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Mathew, Lani Rachel, and David John. "Frugal Automation of Sustainable Practices in Kerala." Procedia Technology 24 (2016): 1211–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.protcy.2016.05.080.
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Singh, Ravindra, Sumedha Seniaray, and Prateek Saxena. "A Framework for the Improvement of Frugal Design Practices." Designs 4, no. 3 (September 17, 2020): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/designs4030037.
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Current frugal design practice is focused on the cost reduction of the product. Despite advancements in the domain of frugal Innovation, it is not systematized to develop products for all sets of users, including marginalized society. Many design researchers and engineers now dedicate time and knowledge to producing practical solutions to enhance the quality of life of the marginal community. The approach currently being adopted restricts the development of products intended for all segments of the users. In this paper, cumulative frequency distribution analysis and the Relative Importance Index is used to identify the essential attributes, which contribute to delivering actual frugal products in terms of functionality, usability, performance, affordability, accessibility, aesthetics, and robustness. The framework is beneficial to eradicate the discriminatory effect of being labeled as “Jugaad” users.
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Gil-Giménez, Domingo, Gladys Rolo-González, Ernesto Suárez, and Gabriel Muinos. "The Influence of Environmental Self-Identity on the Relationship between Consumer Identities and Frugal Behavior." Sustainability 13, no. 17 (August 27, 2021): 9664. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13179664.
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The need to reduce consumption is evident, and a way of achieving this is through austerity and frugal practices. The aim of this research was to advance the understanding of frugal behavior and its relation to consumer identities, and to analyze any possible mediating effects of environmental self-identity. In Study 1 (n = 492), the factor structure of the consumer identities scale was tested and three distinct identities were defined: moral, wasteful, and thrifty consumer identities. In Study 2 (n = 500), the influence of consumer identities on frugal behavior was studied and the possible mediating effect of environmental self-identity was analyzed. Environmental self-identity completely mediated the relationship between moral identity and frugal behavior and partially mediated the relationships of both wasteful and thrifty identities with frugal behavior. The model was able to predict 27.6% of the variance of environmental self-identity and 47.9% of the variance of frugal behavior, with a strong influence by the thrifty consumer identity. This emphasizes the economic dimension of frugal consumption patterns and the importance of considering how people view themselves, both as individuals and as consumers, in order to more effectively engage and maintain long-term sustainable frugal actions.
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Pellin, Alecxandro, Marcelo Roger Meneghatti, and Sandra Mara Stocker Lago. "A inovação frugal em incubadoras de empresas: compreensão e perspectivas sob o ponto de vista dos gestores." International Journal of Innovation 10, no. 2 (June 22, 2022): 319–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5585/iji.v10i2.21563.
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The Objective of the study: To identify incubator managers' understanding and perspectives on the phenomenon of frugal innovation in these institutions.Methodology/approach: This is a qualitative research of exploratory nature, with data collection carried out through semi-structured interviews. The interview transcripts were analyzed using categorization and Similarity Analysis using the Iramuteq software.Originality/Relevance: Given the importance of frugal innovation and its impact on product and service development, it is worth studying this phenomenon in environments that naturally disseminate innovation, since there are still questions to be explored.Main results: The results demonstrate that the term frugal is not used in the day-to-day incubators, however, it was verified the existence of the practice of frugal innovation in these environments. It is concluded that there is a prevalence of a positive view of managers about this type of innovation and that the practice of frugal innovation in the development of products and services is considered a competitive advantage for the incubated ventures.Theoretical and methodological contributions: Contributes to a future research agenda with the themes: of frugal innovation practices; Mobilizing frugal innovation by the lack of resources and; Frugal innovation through apps in technology incubators.Contributions to management: This research allows incubator managers to understand the aspects involving the theme so that they can develop strategic actions for their incubators using frugal innovation.
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CUEVAS-VARGAS, Héctor, José Leonel LARIOS-FERRER, Ana Martha CRUZ-ÁVALOS, and Enrique COSSIO-VARGAS. "POST-PANDEMIC INNOVATION PRACTICES IN MICRO, SMALL, AND MEDIUM-SIZED FIRMS IN THE STATE OF GUANAJUATO." Modern Management Review 28, no. 4 (December 31, 2023): 33–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.7862/rz.2023.mmr.23.
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The pandemic caused by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has compelled many companies to prioritize innovation strategies in order to survive. Consequently, this cross-sectional empirical study employed a quantitative approach to assess the level of innovation achieved through frugal innovation practices by micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the post-pandemic era in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. A survey-type questionnaire was randomly administered to a sample of 58 companies. Stepwise discriminant analysis, utilizing Wilks' Lambda method, was applied to analyze the data. The results demonstrate that, during the crisis, the most influential variables in explaining the level of innovation are the significant reduction in the price of products or services and their durability, both regarded as frugal innovation practices. Consequently, decision-makers should establish frugal ecosystems that enable cost reduction while emphasizing the functionality and performance of their products or services.
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Iqbal, Qaisar, Noor Hazlina Ahmad, and Zeyun Li. "Frugal-based innovation model for sustainable development: technological and market turbulence." Leadership & Organization Development Journal 42, no. 3 (February 2, 2021): 396–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lodj-06-2020-0256.
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PurposeThis study draws on the upper echelon perspective and effectuation theory to put insights on the relationship between sustainable leadership and sustainable performance.Design/methodology/approachThe study had adopted the cluster-sampling approach to collect data from 500 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) established in China and India with 46.60% response rate. The SmartPLS 3.0 was employed for data analysis.FindingsThis study verified the mediating role of frugal innovation in emerging markets. Both market and technological turbulence significantly moderated the sustainable leadership-frugal innovation relationship. Nevertheless, the effect of sustainable leadership on frugal innovation did not vary for the different values of entrepreneurial bricolage.Originality/valueThis article contributes by revealing the moderating effect of market and technological turbulence as moderator. Greater market and technological turbulence led to greater impact of sustainable leadership practices on frugal innovation.
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de Treville, Suzanne, Tyson R. Browning, Julian N. Marewski, and Jordi Weiss. "Editorial: Toyota Production System practices as Fast‐and‐Frugal heuristics." Journal of Operations Management 69, no. 4 (June 2023): 522–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joom.1266.
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Rachbini, Widarto, Silverius Y. Soeharso, Harimurti Wulandjani, Tiolina Evi, Erwin Permana, and Suyanto Suyanto. "Exploring Frugal Buying, Social Influence, and App Behavior in Online Food Shopping in Indonesia." MIX: JURNAL ILMIAH MANAJEMEN 13, no. 3 (October 31, 2023): 614. http://dx.doi.org/10.22441/jurnal_mix.2023.v13i3.007.
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Objectives: This quantitative study investigates the relationships among Frugal Buying Habits, Social Influence, Task-oriented app usage, Pleasure-oriented app usage, and Digital persuasion in the context of online food shopping via delivery apps in Indonesia.Methodology: We employ an explanatory research design, testing hypotheses derived from existing literature. A purposive sampling method selects 300 active users of online food delivery apps. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with Smart PLS software analyzes the data.Findings: Frugal Buying Habits are associated with both Task-oriented and Pleasure-oriented app usage. Social Influence strongly impacts Digital Persuasion. Task-oriented app usage positively correlates with Digital Persuasion while Pleasure-oriented app usage does not.Conclusion: These findings highlight opportunities for app developers to cater to frugal consumers and leverage social influence, improving user experiences. Policymakers should consider regulating digital persuasion tactics for ethical practices. This research contributes to understanding online food shopping dynamics.
