Digital interconnectivity as a driver for port and logistics competitiveness: the case of husbandry services as a cloud service

Creating an innovative tool that takes advantage of digital interconnectivity between shipping agencies and husbandry services suppliers was the starting point. But the main purpose of this paper is to figure out if that represents a business opportunity. It describes the preliminary stages undertaken, as the connections with the main potential providers of the husbandry services. This was carried out as a qualitative research, based on interviews given by shipping agencies that contributed as a source of data about their activities but also to survey their acceptance of the concept that could change the way of doing business in this area.At the same time, inquiries have been made to build financial scenarios that show the costs and revenue streams allocated to this project. Considering the data collected from the main players in husbandry services and the different outcomes, the feasibility of this project is assessed. Even though the paradigm was well received by all the firms contacted, the development costs turn out to be the main threat to the project so further steps are advised

How authentic leadership promotes individual creativity: The mediating role of affective commitment

This study sought to provide a more comprehensive understanding of how authentic leadership can affect employees’ individual creativity through affective commitment’s mediating role. The sample included 177 leader-follower dyads from 26 private, small and medium-sized enterprises. Followers reported their levels of affective commitment and perceptions of authentic leadership, and leaders assessed each follower’s level of creativity. The results show that authentic leadership has a positive impact on affective commitment and creativity. Moreover, affective commitment fully mediates the relationship between perceived authentic leadership and individual creativity. Organizations can thus increase employees’ affective commitment and creativity by encouraging their managers to adopt more authentic leadership styles. Additional studies with larger samples are needed to determine more clearly not only authentic leadership’s influence on individual creativity but also other psychosocial and personal variables’ effects on that relationship.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

A Comparative Study Of The Quality Of Services Of Public Transportation In The City Of Campos Dos Goytacazes, Brazil

In our previous work, we analyzed the performance level reached by a certain public transportation bus company, nominated Company (A), operating in the city of Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. That study was undertaken because in the last years Brazilian public bus transportation companies have lost revenue due to their lack of quality services and focus on customer satisfaction. As an immediate consequence of this fact, low customer satisfaction has led to client loss to competition. Based on customer opinion, we will now analyze the quality level reached by other public transportation bus companies operating in Campos. Again, a research opinion questionnaire will be used to collect data for this analysis, with customer selected randomly. Using the same questionnaire for these other bus companies that was previously used for Company A, we compare the results between Company (A) and the other group. Applying an equation that would define weight for each one of the analyzed items (attributes), a number was calculated representing a quality level based on customer satisfaction. The results show that Company A, as well as the other companies, need to urgently better their level of services. The quality level was bed for all of them, showing a great dissatisfaction among the public transportation users in the city of Campos.Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies. Faculty of Economics and Business. The University of Sydne

Lithium-ion Battery: Evolution of Available Scientific Publications and Future Research Trends

Dissertation presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Statistics and Information Management, specialization in Risk Analysis and ManagementClimate changes awareness has gained more visibility over the past years and new ways of dealing with them are on demand. Lithium-ion battery research is one of contributors to this technological innovation to overcome carbon-based source of energy, due to their excellent performance and long cycle life. This paper aims to apply a bibliometrics analysis to track the existing scientific publications on lithiumion battery research without timespan restrictions. From Web of Science (WoS) a total of 65154 publications are retrieved belonging to the refined keywords that are present in publications Title, Abstract and Keywords. In order to analyze the dataset, a bibliometric analysis will be presented regarding the construction of networks based on the keywords co-occurrence, co-authorship, co-cited references and distributions of publications over geographical regions, institutions, scholars, and categories contributions. From this network, an overall view of the output dissemination of scientific publications made about this domain will be developed. A bibliometric analysis on lithium-ion battery is assessed by means of quantitative and visualization tools using R and VOSviewer software. The results obtained are evaluated and summarized from the perspective of total annual publications, countries, institutions, authors, terms, journals and subject categories. This analysis illustrates the role of collaborative partnerships in successful scientific research on lithium-ion battery, with China contributing the most to knowledge production with a total of 33318 publications, 15 of 20 most productive institutes, 12 of 20 most prolific authors and 3 of 10 most cited articles. China and US have the strongest relationship when it comes to collaboratives papers with 3087 co-authorship articles. Tsinghua University in China is the most productive institute with 1393 articles and Nanyang Technology University in Singapore is the most influential institute with 243 citations. Journal of Power and Sources has published the most articles among all the journals, having a total of 6104 publications. The process of analyzing and evaluating scientific production and the results obtained, are expected to contribute to an overview of the trajectory of the research on lithium-ion battery, highlighting main actors leading knowledge production on this domain and assess new trend topics that can help in future research

