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The metaverse: Navigating the evolving risk landscape for retailers
The world is changing at an unprecedented pace. With every generation comes new needs and expectations, as well as innovative concepts that often trigger rapid shifts economies and sectors. To sustain their competitiveness in this everchanging market, as well as ensure relevance to the evolving consumer base, businesses are in a constant race to be ahead of the commercial curve.
With technology acting as enabler for accelerated innovation, disruptors of tradition are constantly seeking methods for prompting change, whilst focusing on personalisation, creativity, and efficiency. The retail sector is a prime example for such change. From physical trading stalls, shopping centres, to e-commerce and online shopping, the sector is constantly evolving to increase efficiency and outreach, whilst elevating customer experience.
So, what is the ânext big thingâ within the retail sector? Considering the lack of sensory immersion involved in the browse and click online model, retailers are now pursuing new operational realms to overcome the static nature of online shopping. New realms? The metaverse. In 2022, a study done by TLT, a UK law firm, revealed that out of 100 top UK retailers, 12% are already using the metaverse, and 39% plan on using it in the future.
As the metaverse evolves, more retailers are expected to utilise the features and advantages offered. Hence, understanding the implications of this operational shift is crucial for mitigating any potential evolving or emerging exposures. This white paper delves into describing the building blocks of the metaverse, whilst examining the associated risk management and insurance implications for retail businesses
Power struggles in the remembering of historical intergroup conflict: hegemonic and counter-narratives about the Argentine âConquest of the Desertâ
This work has been supported by funding from the research projects PICT-2012â1594 and PICT-2014â1003 (FONCyT-Argentina), and a grant from the Latin American Studies, University of Uta
Quantifying garnet-melt trace element partitioning using lattice-strain theory: New crystal-chemical and thermodynamic constraints
Many geochemical models of major igneous differentiation events on the Earth, the Moon, and Mars invoke the presence of garnet or its high-pressure majoritic equivalent as a residual phase, based on its ability to fractionate critical trace element pairs (Lu/Hf, U/Th, heavy REE/light REE). As a result, quantitative descriptions of mid-ocean ridge and hot spot magmatism, and lunar, martian, and terrestrial magma oceans require knowledge of garnet-melt partition coefficients over a wide range of conditions. In this contribution, we present new crystal-chemical and thermodynamic constraints on the partitioning of rare earth elements (REE), Y and Sc between garnet and anhydrous silicate melt as a function of pressure (P), temperature (T), and composition (X). Our approach is based on the interpretation of experimentally determined values of partition coefficients D using lattice-strain theory. In this and a companion paper (Draper and van Westrenen this issue) we derive new predictive equations for the ideal ionic radius of the dodecahedral garnet X-site,
Gendered self-views across 62 countries: a test of competing models
Social role theory posits that binary gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in less egalitarian countries, reflecting these countriesâ more pronounced sex-based power divisions. Conversely, evolutionary and self-construal theorists suggest that gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in more egalitarian countries, reflecting the greater autonomy support and flexible self-construction processes present in these countries. Using data from 62 countries (N = 28,640), we examine binary gender gaps in agentic and communal self-views as a function of country-level objective gender equality (the Global Gender Gap Index) and subjective distributions of social power (the Power Distance Index). Findings show that in more egalitarian countries, gender gaps in agency are smaller and gender gaps in communality are larger. These patterns are driven primarily by cross-country differences in menâs self-views and by the Power Distance Index (PDI) more robustly than the Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI). We consider possible causes and implications of these findings
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