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Towards a business model for second-life batteries: Barriers, opportunities, uncertainties, and technologies

2023

Electric vehicles (EVs) and the recent pandemic outbreak give cities a new trend to primarily private and shared mobility with low noise and less air pollution. Crucial factors for the widespread of EVs are the electrical charging infrastructure, driving range, and the reduction of the cost of battery packets. For this reason, there is a massive effort from manufacturers, governments, and the scientific community to reduce battery costs and boost sustainable electrical production and distribution. Battery reuse is an alternative to reduce batteries’ costs and environmental impacts. Second-life batteries can be used in a wide variety of secondary applications. Second-life batteries can be co…

Settore ING-IND/33 - Sistemi Elettrici Per L'EnergiaSettore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniFuel TechnologyElectrochemistryEnergy Engineering and Power TechnologyBusiness models Batteries Sustainability Electric vehicles Challenges Opportunities Lithium-ion batteries ReuseEnergy (miscellaneous)Journal of Energy Chemistry
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Rappresentazioni e territorio nelle dinamiche del turismo: il caso della Lonely Planet Sicily

2018

L’attuale dibattito sul riordino territoriale del Paese rende nuovamente centrale il concetto di territorio che, da sempre, in una prospettiva geografica pone problemi definitori. Esso può essere, infatti, oggetto di produzioni simboliche e (ri)semantizzazioni in grado di ridefinirlo e di creare specifiche modalità di interazione. A questo proposito, il presente lavoro intende proporre una riflessione su alcune dinamiche di produzione e riproduzione simbolica che interessano il concetto di territorio nel turismo, ambito in cui si può osservare una relazione diretta tra rappresentazione del territorio (intesa anche come narrazione) e possibilità d’azione. In particolare, attraverso il caso s…

Settore M-GGR/02 - Geografia Economico-PoliticaThe current debate about the Italian territorial reorganization makes again fundamental the concept of «territory». This paper aims to reflect on some important dynamics that concern the idea of territory. More in particular I explore in which form it can be (re)semantised through some tourism representations and narrations able to create specific ways of interaction. By taking into account the case study of the Lonely Planet 2017 digital tourist guidebook dedicated to Sicily that splits (and reorganizes) the island in smaller «regions» it is possible to reflect on a complex space dynamic able to redefine the same idea of territory. Indeed the tourist guidebook uses both texts and geographical maps to propose an anthology of homogeneous and coherent destinations to make the Otherness more accessible for the readers. This process demonstrates how symbolic (re)productions of a territory can give rise to specific constructions of places creating different concepts of region and therefore performative spaces and opportunities of «agency». In other terms the (re)definition of the Sicilian territory proposed by the guide invites tourists to consider a new (narrated) geography invites and invites to interact with it thinking as visitors. From a geographical and cultural point of view reflection on these dynamics allows us to consider some (re)definitions of space in relation to forms of textualization (even on the maps). An imaginary but performative geography that attributes to the concept of territory epistemological and gnoseological possibilities.Settore M-GGR/01 - Geografia
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Gender differences in career plans and wage expectations of French undergraduates

2014

Gender differences in wage expectations may affect investment in human capital and increase inequalities in the labor market. Our research based on a survey of freshmen at a French university aims to understand how students form differences in wage expectations. Our results show that anticipated earnings differ significantly between men and women. One year after graduation, we find a gender pay gap of 16 per cent. A wage decomposition method indicates most of this effect is due to anticipation of discrimination. Ten years after graduation, anticipated discrimination is still almost as dominant in explaining the gender wage gap. Finally, using a survey of recent college graduates we show tha…

Sexual Differentiationstudent[SHS.EDU]Humanities and Social Sciences/Education[SHS.EDU] Humanities and Social Sciences/EducationwageForecast[ SHS.EDU ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Educationcareer opportunitiesProfessional Careerhealth care economics and organizations
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PREDICTORS OF THE SENSE OF BELONGING TO THE COUNTRY: EXPLORING A NEW MODEL

2017

This study explored new possibilities for measuring the sense of belonging to the country and investigated predictors of the sense of belonging to Latvia. Focusing on students’ sense of belonging to the country is explained by two reasons: 1) emigration is the main factor of depopulation in Latvia; 2) students’ intention to emigrate is the highest among other social groups. Studies in the field of community psychology present models of the sense of community and explore intentions to stay in a particular place. Within a new model, different levels of social systems (from meso- to macro-system) were included into the analysis of predictors of the sense of belonging to the country. The partic…

Social groupcommunity; country; ecological systems theory; opportunities; sense of belongingGeographySocial systemField (Bourdieu)Sense of communityCommunity psychologyContext (language use)Ecological systems theorySocial psychologyEmigrationSOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference
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The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset