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Fulconis, François, Gilles Pache, and Emmanuelle Reynaud. "Frugal supply chains: a managerial and societal perspective." Society and Business Review 14, no. 3 (October 11, 2019): 228–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sbr-06-2018-0059.
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Purpose The paper aims to introduce the issue of supply chain management in the context of increasingly rare and costly resources and to define the notion of frugal supply chain, in particular, in reference to the development of circular economy. The challenges of frugal supply chain are detailed for a set of private and public stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach As a programmatic viewpoint, this paper aims at developing debates regarding the future of supply chains, building upon current technical and managerial innovations. Findings Frugal supply chains constitute a new business perspective. It transforms the way value creation process is considered, in reference to the models of circular economy, and the systems in which companies evolve. The circular economy represents many opportunities for new forms of growth in the context of rare resources, and it raises several challenges for a variety of stakeholders, more or less, involved in the management of closed loop supply chains. Practical implications Frugal strategies in a supply chain context may provide both a source of competitive advantage for companies and an enhancement of their commitment to society. Social implications The practices described in the paper aim at stimulating a new view of logistics management, based on the principles of sustainable development. Frugal supply chains offer the possibility of reflecting on a more moderate, sensible and effective use of several commons by taking part in the conservation of rare resources for future generations. Originality/value This viewpoint introduces the concept of frugal supply chains, rarely approached in the literature, and it offers the opportunity to open debates on managerial and societal challenges linked to logistics strategies and, more broadly, to inter-organizational relations.
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Yousaf, Zahid, Mirela Panait, Umair Tanveer, Alina Cretu, Andrei Hrebenciuc, and Sheikh Muhammad Zahid. "Value Creation through Frugal Innovation, Innovation Capability and Knowledge Sharing in a Circular Economy." Sustainability 14, no. 14 (July 11, 2022): 8504. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14148504.
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This study aims to examine the direct effect of innovation capability on value creation. The mediating role of frugal innovation and the moderating role of knowledge sharing are also explored between innovation capability and value creation link. This exploratory study uses quantitative and cross-sectional data collected through questionnaires. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to examine the hypothesis. Findings show a significant positive impact of innovation capability on value creation. Results proved that frugal innovation mediates the relations between innovation capability and value creation. Knowledge sharing strengthens the association between innovation capability and value creation in their association. Our research provides a framework for the sustainable advancement of SMEs in a circular economy and recommends that they increase the value creation of the products/services through frugal innovation based on the innovation capabilities. Moreover, knowledge-sharing practices speed up the interplay between innovation capability and value creation in the circular economy.
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Giancola, Marco, Maria Chiara Pino, and Simonetta D’Amico. "Exploring the Psychosocial Antecedents of Sustainable Behaviors through the Lens of the Positive Youth Development Approach: A Pioneer Study." Sustainability 13, no. 22 (November 10, 2021): 12388. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132212388.
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The current study explored, in a sample of 219 young Italian adults (105 M; 114 F; mean age = 22.10 years; SD = 2.69; age range = 18–29), the contribution of the five psychosocial skills (Five Cs) identified by the Positive Youth Development approach (competence, confidence, character, connection, and caring) to sustainable behaviors, including pro-ecological, frugal, altruistic. and equitable actions. We performed four regression analyses, in which the Five Cs were the independent variables and pro-ecological, frugal, altruistic, and equitable behaviors were the dependent ones. Results reveal that character predicted pro-ecological and frugal behaviors, whereas competence was a significant antecedent of altruism. In addition, we found that caring predicted pro-ecological and altruistic actions while connection was a positive predictor of equity. These findings suggest that psychosocial resources could be crucial for sustainability, opening new possibilities for research and intervention in order to promote sustainable practices that could guarantee the well-being of the present and forthcoming generations. Limits and future research directions are also discussed.
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K. Ojha, Abhoy. "MNCs in India: focus on frugal innovation." Journal of Indian Business Research 6, no. 1 (May 14, 2014): 4–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jibr-12-2012-0123.
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Purpose – Frugal innovation is a term that has been used to describe the low-cost products and services, as well as the systems and processes adopted by organizations to develop them. The purpose of this paper is to examine the experience of multi-national companies (MNCs) in India as they adopt the philosophy of frugal innovation to develop products that are high in technology but low in terms of cost to meet the requirements of the market conditions in India, and similar low-income economies. Design/methodology/approach – The case study methodology was adopted to understand the experiences of the Indian subsidiaries of two MNCs, Bosch India and 3M India. Data were acquired through interviews with key decision makers, documents, and publicly available information. Findings – The two MNCs have increased research and development (R&D) in India and adopted the philosophy of frugal innovation which combines high technology with low costs. Based on the analysis, some propositions are presented indicating that MNCs will shift R&D to India if there are market opportunities; they will adopt the philosophy of frugal innovation to produce high technology products that are lost cost and low cost over product lifetime and will also expand to new-to-the-world innovation and finally contribute to global innovation. Research limitations/implications – The study is based on only two case studies and a large sample study may be required before the findings can be generalized. Practical implications – Other MNCs can learn from Bosch India and 3M India in terms of adopting frugal innovation practices to be successful in low-income economies. Originality/value – The field of frugal innovation is quite new and largely based on anecdotal accounts of successful low-cost innovation. This paper provides a more detailed account of the experiences of two well-known organizations to present propositions that may be used to conduct a large sample study.
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Fransen, Jan, Beatrice Hati, Rosebella Nyumba, and Erwin van Tuijl. "Community vitality and frugal practices in informal settlements in Nairobi: Towards a typology." Cities 134 (March 2023): 104179. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.104179.
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Chatterjee, Debabrata, and Jasleen Kaur. "Project Titli – product development for women at the bottom of the pyramid." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 12, no. 2 (March 21, 2022): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-06-2020-0186.
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Learning outcomes The learning outcomes are as follows: Understand the concept and characteristics of Bottom of Pyramid (BoP) markets; understand the concept and characteristics of frugal innovations; understand the Design Thinking approach to product design and how it might be useful to develop frugal innovations for BoP markets. Case overview/Synopsis The case details the journey of a group of students at a premier engineering college in India. The group aimed to develop and implement a social innovation that addressed a serious and important health issue – menstrual hygiene practices among urban slum dwellers in India. The case begins with how a chance visit to an NGO inspired a pair of students to take up this issue, how the project unfolded at their college, the challenges faced in their journey and, finally, an outcome that was only a partial success. It raises important questions of challenges that are specific to bottom of pyramid markets in emerging economies. The case can provide a context for discussions on approaching frugal innovations from a Design Thinking perspective. Complexity academic level This case can be used in social innovation courses/modules at an undergraduate or graduate level in social innovation and social entrepreneurship courses. The case is best positioned towards the beginning of the course as an overview of the process of Social Innovation, and to discuss the relevance of concepts of BoP markets and frugal innovation. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 7: Management Science.
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Johann, Denise Adriana, Luis Felipe Dias Lopes, Sirlene Aparecida Takeda Bresciani, Claudete Correa dos Santos, and Valéria Wisnieski Padilha. "PRODUÇÃO ACADÊMICA SOBRE INOVAÇÃO FRUGAL: UMA ANÁLISE BIBLIOMÉTRICA EM PERIÓDICOS INTERNACIONAIS NA ÚLTIMA DÉCADA." International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Management 9, no. 25 (December 14, 2021): 31–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.47916/ijkem-vol9n25-2020-83417.