A Comparative Study Of The Quality Of Services Of Public Transportation In The City Of Campos Dos Goytacazes, Brazil

In our previous work, we analyzed the performance level reached by a certain public transportation bus company, nominated Company (A), operating in the city of Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. That study was undertaken because in the last years Brazilian public bus transportation companies have lost revenue due to their lack of quality services and focus on customer satisfaction. As an immediate consequence of this fact, low customer satisfaction has led to client loss to competition. Based on customer opinion, we will now analyze the quality level reached by other public transportation bus companies operating in Campos. Again, a research opinion questionnaire will be used to collect data for this analysis, with customer selected randomly. Using the same questionnaire for these other bus companies that was previously used for Company A, we compare the results between Company (A) and the other group. Applying an equation that would define weight for each one of the analyzed items (attributes), a number was calculated representing a quality level based on customer satisfaction. The results show that Company A, as well as the other companies, need to urgently better their level of services. The quality level was bed for all of them, showing a great dissatisfaction among the public transportation users in the city of Campos.Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies. Faculty of Economics and Business. The University of Sydne

Willingness-to-Pay for Attribute Level and Variability: The Case of Mexican Millers’ Demand for Hard Red Winter Wheat

In-person interviews were carried out with Mexican millers who were administered a conjoint-type survey designed to incorporate uncertainty in attribute levels. Two methods were used to model millers’ risk preferences: a modified mean-variance approach and an explicit expected utility approach. Controlling for variability, Mexican millers are willing to pay premiums for increases in quality factors such as test weight, protein content, falling number, and dough strength/extensibility. We find millers are not particularly sensitive to changes in the variability of quality characteristics. Out-of-sample forecasts suggest the mean-variance model provides an accurate depiction of actual Mexican imports.mean-variance, Mexican wheat market, moment generating function, preference elicitation, wheat quality, Agribusiness, Farm Management, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, International Relations/Trade, Marketing, Production Economics, Risk and Uncertainty, C35, C42, Q13,

Comportamiento innovador de la Cooperativa KAULAPA R.L del Municipio de Esquipulas, Departamento de Matagalpa, 2016

La presente investigación tiene como objetivo analizar el comportamiento innovador de la Cooperativa Kaulapa R.L. del municipio de Esquipulas, Departamento de Matagalpa, Año 2016 KAULAPA R.L, cuenta con 3 años de operación en el mercado nicaragüense, es un complejo artesanal dedicado al procesamiento seco del grano de café y procesamiento de la miel; procedente de productores del mismo municipio. El propósito fundamental que se persigue, es analizar el comportamiento innovador de la cooperativa; así mismo la identificación de los procesos del comportamiento innovador proactivo y reactivo desarrollados por la Cooperativa y la descripción de los factores que influyen en el desempeño de los trabajadores de KAULAPA R.L Cabe señalar la importancia del proceso de innovación que se lleva a cabo en la Cooperativa para lograr un mejor desarrollo en los procesos dentro de la misma; así como mejorar la calidad de sus productos y servicios para la satisfacción de sus clientes y lograr de esta manera cumplir con los objetivos propuestos a corto y largo plazo, el cual dependerá del comportamiento innovador que posea dicha Cooperativa. Por tal razón KAULAPA R.L busca nuevas formas de crear cambios e innovaciones para mejorar y evolucionar en el mercado, ya que posee un comportamiento innovador proactivo, ya que está lanzando nuevos productos al mercado, así como capacitaciones al personal siendo esto como parte de la innovación proyectándose como una cooperativa industrializada; pero se necesitan muchos cambios para realizar sus proyectos y así eliminar las referencias del comportamiento reactivo que se poseen, tomando en cuenta la opinión de los clientes, logrando en un futuro ser una Cooperativa reconocida a nivel naciona

