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Are Millennials a Global Cohort? Evidence from the Luxury Goods Sector
Authors: Stępień Beata , Lima Ana Pinto , Hinner Michael 
Published: October 2018

Abstract

Objective: to investigate whether Millennials are internally consistent and distinguished cohort in terms of the perception of luxury

Methodology: mixed: the international e-survey results, conducted in 5 different countries (Poland, Portugal, Turkey, Germany and Saudi Arabia, 1193 responses) and 4 FGI, conducted in the groups of younger and older Millennials in Poland and Portugal.

Findings: Millennials demonstrate strong country–specific differences in evaluating luxury value drivers; from avowed hedonic status-seekers (mainly Saudi Arabians), through moderately enthusiastic luxury products admirers (Portuguese, Turkish, Polish) to stand-outs, individualists who contest the overall CVPL as represented mostly by Germans. The evaluation of luxury is not cohort specific but rather a matter of the family and material status strengthened by socio-cultural pressure.

Value Added: Global consumption behavioral patterns regarding luxury are permeated by local cultural influences, but are not global cohorts’ specific, due to their internal cultural, age, income and family status diversity.

Recommendations: Communication strategies in a luxury sector should be adjusted more to the country-specific and less to the specific needs of global cohorts.
Markov Reliability Model for Heat Meters
Authors: Pałasz Przemysław , Żurek Józef , Przysowa Radosław 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
The reliability of thermal energy meters is analysed using the Markov model which describes the operation of these meters in a large number of apartments and offices by a media accounting company. The data has been extracted from a relational database storing information on the operation, installation and exchange of these measures from the last 10 years. The built Markov model turned out to be ergodic, which allowed determining its limiting distribution. In addition, the probability distributions for the cumulated consumption were determined in the work - separately for all meters and meters’ failures.
Comparative Analysis of V2V and A2A Technologies
Authors: Kołodziejska Agata , Krzykowska Karolina , Siergiejczyk Mirosław 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
In recent years, around the world, there has been work underway on systems, which will increase not only the comfort of traveling but, above all, the safety and reliability of the road traffic. The systems in this field, designed to replace human beings in the future, thus eliminating their mistakes on the road, already have their prototypes. However, these prototypes are still being improved and require a lot of work so they could operate fully and reliably. The subject of the publication is a compilation of two new concepts in the field of Intelligent Transport Systems. These concepts are V2V (Vehicle - to - Vehicle) and A2A (Autonomous vehicle - to - Autonomous vehicle). Their comparison was carried out in terms of functionality, communication, vehicle equipment, legal aspects and the anticipated date of their entry into the market. Also examples of first tests and implementations of vehicles with driver assistance systems, and semi-autonomous vehicles were presented.
Information effect on consumer adoption for a new beef brand in the Vietnamese market: prior knowledge, appealing the brand distinction, differentiation and similarity
Authors: Tran Thu , Moritaka Masahiro , Liu Ran , Fukuda Susumu 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of information on consumer adoption when introducing a new beef brand to the Vietnamese markets. Three variables proxy the impacts of information are prior knowledge, usage experience, and price. This study developed three pieces of advertised information and combined them with three levels of price to indicate the relevant information to diffuse at the introduction of a new brand. Three kinds of information include: (1) distinction information, which defines a new brand to be distinct from existing competitive brands; (2) differentiation information, which identifies a new brand to be different from one existing brand; (3) similarity information, which defines a new brand to be similar to one existing brand. The survey was conducted via direct interviews with 480 customers at the food outlets in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The ordered logit model was applied to examine the influence of each kind of information on consumer preferences for a new beef brand. The results indicated that (1) the effect of information on consumer adoption for a new brand at early stage depends on how that information defines the new brand in consumers’ perception; (2) the distinction information generates the highest economic added value; (3) the similarity information creates the information bias at introduction; (4) the usage experience can be diagnostic for the information bias.
Business impact analysis for business continuity: Evidence from Romanian enterprises on critical functions
Authors: Păunescu Carmen , Popescu Mihaela Cornelia , Blid Laura 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
Organizations are increasingly subject to hazardous events and threats, which can be critical for their business operations and performance. Any natural, accidental, or deliberate incidents that happen to the organization can cause major disruptions to it. The present paper aims to examine the prerequisites for a sound business impact analysis necessary to build the organization’s business continuity management capability and ensure business resilience. It is meant to discover those critical functions and resources which are vital to business operations in a sample of small and medium-sized enterprises from a certain geographic area in Romania, in order to maintain their core operations and ensure business continuation. The research results rely on the data collected through face-to-face interviews from 119 Romanian companies. The research findings of the multiple linear regression employed indicate that, in undertaking business impact analysis for business continuity, it is vital for enterprises to identify the skills and level of expertise required from staff to carry out organization’s critical activities. Also it is critical for companies to identify alternative premises and systems and means of voice and data communication, as well as the priority suppliers/partners whom they depend on, necessary to undertake their critical activities. The study contributes to the literature by providing empirical evidence on the prerequisites of the organization’s business impact analysis that are critical to build a strong business continuity management capability. It also offers new insights to companies meant to generate a better understanding of current practices of undertaking a business impact analysis for business continuation in their organizations.
Mapping higher education for sustainable development in Portugal
