Sustainable business models: integrating employees, customers and technology

This Special Issue of the Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing has the same title as the 23rd International Conference CBIM 2018 (June 18-20, 2018, Madrid, Spain) “Sustainable Business Models: Integrating Employees, Customers and Technology”. In this edition of International Conference, following a competitive blind review process, papers from 126 authors and 25 countries were ultimately accepted. The best papers of the Conference were invited to submit to this Special Issue and we were also open to direct submissions from other authors. We present here the 17 accepted papers for publication in this Special Issue

Difusión y copia del Niño Jesús dormido sobre la cruz de Martínez Montañés en Iberoamérica

Ejemplo de las estrechas relaciones artísticas entre España y la América Virreinal a lo largo del Barroco, es la imagen del Niño Jesús dormido sobre la cruz salida del taller sevillano del escultor Juan Martínez Montañés, cuyo estudio iconográfico, difusión en América y copia en los talleres virreinales abordamos en el presente trabajo.Example of the narrow artistic relations between Spain and the Viceregal America along the Baroque, is the image of the Child Jesus slept on the cross of the Sevillian workshop of the sculptor Juan Martínez Montañés, whose iconographic study, diffusion in America and copy in the viceregal workshops we approach in the present work

Amenazados de ETA en Euskadi : una aproximación al estudio científico de su victimación

[ES] El propósito de esta investigación consiste en aportar un análisis descriptivo sobre la experiencia de la violencia sufrida por víctimas y amenazados de ETA en Euskadi. Para ello, partiendo de entrevistas con personas amenazadas y de una encuesta, se abordan aspectos específicos sobre la situación de violencia, sobre las estrategias de acoso psicológico y los efectos psicosociales derivados. El estudio señala las principales características de una situación de acoso que ha sido crónica en Euskadi, destacando la relevancia de las estrategias de terrorismo psicológico y las consecuencias psicosociales derivadas sobre víctimas y amenazados. Las implicaciones del estudio pueden ir dirigidas a mejorar el conocimiento sobre la victimación de quienes han sido amenazados en Euskadi.[EU] Ikerketa honen xedea Euskadin ETAren biktimek eta mehatxatuek jasandako indarkeriaren esperientziari buruzko analisi deskribatzailea eskaintzea da. Horretarako, mehatxatutako pertsonekin egindako elkarrizketetatik eta inkesta batetik abiatuta, indarkeria-egoerari, jazarpen psikologikoko estrategiei eta eratorritako ondorio psikosozialei buruzko alderdi espezifikoak lantzen dira. Euskadin kronikoa izan den jazarpen-egoera baten ezaugarri nagusiak aipatzen ditu ikerketak, eta nabarmendu egiten ditu terrorismo psikologikoaren estrategien eta eratorritako ondorio psikosozialen garrantzia biktimei eta mehatxatuei dagokienez. Ikerketaren ondorioek balio dezakete Euskadin mehatxatuak izan direnen biktimazioari buruzko ezagutza hobetzeko.[FR] Le but de cette recherche est d’apporter un analyse descriptif sur l’experience de la violence subie par les victimes et les menacés par ETA à Euskadi. Pour céla, on a parti des interviews avec des personnes menacés et d’une enquête pour aborder les aspects spécifiques de la violence, les stratégies d’harcèlement psychologique et les effets psychosociales dérivés. L’étude montre les principales caracteristiques d’un situation d’harcèlement qui a été chronique à Euskadi, mettant en relief les stratégies du terrorisme psychologique et les consequences psychosociales dérivées sur les victimes et les menacés. Les implications de l’étude peuvent servir à améliorer la connaisance de la victimisation de ceux qui ont été menacés à Euskadi.[EN] The purpose of this research is to provide a descriptive analysis of the experience by threatened people and victims of ETA of violence in the Basque Country. For such purpose, specific aspects are addressed regarding the violence situation, the strategies of psychological harassment and the psychosocial effects, based on interviews with threatened people and on a survey. The study gives the main characteristics of the chronic harassment situation in the Basque Country and highlights the importance of psychological terrorism strategies and its psychosocial impact on victims and threatened people. Study findings could be aimed at improving the knowledge on the victimization of those who have been threatened in the Basque Country