2023

Funder: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Imagine Grant

Statistics and Probability223 participants with varying completion rates. Participants completed the survey from 111 geopolitical regions in 44 unique languages/dialects. The anonymized dataset described here is provided in both raw and processed formats to facilitate re-use and further analyses. The dataset offers secondary analytic opportunities to explore copingBF Psychology230 Affective NeuroscienceHealth Behaviorand demographic information for each participant. Each participant started the study with the same general questions and then was randomized to complete either one longer experiment or two shorter experiments. Data were provided by 73Message framingDiseasesLibrary and Information Sciences:Ciências Sociais::Psicologia [Domínio/Área Científica]geographical and cultural context characterizationHV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. CriminologypandemiatEducationa general questionnaire examining health prevention behaviors and COVID-19 experienceddc:150SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingRA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive MedicineSurveys and QuestionnairesAdaptation PsychologicalyleiskartoituksetHumansPendienteHealth behaviorsPandemicsframingBehaviour Change and Well-beingEmotion regulationSelf-determination messagingand self-determination across a diverseCOVID-19kansainvälinen vertailuResearch dataComputer Science Applicationswhich can be merged with other time-sampled or geographic data.cognitive reappraisalsglobal sample obtained at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemicterveyskäyttäytyminenIn response to the COVID-19 pandemic/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_beingand autonomy framing manipulations on behavioral intentions and affective measures. The data collected (April to October 2020) included specific measures for each experimental studyStatistics Probability and UncertaintyPeople’s healthtutkimusaineistosurvey-tutkimusDatasetInformation Systemsthe Psychological Science Accelerator coordinated three large-scale psychological studies to examine the effects of loss-gain framing
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Opportunities and Challenges in Overcoming the Economic Crisis

2013

Abstract This paper presents the main fundamental concepts concerning the methods of economic analysis: necessity of economic analysis, information system, types of economic analysis, methodologies used for the economic analysis of company, study of the factor which explain the results of the economic analysis of company, stage of the practical analysis. However in relation to conditions of economic crisis. In the same context is presented and analyzed the dictum of Nouriel Roubini, who said: “Stop austerity in the crisis!”. So, this paper analyzes “austerity vs crisis”,“insolvency - good or bad?” and “Sustainable Development” too.

Sustainable developmentInsolvencyGeneral EngineeringEnergy Engineering and Power TechnologyContext (language use)challengesinsolvency.austerityAusteritycrisisopportunitiesEconomyEconomicsInformation systemEconomic analysisEconomic systemProcedia Economics and Finance
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Crisis and Opportunities Variables always Addressed Simultaneously in Effective Management

2013

Abstract Understanding the causes, duration and consequences of the crisis and the means to exit it are far from being regarded as sufficiently understood and operationalized. From the general components of the crisis, there was a necessity to be defined and managed separately the subjective component (disorientation, confusion) and the objective component, which are unequivocally different. They have to be operationalized into strategies, programs and tactical procedures to traverse and overcome the crisis with minimal loss. The paper also deals with the opportunities that crisis can create and with the measures necessary to identify and exploit these.

TraverseOperationalizationExploitComputer scienceGeneral EngineeringEnergy Engineering and Power TechnologyEffective managementcrisisopportunitiesRisk analysis (engineering)Component (UML)medicineOperations managementmedicine.symptomDuration (project management)managementConfusionProcedia Economics and Finance
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Relationship benefits and costs in retailing: A cross-industry comparison

2009

Relationship marketing is based on the establishment and maintenance of continuous relationships between buyer and seller as a source of mutual benefits. Following this approach, customers' evaluations of benefits and monetary and non-monetary sacrifices derived from their relationships with the retailer are crucial for the existence of ongoing and successful relationships. Such a perception may, however, vary greatly depending on the type of service provided. In this paper, we analyse customers' assessments of the benefits and costs of their relationships with four types of retailers.

Type of serviceTourism Leisure and Hospitality ManagementPerceptionmedia_common.quotation_subjectEconomicsBusiness and International ManagementHigh StreetInvestment opportunitiesMarketingRelationship marketingFinanceConsumer behaviourmedia_commonJournal of Retail & Leisure Property
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The difficulties of adapting university teaching for students with disabilities: an analysis focussed on inclusive guidance

2012

The need for specific attention for the personal, social, academic and professional development of students with disabilities is a challenge that the university is committed to. Although significant progress has been made, promoted by an inclusive educational approach, there are still many difficulties faced by students to intergrate into university education. To advance a deeper understanding of the issues affecting these students, research has been conducted with a sample of 113 students with disabilities from different centers in the University of La Laguna (Spain). The results have highlighted, the lack of guidance and information regarding access to university courses, the need to impl…

UniversityUniversidaddiscapacidadUniversity; disability; inclusive coaching and mentoring; college students with disabilities; support for integration; accessibility; equal opportunitiessupport for integrationigualdad de oportunidadesapoyo a la integracióninclusive coaching and mentoringaccesibilidadalumnado universitario con discapacidadlcsh:LB5-3640Educationaccessibilitylcsh:Theory and practice of educationdisabilityPolitical sciencePedagogyComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONequal opportunitiesUniversity teachingorientación y tutoría inclusivacollege students with disabilitiesRELIEVE: Revista Electrónica de Investigación y Evaluación Educativa
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An Attempt to Investigate the Impact of selected Infrastructure Investments on the Potential Development of the Biggest European Cities. Application …

2019

The core of this article is a simulation of economic growth diffusion, based on the well-established Intervening Opportunities Model. The algorithm allowed detection of spatial distribution patterns of leading groups of beneficiaries from development of the Central Communication Port. The simulation experiments were conducted in two series: for predicting the impact of the Central Communication Port and the impact of both the Central Communication Port and Via Carpatia (also known as the New Amber Road) that is currently in development. The goal of this article is to answer the question: Which regions of Europe will benefit most from the development of the Central Communication Port? The re…

Via CarpathiaShifting ModelCentral Communication PortIntervening Opportunities (model)Studia Miejskie
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