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Objetivo: Analisar a produção científica na área de Inovação Frugal (IF), nas bases de dados Web of Science e Scopus (CAPES, 2021). Metodologia: A pesquisa é caracterizada como descritiva com abordagem quantitativa e aplicação da técnica bibliométrica. Assim, após definir a técnica e tema, a busca foi realizada nas bases WoS e Scopus por tópico, utilizando os termos “frugal innovation”, com intervalo de tempo de 2010 a 2020, resultando em 306 publicações na WoS e 396 na Scopus. Em seguida, os dados foram organizados na Planilha Excel e após, as publicações foram identificadas nas seguintes categorias: evolução temporal, áreas temáticas, publicações por países, autores e frequência de citações. Por fim, utilizou-se o software VOSViewer para a criação de mapas textuais e clusters de co-citação. Resultados: Destaca-se que a temática de Inovação Frugal vem crescendo em frequência de publicações, destacando-se o ano de 2020. Dentre os resultados, a Índia e Estados Unidos encontram-se entre os primeiros que mais publicam e em nona posição encontra-se o Brasil encontra-se em nona posição. Quanto a area, Gestão, Negócios e Contabilidade tem a primeira posição. Entre os anos de 201 a 2020, somando entre as bases, tem-se o total de 5.281 citações. Originalidade/Valor: O uso da técnica de bibliometria apresenta-se como uma ferramenta relevante para a disseminação do conhecimento científico e tecnológico, possibilitando aos pesquisadores a análise quantitativa, descritiva e prognóstica de publicações realizadas em uma determinada área da ciência. Além disso, este estudo contribui com a disseminação do conhecimento sobre a inovação frugal, que é necessária para países que buscam o desenvolvimento econômico a partir da diminuição do uso de recursos e atendendo uma maior quantidade de pessoas, que antes não tinham acesso a determinados mercados e produtos. Palavra-chave: Inovação, Inovação Frugal, Bibliometria. 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Wiryanto, Fadhli Suko, Krisno Septyan, and Praptiningsih Praptiningsih. "Penguatan Literasi Keuangan Terhadap Orang Tua Dan Siswa SD Di Kampung Kukuk Sumpung Melalui Penguatan Budaya Menabung." Pengmasku 3, no. 1 (November 8, 2023): 56–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.54957/pengmasku.v3i1.567.
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Saving is an activity of setting aside some of the money or income you have to be saved for the purpose of managing the money. Seeing a lack of behavioral awareness saving students in Kukuk Sumpung Village, Gobang Village, Rumpin District, Bogor Regency, UPNVJ Lecturers and Students have the desire to provide guidance on how important it is to save and have a frugal lifestyle. for elementary school students and their parents by doing strengthening financial literacy and conducting outreach to students by involving students to help the school carry out fun teaching and learning activities and bring out innovations. Research with using this qualitative method was carried out in one of the villages at the top of Mount Eusing by giving lectures, in-depth observation and observations, socialization and practical teaching. Research result shows that the counseling carried out has helped the implementation of teaching and learning activities. By using Qualitative methods, in this case are used to measure the extent of students' awareness about saving, and students' knowledge in carrying out practices which are the result of socialization This was done to find out whether students can apply a frugal lifestyle in their daily lives.
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Hansen, Anders Rhiger, and Kirsten Gram-Hanssen. "Over- and underconsumption of residential heating: Analyzing occupant impacts on performance gaps between calculated and actual heating demand." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2654, no. 1 (December 1, 2023): 012062. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2654/1/012062.
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Abstract Previous research estimates that building physics and occupant practices equally contribute to the explanation of variations in residential heating consumption. However, the so-called performance gap, where calculated heating demand diverge from actual heating consumption, indicates that the relation between occupant practices and building physics vary across energy efficiency of the building. In this paper, using data from 2019 to 2021, we investigate such interactions 1) by comparing the calculated heating demand with actual energy consumption for residential space heating and domestic hot water (DHW) across energy performance certificates (A to G), and 2) by investigating variations in over- and underconsumption (deviance from calculated to actual) across socio-economic characteristics of households. In line with previous studies, we find that households living in energy inefficient houses tend to have lower heating demand than expected. Moreover, we find that lower-income households and households living in rural area has less overconsumption, indicating that they have more frugal heating practices.
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Eberspaecher, Kai. "Lean times in oil and gas: frugal strategies for emerging as a stronger player." APPEA Journal 56, no. 2 (2016): 553. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj15059.
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The reduction of the oil price depressed earnings for oil and gas companies during the past year. For many smaller players, this lack of revenues can lead to bankruptcy or takeovers. Even some larger companies have fallen casualty to depressed share prices. The first part of this extended abstract outlines focus areas on the process side to lower costs and improve revenues for operating companies, based on a number of case studies from around the world. In particular, the examples given will look at ways to increase production and reduce costs, increase the efficiency of drilling wells, and improve cycle times between well completion and bringing on production. The second part of the extended abstract discusses approaches in engineering and project execution that can lead to significant reductions in cost. Case studies will be used to illustrate how engineering deliverable standardisation decreased development cost considerably for operators. Further case studies will show that engineering practices such as debottlenecking, risk assessments, and technology application (e.g. flow assurance, reliability engineering, etc.) can lead to improving throughput, increasing reliability, and ultimately reducing cost. A final hypothetical case will be qualitatively evaluated to show the value of retaining flexibility in engineering designs. The conclusion of the extended abstract will look at how additional organisational measures such as training, performance management, and reporting structures can drive sustainable change and lead to increased profit margins in very challenging circumstances.
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Jägerbrand, Annika K., and Kamiel Spoelstra. "Effects of anthropogenic light on species and ecosystems." Science 380, no. 6650 (June 16, 2023): 1125–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adg3173.
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Anthropogenic light is ubiquitous in areas where humans are present and is showing a progressive increase worldwide. This has far-reaching consequences for most species and their ecosystems. The effects of anthropogenic light on natural ecosystems are highly variable and complex. Many species suffer from adverse effects and often respond in a highly specific manner. Ostensibly surveyable effects such as attraction and deterrence become complicated because these can depend on the type of behavior and specific locations. Here, we considered how solutions and new technologies could reduce the adverse effects of anthropogenic light. A simple solution to reducing and mitigating the ecological effects of anthropogenic light seems unattainable, because frugal lighting practices and turning off lights may be necessary to eliminate them.
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Lipp, Benjamin. "The Politics of User-Driven Innovation: On innovative users, do-able needs, and frugal robots." NOvation - Critical Studies of Innovation, no. 3 (September 5, 2022): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5380/nocsi.v0i3.91146.
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Users play an increasingly important role in European innovation policy. They are commonly seen as drivers of and active co-creators within innovation processes. However, user-driven innovation remains infused with a number of assumptions about users, technology, and “successful” innovation, which (partly) undermine a more democratic, open approach to innovation. In this contribution, I investigate the interplay between broader policy assumptions in the European discourse on user-driven innovation and its practical performance within an innovation project centring on healthcare robotics. Here, I argue that the politics of user-driven innovation harbours particular assumptions that, in effect, restrict the agency of users while also engendering conflict and contradictory outcomes. Hence, user-driven innovation is not simply about users driving innovation but rather about interfacing users and their concerns with (robotics) developers and their technology. For this, I propose an analytics of interfacing, which draws together literatures on the performative dynamics of participatory processes and more recent work on the political economy of participation. Here, I contend that it is not enough to investigate the construction and performance of publics; rather, it is additionally necessary to follow the manifold practices by which those publics are rendered available for certain technological solutions – and vice versa. Such an analytical approach opens up a fruitful avenue to critically enquire into the politics of participation – sitting in between innovation policy and practice.