La amonedación canónica del emirato omeya andalusí antes de Abd-al-Rahman II, según el hallazgo de dirhams de Villiciosa (Córdoba)

The Archaeological Museum of Cordoba preserves three large sets of Islamic medieval coins which were minted in al-Andalus before AH 202/AD 817 and which are probably part of a huge hoard found in Villaviciosa (Cordoba) and known of since the third decade of the 20th century. Such a large set of coins, most of them in a particularly good state, provides strong archaeological evidence to sustain that the Umayyad Emirate of al-Andalus undertook the issuing of coins as a legal resource for the market purposes and the politics of taxes. This happened from the times of �Abd al- Raman I, i.e. from the very beginnings of the Emirate, in spite of what has been claimed both in medieval and contemporary historiography.Tres amplios conjuntos de monedas acunadas en al-Andalus antes de 202 H./817 J.C. que se conservan en el Museo Arqueologico de Cordoba forman probablemente parte del gran hallazgo de moneda emiral que se produjo en el municipio cordobes de Villaviciosa y que era conocido desde la tercera decada del siglo XX. El abundante conjunto museistico de monedas, en excelente estado de conservacion, nos proporciona una base arqueologica fehaciente para mantener que el emirato omeya andalusi se comprometio en la tarea de emitir monedas en tanto que recurso legal destinado a los fines del mercado y de la politica fiscal. Esto ocurrio desde los tiempos de �eAbd al-Ram.n I, esto es, desde la constitucion del emirato, a pesar de lo que se ha afirmado en la historiografia contemporanea, a partir de fuentes escritas medievales

Why classical perspective is not necessary to understand animation space. An alternative way to represent the stage

Nowadays, in the Western culture, it seems that “Perspective” is the only globally accepted way of understanding the graphic representation of objects in space. However, before this modern concept was understood as the main one to represent objects in depth, in other historical periods and distant cultures they had chosen completely different ways of representing space. This is a researching dissertation that is understood as a theoretical work related to the animation short film We are Glad, the personal final degree project of the author. In it, the alternative ways of representing space that differ from the Renaissance perspective has been analysed, and how they have influenced in the late animation world. When we talk about alternative ways of representing space, we are referring to systems like the one that took place during the High Middle Ages, or in distant cultures such as Africa or Oceania, in which object ‘s size and distribution in images don’t follow the same rules that we would do nowadays. In order to enclose our research field, the main examples that will be analysed are two that, in some way, share some aspects in common with We are Glad: The High Middle Ages art and its relationship with the American fifties cartoons. Thus, all the important aspects of these examples will be exposed and analysed in order to argument the main thesis of the dissertation: why traditional perspective is not necessary to understand space in animation.En la sociedad occidental actual, parece existir una concepción globalmente aceptada de la representación gráfica en perspectiva del espacio. Sin embargo, antes de que este renacentista concepto de representar los objetos en profundidad se impusiese como sistema mayoritario, han existido otras épocas y otros lugares en las que el espacio se ha representado de una forma completamente diferente. Este texto de investigación se plantea como un trabajo teórico relacionado con el cortometraje de animación We are Glad, proyecto personal de final de grado de la alumna. En él, se ha pretendido realizar un análisis de los sistemas de representación del espacio alternativos a la visión occidental moderna de la perspectiva, y cómo estas alternativas han resultado una evidente influencia posteriormente en el mundo de la animación. Por sistemas alternativos de representación entendemos el que se daba en la Alta Edad Media, o en culturas como la africana o la oceánica, en las cuales el tamaño de los objetos y la disposición de los mismos en la imagen dependían de factores muy diferentes a los que hoy en día seguiríamos. Para acotar el campo de investigación, los principales ejemplos que se explorarán en este ensayo serán dos periodos de la historia que comparten aspectos en común con el proyecto personal de la alumna: El arte medieval de la Alta Edad Media y su relación con la animación americana de los años 50. Así, a lo largo del texto se irán exponiendo y analizando todos los aspectos de estos dos ejemplos que sirven para argumentar y demostrar la tesis expuesta en el título del texto: que la perspectiva no es necesaria para entender el espacio en la animación.Peña Martín, S. (2014). Why classical perspective is not necessary to understand animation space. An alternative way to represent the stage. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/50614.Archivo delegad

