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Wine - investment: a profitable alternative investment or a simple long term pleasure?
2014
International audience; The purpose of this work is twofold: - to make a first historic analysis of performance through an investment in wine by comparing its performance with those that would have been possible to obtain at the same time by providing financial term investments; - to introduce the regional diversity of performance by considering the situation in the three selected geographic areas.
Job Satisfaction among Primary School Personnel
2016
International audience; This article analyzes the job satisfaction of primary school teachers inMadagascar. Based on the estimation of multilevel models, low wages and problems getting paid, job insecurity, lack of in-service training, high pupil-teacher ratios, and lack of basic infrastructure and teaching materials are identified as the main reasons for dissatisfaction. Principals' control of teachers' activities also adversely affects satisfaction, suggesting that, in Malagasy schools, neither school directors nor teachers have succeeded in adopting organizational cultures based on cooperation among their members. These results are likely to stimulate debates on educational policy, both …
The paradoxical management of service skills
2015
This paper focuses on service skills which are mobilized by front office agents when they are involved with customers. These skills are most of the time tacit. We consider that the way in which firms recognize these skills and contribute to their development is an important management issue. It is all the more important that a lot of jobs combine poor levels of qualification and highly situated skills.
Is there a Market Value for Energy Performance in a Local Private Housing Market ? An efficiency analysis approach
2018
This paper aims to find evidence of a “green value” in a local housing market using notarial data on a small urban area in France. We use frontier functions, an original approach that departs from customary hedonistic regressions, to model housing market prices as a production set bordered by an efficiency frontier estimated by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The paper tests if difference in prices (i.e. the distance from the frontier) can be explained by energy performance measured as a normalized categorical ascending kWh/m²/year grade (or Energy Performance Certificate -EPC). We show that there is significative evidence for energy performance's market value. The “Green Property Value” i…
The Dark Trienium: Valencia, 1389-1391. Unrest coinciding with an assault on the Jewish district
2012
Estudio de base documental sobre el auge del antijudaísmo desde 1371 y el asalto a la judería de Valencia en julio de 1391, al poco tiempo de su ampliación. Sitúa el hecho en el contexto de las tensiones políticas en la Corona de Aragón y en la ciudad, donde se enfrentaban sendos bandos: actuaciones entre 1375 y 1392 del inquisidor Nicolau Eimeric (Directorium inquisitorum) contra herejes y su condena de obras de Ramon Llull. Cortes de 1388-1389. Guerras en el ámbito pirenaico en 1390. Políticas de abastecimiento y defensa de la ciudad de Valencia y oposición de villas y nobles del reino al municipio de la capital, que arma una milicia montada en mayo de 1391. Represión de maleantes y medid…
Derogatio fori, sociedades mercantiles y pluralidad de demandados = Derogatio fori, commercial companies and plurality of defendants
2018
Resumen: El Auto de la Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona, sección 1ª, de 13 de diciembre de 2017 objeto de comentario estima el límite de la jurisdicción española por la sumisión expresa en favor de los tribunales de otro Estado en un contrato de suministro celebrado entre dos mercantiles. La Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona aprecia la derogatio fori con base en el artículo 22 ter párrafo cuarto LOPJ, pese a demandarse también a una sociedad domiciliada en España que no es firmante del contrato.Palabras clave: derogatio fori, sumisión expresa, competencia judicial internacional, materia con-tractual, declinatoria internacional, tribunales de terceros estados.Abstract: The Order of the Prov…
Recent Advances in Kaempferia Phytochemistry and Biological Activity : A Comprehensive Review
2019
Background: Plants belonging to the genus Kaempferia (family: Zingiberaceae) are distributed in Asia, especially in the southeast region, and Thailand. They have been widely used in traditional medicines to cure metabolic disorders, inflammation, urinary tract infections, fevers, coughs, hypertension, erectile dysfunction, abdominal and gastrointestinal ailments, asthma, wounds, rheumatism, epilepsy, and skin diseases. Objective: Herein, we reported a comprehensive review, including the traditional applications, biological and pharmacological advances, and phytochemical constituents of Kaempheria species from 1972 up to early 2019. Materials and methods: All the information and reported stu…
Food loss and waste in food supply chains. A systematic literature review and framework development approach
2021
Abstract This study examines the state of the art of the literature in the domain of food loss and waste (FLW) in food supply chains (FSC). The authors used a systematic literature review (SLR) approach to examine and synthesise the findings of the existing literature to identify the key research themes, research gaps and avenues of future research on FLW in FSC. To this end, this SLR considered 152 articles relevant for the review. The authors uncovered the extant literature in the domain by presenting the research profile of the selected studies, along with thematic analysis. The authors identified eight key themes from the extant literature. The themes range from factors responsible for …
Virtual Enterprise Simulation Game as an Environment for Collaborative Creativity and Learning
2021
AbstractWhen employees become accustomed to everyday working habits it can prevent them from generating creative ideas. This familiarity takes the forms of mainly collaborating with familiar colleagues, playing roles that develop over years, and solving encountered problems with proven strategies. This chapter considers how a virtual enterprise simulation game (RealGame) can potentially foster digital creativity and collaborative learning. The game simulates a situation where team members take responsibility for managing a virtual manufacturing company and its supply chain. Theoretically, we consider RealGame a facilitating environment for people to collaborate by offering a safe environmen…
Smart ICT Support for Business Networks
2005
Modern companies lean increasingly towards innovating and renewing their business operations in a more value-adding and customer-centric direction. As a prerequisite to this, a number of companies are willing to combine their knowledge and resources, for instance by forming strategic alliances supported by a mixture of open ICT infrastructure and proprietary and interoperable ICT applications. This study examines a network of three focal companies that are seeking cost-efficient expansion of their services. As the potential market for these complex customer services is worldwide, the objective is expected to be met only with the help of ICT. Furthermore, the view among the companies is rela…