Authors: Fonseca Luis Miguel , Portela Ana Rita , Duarte Beatriz , Queirós João , Paiva Luis 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) addresses sustainable development issues, in the economic, environmental, and social dimensions. The positive role of higher education institutions (HEIs), such as Universities and Polytechnic Institutes, in educating decision makers and leaders, and therefore contributing to progress and the public good, has been widely acknowledged. This investigation aims to map the BSc and MSc courses offered by Portuguese HEIs that address Sustainability (or Social Responsibility, or Ethics) in their curricula with the aim of proving their graduates with the right knowledge and competencies to overcome the Sustainable Development challenges. A systematic review utilizing a structured approach was used to analyze Portuguese HEIs BSc and MSc courses and the content analysis of their curricular units. The conclusions show that Sustainability (or Social Responsibility, or Ethics) is covered in most Social Sciences, Engineering, and Management, BSc and MSc courses, offered by the top 8 Portuguese Higher Education Institutions. However, ESD is fragmented by different approaches, issues, methodologies, and implications, lacking a consistent body of knowledge. Some courses focus more on the Social dimension, while others are more directed to the Environment or the Economic one. Sometimes the chosen approach is more normative (do what is right to do; the ethical way) and in other cases is more instrumental (do what is good for the business; the business case). Social Sciences, Engineering and Science, and Management and Economics are the three top clusters that address Sustainability related syllabus in their curricula, with 49 hours teaching hours in average for the curricular units covering Sustainability (with considerable variation). Universities have more curricular units addressing the topic while Polytechnic Institutes show a higher number of hours per curricular unit and most are of compulsory nature (while in Universities more than 50% of the curricular units are of optional nature). As the collected information was in some cases of generic nature, additional research should be used to confirm and detail these results and evaluate the effectiveness of this education to empower students to act as change agents for Sustainable Development. Benchmarking with other countries (e.g., from the European Union) is also an interesting avenue to pursue this investigation.
Sectoral variations in market orientation and performance among small service firms in Botswana
Authors: Jaiyeoba Olumide , Iwu Chux Gervase , Marandu Edward 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
The quest for the diversification of Botswana’s mineral-led economy necessitates an examination of other performing ones such as the Tourism-Transport and Finance-Consulting small service sectors which have been identified as also contributing immensely to its economy. So, this paper investigates variations in market orientation and performance among small service firms in Botswana. In more specific terms, it involves analysis of variations with regard to tourism-transport and finance-consulting firms. Set in Botswana, data were obtained, using a respondent-completed questionnaire from 54 managers in the tourism-transport sector and 121 managers in the finance-consulting sector. Despite the focus of the study on sectoral variations among service firms in Botswana, the study makes major contributions to our understanding of market orientation-performance link. First, the overall level of market orientation varied significantly between the two sectors. Secondly, two of the three components of market orientation, namely intelligence generation and intelligence responsiveness also displayed statistically significant differences between each component and the two sectors. Thirdly, organizational commitment, team spirit and customer satisfaction were significantly different between the two sectors. These findings suggest the need for a sustained and systematic study aimed at finding out the relative importance of market orientation in different sectors. Such a study may be helpful in suggesting differentiated marketing orientation emphases that may help firms optimize their marketing budget. Notwithstanding the several scholarly works on market orientation and firm performance, the value of market orientation in sub-Saharan Africa has only begun to receive attention in Africa. Research evidence is scanty in the case of Botswana.
Assessing students’ entrepreneurial skills needed in the Knowledge Economy
Authors: Bejinaru Ruxandra 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to explore how students acquire entrepreneurial skills requested by a knowledge economy, in a country with an emergent economy. Knowledge economy is based dominantly on processing intangible resources, which needs different skills from the knowledge workers than from the industrial workers. Knowledge economy develops fast, including the countries with emergent economies like the Romania. Universities have to adapt to the requirements imposed by the knowledge economy and to change their teaching processes based on knowledge transfer into developing students’ skills which will allow them to perform in a turbulent business environment. The paper focuses on the entrepreneurial skills and presents an evaluation of students’ entrepreneurial skills in a Romanian university, students being enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs of economics and business. The set of entrepreneurial skills considered in this paper have been selected based on literature, and they are expected to define the entrepreneurial behavior by the 2030 time horizon. The following skills have been considered: complex-problem solving, critical thinking, originality thinking, active learning, and judgement and decision making. For the quantitative research we developed and applied a questionnaire in order to assess the level of these skills for the students at “Stefan cel Mare” University in Suceava, Romania. We processed the obtained data set by using the specialized software package SPSS, version 25, and applied the statistical function of Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) for the purpose of identifying which are the main factors influencing their perceptions about the investigated categories of skills. The results of the Exploratory Factor Analysis revealed a set of 5 factors which we correlated to validate the research hypothesis. Our results show that economics and business education contributes essentially to the development of these entrepreneurial skills.
Factors influencing the job search and job selection in students of Generation Y in the Czech Republic in the employer branding context
Authors: Bejtkovský Jiří 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
The factors influencing job search and job selection are related to employer branding, employer’s position and employer attractiveness on labour market. These factors make employer branding. A conception of employer branding is hot issue not only in scientific research area. The employer branding can be divided into internal and external branding. The main goal of this article was to discover the factors influencing the job search and job selection based on the gender of the respondents and the type of faculty in the employer branding context. The students of Generation Y introduced a research sample of respondents. The primary data was acquired by structured questionnaire targeted at selected students of Generation Y in the Czech Republic. The total number of respondents was 655 students. Two research hypotheses and one research question have been defined. An analysis was realized using statistical software IBM Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) Statistics 23 and Microsoft Excel 2013. The verification of the research hypotheses was performed by the statistical method of the Two-sample t-Test for equal means. The research results discovered the findings that the mean perceptions of the factors influencing the job search and job selection: (1) were as the same for females and males, (2) were as the same for Generation Y students of the Faculty of Humanities (FHS) and Faculty of Management and Economics (FaME). Information about potential employers in the employer branding context was also investigated. The most frequent information about potential employers was information about job position and working conditions.
Physical activity of adolescents in the prevention of lifestyle diseases
Authors: Bednarek Anna , Bodajko-Grochowska Anna , Zarzycka Danuta , Emeryk Andrzej , Cichosz Elżbieta 
Published: October 2018

