners’ and journalists’ perceptions of the potential communicative power of individuals and communities operating on social media and the effects these publics’ online presence and activities ha…
Improving the Quality of the Comply or Explain Approach and Introducing Self-Monitoring Through Online Feedbacks
2017
Codes of corporate governance and comply or explain approach are always at the core of the European Union agenda. This paper will deal both with the evolution of codes of corporate governance across Europe, and with the 2014 Recommendation. The idea put forwards is that regulators, at both EU and national level, should mainly improve the environment where the comply or explain approach is applied and introduce a system of self-monitoring through online feedbacks only. Arguably, this proposal might offer Member States a light-touch way to comply with Art. 11 of the 2014 Recommendation laying down that “[i]n order to motivate companies to comply with the relevant corporate governance code or …
Strictly convergent algorithm for an elliptic equation with nonlocal and nonlinear boundary conditions
2012
The paper describes a formally strictly convergent algorithm for solving a class of elliptic problems with nonlinear and nonlocal boundary conditions, which arise in modeling of the steady-state conductive-radiative heat transfer processes. The proposed algorithm has two levels of iterations, where inner iterations by means of the damped Newton method solve an appropriate elliptic problem with nonlinear, but local boundary conditions, and outer iterations deal with nonlocal terms in boundary conditions.
Understanding Consumers’ Online Shopping Behavior during the Covid-19 Pandemic – Empirical Research
2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our daily behavior, from interactions with friends, colleagues, and family, to safety measures and working. Additionally, this pandemic has dramatically changed consumers’ shopping behavior. The purpose of this research paper is to examine the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on consumer behavior. Thus, this paper proposes a new model that incorporates three variables: attitude for online shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic, budget considerations during the COVID-19 pandemic, and future behavioral intention after the COVID-19 pandemic. This study’s main research approach is a quantitative survey and examination using a sample of Romanian consumers. Additional…
Lower bound limit analysis by bem: Convex optimization problem and incremental approach
2013
Abstract The lower bound limit approach of the classical plasticity theory is rephrased using the Multidomain Symmetric Galerkin Boundary Element Method, under conditions of plane and initial strains, ideal plasticity and associated flow rule. The new formulation couples a multidomain procedure with nonlinear programming techniques and defines the self-equilibrium stress field by an equation involving all the substructures (bem-elements) of the discretized system. The analysis is performed in a canonical form as a convex optimization problem with quadratic constraints, in terms of discrete variables, and implemented using the Karnak.sGbem code coupled with the optimization toolbox by MatLab…
Corporate online presence : a study of eight Finnish exporting companies' corporate websites
2012
Yritykset käyttävät verkkosivujaan tuotteiden ja palveluiden markkinoinnin ohella myös yrityksen mainostamiseen ja verkkoidentiteetin luomiseen. Verkkoidentiteetti heijastaa kielen ja visuaalisen ilmeen kautta yrityksen identiteettiä sekä tavoiteltua yrityskuvaa. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli selvittää kriittisen diskurssianalyysin avulla millä tavalla suomalaiset vientiyritykset ilmentävät verkkoidentiteettiään sekä kielellisesti että visuaalisesti yritysprofiileissaan. Yritysprofiilit rakentuvat yritystarinoista, joiden tehtävänä on esitellä keskeisiä asioita yrityksestä ja samalla rakentaa tietynlaista kuvaa yrityksestä. Verkkoidentiteetin lisäksi tarkoituksena oli selvittää onko yritystar…
Coupled fixed-point results for T-contractions on cone metric spaces with applications
2015
The notion of coupled fixed point was introduced in 2006 by Bhaskar and Lakshmikantham. On the other hand, Filipovićet al. [M. Filipovićet al., “Remarks on “Cone metric spaces and fixed-point theorems of T-Kannan and T-Chatterjea contractive mappings”,” Math. Comput. Modelling 54, 1467–1472 (2011)] proved several fixed and periodic point theorems for solid cones on cone metric spaces. In this paper we prove some coupled fixed-point theorems for certain T-contractions and study the existence of solutions of a system of nonlinear integral equations using the results of our work. The results of this paper extend and generalize well-known comparable results in the literature.