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A Simultaneous Approach for IMS Design: a Possibility Based Approach
1999
IMS investments are characterised by high fixed costs and long life cycles. On the other hand, their redditivity and risk coverage depend on their manufacturing efficiency that is mainly defined during the design phase by fixing the system configuration. Due to the flexibility required to IMS, system configuration depends not only from technological information, such as product routing table and service times, but also from marketing data such as the typology of products to be manufacture and their production volumes. Moreover, the evaluation of the redditivity and the risk of the investment depends on market information such as product prices as well. Such interdependencies make the invest…
Municipal Climate Change Adaptation GOVERNANCE in Latvia: ApproachING Cross-sectorial and Multi–instrumental understanding
2021
Climate change adaptation being one of today’s main challenges on global agenda do affect people worldwide, but even though most decisions regarding climate change governance are made at the international or national level, the implementation of these decisions in most cases takes place at the local level. Municipal climate change adaptation research project in Latvia was carried out with special emphases on main stakeholder understanding, preparedness and communication factors using several complementary research methods – case study research in Salacgriva coastal municipality, sociological surveys with both Salacgriva town households / inhabitants (home visits / questionnaires) and also n…
Rubbish theory: the creation and destruction of value
2018
Already in my family’s possession for two generations, I am driving a – meanwhile quite old – VW Polo Mk II. When the car was manufactured in the early 1980s it was a special model, built for job s...
Hotel chain performance: a gravity-DEA approach
2011
Performance in business management can be measured in terms of competitiveness and efficiency. Generally speaking, competitiveness is a comparative concept of the ability of a firm, sub-sector or country to sell and supply goods and/or services in a given market, as measured by its market share. Particularly in competitive markets, efficiency plays a key role in determining this ability but it is not, by itself, sufficient. Indeed, while competitiveness has more to do with “pursuing the correct strategy” towards the conservation and/or increase of the market share, operational efficiency is mainly a measure of how well the firm, sub-sector or country under study processes inputs to achieve …
Intellectual Capital Policy in Universities. Case study: "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Romania
2018
This paper concentrates on the problems about the current state of intellectual property and, especially, on the necessity of the implementation of an intellectual property policy in "Lucian Blaga" University which is a comprehensive University. A case study was carried out in which such a policy was proposed, following the in-depth study on the policies of four Universities from the entire world by making a comparative analysis with the policy that WIPO (Worlds Intellectual Property Organization) has elaborated on as an example. By the work in question, it was intended to reflect the most important aspects that need to be taken into consideration when elaborating on an intellectual propert…
El derecho de <em>tenuta</em> como garantía de la restitución dotal en el derecho foral valenciano
2019
The right of «tenuta» arises once the year of mourning —«any de plor»— has elapsed where the heirs to the deceased husband have neither returned the dowry —«exovar»— to the surviving wife nor paid the dotal increase —«creix»—. The widow then obtains possession of the deceased husband's property and is entitled to its usufruct by operation of law. Its purpose is to act as a guarantee, since it aims to secure the return of the «exovar». The «tenuta» ceases when the heirs return the dowry and pay the dotal increase, which means that if they do so immediately after the marriage has ceased, the right does not take effect. The widow may also be deprived of the «tenuta» if she retains it malicious…
Els manuscrits catalans de la Doctrina moral d?en Pacs
2018
This paper analyses from a material and textual viewpoint the four preserved manuscripts containing the Doctrina moral , a work written in the first half of the 15th century by a man from Majorca from the Pacs family. The study of these copies gives us new information about some of the most controversial aspects of this work, such as authorship and date. The two witnesses owned by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France are related to the Italian city of Naples, while the manuscript of the Biblioteca de Catalunya could have been in possession of a branch of the Pacs family, the Conilleres. The codex of the Arxiu de la Corona d’Arago, edited by Bofarull (1857), presents a more innovative copy, …
Sapņi un sapņošana Homēra eposos: funkcionālais aspekts
2016
Bakalaura darba tēma ir Sapņi un sapņošana Homēra eposos: funkcionālais aspekts. Darba mērķis ir pētīt sapņu un sapņošanas funkcionālo aspektu Homēra eposos Īliada un Odiseja. Mērķa sasniegšanai tika izpētīta zinātniskā literatūra par Homēra eposiem, antīko episko stilu un sapņu un sapņošanas nozīmi antīkajā literatūrā. Tika atlasīti sapņi Homēra eposos un sadalīti pa funkcijām – nākotnes paredzējuma funkcija, mudināšanas funkcija un maldināšanas funkcija. Tika izpētīti tēli sapņos un to nozīme, kā arī pats sapņošanas process. Pētījuma laikā tika atklāts, ka sapņu iesaiste literārā darbā var būtiski mainīt notikumu gaitu, kā arī tika gūts priekšstats par sapņu nozīmi antīkajā pasaulē.
Remediation Practice at a Former Missile Base in Latvia
1998
Severe environmental pollution of soil and groundwater exists in Latvia from activities that took place at former Soviet military bases. Since 1994, the former owners of these territories have retaken possession of their lands and have started to use their properties for agriculture, exploitation of forests and recreation. These activities have increased the exposure of populations to toxic substances, with subsequent effects on human health.
Molte Palermo. Temi
2019
Nel tema delle incompiute idee di città possibili si riconoscerà il paradigma connotativo dello stesso divenire di Palermo, lungo un percorso millenario di processi di trasformazione nessuno dei quali portato a compimento, in virtù di quel valore distintivo di exemplum che non necessita di ulteriori e conclusive dimostrazioni. Il corso della storia, del resto, ha imposto a Palermo il ciclico riproporsi di destini interrotti. Tale si rilevò l’invenzione della città capitale, quella della “quadratura geometrica e della croce di strade” sovrimpressa a quella archetipica e fondativa della Pan-ormos scambiatrice. E l’incompiutezza sarà il tratto distintivo della città dei rettifili stradali otto…