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Management team development opportunities: a case of Lithuanian furniture company

The accelerating implementation of innovations in business "drags" the enterprise management teams into a chain of constant changes which requires rapid adaptation to the process of changes, becoming a routine. Development as an issue of a systemic qualitative change and of the increasing internal organisational potential is one of the most important issues in the advancement of modern organisations. The article introduces to the opportunities of the management team development as one of the main activity trends seeking to ensure the possibility of successful team management, continuous improvement of the members, and increasing competitiveness of the organisation. Upon conducting qualitative research in a KlaipA—da region furniture manufacturing company, its findings, i. e. the opportunities of the management team development are presented: to encourage all the members of the management team to become leaders; to identify the goals of the personality and the competences development; to find out which competences each member wants to improve and to allow them to undertake additional activities that would enable the improvement of those competences; to set the operational goals for the members which would also allow (help) them to pursue their personal goals; to coordinate the values of the organisation and the team members on the basis of needs, when the need for self-realisation prevails over their hierarchy; to give more responsibility to the team members who wish and seek it; and to authorise each member of the team to resolve comnflicts independently.
Who speaks out when politicians tune in ? Interpersonal trust and participation in public consultations

Public consultations, especially online, are more and more commonplace in contemporary democracies. This work aims to study how interpersonal trust determines participation in public consultations, and the forms there of. I use the Grand Debat National, that occurred in France in 2019, as a natural experiment to study the geographic cross sectional relation ship between a novel synthetic measure of local interpersonal trust and various aspects of participation in this public consultation. Then I study evidence from a small-scale experiment on interpersonal trust and participation in an online public consultation. I conclude that high-trust individuals participate more to public consultations compared to low-trust individuals, both at the extensive and intensive margins, and that there exists a discrepancy in their forms of participation, in terms of content, but also when it comes to textual or lexical aspects of participation. This result calls for questioning the common presumption that public consultations will give a better representation to and help design be.er policies for everyone, particularly low-trust individuals. In fact, it appears that public consultations can be instead captured by the demands of high-trust individuals.
Location of Unwanted Facilities in Prague: NIMBY in Public Administration Hierarchy

The paper investigates how the problem of NIMBY (Not-In-My-Back-Yard) related to the location of unwanted facilities is dealt in a hierarchically organized city. The conventional view of NIMBY is based on two premises: first, that locally unwanted facilities are essential to achieve an important societal benefit and realize the public good; second, that selfish opposition of local community prevents the realization of that societal good. The NIMBY effect is studied as a conflict between the City of Prague and its city districts. The official documents of the Prague City Council and of the Prague City Assembly were searched to find examples of decisions on the location of unwanted facilities. The documents search was concentrated on five selected facilities: municipal waste dumps, services for the homeless, services for drug users, regulation of gambling facilities, and the system of parking zones. In the documents, the authors identified five types of approaches to NIMBY that are called financial compensation, fair distribution, local autonomy, gradual problem shifting, and consultation/cooperation. It was observed that city districts, lower level of public administration, behave as guardians of local interests if they communicate with a higher level of public administration, a guardian of global interests. As local politicians depend on their local voters, it is not surprising that they prefer local interests to global ones. This naturally creates an internal policy conflict in the city that is divided into smaller units.
2085 IMPROVEMENT OF FATIGUE DURABILITY OF RC SLABS BY EXPANSIVE AGENTS

Usage of chemical agents to reduce crack occurrence and propagation in concrete members is well known. Due to crack inhibition they seem to be one solution for bridge decks where high durability is of prime importance. The authors selected expansive agents and PVA as suitable agents. Fatigue tests using the Wheel Load Running Machine were carried out for both types of concrete specimens.
Profiling high-frequency equity price movements in directional changes

Market prices are traditionally sampled in fixed time intervals to form time series. Directional change (DC) is an alternative approach to record price movements. Instead of sampling at fixed intervals, DC is data driven: price changes dictate when a price is recorded. DC provides us with a complementary way to extract information from data. It allows us to observe features that may not be recognized in time series. The argument is that time series and DC-based analysis complement each other. With data sampled at irregular time intervals in DC, however, some of the time series indicators cannot be used in DC-based analysis. For example, returns must be time adjusted and volatility must be amended accordingly. A major objective of this paper is to introduce indicators for profiling markets under DC. We analyse empirical high-frequency data on major equities traded on the UK stock market, and through DC profiling extract information complementary to features observed through time series profiling.
Increasing the Value of Spent Grains from Craft Microbreweries for Energy Purposes