Abstract

Introduction. The physical activity of adolescents forms an important aspect of their normal development and the prevention of lifestyle diseases.

Aim. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect of physical activity of adolescents on the prevention of lifestyle diseases.

Material and method. The study covered a sample of 135 students from a secondary school in Zamość, Poland, was conducted in 2016, and used the diagnostic survey method. The research tool was the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) in its Polish adaptation (the abridged version) and a survey questionnaire developed by the authors.

Results. More than half of the respondents (63.70%) engaged in sports activities in addition to PE classes at school, usually choosing team sports. According to the IPAQ key, 40.74% of the students demonstrated a high level of physical activity, 39.26% a moderate level, and 20% an insufficient level. The students were of the view that regular physical activity is of substantial importance in the prevention of diabetes (12.66% of the boys; 28.57% of the girls; p=0.037). At the same time, it was found not to have any major effect on the prevention of obesity, cancers, diseases of the musculoskeletal system or cardiovascular diseases.

Conclusions. The majority of the students declared that they regularly engaged in physical activity outside of school. According to the IPAQ assessment, the physical activity of adolescents remains at a high level, which may be considered as a positive indicator for the prevention of lifestyle diseases.
Detection of anti-protease inhibitors resistance mutations in HCV strains infecting treatment-naïve chronic patients from Romania
Authors: Dinu Sorin , Țârdei Grațiela , Ceaușu Emanoil , Florescu Simin Aysel , Micu Laurențiu , Ecobici Alina Monica , Mihăilă Mariana , Oprișan Gabriela 
Published: October 2018

Abstract

Background: Severe complications of chronic hepatitis C – i.e. cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma – are important causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite the overwhelming rates of sustained virologic response achieved after therapy with different combinations of direct-acting antiviral drugs (DAAs), treatment failure is still recorded, and is due to the mutations harboured by hepatitis C virus (HCV) resistance associated variants (RAVs) selected during therapy. Baseline RAVs testing was found significant for guiding treatment in the cases of treatment failure and, sometimes, in naïve patients.