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Cerreta, Maria, Gaia Daldanise, Eleonora Giovene di Girasole, and Carmelo Maria Torre. "A Cultural Heritage Low Entropy Enhancement Approach: An Ex Post Evaluation of Creative Practices." Sustainability 13, no. 5 (March 4, 2021): 2765. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13052765.
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According to the current European and Italian scenario related to urban regeneration, cultural and landscape heritage valorization is being enhanced by the activation of innovative processes and new emerging approaches. These involve the development of methodologies and tools that can address decision-making processes based on creative practices consistent with a concept named “low-entropy economy” in this paper. The low-entropy economy represents an economic approach based on the minimization of physical urban transformation and the enhancement of the existing heritage. In this perspective, the research aims to develop the Cultural Heritage Low Entropy Enhancement (CHLEE) approach by exploring how some frugal experiences have promoted cultural heritage enhancement and related complex values through a program of temporary uses and activities able to produce new values, where the human experience is essential. A crucial role is represented by the heterogeneity of creative practices that contribute to identifying and implementing innovative management and governance models. The analysis of creative practices, based upon the ex post evaluation of some Italian case studies across the PROMETHEE-GAIA multicriteria method, is able to show how these experiences build innovation ecosystems and improve the ex ante evaluation for new strategies and policies, underlining strengths, weaknesses, and milestones that shape creative experiences as drivers of urban competitiveness.
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Cordaro, Francesco, and Alain Desdoigts. "Bounded Rationality, Social Capital and Technology Adoption in Family Farming: Evidence from Cocoa-Tree Crops in Ivory Coast." Sustainability 13, no. 13 (July 5, 2021): 7483. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13137483.
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In this paper, we allege that the hypothesis in favor of bounded rationality is a plausible explanation when it comes to better understanding the sluggish pace of adoption of best available tree crop farming techniques in poor small-scale rural communities. Our research builds on data collection and analysis of cocoa farming in Ivory Coast. Firstly, we find that the cognitive scarcity under which smallholder farmers make their decisions, in particular, satisficing behavior and fast and frugal heuristics, outweigh the scarcity of financial and human resources. Secondly, we show that the structure of the environment measured through various dimensions of social capital influences human rationality and decision-making. On the one hand, the greater smallholder farmers’ civic capital (solidarity, reciprocity, trustworthiness, cooperation), the more likely they are to modify their farming practices (p < 0.05) and, more specifically, to exchange information, learn, and eventually revise these practices. On the other hand, the greater the number of organizations the farmers participate in, the greater the probability of modifying their practices (p < 0.01). Information about farming techniques disseminates through weak bridging ties built within agricultural organizations (e.g., cooperatives, extension services) rather than through strong bonding ties between family or diaspora members.
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Lusiana, Lusiana, Ema Fathimah, and Wasti Indah Haryani Daulay. "Exploration of Frugal Living in Facing the Flexing Phenomenon in the Millennial Generation (Sharia Economic Concept)." MUAMALATUNA 15, no. 2 (March 14, 2024): 205–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.37035/mua.v15i2.9651.
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This research aims to explain the exploration of Frugal living as an alternative in dealing with the flexing phenomenon in the millennial generation, with a sharia economic approach. The flexing phenomenon, which reflects the behavior of showing off or displaying wealth proudly, has become a trend among millennials, especially on social media. This can lead to overconsumption, financial imbalance, and neglect of ethical financial principles. This research uses qualitative data type, using a phenomenological approach to understand the subjective meaning of various phenomena of the millennial generation who tend to flex. Rendom data collection is from scientific articles, understanding and information from various online media. The data collected will be analyzed from the perspective of Islamic economics, which includes the principles of justice, empowerment, and financial balance. The research shows that it is a meaningful alternative for the millennial generation in dealing with the flexing phenomenon. The application of Islamic economic principles in providing a deeper understanding of economic benefits and the importance of managing finances wisely can also strengthen awareness of balanced economic benefits and have a positive impact on the financial well-being of individuals and society as a whole. It is hoped that this research can serve as a foothold for policy measures in mitigating excessive flexing practices and promoting more ethical and sustainable consumption behavior in the millennial generation
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Jensen, Tracey. "Riots, Restraint and the New Cultural Politics of Wanting." Sociological Research Online 18, no. 4 (November 2013): 36–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.3158.
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In the aftermath of the 2011 English riots, many political elites, journalists and public commentators obscured the material, sociological and economic factors which contributed to the unrest and instead connected the riots to a problematic kind of ‘wanting’ – wanting the wrong kinds of things, in a manner and degree that was constructed as illegitimate and vulgar in a time of austerity – and thus constructing the riots as a problem of excessive greed, rampant materialism and social decay. This article reflects upon how the riots played a key role in the political production of a new cultural politics of wanting, whereby wanting is made problematic, suspect, a sign of material fixation and of irresponsible consumerism. It reflects upon this cultural politics within the current austerity regime which manifests through a celebration and romanticisation of post-War restraint and re-animation of thrift practices and frugal living.
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Wennerscheid, Sophie. "Transformation Processes toward Low-Impact Pleasure." Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture 24, no. 1 (2024): 36–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2024.24.1.36.
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Taking Karen Blixen’s short story “Babette’s Feast” (1950) as the starting point of reflection, this article examines the role of culinary pleasure in relation to social and environmental transformations. Combining literary criticism and food studies, the article explores the transformative potential of culinary art both as it is represented in the literary text and as it might affect people in real life. While Blixen in her story makes the case for culinary pleasure as an experience of abundance and extravagance, the article argues that we need to rethink pleasure according to sustainability criteria, including frugal practices. By presenting a method that engages in processes of change by both examining a literary food text and reflecting on a cooking workshop as a speculative exercise on how to create low-impact pleasure, this contribution seeks to introduce an integrated approach to literary criticism, food studies, and socioecological transformation.
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Wasajja, Henry, Saqr A. A. Al-Muraisy, Antonella L. Piaggio, Pamela Ceron-Chafla, Purushothaman Vellayani Aravind, Henri Spanjers, Jules B. van Lier, and Ralph E. F. Lindeboom. "Improvement of Biogas Quality and Quantity for Small-Scale Biogas-Electricity Generation Application in off-Grid Settings: A Field-Based Study." Energies 14, no. 11 (May 26, 2021): 3088. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14113088.
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Small-scale electrical power generation (<100 kW) from biogas plants to provide off-grid electricity is of growing interest. Currently, gas engines are used to meet this demand. Alternatively, more efficient small-scale solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) can be used to enhance electricity generation from small-scale biogas plants. Most electricity generators require a constant gas supply and high gas quality in terms of absence of impurities like H2S. Therefore, to efficiently use the biogas from existing decentralized anaerobic digesters for electricity production, higher quality and stable biogas flow must be guaranteed. The installation of a biogas upgrading and buffer system could be considered; however, the cost implication could be high at a small scale as compared to locally available alternatives such as co-digestion and improved digester operation. Therefore, this study initially describes relevant literature related to feedstock pre-treatment, co-digestion and user operational practices of small-scale digesters, which theoretically could lead to major improvements of anaerobic digestion process efficiency. The theoretical preamble is then coupled to the results of a field study, which demonstrated that many locally available resources and user practices constitute frugal innovations with potential to improve biogas quality and digester performance in off-grid settings.
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Jamwal, Priyanka, Durba Biswas, and Daniel Phillips. "Provisional green infrastructure: transdisciplinary approaches to address contamination in urban streams." Water Science and Technology 82, no. 11 (October 30, 2020): 2209–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2020.518.
