What factors influence training opportunities for older workers? Three factorial surveys exploring the attitudes of HR professionals

The core research questions addressed in this paper are: what factors influence HR professionals in deciding whether to approve training proposals for older workers? What kind of training are they more likely to recommend for older employees and in which organizational contexts? We administered three factorial surveys to 66 HR professionals in Italy. Participants made specific training decisions based on profiles of hypothetical older workers. Multilevel analyses indicated that access to training decreases strongly with age, while highly-skilled older employees with low absenteeism rates are more likely to enjoy training opportunities. In addition, older workers displaying positive performance are more likely to receive training than older workers who perform poorly, suggesting that training late in working life may serve as a reward for good performance rather than as a means of enhancing productivity. The older the HR professional evaluating training proposals, the higher the probability that older workers will be recommended for training. keywords: training; older workers; HR professionals; factorial survey; multilevel model

Cellular regulations of grapevine resistance induced by Trichoderma spp.

Trichoderma-induced resistance is mediated by transcriptional, translational and post-translational regulations. Trichoderma-induced resistance is affected by the plant genotype, environment and fungal strai

Techno-economic performance of HCl and SO2 removal in waste-to-energy plants by furnace direct sorbent injection

With the impending release of Best Available Techniques (BAT) conclusions on waste incineration, existing European waste-to-energy (WtE) plants will be required to achieve a higher efficiency in the removal of several target pollutants, such as acid gases (above all, HCl and SO2). The direct injection of a sorbent in the furnace as a primary deacidification stage may be a cost-effective option to achieve the required performances. The present study investigated the furnace injection of a specific dolomitic sorbent, with the aim of identifying the techno-economic optimum for the sorbent feed rate considering different scenarios of flue gas composition. A full-scale test run campaign was carried out on two WtE plants and a phenomenological model linking HCl and SO2 conversion to reactant feed rate was developed. The model allowed assessing the cost-effectiveness of dolomitic sorbent furnace injection for WtE plants equipped with either a single or a two-stage acid gas treatment system. The addition of dolomitic sorbent resulted particularly suitable for WtE plants equipped with a single stage treatment coping with a high SO2 concentration in the flue gas, where the injection of dolomitic sorbent can increase the redundancy of flue gas treatment with a reduction of the total operating costs

Proceedings of the Merck Young Chemists’ Symposium XIX edition

Welcome to the 19th edition of the Merck Young Chemists’ Symposium (MYCS), formerly also known as SAYCS and MEYCS. This event is organized by the Young Group of Società Chimica Italiana (SCI Giovani) with the financial support from Merck and several other sponsors, that you will meet during the conference. The symposium covers all the disciplines of Chemistry, aiming to connect young researchers, inspire new ideas, and potentially trigger new collaborations. MYCS is an international event, thanks to the leading role of SCI into the European framework, the support from the European Young Chemists’ Network (EYCN), and most importantly to all of you, participants coming from 9 countries from all over the world. This year we are honored to have the exceptional number of 240 participants. Thank you for the great trust shown towards SCI Giovani, Merck and all our supporters. The contributions of our 4 invited plenary speakers will just be the icing on the cake of a wonderful scientific event I truly hope you will all enjoy with us. Leonardo Triggiani SCI Giovani Coordinato

Profiling of volatile sesquiterpenes and monoterpenes in grapevine genotypes after Plasmopara viticola inoculation by PTR-ToF-MS analysis

none8noneAlgarra Alarcon, Alberto; Lazazzara, Valentina; Cappellin, Luca; Bianchedi, Pierluigi; Wohlfahrt, G.; Pertot, Ilaria; Biasioli, Franco; Perazzolli, Michel

Proceedings of the Merck Young Chemists’ Symposium 2019

Welcome to the 19th edition of the Merck Young Chemists’ Symposium (MYCS), formerly also known as SAYCS and MEYCS. This event is organized by the Young Group of Società Chimica Italiana (SCI Giovani) with the financial support from Merck and several other sponsors, that you will meet during the conference. The symposium covers all the disciplines of Chemistry, aiming to connect young researchers, inspire new ideas, and potentially trigger new collaborations. MYCS is an international event, thanks to the leading role of SCI into the European framework, the support from the European Young Chemists’ Network (EYCN), and most importantly to all of you, participants coming from 9 countries from all over the world. This year we are honored to have the exceptional number of 240 participants. Thank you for the great trust shown towards SCI Giovani, Merck and all our supporters. The contributions of our 4 invited plenary speakers will just be the icing on the cake of a wonderful scientific event I truly hope you will all enjoy with us

Eur Food Res Technol

This study provides cultivar-specific metabolic fingerprints of volatile organic compounds in the headspace of cloudy apple juices. Cloudy juices from 47 « true to type » apple cultivars grown under identical agricultural and climatic conditions in South Tyrol, Italy, have been analysed through headspace solid-phase microextraction gas chromatography coupled with high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry (HS-SPME/GC--HRTO-–MS), yielding cultivar-specific volatile organic compound (VOC) profiles. Apple cultivars included 10 old cultivars with local relevance, 18 commercial cultivars, dominating the current international market, 10 scab-resistant and 9 red-fleshed ones. The 28 most abundant VOCs were found in the whole dataset, indicating a remarkable chemodiversity within juices. The main discriminant metabolites were butyl acetate; pentyl acetate; 2-methylbutyl acetate; pentan-1-ol; hexan-1-ol; n-hexanal and (E)-2-hexenal. A principal component analysis (PCA) and a hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) have not identified a clear separation of the analysed cultivar classes. Nevertheless, a series of scab-resistant and red-fleshed cultivars with VOC profiles similar to established commercial cultivars were identified; these data could help substituting current cultivars with more sustainable ones. On a more general basis, our study supports a knowledge-driven selection of apple cultivars for specific consumer preferences and helps appreciating the biodiversity of apples across old local and more recent (scab-resistant and red-fleshed) cultivars

The role of digital competencies and creativity for job crafting in public administration

Over recent years, the way public workers perform and interpret the own work has radically changed. Among these changes,what seems to have had a decisive impact is the advent of information and communication technologies. The informatization, digitalization, and computerization of procedures and jobs has made learning and the use of digital competencies necessary to face constant change and to take advantage of it. Digital competencies consist in knowing how to use the information society technologies for work, leisure, and communication with confidence and a critical spirit. So, those who manage to develop basic skills in information and communication technologies can juggle in this changing scenario. In this ongoing study, we hypothesize a relationship between digital competencies and job crafting. We hypothesize that civil servants developing this type of competencies can act proactively on their work by modifying its contents, relationships, and cognitive perception if they are creative. Implications are discussed