Increasing the Value of Spent Grain from Craft Microbreweries for Energy Purposes Giulio Sperandio, Tiziana Amoriello, Katya Carbone, Marco Fedrizzi, Alessandro Monteleone, Serena Tarangioli, Mauro Pagano* CREA, Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria. CREA-ING, Unità di ricerca per l’ingegneria agraria, Via della Pascolare 16, 00015, Monterotondo (ROMA), Italy CREA, Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria. CREA-NUT, Centro di ricerca per gli alimenti e la nutrizione, Via Ardeatina 546, 00100, ROMA, Italy CREA, Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria. CREA-FRU, Centro di ricerca per la frutticoltura, Via di Fioranello 52, 00134 ROMA, Italy CREA, Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria. CREA-PB, Centro di ricerca per le politiche e bioeconomia, Via PO, 00134 ROMA, Italy mauro.pagano@crea.gov. it
Sound source localization using a low-cost wireless sensor network

In the GoGreen project an intelligent home that is able to identify inhabitants and events that take place is created. The location of sounds that are being produced is an important feature for the context awareness of this system. A a wireless solution that uses low-cost sensor nodes and microphones is described. Experiments show that solutions that only use the three sensor nodes that are closest to the origin of the sounds provide the best solutions, with an average accuracy of 40 cm or less.Paper published for the ICT Open 2013 proceedings (27-28 November 2013, Eindhoven).
Farmers' risk management in maize production in northern Vietnam: determinants of variety choice and area allocation

Introduction and Research Objectives In Vietnam, maize has become the second most important crop after rice due to its importance as feed for the country’s rapidly growing livestock industry. In Yen Chau district in north-western Vietnam, 97% of farmers grew maize in 2007; maize covered 84% of the upland area and accounted for an average of 65% of total cash income (Keil et al., 2008). Given the considerable input and output price fluctuations, dramatic soil erosion on steep maize plots, and adverse climatic conditions observed in recent years, this specialization on maize production must be viewed as a relatively risky livelihood strategy, especially for the poorest. The level of risk depends – among other factors on the yield potential, yield variability, and input requirements of the maize varieties used. Understanding farmers’ decision-making with respect to maize production is a crucial prerequisite to enhancing both its economic and ecological sustainability in the area. In particular, this study tests the hypothesis that poorer farmers are more risk averse (cf. Morduch, 1995) and that this is reflected in their maize management. The specific objectives of this research are (1) to identify the most important maize varieties used and their characteristics; (2) to empirically investigate differences in maize management between poorer and wealthier farmers using data from a random sample of farm households; (3) to identify determinants of farmers‘ choice between relatively risky HYV and less risky varieties; and (4) to identify determinants of area allocation to maize, accounting for the possible effect of variety choice and unobserved characteristics affecting both variety choice and area allocation.
Individual Returns to Training in a Russian Firm

This work is devoted to estimating the individual return to worker's professional training. This empirical research is based on unique monthly data, comprised of the personnel records of workers in a Russian metallurgical enterprise between 2006--2010. Using the original time distributed difference-in-differences technique we control for the effect of workers' mobility and the ``non-parallel'' dynamics of earnings in estimates. A qualitative comparison of mobility in trained and control groups is also made by Kaplan-Meier survival curves. The main factors that distinguish this paper from others are the following. (I) We focused on the internal labour market, concluding that it has common peculiarities of wage setting concerned with training as an open labour market. (II) We show that mobility-friendly training programs give high returns, and not only in transition economies. (III) We suggest controlling for mobility by choosing a corresponding control group. (IV) We use a robust new specification that is reactive to different dynamics of the dependent variable in treated and control groups in difference-in-differences estimates. (V) We compared three different kinds of training and our conclusions could have practical application (at least in Russian context). The best way to raise personal earnings is on-the-job training. The internal mobility caused by retraining courses was the same impact on workers as if they lacked retraining. The wages of workers trained in the same field grow randomly for a few months before and after training. Nevertheless it is difficult to prove the causal effect of this kind of training on wage growth
Exploring spatial decay effect in mass media and social media: a case study of China

The rapid development of techniques and theories in the big data era have also introduced new challenges and opportunities to analyze a large amount of mass media data available online (Eagle et al. 2009, Liben-Nowell et al. 2005). Compared to social media, traditional mass media is characterized by the significance and aggregated nature of associated events (Liebert and Schwartzberg 1977). Special event data, including both positive events (e.g., holiday festivals) and negative events (e.g., street riots) have played an important role in analyzing the social, economic, and cultural status of a region. As such, mass media data are often suitable for investigating the aggregated pattern of a society.
Can commitment save companies from negative publicity? : The tempering effect of commitment and corporate response on negative publicity