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Abstract Surface water contamination has emerged as an area of major concern in rapidly growing cities in the Global South, including and especially in the Indian megacity context. We argue here that nallahs (open drainage channels in Indian megacities) should be more widely recognized as a potential locus of intervention. These combined stormwater and wastewater networks offer opportunities for flexible, frugal and inclusive retrofits to improve surface and groundwater quality. We propose and define the concept of provisional green infrastructure (PGI) as a speculative innovation typology describing in-stream interventions. We argue that PGI should be employed as a shared boundary concept guiding transdisciplinary action and research within the highly unpredictable, space-constrained, and contaminated watersheds. Citing case studies throughout the region and ongoing research in the city of Bangalore, we demonstrate in-stream modifications may be capable of achieving significant improvement in the quality of urban wastewater and may play a complementary role in closing persistent capacity gaps in the operation of both centralized and decentralized treatment practices within megacities. Anticipating the larger diffusion of PGI practices across the region by various early adopters and non-state actors, we suggest a cogent research agenda focused on identifying various generalizable ‘upscaling’ opportunities for deploying in-stream interventions across various organizational and spatial domains.
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Gregson, Sarah, and Elizabeth Humphrys. "Philanthropy and the “Management” of Working-Class Women: The West Gate Bridge Disaster." Labour History: Volume 119, Issue 1 119, no. 1 (November 1, 2020): 143–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/jlh.2020.22.
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The West Gate Bridge collapse in 1970 is one of the worst industrial disasters in Australian history. Closely examined for the engineering lessons it provides, scholarly interest in its historical, social, and industrial import is far less extensive. This article examines the role of union leaders, employers, and a private welfare organisation called the Citizens Welfare Service (CWS) in the management of funds raised to support the victims and families of the disaster. More broadly, it reveals philanthropic attitudes and practices adopted to manage working families’ needs in the 1970s that were not altogether dissimilar from those of nineteenth-century philanthropists. Despite the families’ raw grief in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, “home visitors” from the CWS felt entitled to offer heavily gendered and class-based advice to widows about frugal budgeting, domestic order, and composed behaviour. The case management style employed by this welfare agency demonstrated a derivative commitment to capitalist mores that promoted hard work and thrift, while stigmatising welfare dependence.
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Tabran, Muhammad Tabran, Alma, Wahyuddin, and Sirajuddin. "Perilaku Konsumtif Perspektif Ekonomi Islam di Masa Pandemi Covid-19." BALANCA : Jurnal Ekonomi dan Bisnis Islam 4, no. 2 (November 13, 2023): 24–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.35905/balanca.v4i2.2855.
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Consumptive behavior among students is influenced not only by internal factors but also actively shaped by external factors, driving an ongoing increase in purchasing and spending to fulfill their needs. From the standpoint of Islamic economics, individuals are encouraged to adopt a frugal and simple lifestyle, particularly students. This research aims to analyze the consumptive behavior of 30 students from the Faculty of Islamic Economics and Business at Alauddin State Islamic University in Makassar, considering the perspective of Islamic economics during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study employs a qualitative approach in the form of field research, utilizing data collection techniques such as interviews, observations, and documentation of the selected students. The findings reveal that the consumptive behavior of these 30 students during the COVID-19 pandemic remains relatively active. However, there are instances of impulsive purchasing, wastefulness, and a pursuit of pleasure. From the perspective of Islamic economics, consumptive behavior is deemed undesirable as it prioritizes desires over needs and leads to wasteful practices, contrary to Islamic economic principles that advocate for frugality and simplicity.
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Tho Tran, Dat, Khoa Dinh Vu, Phong Ba Le, and Phuong Thi Lan Tran. "Determinants of Radical and Incremental Innovation: The Roles of Human Resource Management Practices, Knowledge Sharing, and Market Turbulence." Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management 18 (2023): 203–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/5109.
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Aim/Purpose: Given the increasingly important role of knowledge and human resources for firms in developing and emerging countries to pursue innovation, this paper aims to study and explore the potential intermediating roles of knowledge donation and collection in linking high-involvement human resource management (HRM) practice and innovation capability. The paper also explores possible moderators of market turbulence in fostering the influences of knowledge-sharing (KS) behaviors on innovation competence in terms of incremental and radical innovation. Background: The fitness of HRM practice is critical for organizations to foster knowledge capital and internal resources for improving innovation and sustaining competitive advantage. Methodology: The study sample is 309 respondents and Structural Equation Model (SEM) was used for the analysis of the data obtained through a questionnaire survey with the aid of AMOS version 22. Contribution: This paper increases the understanding of the precursor role of high-involvement HRM practices, intermediating mechanism of KS activities, and the regulating influence of market turbulence in predicting and fostering innovation capability, thereby pushing forward the theory of HRM and innovation management. Findings: The empirical findings support the proposed hypotheses relating to the intermediating role of KS in the HRM practices-innovation relationship. It spotlights the crucial character of market turbulence in driving the domination of knowledge-sharing behaviors on incremental innovation. Recommendations for Practitioners: The proposed research model can be applied by leaders and directors to foster their organizational innovation competence. Recommendation for Researchers: Researchers are recommended to explore the influence of different models of HRM practices on innovation to identify the most effective pathway leading to innovation for firms in developing and emerging nations. Impact on Society: This paper provides valuable initiatives for firms in developing and emerging markets on how to leverage the strategic and internal resources of an organization for enhancing innovation. Future Research: Future studies should investigate the influence of HRM practices and knowledge resources to promote frugal innovation models for dealing with resource scarcity.
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Tripathi, Juhi, Shweta Kumari, and Shalabh Rastogi. "Modified office practice in COVID-19 pandemic - an otorhinolaryngologist perspective." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 7, no. 11 (October 26, 2020): 4659. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20204771.
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COVID-19 spreads through contact, minute droplets and aerosol from infected person which may be symptomatic or asymptomatic. Nose and throat had very high load of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) virus. Otorhinolaryngologists by virtue of their work which requires close examination of these part are at very high risk of infection. Many studies are available for precautions to be taken in patient management related to COVID-19 in wards and surgical intervention in operation theaters but very little information is available regarding precautions in working in outpatient clinic setting. Our article highlights some changes we made in ear, nose and throat (ENT) outpatient clinics after going through various guidelines to make it safe in current scenario. These changes may inspire others to move toward safer work practices in their outpatient area to provide ENT consultations. The main changes were categorized into infrastructural changes, identification of frugal but effective personal protective equipment (PPE) for ENT, training for use of different level of PPE as per risk, new modus operandi, and new infection prevention measures. These changes had taken into account safety guidelines by Ministry of health and family welfare (MOHFW) government of India and various international associations specific to specialty. The modification and its advantages were presented.
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Lusiani, Luigi, Roberto Frediani, Roberto Nardi, Andrea Fontanella, and Mauro Campanini. "Doing more does not mean doing better: the FADOI contribution to the Slow Medicine program for a sustainable and wise healthcare system." Italian Journal of Medicine 9, no. 3 (September 22, 2015): 281. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2015.580.
