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Market Environment Factors Influence on Development of Bancassurance in Latvia
2021
Banks and insurers as part of financial service industry engage in partnership under the concept of Bancassurance. Several studies are done on this topic, focusing on economies of scale and performance of most Bancassurance common models. The purpose of this study is to identify the key market environment factors that influence the development of Bancassurance for retail banks in Latvia and the level of increase. Aim of this research is to analyse – how market environment factors influence the development of Bancassurance in Latvia. The current paper is focused on the Latvian market where several Bancassurance models are present as we test our propositions by interviewing management represe…
Green energy products in the United Kingdom, Germany and Finland
2014
In liberalized electricity markets, suppliers are offering several kinds of voluntary green electricity products marketed as environmentally friendly. This paper focuses on the development of these voluntary markets at household level in the UK, Germany and Finland. Since there are already existing renewable energy policies regulating and encouraging the use of renewable energy, it is important to consider whether voluntary products offer real additional benefits above these policies. Problems such as double counting or re-marketing hydropower produced in existing plants are identified. According to our study, the demand varies between countries: in Germany the number of green electricity c…
Evaluation of Banking Digitization Policy of Romanian Commercial Banks
2018
Nowadays, even in Romania, we faced with process of digitalization of financial system, especially of banking system. Natural person—banks relationships are more and more distant as location, but more and faster as financial transaction results, because of banking digitalization process based on performance of internet era. The paper’s aims are to answer to questions like: Are Romanian past, actual and future generations prepared to be fully integrated in banking digitalization process? Do Romanian natural person understands the usefulness and benefits of digital banking services/? Or, how benefits of Romanian commercial banks are changing? The methodological support includes analyzing empi…
Reduced muscle inactivity, sedentary time and cardio-metabolic benefits : effectiveness of a one-year family-based cluster randomized controlled trial
2016
A driving hypothesis of the evolving field of sedentary behavior is that frequent muscle activity short-circuits detrimental physiological effects of sedentary time. However, the field relies mostly on observational health associations of proxy measures of muscle inactivity, like television viewing or lack of accelerometer-derived impacts. This study tested effectiveness of a family-based cluster-randomized controlled trial aimed at reducing and breaking up sedentary time at work and leisure time of families on muscle inactivity patterns, sedentary time and cardio-metabolic biomarkers. The intervention consisted of a lecture, face-to-face tailored counseling, two follow-up calls and five em…
Manuskrypt cechu krawców ze zbiorów Archiwum Państwowego w Opolu. Edycja krytyczna
2016
Anonimowy dokument z Archiwum Państwowego w Opolu włączony do zbioru „Cechy miasta Opola z lat 1470-1934, 123” o sygnaturze 80 jest zabytkiem, który ukazuje dzieje kultury materialnej z zakresu rzemiosła krawców i kostiumologii. Datowany jest on na około 1700 rok i z pewnością powstał na Śląsku. Podstawowym składnikiem opolskiego manuskryptu są wykroje w skali 23 prac krawieckich, głównie ubiorów noszonych przy końcu XVII wieku, ale wśród krawieckich szablonów znalazły się także wzory użytkowe, takie jak chorągiew kościelna, namiot wojskowy, strój na konia, dekoracja elewacji domu. Do unikatu wśród tego zbioru należy zaliczyć wykrój kontusza należącego do kompletu ubiorów polskich. Jego obe…
Heteroglossic and multimodal resources in use : participation across spaces of identification in a Christian lifestyle sports community
2017
This dissertation examines how members of one particular youth community, Christian lifestyle sports enthusiasts in Finland, use language and other semiotic resources to construct participation in their community of practice (CoP). The CoP is organized around the late-modern activity culture of lifestyle sports. The participants also share the Christian faith and in their snowboarding camps organize Bible study sessions and engage in prayer and worship. The theoretical and methodological framework incorporates sociolinguistics, social semiotics, discourse studies and connective ethnography, including the exploration of both the digital and physical spaces of the community. The dissertation …
L’expérience du consommateur dans le commerce de détail. Une revue de littérature
2013
Résumé Le thème de l’expérience s’est constitué en objet de recherche en marketing, grâce aux efforts investis par de nombreux distributeurs dans la création d’offres expérientielles. La littérature académique s’est d’abord concentrée sur les antécédents, la recherche et les conséquences de l’expérience, avant de prendre en compte le contenu même de l’expérience. Les stratégies des détaillants peuvent être analysées en mobilisant des grilles de lecture fondées sur la nature de la participation du consommateur à la production de l’expérience, ou sur le caractère extraordinaire ou ordinaire de l’expérience proposée. Le modèle synthétique proposé permet de rendre compte de l’expérience du con…
Parliamentary sources in the comparative study of conceptual history: methodological aspects and illustrations of a research proposal
2009
Summary: This article proposes that historians and political theorists should exploit parliamentary sources to move from the writing of national histories to the comparative study of the conceptual history of European political cultures. Complementing the German lexicographical approach to conceptual history, the authors argue that parliamentary debates in several European countries provide more reliable sources for the past use of the language of politics. They emphasize the possibilities for the study of political history and the rhetoric of parliamentary institutions offered by the use of parliamentary debates side by side with the study of archival sources and published literature. Rhet…
Probabilistic Logic under Coherence: Complexity and Algorithms
2005
In previous work [V. Biazzo, A. Gilio, T. Lukasiewicz and G. Sanfilippo, Probabilistic logic under coherence, model-theoretic probabilistic logic, and default reasoning in System P, Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics 12(2) (2002) 189---213.], we have explored the relationship between probabilistic reasoning under coherence and model-theoretic probabilistic reasoning. In particular, we have shown that the notions of g-coherence and of g-coherent entailment in probabilistic reasoning under coherence can be expressed by combining notions in model-theoretic probabilistic reasoning with concepts from default reasoning. In this paper, we continue this line of research. Based on the above sem…
Jautājumu veidi uzņēmumu mājas lapās
2018
Uzņēmumiem mājaslapas ir nozīmīgs komunikācijas kanāls, kas klientiem ļauj uzzināt nepieciešamo informāciju visā mājaslapā vai ‘Biežāk uzdotie jautājumi’ un ‘Palīdzība’ sadaļās, kur atrodamas atbildes uz dažādiem jautājumiem. Pētījuma mērķis bija veikt jautājumu analīzi un salīdzināt to lietojumu mazumtirdzniecības un banku mājaslapās. Izpētes procesā tika pielietota diskursa analīze. Rezultāti norāda, ka banku mājaslapas satur vairāk jautājumu nekā mazumtirdzniecības mājaslapas, tomēr noteikta veida jautājumi – wh-/how jautājumi, plašais modālo palīgdarbības vārdu can un will, kā arī tagadnes laika lietojums jautājumu formēšanā bija līdzīgas valodu iezīmes abu sfēru mājaslapās. Var secināt…