Estrategias didácticas aplicadas en el proceso enseñanza y aprendizaje de Matemática en razones y proporciones, séptimo grado, Instituto Nacional La Dalia, municipio El Tuma La Dalia, departamento de Matagalpa durante el segundo semestre 2016

El presente trabajo se realizó con el propósito de analizar las estrategias didácticas aplicadas en el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje enfocado en el contenido de razones y proporciones, en séptimo grado, de educación secundaria del Instituto Nacional La Dalia, durante el segundo semestre 2016. Se investigó el tema “Estrategias didácticas que implementan los docentes, en el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje de las Matemáticas en el departamento de Matagalpa, segundo semestre 2016”. Y como subtema: “Estrategias didácticas aplicadas en el proceso enseñanza y aprendizaje de Matemática en razones y proporciones de séptimo grado, Instituto Nacional La Dalia, municipio El Tuma La Dalia, departamento de Matagalpa durante el segundo semestre 2016”. Esta investigación se considera de gran importancia para la educación secundaria porque les servirá a los docentes como un documento de consulta, y a los estudiantes de antecedentes en futuras investigaciones que tengan que ver con el tema tratado. Referente a los resultados obtenidos se determinó que las estrategias didácticas aplicadas por la docente para indagar los conocimientos previos de los estudiantes fueron: lluvias de ideas y preguntas exploratorias, en cambio para la comprensión mediante la organización de la información se constató que no lleva a la práctica ninguna estrategia didáctica, por tanto no promueve un espacio pedagógico; ya que solo explicó algunos ejercicios en la pizarra y organizó a los estudiantes en grupos de trabajo; así mismo para evaluar la clase hizo un resumen oral del tema impartid

Book Review: Graglia, Disaster by Decree

The paper analyzes the organizational learning process experienced in the design of a new packing service for the pharmaceutical sector, using the 4I model designed by Crossan, Lane and White (1999) and its further developments. It was carried out an exploratory study using qualitative research methods. It was found evidence supporting the learning processes stated by the original model and its further developments. The interviews and focus group results suggested that organizational learning is not always a lineal process as stated by the model. Individual and group learning are parallel interacting and unfinished processes. This study contributed to adding empirical evidence to the 4I model of organizational learning and its further developments, in a manufacturing firm

Exploring dangerous connections between Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms and healthcare-associated infections

Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) are a huge public health concern,particularly when the etiological agents are multidrug resistant. The ability of bacteria to develop biofilm is a helpful skill, both to persist within hospital units and to increase antibiotic resistance. Although the links between antibiotic resistance, biofilms assembly and HAI are consensual, little is known about biofilms. Here, electron microscopy was adopted as a tool to investigate biofilm structures associated with increased antibiotic resistance. The K. pneumoniae strains investigated are able to assemble biofilms, albeit with different kinetics. The biofilm structure and the relative area fractions of bacteria and extracellular matrix depend on the particular strain, as well as the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) for the antibiotics. Increased values were found for bacteria organized in biofilms when compared to the respective planktonic forms, except for isolates Kp45 and Kp2948, the MIC values for which remained unchanged for fosfomycin. Altogether, these results showed that the emergence of antimicrobial resistance among bacteria responsible for HAI is a multifactorial phenomenon dependent on antibiotics and on bacteria/biofilm features