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Consistently with its own vision on the necessity to implement a sustainable and frugal medicine, in 2013 the Italian Federation of Associations of Hospital Doctors in Internal Medicine (FADOI) decided to adhere to the Slow Medicine program entitled <em>Doing more does not mean doing better</em>, launched in Italy in late 2012, following the Choosing Wisely® campaign of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation started in the USA in 2010. According to the program, FADOI has now produced a list of ten evidence-based recommendations of the <em>do not</em> type, regarding different practices whose benefits for the patients are questionable at least, if not harmful at worst. The list was obtained from a questionnaire submitted to 1175 FADOI members, containing a purposely selected choice of 32 pertinent recommendations already published by Choosing Wisely®, and reflects the qualified opinion of a large number of Italian internists. These recommendations are now endorsed by the FADOI, as a contribution to the discussion among doctors, health professionals, nurses, patients and citizens about what is worth choosing in medicine; they are also meant to promote a shared decision making process in the clinical practice.
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Løken, Therese Dwyer, Marit Kristine Helgesen, Halvard Vike, and Catharina Bjørkquist. "Being bound and tied by the ropes of frugality: a case study on public management values and service integration." Journal of Health Organization and Management 36, no. 9 (March 16, 2022): 95–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhom-10-2020-0401.
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PurposeNew Public Management (NPM) has increased fragmentation in municipal health and social care organizations. In response, post-NPM reforms aim to enhance integration through service integration. Integration of municipal services is important for people with complex health and social challenges, such as concurrent substance abuse and mental health problems. This article explores the conditions for service integration in municipal health and social services by studying how public management values influence organizational and financial structures and professional practices.Design/methodology/approachThis is a case study with three Norwegian municipalities as case organizations. The study draws on observations of interprofessional and interagency meetings and in-depth interviews with professionals and managers. The empirical field is municipal services for people with concurrent substance abuse and mental health challenges. The data were analyzed both inductively and deductively.FindingsThe study reveals that opportunities to assess, allocate and deliver integrated services were limited due to organizational and financial structures as the most important aim was to meet the financial goals. The authors also find that economic and frugal values in NPM doctrines impede service integration. Municipalities with integrative values in organizational and financial structures and in professional approaches have greater opportunities to succeed in integrating services.Originality/valueApplying a public management value perspective, this study finds that the values on which organizational and financial structures and professional practices are based are decisive in enabling and constraining service integration.
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Choudhury, Atun Roy, Neha Singh, Arutchelvan Veeraraghavan, Ayushi Gupta, Sankar Ganesh Palani, Mohammad Mehdizadeh, Anahita Omidi, and Duraid K. A. Al-Taey. "Ascertaining and Optimizing the Water Footprint and Sludge Management Practice in Steel Industries." Water 15, no. 12 (June 9, 2023): 2177. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w15122177.
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Steelmaking is a water-intensive process. The mean water intake against each ton of steel manufactured is ascertained as between 2 and 20 m3. Primarily, the stated requirement is in the form of make-up water to compensate for evaporation and mechanical losses and does not contribute to wastewater generation. Conversely, unit operations, such as rolling, continuous casting, pickling, etc., generate highly complex wastewater rich in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), cyanide, ammonia, non-consumed acids, benzene, toluene, xylene, oil, grease, etc. Further, the conjugative wastewater contains a high concentration of metallic oxides, toxic elements, oil, nitrogen, and heavy metals such as zinc, nickel, chromium, etc. These contaminants are generally treated and neutralized using physicochemical and membrane-based systems. This also yields hazardous sludge, which is landfilled, thereby incurring an ancillary financial burden. However, sludge can be a frugal source of extracting multi-dimensional benefits. The present review investigated and identified the most water-intensive and wastewater/sludge-contributing unit operations and proposed a preferential combination of treatments to balance efficacy and economy. Further, the various global practices for sludge recycling and management documented in the existing literature are summarized and ranked with the help of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The findings revealed concrete making and nutrient recovery as the most- and least-preferred recycling alternatives.
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Papadopoulos, Homer. "Designing Smart Home Environments for Unobtrusive Monitoring for Independent Living." International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications 8, no. 1 (January 2016): 47–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijesma.2016010104.
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The “Unobtrusive Smart Environments for Independent Living” EU funded project is proposing an integrated system (USEFIL system) which intends to cope with ageing problem providing advanced, affordable and unobtrusive monitoring and web communication solutions for seniors living independently. The USEFIL system enhances social care and medical service provision by exploiting “frugal” ICT solutions such as low cost “off-the-shelf” technology and unobtrusive monitoring technologies to develop services that will assist the elderly in maintaining their independence throughout their daily activities. The project adopted the Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM) to design and develop the USEFIL system because this methodology incorporates all those principles, practices, and procedures to help us meet USEFIL systems' objectives. Aim of the paper is to demonstrate the use of the DSRM process to design an ICT solution for the case study of ICT technologies for assistive living environments for elderly people. More specifically using the theoretical lens of the Design Science Research Methodology theory the paper presents the necessary steps that have been conducted to design the USEFIL system. The USEFIL system was implemented and validated over a three year period with elderly people, their unofficial carers and doctors. Results demonstrate that the technology readily succeeds in meeting the study's initial objectives. Although the project is still running and the design specification of the USEFIL system is under continuous update, the main modules that have been designed and realized will be presented in the paper.
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Roudeau, Cécile. "Toward Critical State Studies: Bringing the Democratic State Back into American Literary Criticism." American Literary History 34, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 315–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajab074.
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Abstract This essay starts from the apparent disconnect between democracy and the State in American literary studies. Taking the case of antebellum US literature (James Fenimore Cooper and Lydia Maria Child), it contends that literature is one place of elaboration of a democratic statecraft. Nineteenth-century US literature has been read as both complicit with and resisting to reigning models of statecraft endorsing racial domination, bureaucratization, and the monopoly of violence. However, we remain indifferent at our own peril to the potential forces of State as a democratic public authority and of state regulation as a non-arbitrary public provision. Putting American literature to the test of statecraft and statecraft to the test of literature, critical State studies proposes to revisit literary practices as a mode of critique in nineteenth-century state building. Nineteenth-century literature, I argue, both facilitated and performed this critique. Reading nineteenth-century US literature from the perspective of critical State studies—here, reading The American Frugal Housewife as a manual of democratic regulatory practice, or The Pioneers as an attempt at democratic environmental governance—allows us to investigate how literature, as a mode of representation and a political practice, gives shape and voice to alternative modes of statecraft. Turning the State into a methodological problem, a pressure point of generative possibilities, critical State Studies requires that we attend to an alternative genealogy of the State and recover a past that has not yet been present in our reading of American literature.
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Widiyanto, Joko Dwi, and Akhmad Khisni. "OPTIMALISASI NILAI PEMANFAATAN WAKAF DARI FUNGSI SOSIAL MENJADI EKONOMIS DI KOTA SEMARANG." Jurnal Akta 4, no. 3 (September 10, 2017): 455. http://dx.doi.org/10.30659/akta.v4i3.1821.