According to Faircloth, Capella & Alford, (2001), a brand is one of the most important assets a company can possess. A brand is what the consumers relate to when differentiating one com-pany from another and therefore plays a vital role for determining competitive advantage. How-ever, in the modern world, with the increasing technology advances, companies are losing more and more control of what is said and spread about their brands. What takes companies years to build can nowadays be destroyed in just a short amount of time. When dealing with negative publicity, a company‟s actions have a crucial role in determining the outcome of the negative publicity. The theoretical literature suggests that strong respective weak corporate response, will decide whether the consumers‟ brand attitude will be improved or wors-ened. Furthermore, it is also argued that consumers‟ commitment level can temper the effects of negative publicity in the sense that the more committed a consumer is, the more he/she will re-sist a change in brand attitude. Therefore, the purpose of this study is "to examine if consumers’ atti-tude towards a brand is changed depending on strong or weak corporate response to the negative publicity. A significant aspect is to investigate and further associate the commitment variable to the outcome of change in attitudes as a result of the negative publicity. " In order to determine the cause-and-effect relationship between corporate response and brand attitude, an experiment was conducted where corporate response was the independent variable and brand attitude was the dependent variable. Furthermore, the commitment variable was in-cluded as a covariate; an independent variable not manipulated by the experimenter but still ex-pected to affect the outcome. Three different questionnaires were created: 1) Negative publicity with weak corporate response, 2) Negative publicity with strong corporate response, and 3) Negative publicity only. The experiment was conducted on consumers in Jonkoping. The results indicate that whether a company decides to reply with a strong or weak corporate re-sponse to negative publicity, it will in the end have an effect on the consumers‟ brand attitude. Furthermore, the results also reveal that a consumer‟s level of commitment reinforces the effect of corporate response on his/her attitude towards a brand. In other words, the degree of the consumers‟ commitment towards a brand can temper the effect of negative publicity, ultimately saving companies from the consequences of negative publicity.
Effects of partitioning allochthonous and autochthonous resources on food web stability

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Present address: Department of Biology, SCA110, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA. Email: ghuxel@chuma1.cas. usf.edu † Present address: Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Québec H3A 1B1, Canada. Received 11 October 2001. Accepted 1 February 2002. Effects of partitioning allochthonous and autochthonous resources on food web stability
Part I : effect of drilling mud properties

Fulong Ning,1,2 Keni Zhang,3,4 Nengyou Wu,2 Ling Zhang,1 Gang Li,2 Guosheng Jiang,1 Yibing Yu,1 Li Liu1 and Yinghong Qin1 1Faculty of Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China. E-mail: nflzx770803@163.com 2Guangzhou Center for Gas Hydrate Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China 3Earth System Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 4College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

The Academic Advising Center was established in January 2005 under the guidance of the Vice Provost office. The purpose of the Center was to work with each of the six undergraduate colleges along with Career Services to assist undergraduate students who had neither declared an academic major nor made a college affiliation. The Center was also developed to assist current students in transition between colleges or undergraduate majors.
Service-Oriented Architecture for V IEW : a Visual Scientific Workflow Management System

Scientific workflows have recently emerged as a new paradigm for scientists to formalize and structure complex and distributed scientific processes to enable and accelerate many scientific discoveries. In contrast to business workflows, which are typically controlflow oriented, scientific workflows tend to be dataflow oriented, introducing a new set of requirements for system development. These requirements demand a new architectural design for scientific workflow management systems (SWfMSs). Although several SWfMSs have been developed that provide much experience for future research and development, a study from an architectural perspective is still missing. The main contributions of this paper are: i) based on a comprehensive survey of the literature and identification of key requirements for SWfMSs, we propose the first reference architecture for SWfMSs, ii) in compliance with the reference architecture, we further propose a service-oriented architecture for V IEW (a VIsual sciEntific Workflow management system), iii) we implement V IEW to validate the feasibility of the proposed architectures, and iv) we present two case studies to showcase the applications of our V IEW system.
Covid-19 Krizinin Türkiye’deki Sektörler Üzerinde Etkileri: Borsa İstanbul Sektör Endeksleri Araştırması