Methods: Romanian chronic hepatitis C patients unexposed to DAAs and infected with subtype 1b HCV were studied. Serum samples were used for Sanger population sequencing of a fragment containing NS3 viral protease, known to harbour resistance mutation against protease inhibitors (PIs).

Results: Catalytic triad and zinc-binding site in the studied sequences were conserved. Low-intermediate resistance mutations to first generation PIs were detected either alone or in conjunction with resistance substitutions associated with second generation PIs. Cross-resistance and reduced susceptibility to certain DAAs were observed.

Discussion: This study focused on HCV patients infected with subtype 1b strains, the most prevalent in Romania. The rate of RAVs found in this work is consistent with the results reported by similar studies from other countries. Noticeably, numerous polymorphisms of unknown significance to DAAs resistance, but reflecting the high genetic variability of HCV, were found in the studied sequences. Testing for RAVs can be a useful method for guiding treatment in a cost-efficient manner in developing countries where access to DAAs is limited.
RETRACTED: How to Raise Quality Assurance in Legal Translation: The Question of Objectivity?
Authors: Akbari Alireza 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
The aim of the present study is to propose an approach to legal translation quality so as to address the idiosyncrasies in legal studies and to confront the challenges and flaws of previous paradigms and models of translation quality assessment. The present approach is associated with the micro-macro textual, contextual, and legal components/variables in the pursuit of an adequate strategy through elaborating the decision making process for translation. The elements of the decision making process remain constant between translation relevancy/brief, and the translation product in the source text analysis, reformulation and revision stages. Translation competence, translation product, and the translation decision making process are all the evaluative standards for both quality controllers and translators. Also, this study scrutinizes the impact of translation quality assessment involving professional and training contexts besides managerial quality. In the upshot, this approach has the potential to reduce subjectivity in the quality of legal translation based on particular methodologies. The proposed framework assists the need for the evaluation of the quality of legal translation to boost the quality benchmarks in the professional environment.
Louisiana and Quebec Terminology as a Tool in Polish-English Legal Translation
Authors: Kusik Przemysław 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
While in the majority of English-speaking territories the dominant legal tradition is common law, in Louisiana and Quebec the native language is English and the legal system stems from continental civil law. Both the Louisiana Civil Code and the Civil Code of Quebec take root in the European codification movement, following Code Napoleon. Bearing in mind the link between law and language, these jurisdictions provide a unique source of English civil law terminology with well-founded conceptual background.
The civil codes of Louisiana and Quebec seem to be potentially useful for the translation of Polish private law into English. Yet there are some reservations which should be considered. By comparing two different translations of Article 292 of the Polish Civil Code, this paper is intended to contribute to the debate on the use of Quebec and Louisiana terminology in Polish-English legal translation.
Mediation: Framing a Clil Course
Authors: Vyushkina Elena 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
Mediation in a legal sense is a means of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Having evolved in the USA in the last half of 20th century the procedure is growing in popularity and proliferation all over the world. Many countries enacted particular legislation, and others included relevant articles into Civil and/or Criminal Procedure Codes. Howbeit, lawyers are to be aware of mediation and roles they may play within the process. Law school curriculum drafters face the challenge of including a new up-to-date course in mediation into busy and very full academic programmes. Analysis of existing instructing practice showed that in Anglo-American law schools mediation teaching is a part of clinical legal education. As for European countries, there is a broad range of scenarios and no established experience. Recognition of communicative skills as key skills for mediators prompts the use of a CLIL approach in structuring such a course. Listening, reframing, summarising, questioning are skills to be mastered by law-students both in a foreign language and their mother tongue. Language teachers are in charge of this part of the course while law teachers can work out text contents built on the branches of law mediators deal with more often (family law, employment law, contracts, etc.). Moreover, some texts may cover mediation law in a home country and abroad. Another important factor to take into account is a career path chosen by a law-student – if s/he is going to become a mediator or a lawyer securing clients in mediation. Role plays and scenarios are an integral part of the course. Moreover, the course developed can serve as an introduction to internship in a law clinic.