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The purpose and this research is for the existence of function and benefit of waqf as well as factors influencing the existence of function and manfat of waqf, solution and solution about function and benefit of waqf in society after notarial deed and social function become function in town of SemarangThis research is empirical law research, that is research based on the implementation of optimization of social wakaf utilization value into a frugal function in Semarang City The existence of shifting funngsi and wakaf benefits in Semarang City in the formulation of the transfer function by granting the previous waqf. Factors that affect the function and benefits are by way of selling and the results used to purchase new and broad wakaf data obtained are analyzed quantitatively.Optimizing the benefits of the utilization of waqf from social function into a frugal function in the city of Semarang by the researchers, then at the end of the series of research activities of this Thesis, will be concluded about the practice of transferring wakaf by nazhir Pedurungan Sub-district of Semarang that has been found, the existence of shifting funngsi And Benefits of waqf in Semarang City in the way of testing by granting the previous waqf, factors influencing the existence of the functions and benefits by way of selling and the results used to buy a new waqf, the implementation of the transfer function is done by granting the previous waqf After being dismantled As a waqf object that pole mosque, roof and windows, and the floors derived from the wakaf of the mosque maker's waqf objects is no longer functioned as a waqf object of the mosque that comes from ulin wood, all the wakaf objects that dibabak is granted to Other mosques y Ang need.The reason for the constraints on the function and benefits of wakaf in the community after the notarial deed of the social function became the basic economic function of the practice of transferring wakaf function by nazhir in Kecamatan Pedurungan Semarang City is as follows: Because the mosque can not accommodate the number of jama "ah that happened happened At The first case In the case of the second and the third case Accompanied by the highway Solutions falling out of the consequences of wakaf pengakfungsian practices by nazhir in Pedurungan Subdistrict Semarang City is the community can take advantage of the implementation of the transfer of wakaf function by nazhir in Pedurungan Subdistrict Semarang City, occurred in all cases Has been investigated in the field A practice of transferring the function of waqf by nazhir in Kecamatan Pedurungan there is pro and there is a cons, and the law is not the practice of wakaf pengakfungsian by nazhir in Kecamatan Pedurungan not procedural, As for the solution about Function and benefit of waqf in society after made notary deed from social function become basic security function of practice of transferring wakaf by nazhir in Kecamatan Pedurungan Semarang CityKeywords: Utilization of Endowment and Social Function
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Widiyanto, Joko Dwi, and Akhmad Khisni. "OPTIMALISASI NILAI PEMANFAATAN WAKAF DARI FUNGSI SOSIAL MENJADI EKONOMIS DI KOTA SEMARANG." Jurnal Akta 4, no. 3 (September 10, 2017): 455. http://dx.doi.org/10.30659/akta.v4i3.1822.
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The purpose and this research is for the existence of function and benefit of waqf as well as factors influencing the existence of function and manfat of waqf, solution and solution about function and benefit of waqf in society after notarial deed and social function become function in town of SemarangThis research is empirical law research, that is research based on the implementation of optimization of social wakaf utilization value into a frugal function in Semarang City The existence of shifting funngsi and wakaf benefits in Semarang City in the formulation of the transfer function by granting the previous waqf. Factors that affect the function and benefits are by way of selling and the results used to purchase new and broad wakaf data obtained are analyzed quantitatively.Optimizing the benefits of the utilization of waqf from social function into a frugal function in the city of Semarang by the researchers, then at the end of the series of research activities of this Thesis, will be concluded about the practice of transferring wakaf by nazhir Pedurungan Sub-district of Semarang that has been found, the existence of shifting funngsi And Benefits of waqf in Semarang City in the way of testing by granting the previous waqf, factors influencing the existence of the functions and benefits by way of selling and the results used to buy a new waqf, the implementation of the transfer function is done by granting the previous waqf After being dismantled As a waqf object that pole mosque, roof and windows, and the floors derived from the wakaf of the mosque maker's waqf objects is no longer functioned as a waqf object of the mosque that comes from ulin wood, all the wakaf objects that dibabak is granted to Other mosques y Ang need.The reason for the constraints on the function and benefits of wakaf in the community after the notarial deed of the social function became the basic economic function of the practice of transferring wakaf function by nazhir in Kecamatan Pedurungan Semarang City is as follows: Because the mosque can not accommodate the number of jama "ah that happened happened At The first case In the case of the second and the third case Accompanied by the highway Solutions falling out of the consequences of wakaf pengakfungsian practices by nazhir in Pedurungan Subdistrict Semarang City is the community can take advantage of the implementation of the transfer of wakaf function by nazhir in Pedurungan Subdistrict Semarang City, occurred in all cases Has been investigated in the field A practice of transferring the function of waqf by nazhir in Kecamatan Pedurungan there is pro and there is a cons, and the law is not the practice of wakaf pengakfungsian by nazhir in Kecamatan Pedurungan not procedural, As for the solution about Function and benefit of waqf in society after made notary deed from social function become basic security function of practice of transferring wakaf by nazhir in Kecamatan Pedurungan Semarang CityKeywords: Utilization of Endowment and Social Function
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Pascal Adinata Susanto, Abdul Haris Fatgehipon, and Sujarwo. "Fenomena Thrifting di Pasar Loak Jembatan Item Jatinegara." Mutiara: Jurnal Ilmiah Multidisiplin Indonesia 2, no. 2 (April 30, 2024): 113–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.61404/jimi.v2i2.222.
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The phenomenon of thrifting at Pasar Loak Jembatan Item Jatinegara demonstrates the continuity and evolution of frugal shopping practices involving the purchase of second-hand items. This research delineates the long history of thrifting, from the medieval period to the emergence of organizations such as Salvation Army and Goodwill that popularized it in the 19th century. The COVID-19 pandemic has reignited interest in thrifting due to economic pressures prompting people to save on expenses. The research methodology employed is qualitative descriptive, utilizing in-depth interviews and direct observations at Pasar Loak Jembatan Item Jatinegara. The findings reveal that traders employ two main strategies: selling directly at the market and through online platforms. Meanwhile, consumers have diverse motivations, ranging from meeting household needs to a desire to collect unique and antique items. Analysis of Alfred Schutz’s phenomenological theory is used to understand the reasons and goals behind consumer’s choices in thrifting. The researcher finds that each individual has different motives, such as goal motives (In order to motive) and because motives (Because motive), underlying their decisions to engage in thrifting. The conclusion of this research is that the phenomenon of thrifting at Pasar Loak Jembatan Item Jatinegara reflects the evolving and relevant dynamics of consumer culture, adapting to social and economic changes. With the evolution of this practice, the second-hand market becomes a favorite place for people to find affordable items, while traders and consumers continue to adapt to technological advancements and changes in the economic landscape. This study provides valuable insights into how thrifting is not just an economic phenomenon but also reflects the identity and preferences of consumers in a constantly changing shopping culture.
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Sadovska, Iryna, Myroslava Kulynych, Kateryna Nahirska, and Alla Fatenok-Tkachuk. "Budgeting Methodology in Relation to Management Reporting." Oblik i finansi, no. 3(101) (2023): 21–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.33146/2307-9878-2023-3(101)-21-27.
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In order to effectively manage the company's resources, it is necessary to draw up financial plans, control the flow of income and expenses, and correlate strategic and managerial decisions with the current economic situation. These tasks can be implemented through budgeting. The article aims to generalize the theoretical and methodological principles of budgeting and management reporting and substantiate recommendations for their improvement based on the analysis of best international practices. It was determined that budgeting is considered as: 1) a management function characterized by general scientific and practical approaches to the goal, purpose, tasks and functional content; 2) an element of the management accounting system concerning management reporting. The factors causing the problem of low budgeting efficiency in Ukrainian enterprises were disclosed. The research draws a parallel between traditional budgeting systems, which have proven themselves in the practice of Ukrainian enterprises, and innovative ones of foreign origin. It was proposed to use instrumental technologies of Lean and frugal production in budgeting. It was recommended to develop the ideology of budgeting based on the philosophy of praxeology. This approach will increase the role of budgeting in making managerial decisions. It was determined that an important element of the budgeting process is the internal management reporting system, which is formed in connection with the design and content of budgets. Innovative budgeting methods are factors in the development of the management reporting system. Management reporting should be improved in terms of form, content and design. The authors consider the design of management reporting as a bridge between the executor and the consumer of the information product, capable of increasing the level of understanding and trust between the management accounting accountant and the decision-making centre, i.e. the manager (owner).
