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Complex Rating Curves for Sharp Crested Orifices and Rectangular or Triangular Weirs under Unsteady Flow Conditions
2021
The importance of discharge measurements is fully acknowledged in many research fields, mostly in hydrology. Numerous measurement devices and various overflow structures have been proposed for discharge measurements; however, their use is based on calibrated simple stage discharge relationships that may cause significant errors when unsteady flow conditions occur. This issue is quite common because of rainfall and runoff temporal variability that inhibits the achievement of the steady state. Although this issue has already been experimentally investigated, it seems that a physically based line of approach has not been attempted before. In this paper, unsteady stage discharge relationships o…
La atención a la situación del mundo en la educación científica
2021
Protagonizamos en la actualidad una epoca de profundas y aceleradas transformaciones que, unida a una multiplicidad de problemas medioambientales y sociales cuyos efectos vienen agravandose a nivel planetario, ha convertido la "situacion del mundo" en objeto directo de preocupacion. En la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo, celebrada en Rio de Janeiro en 1992 y conocida como Primera Cumbre de la Tierra, se reclamo una decidida accion de los educadores, de todas las areas, para que los ciudadanos y ciudadanas adquieran una correcta percepcion de cual es esa situacion y puedan participar en la toma de decisiones fundamentadas. Un primer proposito de esta inve…
How value and trust influence loyalty in wireless telecommunications industry
2012
Despite making significant investments in enhancing the customer service experience, long-term customer loyalty remains an elusive dream for many service providers. Particularly in the telecommunications industry, switching providers even from within continuous contract relationships is easy and companies struggle to retain their customers. Trust and value are considered cornerstones of long-term relationships, so it is perhaps surprising that previous research on how relationship age and usage level actually affect value, trust and loyalty is inconclusive. The current research is set in the telecommunications services field and draws on a large-scale survey undertaken in Finland. The findi…
Fifty Years of International Catholic–Lutheran Dialogue: Much Consensus, Little Fellowship?
2020
This article presents an overview and an assessment of the international Catholic–Lutheran dialogue through fifty years. During the process, a theological rapprochement that few had dreamt of when the work began has been manifested. In the text Facing Unity (1984), even a detailed plan for a processual realization of Catholic–Lutheran church fellowship is sketched. However, this plan has not been implemented, and the achieved doctrinal convergence has not been transformed into concrete forms of unity. The author also seeks to uncover some of the main causes of this impasse, largely reflecting challenges in contemporary ecumenism.
Allee effects and the Allee-effect zone in northwest Atlantic cod
2022
According to the theory of compensatory dynamics, depleted populations should recover when the threat responsible for their decline is removed because per capita population growth is assumed to be highest when populations are at their smallest viable sizes. Yet, many seriously depleted fish populations have failed to recover despite threat mitigation. Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) stocks off Newfoundland, despite 30 years of dramatically reduced fishing mortality and numerous fishery closures, have not recovered, suggesting that drivers other than fishing can regulate the growth of collapsed fish populations, inhibiting or preventing their recovery. Here, using Bayesian inference, we show str…
Parenting, Peer Relationships, Academic Self-efficacy, and Academic Achievement: Direct and Mediating Effects
2017
The aim of the present study is to analyze the relation between authoritative and permissive parenting styles with the kinds of adolescent peer relationships (attachment, victimization, or aggression), and of the latter ones, in turn, with academic self-efficacy, and academic performance, in three waves that range from the early-mid adolescence to late adolescence. Five hundred Spanish adolescents, of both sexes, participated in a three-wave longitudinal study in Valencia, Spain. In the first wave, adolescents were either in the third year of secondary school or the fourth year of secondary school. The mean age in the first wave was 14.70 (SD = 0.68; range = 13–16 years). Child Report of Pa…
Exploring the anticancer potential of pyrazolo[1,2-a]benzo[1,2,3,4] tetrazin-3-one derivatives: The effect on apoptosis induction, cell cycle and pro…
2013
In order to investigate their anticancer potential, four new pyrazolo[1,2-a]benzo[1,2,3,4]-tetrazinone derivatives, designed through the chemometric protocol VLAK, and three of the most active compounds of the previous series have been evaluated on some cellular events including proliferation, apoptosis induction, and cell cycle. The NCI one dose (10 mu M) screening revealed that the 8,9-di-methyl derivative showed activity against Leukemia (CCRF-CEM) and Colon cancer cell line (COLO 205), reaching 81% and 45% of growth inhibition (GI), respectively. Replacement of the two methyl groups with two chlorine atoms maintained the activity toward Leukemia cell (CCRF-CEM, GI 77%) and selectively e…
Targeting V-ATPase in primary human monocytes by archazolid potently represses the classical secretion of cytokines due to accumulation at the endopl…
2014
The macrolide archazolid inhibits vacuolar-type H(+)-ATPase (V-ATPase), a proton-translocating enzyme involved in protein transport and pH regulation of cell organelles, and potently suppresses cancer cell growth at low nanomolar concentrations. In view of the growing link between inflammation and cancer, we investigated whether inhibition of V-ATPase by archazolid may affect primary human monocytes that can promote cancer by sustaining inflammation through the release of tumor-promoting cytokines. Human primary monocytes express V-ATPase, and archazolid (10-100nM) increases the vesicular pH in these cells. Archazolid (10nM) markedly reduced the release of pro-inflammatory (TNF-α, interleuk…
A new communication approach for customer relationship management in the hotel industry
2014
“Visas uzņēmējdarbības pamatā ir attiecības. Uzņēmumam tikai tās saviem klientiem jāpadara uztveramas un jēgpilnas - ar nosacījumu, ka klienti to vēlas” (Grönroos 2007, 24 lpp.). Uzņēmuma spēja palielināt apgrozījumu, izmantojot efektīvu vadību attiecībās ar klientiem ir ļoti svarīga, lai pārvarētu ekonomisko nenoteiktību visā pasaulē. Jaunās digitālo mediju īpašības kopā ar milzīgu alternatīvo paņēmienu klāstu saziņai ar klientiem ir radījušas vadītājiem un akadēmiķiem gan iespējas, gan problēmas (Winer, 2009, 116. lpp.). Lai veiksmīgi realizētu klientu attiecību vadību, ļoti konkurētspējīgu tirgu, pieredzējušu un prasīgu klientu un pakalpojumu nozares specifikas dēļ viesnīcu uzņēmumiem ne…
Klientu attiecību pārvaldības sistēmu ieviešana MVU
2019
Pastāvot intensīvai konkurencei un ekonomiskai liberalizācijai, veicinot individuālas iniciatīvas un privāto sektoru, kā arī cenu liberalizācija kā svarīgs un papildinošs globalizācijas apstākļi un saskaņā ar jauniem datiem, mārketinga pieeju piemērošana ir neizbēgama bez efektīvas mārketinga. organizācijas var tikt pakļautas lieliem zaudējumiem, kas varētu izraisīt bankrotu un izstāšanos no tirgus. Vairāku desmitgažu laikā daudzi mārketinga jēdzieni un termini ir uzticējuši to kā galveno elementu organizāciju panākumiem un stratēģijām. Šie termini ir pazīstami tādiem mārketinga profesionāļiem kā klientu apkalpošana, klientu attiecības, lojalitātes klienti un, visbeidzot, klientu attiecību…