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Safety of Dietary Guanidinoacetic Acid: A Villain of a Good Guy?
2021
Guanidinoacetic acid (GAA) is a natural amino acid derivative that is well-recognized for its central role in the biosynthesis of creatine, an essential compound involved in cellular energy metabolism. GAA (also known as glycocyamine or betacyamine) has been investigated as an energy-boosting dietary supplement in humans for more than 70 years. GAA is suggested to effectively increase low levels of tissue creatine and improve clinical features of cardiometabolic and neurological diseases, with GAA often outcompeting traditional bioenergetics agents in maintaining ATP status during stress. This perhaps happens due to a favorable delivery of GAA through specific membrane transporters (such as…
La consommation culturelle change, les institutions s'adaptent
2006
A conclusion is widely shared by the professionals of cultural sector: the consumers' motivations have changed and especially, their relation with the cultural products and services. This article seeks to analyse different trends applied to various fields of cultural sector (live shows, museums, cultural industries...) in order to improve the understanding of this "new" cultural audience. We define and illustrate each seven consumption orientations. Finally, we make evaluate each tendency by professionals of the cultural field.
Quel marketing pour les entreprises culturelles européennes ou comment renouveler l'offre face à une consommation en mouvement ?
2006
A conclusion is widely shared by the professionals of cultural sector: the consumers' motivations have changed and especially, their relation with the cultural products and services. This article seeks to analyse different trends applied to various fields of cultural sector (live shows, museums, cultural industries...) in order to improve the understanding of this "new" cultural audience. We define and illustrate each seven consumption orientations. Finally, we make evaluate each tendency by professionals of the cultural field.
Contingency plan selection under interdependent risks
2021
Managing supply chain risks (SCRs) has become an increasingly strategic key factor over the last decade, aimed at pursuing and maintaining business success. These types of risks clearly pose an important challenge to managers nowadays, and evaluating uncertainty affecting business scenarios is crucial. Indeed, COVID-19 has been dangerously affecting supply chains of global manufacturers, and is indicated as a main trigger cause of supply chain disruptions for a huge number of enterprises. Major effects derived from epidemic outbreaks on supply chains should be further adequately investigated since enterprises have been adopting poor risk management plans [1] to face them. Many companies, fo…
Entrepreneurial strategies of Etna wine farms
2014
Viticulture, as well as agriculture in general, performs an environmental and landscaping function and it encourages rural development through the creation of income and job opportunities in the areas where wine is produced. The wine sector, in fact, is of great social and economic importance within the Sicilian agriculture and food industry, because of the job opportunities it provides and due to Sicilian pedoclimatic peculiarities, variety of grape wines cultivars and production process. The present study aims at assessing the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises that cultivate wine grapes in the Etna area. In particular, it has been examined a sample of wine farms that p…
Treatment of Combined Dairy and Domestic Wastewater with Constructed Wetland System in Sicily (Italy). Pollutant Removal Efficiency and Effect of Veg…
2021
Dairy wastewater (DWW) contains large amounts of mineral and organic compounds, which can accumulate in soil and water causing serious environmental pollution. A constructed wetland (CW) is a sustainable technology for the treatment of DWW in small-medium sized farms. This paper reports a two-year study on the performance of a pilot-scale horizontal subsurface flow system for DWW treatment in Sicily (Italy). The CW system covered a total surface area of 100 m2 and treated approximately 6 m3 per day of wastewater produced by a small dairy farm, subsequent to biological treatment. Removal efficiency (RE) of the system was calculated. The biomass production of two emergent macrophytes was dete…
Impact of Wind Electricity Forecasts on Bidding Strategies
2017
The change in the generation mix from conventional electricity sources to renewables has important implications for bidding behaviour and may have an impact on prices. The main goal of this work is to discover the role played by expected wind production, together with other relevant factors, in explaining the day-ahead market price through a data panel model. The Spanish market, given the huge increase in wind generation observed in the last decade, has been chosen for this study as a paradigmatic example. The results obtained suggest that wind power forecasts are a new key determinant for supply market participants when bidding in the day-ahead market. We also provide a conservative quanti…
Decisoes sustentaveis, em projecto de Supply Chain : analise exploratoria de quatro casos
2010
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Logistyka ostatniej mili jako najdroższy odcinek łańcucha dostaw
2022
Last mile logistics is considered the most expensive part of the supply chain. This is due to the high cost of deliveries related to the costs of organizing the transport of small parcels to individual customers, including the costs of fuel, vehicle operation and couriers. Considering the growing popularity of e-commerce among citizens, the growing problem of the last mile of deliveries should be analysed. The study focuses on the analysis of the literature on the subject, as well as on the existing or possible solutions to issues related to deliveries to the end customer. The main aim of the study is to present the proposed solutions to the last mile problem in the light of possible benefi…
Virtual Work in the Supply Chain in E-Economy
2019
The problem that is taken under consideration in the following article concerns the implementation, use and effectiveness of virtual work in the supply chain in e-economy. Any solution concerning employee mobility or the use of mobile technology are due to growing market competition and constant search for new solutions that may enable the companies in the supply chain to be more efficient than their competition. In the supply chain the e-business creates for the companies new challenges they have to face. One of the possibilities to improve your business in the supply chain is to use virtual work. The new challenge facing the e-economy needs to be met. The aim of the article is to refer th…