2019 yilinin son doneminde Cin’in Vuhan kentinde ortaya cikan Covid-19, kisa surede tum dunyayi etkisi altina almistir. Covid-19 salgini, yalnizca insan sagligini degil kuresel ekonomiyi de tehdit etmeye baslamistir. Dunya genelinde salgina karsi alinan tedbirler arz ve talep yonlu daralmaya sebep olmustur. Olusan yeni konjonkturde her isletmenin faaliyet alani kendine ozgu oldugu icin sektorler surecten farkli duzeyde etkilenmistir. Mevcut calismada Covid-19 salgininin Turkiye’deki sektorel etkilerini incelemek uzere Basit Lineer Regresyon analizi yapilmistir. Analizlerde bagimsiz degisken olarak Turkiye’deki aktif vaka sayilarindaki gunluk degisim, bagimli degiskenler olarak ise BIST sektor endekslerindeki gunluk degisimler kullanilmistir. Tahmin modelleri sonucunda Turkiye’de Covid-19 salgininin Elektrik, Ulastirma, Mali, Sinai, Teknoloji Sektor Endeksleri uzerinde gorece yuksek duzeyde anlamli ve olumsuz etkilere sahip oldugu bulgularina ulasilmistir. Ayrica, incelenen 10 sektorde Covid-19 salgininin Ticaret Sektoru haric farkli anlamlilik duzeyinde olumsuz etkilerinin oldugu gozlemlenmistir. Her sektorun kendine ozgu dinamikleri oldugu icin etkilenme durumlari goz onunde bulundurularak sektor ozelinde cozum onerileri sunulmustur.
Robotic Manipulation for Specialty Crop Harvesting: A Review of Manipulator and End-Effector Technologies

This paper reviews recent developments in manipulator and end-effector technologies for the robotic harvesting of specialty crops that include fruits, vegetables, nursery crops, and nuts among others. Quantitative performance measures and general review criteria, including methods of crop detachment and end-effector sensing, are used to evaluate technologies and determine state-of-the-art in the field. Challenges affecting commercial implementation, limitations of current mechanical designs, and best practices are then presented. Results of the review show that, in general, robotic manipulation during harvesting has been limited by lack of system optimization and insufficient robustness to position error accumulated during visual localization. Inconsistent reporting practices have also hampered research and development across the field. At the conclusion of the review, some avenues of future research that could potentially lead to improvements in system performance are proposed. Some of the proposed recommendations include specific horticultural practices, the development of modular, multi-functional designs, and the incorporation of robust grasping techniques used in many of today’s robotic hands.
Studying the effects of socio-demographic factors and medical history of recurrent infections , chronic diseases , smoking and drugs intake on obesity prevalence in adults

This study aims at studying the effect of socio-demographic factors and medical history of recurrent infections, chronic diseases, smoking habits and chronic use of drugs on obesity prevalence in adults. This work was applied on 50 obese subjects visited to the Nutrition Center of Marjan hospital in Babylon province from October 2014 to January 2015. Obese subjects consisted of 39 females and 11 males with age range 20-60 years. This study involved also 30 apparently health subjects (normal weighted) as controls, which consisted of 21 males and 9 females with age range 22-50 years. Body mass index for each subject was estimated, socio-demographic factors and medical history of recurrent infections, chronic diseases, smoking and chronic use of drugs also have been determined in a special questionnaire. In socio-demographic factors, the age, residence, occupational state, educational level were significantly associated with obesity prevalence (p˂0.05), while gender was highly significant associated with obesity (p˂0.001), marital status not associated (p>0.05). In medical history, recurrent infections and chronic diseases were a highly significant associated with obesity (p˂0.001), and chronic use of drugs was significantly associated with obesity (p>0.05). smoking habits nonsignificantly associated with obesity, and increasing of pack-year unit paralleled to decreasing of BMI.The results provide a good correlation between socio-demographic factors and obesity; and medical history of chronic diseases, recurrent infections, chronic uses of drugs, smoking habits and obesity.
A geometric perspective on the Piola identity in Riemannian settings

The Piola identity $\operatorname{div} \operatorname{cof} \nabla f=0$ is a central result in the mathematical theory of elasticity. We prove a generalized version of the Piola identity for mappings between Riemannian manifolds, using two approaches, based on different interpretations of the cofactor of a linear map: one follows the lines of the classical Euclidean derivation and the other is based on a variational interpretation via Null-Lagrangians. In both cases, we first review the Euclidean case before proceeding to the general Riemannian setting.
A Review of the Analytical and Numerical Modeling of Composites

This review article is dedicated to the materials that are made from two or more constituent materials with different physical and/or chemical properties. The focus is on the materials, where the individual components remain separate and distinct within the final structure. The new combined material usually have some additional characteristic properties compared to the individual components, or, in other case, some critical properties of combined material may follow almost equally one of the components. Typically, preferred properties of the new material can be such as strength, porosity, conductivity or cheapness. The ultimate goal of this study is to find methods and tools for achieve adequate strength even when the low quality component is added to primary material or when two or more ’waste’ matters are combined with each other in novel industrial processes. Contribution of this article is to review modeling possibilities of different composite materials and bring out new ideas to model composites including low quality or waste materials.