Value Co-creation in the Interface between City Logistics Provider and In-store Processes

AbstractThis paper develops a framework for understanding how city logistics service co-creates value with users. The users’ perspective in city logistics research is limited, and value added services are rarely emphasized. The framework developed is based on literature on value in business markets, and in-store processes. Two case stores and their use of city logistics demonstrate how value is co-created when changes in delivery patterns and value added services affect especially the use of store employees. Further, we show that there is a barrier to the co-creation of value when services get close to core activities in-store operations

d_{x^2-y^2} Symmetry and the Pairing Mechanism

An important question is if the gap in the high temperature cuprates has d_{x^2-y^2} symmetry, what does that tell us about the underlying interaction responsible for pairing. Here we explore this by determining how three different types of electron-phonon interactions affect the d_{x^2-y^2} pairing found within an RPA treatment of the 2D Hubbard model. These results imply that interactions which become more positive as the momentum transfer increases favor d_{x^2-y^2} pairing in a nearly half-filled band.Comment: 9 pages and 2 eps figs, uses revtex with epsf, in press, PR

Interferência e controle de milho voluntário tolerante ao glifosato na cultura da soja

Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho foi estimar o efeito da infestação de milho voluntário tolerante ao glifosato na produtividade da cultura da soja, bem como avaliar o controle dessas plantas com o herbicida cletodim. Seis experimentos foram desenvolvidos, na safra de 2013/2014, nos estados da Bahia, de Minas Gerais, de Mato Grosso, do Paraná, do Rio Grande do Sul e de São Paulo. Espigas de milho sem palha, segmentadas ao meio, foram uniformemente distribuídas nas parcelas, à densidade de 1, 2 ou 4 segmentos por metro quadrado. Como tratamento herbicida, utilizou-se cletodim, nas seguintes doses: aplicação única, 108 g ha-1, sobre a soja com três trifólios (3T); aplicação única, 108 g ha-1, sobre soja com seis trifólios (6T); e duas aplicações, 108 e 84 g ha-1, sobre soja nos estágios 3T e 6T. Adicionou-se, ainda, um tratamento com a soja plenamente capinada. O aumento de densidade dos segmentos de espiga reduziu a produtividade da soja em até 69,9%. A produtividade da soja foi assegurada com o controle eficaz das plantas voluntárias de milho tolerante ao glifosato, oriundas de espigas, em aplicação única de cletodim (108 g ha-1) no estádio 6T; ou por meio de duas aplicações sequenciais do graminicida, com a soja em 3T e 6T

Sport policy convergence: a framework for analysis

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in European Sport Management Quarterly on 30th April 2012, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/16184742.2012.669390The growth in the comparative analysis of sport management processes and policy has led to an increased interest in the concept of convergence. However, the concept is too often treated as unproblematic in definition, measurement and operationalisation. It is argued in this paper that a more effective framework for examining claims of convergence is one that analyses the concept in terms of seven dimensions which can be explored through a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection. It is also argued that a deeper understanding of the process of convergence can be gained by operationalising the concept in the context of a selected range of meso-level theories of the policy process or of specific aspects of the process. The proposed analytic framework provides not only a definition of convergence but also the basis for a more nuanced investigation of hypotheses of convergence