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Carbon emissions by Ssouth american companies: driving factors for reporting decisions and emissions reduction

2018

In the last decade, companies have started to disclose information on carbon emissions. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to look into this phenomenon in South America, which is a very important geographical area regarding climate change because of the local nature and developing economies. This paper explores the relationships between some corporate variables and two important decisions: (i) whether to report carbon emissions, and (ii) the impact on the evolution of carbon emissions. Logit and linear panel data models are used to determine the driving factors for decisions (i) and (ii). Our results show that regarding the carbon reporting decision, a company&rsquo

Towards an open database of assessment material for STEM subjects: requirements and recommendations from early field trials

2022

If appropriately implemented, open databases of instruction material may help teaching and learning by providing content for teaching activities, scaffolding, and self-assessment. The paper presents the current results of the development and implementation of a database that is expressly built for promoting exchange of questions and exercises, together with the associated solutions among teachers for STEM subjects. Besides presenting and motivating the initiative (together with reporting its current status), the manuscript lists a series of lessons that have been learned while executing the project - including the need for proper management of authorship and version control of the uploaded …

Which Factors Modulate Letter Position Coding in Pre-literate Children?

2021

One of the central landmarks of learning to read is the emergence of orthographic processing (i.e., the encoding of letter identity and letter order): it constitutes the necessary link between the low-level stages of visual processing and the higher-level processing of words. Regarding the processing of letter position, many experiments have shown worse performance in various tasks for the transposed-letter pair judge-JUDGE than for the orthographic control jupte-JUDGE. Importantly, 4-y.o. pre-literate children also show letter transposition effects in a same-different task: TZ-ZT is more error-prone than TZ-PH. Here, we examined whether this effect with pre-literate children is related to …

The Omission of Accent Marks Does Not Hinder Word Recognition: Evidence From Spanish

2021

Recent research has found that the omission of accent marks in Spanish does not produce slower word identification times in go/no-go lexical decision and semantic categorization tasks [e.g., cárcel (prison) = carcel], thus suggesting that vowels like á and a are represented by the same orthographic units during word recognition and reading. However, there is a discrepant finding with the yes/no lexical decision task, where the words with the omitted accent mark produced longer response times than the words with the accent mark. In Experiment 1, we examined this discrepant finding by running a yes/no lexical decision experiment comparing the effects for words and non-words. Results showed sl…

Asiakasraportointiprosessin uudistus finanssiyhtiöissä

2017

Nykyaikaiset liiketoimintaympäristöt ovat dynaamisia ja organisaatioiden pitää jatkuvasti kehittää toimintaansa tarjotakseen asiakkailleen uusia, parempia ja joustavampia palveluja tehokkaammin. Palvelujen laatu, joustavuus ja tehokkuus ovat selkeitä kilpailuetuja markkinoilla. Finanssialan yritysten asiakasraportointi on yksi selkeimmin asiakkaille näkyvistä prosesseista. Tässä tutkielmassa toteutettiin suomalaiselle finanssiyhtiöille uusi asiakasraportoinnin kuukausittaiseen massa-ajoon tarkoitettu sovellus. Tutkielmassa rinnastettiin Business Process Reengineering-malli (BPR) suunnittelutieteellisen tutkimuksen malliin. Näiden mallien avulla uudistusprojekti pystyttiin viemään läpi syste…

Locked-in Syndrome and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography: Observations from a Case of Basilar Artery Thrombosis

2018

We report the case of a 59-year-old male patient suffering from locked-in syndrome (LIS) following basilar artery thrombosis despite an attempt of thrombolysis. Neurological examination showed quadriplegia and aphonia and a state of coma requiring mechanical ventilation was diagnosed. The use of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET) allowed to detect a normal 18F-FDG uptake in the main cerebral cortical areas and a significant reduction of 18F-FDG uptake in both cerebellar hemispheres, compatible with a functional deafferentation, helping confirming the clinical suspicion of LIS. The diagnosis of LIS, according to literature, is based on the clinical assessment…

Retinal Straylight Before and After Penetrating Keratoplasty in an Eye with a Post-Herpetic Corneal Scar

2008

Objetivo: Estudio in vivo de la luz dispersa que alcanza la retina en un paciente antes y despues de someterse a una queratoplastia penetrante (o sus siglas en ingles, PKP). Metodos: En un paciente varon de 65 anos con una ulcera corneal herpetica se midio la proporcion de luz dispersa que alcanza la retina tanto antes como despues de una PKP, utilizando para ello un metodo psicometrico denominado "de comparacion por compensacion" («Compensation comparison method», C-Quant straylightmeter, Oculus GmbH, Alemania). Resultados: La cantidad de luz dispersa que alcanza la retina medida antes de la cirugia fue elevada en comparacion con los valores obtenidos en estudios previos en sujetos normale…

Unità e diversità nella marcatura differenziale dell'oggetto diretto in rumeno e in siciliano Studio Comparativo

Questa ricerca si propone di analizzare il fenomeno della marcatura differenziale dell'oggetto (d'ora in avanti MDO - Bossong 1985) descrivendone caratteristiche, funzioni, somiglianze e differenze: nel siciliano, e i suoi dialetti e nel romeno. La tesi mira a realizzare uno studio comparativo, essenzialmente esplicativo di un fenomeno presente in molte lingue (secondo Bossong più di 300) e che ancora oggi continua a essere oggetto di numerosi studi, per lo più tipologici (Bossong 1985, 1991, Comrie 1989, Croft 1988, Aissen 2003, Iemmolo 2010). La MDO, nota anche come accusativo preposizionale nella linguistica romanza (Niculescu 1959, 1965, Rohlfs 1984), è una variazione nella codifica deg…

Science teachers’ perceptions of the current situation of planetary emergency

2003

During the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio in 1992 educators of every subject were asked to contribute to public awareness and understanding of the problems and challenges related to our planet’s future, in order to make possible citizens’ participation in well grounded decision-making. The purpose of our contribution is to analyse what science teachers’ perceptions are, because without correct teacher perception of the planetary crisis and its possible solutions, we can’t expect their effective implication in this dimension of education.

Non-financial reporting in the public sector: alternatives, trends and opportunities

2019

In recent years, different non-financial information models have arisen, both in the private  and  public sectors, trying to complete the traditional financial reports prepared by companies and public administrations. The fundamental objective of these models has been to satisfy the interest of the stakeholders, which goes beyond the numbers included in the balance sheet and the income statement. In the case of the public sector, this is coupled with the discontent and distrust of citizens towards politicians and administrators of institutions, which makes it necessary to emphasize tools and strategies that can improve the transparency and accountability of administrations and restore citiz…