Grammar and truth: time and tense according to Ibn al-Sīd

La obra lingüística y filológica de Ibn al-Sīd al-Batalyawsī (m. 521 h./1127 d.C.) ofrece elementos para reconstruir su descripción del tiempo verbal y gramatical, y su concepción del tiempo natural, así como elementos de otros sistemas de ideas sobre el tiempo, ajenos al suyo. Después de situar la concepción del tiempo verbal que Ibn al-Sīd mantiene, en el contexto de la historia de la lingüística árabe medieval, donde se sitúa en la estela de los sabios racionalistas bagdadíes; examinamos su defensa de la categoría gramatical de tiempo verbal presente como reflejo de la realidad física del presente como único tiempo real. Llegamos a la conclusión de que, en su época, cabían, en el pensamiento islámico, cuatro modos de abordar el tiempo.The Andalusi savant Ibn al-Sīd al-Batalyawsī (d. 521 H/1127 AD) was the author of a number of books conceived as a contribution to the study of language, text and interpretation, which provide us with the necessary elements to reconstruct his notional approach to verbal tenses, as well as his ideas about time in the broader context of Andalusi thinkers. Ibn al-Sīd is close to the rationalist grammarians from Baghdad in his description of Arabic tenses, grounded on the existence of present time in nature. Nevertheless, traces of other conceptions of time are to be found in Ibn al-Sīd’s books. We conclude that there were four different ways of viewing time, depending on the actual level of hermeneutical approach to truth

Explanation in Science and Technology

This article seeks to emphasize the fact that technology, like science, can also offer us explanations about the world. The article begins by adopting a definition of technology as knowledge, thus establishing a continuity between science and technology that allows us to extend the work done on the issue of scientific explanation. Three proposals are analyzed for defining the concept of scientific explanation, with emphasis on Wesley Salmon’s causal mechanical model. Next, the case of the pressure and volume indicator diagram in the steam engine is analyzed, in which, despite the lack of a competent scientific theory to interpret the data obtained through a new instrument, our technological knowledge allowed for the generation of the explanations that the scientific theory of the time was unable to provide. The example meets the demands stipulated by the causal mechanical model of explanation but differs in that here the explanation was not the result of scientific knowledge. Rather, it was the technological knowledge provided by the indicator what generated a new explanation of the steam engine’s efficiency and functioning. Note: A correction to this article has been published as of June 1, 2015: An acknowledgements section has been added

Phenomenological based model of hydrogen production using an alkaline self-pressurized electrolyzer

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On the finite-dimensional representations of the double of the Jordan plane

We continue the study of the Drinfeld double of the Jordan plane, denoted by $\mathcal D$ and introduced in arXiv:2002.02514. The simple finite-dimensional modules were computed in arXiv:2108.13849; it turns out that they factorize through U(\spl_2(\Bbbk)). Here we introduce the Verma modules and the category $\mathfrak O$ for $\mathcal D$, which have a resemblance to the similar ones in Lie theory but induced from indecomposable modules of the 0-part of the triangular decomposition. Accordingly, there is the notion of highest weight rank (hw-rk). We classify the indecomposable modules of hw-rk one and find families of hw-rk two. The Gabriel quiver of $\mathcal D$ is computed implying that it has a wild representation type