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Malik, Ashish. "Transcribe and Tally: jugaad in action." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 3, no. 3 (June 28, 2013): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-06-2013-0074.
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Title – Transcribe and Tally: jugaad in action. Subject area – Human resource development/management and change management, leadership, entrepreneurial development and indigenous innovation. Study level/applicability – The case is suitable for final year undergraduate human resource development/management, change management, indigenous innovation, or specialist HRM Master's program (strategic HRM/HRD) students. Case overview – The case study highlights the challenges of managing change and growth in India's dynamic business process outsourcing sector. The choice of a small organisation brings to the fore the impact of the strategic decisions owners of capital place on managers as they address issues of sustained growth to support short-term expectations of shareholders. The case highlights India's indigenous approach to frugal innovation or jugaad (finding a creative and improvised work around); how a group of managers consistently reinvented the business model and human resource management practices to stay afloat and meet shareholder expectations. Expected learning outcomes – Depending on the teaching programme and the emphasis of this case in the class, one or more of the following learning outcomes (LO) can be achieved from this case study. These LO have been developed using Bloom's taxonomy and they progressively move from simple to complex LO. Following the case analysis, students should be able to: discuss the key challenges faced by Transcribe and Tally (T&T); identify and analyse the various influences of internal and external factors on training provision; understand the importance of an external network of service provision and identify the key training and organisational capabilities; analyse the dynamic interactions between the various factors and training provision; analyse the relationship between T&T's competitive strategy and its strategic choices (make versus buy) towards investing in training; evaluate the role of training in developing organisational capabilities; and strategize a way forward for Roy Thakur. Supplementary materials – Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes.
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Chandra Datta, Subhas. "Needs Proofreading Sustainable Future Green School Ecology: Prevents Future-Pandemic Improving Biomedicines-Physiology Health Technology Biodiversity World Policy Development Studies." International Journal of World Policy and Development Studies, no. 91 (January 13, 2023): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/ijwpds.91.1.10.
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The various lockdowns due to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2/3 (SARS-CoV-2/3) – 2019 (COVID-19 diseases) from March 2020 to up-to-date 2022, and the recent; ‘Freshwater-Living-Pathogens’, infectious viruses ‘hitchhike’ on latching onto microplastics, missing our helpful guts-microbes, and the outbreak of Monkeypox, etc., and the ’Future Pandemic’, has badly affected a worldwide school education; straightforward teaching, health, nutrition, research, and well-being due to their epidemic potentiality and insufficient countermeasures or vaccines or weakening the ability of vaccines to prevent diseases caused by pathogens. So, in the year of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, to overcome it, the main objective is to develop ‘Sustainable Future Green School Ecology’ for sustainable teaching practices during any future pandemic. The survey-based/design study has mainly conducted in the Kanchannagar D. N. Das High School (HS), and the students has identified patterns, trends and problems in lockdowns based on interaction-survey among themselves, teachers, and communities, and mentions some of the solutions deployed to overcome the problem by innovative ideas regarding hybrid learning, health, infrastructure, and biodiversity conservation wildlife for joyful environment with treatment clues against diseases or infectious disease diagnostics, surveillance, vaccine development, and therapeutics, that will enable a to prevent any global pandemic, and take more advantage of modern environment-friendly technologies to continue teaching during any lockdowns for; “Understanding Eco-System for Health and well-being” and “Fostering health, nutrition, and well-being/Technological innovation for ecosystem and health with the steady reopen opening”, and the ‘School will be the mirror of the society by improving ‘Sustainable Future Green School Ecology’ forming the ‘Common-Activity-Based-Eco-friendly-Complex-Ecosystem-Model’ that prevents any future pandemic improving “Biomedicines-Physiology-Health-Technology-Biodiversity-World Policy and Development-Studies”. And it will encourage children to find local-level problems and take initiatives for developing local technological solutions from green technology, appropriate technology, information and communication technology, or improvising traditional biomedicines-physiology technology based on the principles of frugal innovation.
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Soni, Pavan, and Rishikesha T. Krishnan. "Frugal innovation: aligning theory, practice, and public policy." Journal of Indian Business Research 6, no. 1 (May 14, 2014): 29–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jibr-03-2013-0025.
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Purpose – The paper aims to address two key gaps in the literature of frugal innovation. First, it disambiguates frugal innovations into its types, and into the various levels at which it happens. Second, it builds upon the theoretical foundations of resource-based view, new institutional economics, economics of location, and institutional theory to offer testable propositions on determinants of frugal innovations. Design/methodology/approach – This is a conceptual paper. The authors first systematically reviewed the extant literature on frugal innovation and related domains and categorized the existing understanding on the domain into various typologies of frugal innovation. The authors then justified why certain key theoretical lenses are tenable to understand the determinants of frugal innovation and then examined the conditions that enable such innovations. Findings – The paper has three key findings. First, frugal innovation comprises of a frugal mindset, a frugal process and a frugal outcome, which may be practiced distinctly. Second, frugal innovators are of three types: grassroots-level, domestic-enterprise level, and MNC-subsidiary level. Each has their distinctive incentives and styles of frugal innovation. Third, a frugal mindset is encouraged by a resource-scarce environments, weaker institutional intermediaries, and a higher tolerance for uncertainty. Frugal processes are espoused by poor property rights regime and a critical size of lead market; and frugal outcomes are influenced by the network-position of innovators, and the presence of critical lead-markets. Research limitations/implications – The propositions are though testable, but proxies need to be developed to measure the variables, such as a frugal mindset, and a frugal process. Further, the current view on various types and levels of frugal innovation is that of mutual exclusivity, whereas this may not always be the case. Hence, it might be useful to identify contingencies in which these distinctions fade away. Originality/value – The paper is valuable in two key aspects. First, it offers a much-needed theoretical underpinning to the phenomenon of frugal innovation, such that the phenomenon could be better understood and influenced. Second, it nuances the phenomenon by identifying distinct types of frugal innovators in terms of their motivation, institutional influences, and styles of innovation.
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Mignenan, Victor. "Management of Frugal Innovation Projects: Research Approach and Perspectives." International Business Research 15, no. 4 (March 28, 2022): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v15n4p121.
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Frugal innovation is a key lever to meet the needs of low-income consumers. Its real challenge is to introduce something new (innovate) to the market while minimizing (frugal) resource constraints. The phenomenon of innovation frugality has traditionally been studied in relation to emerging and developing countries. Today, several studies point out that frugal innovation is also practiced in advanced economies. Although the studies are of great interest to many, they have not been able to identify the concept or map the approach. Therefore, we do not know (i) how the frugal innovation approach developed during the period from 2010 to 2018 (ii) What is the mapping of the phenomenon of frugal innovation? (iii) What are the relevant areas of research during this period? And finally (iv) what are the areas and opportunities for future research? To answer these questions, we first conducted a systematic review of the literature by analyzing 106 articles published from 2010 to 2018. Second, we conducted an interview with 61 respondents made up of researchers, experts, and practitioners to validate the main research gaps identified and identify themes relevant for future research. The results of the research show that researchers affiliated with universities and institutes in the UK, India and both countries are in the majority and have been instrumental in research on frugal innovation management. Similarly, it appears from the above that several products resulting from frugal innovation come from India and China. In addition, our results indicate that articles on frugal innovation are published in a wide range of disciplines and journals. However, researchers, experts and practitioners perceive the concept of frugal innovation in different ways. As a result, studies on frugal innovation focus on sectors such as health, electricity, electronics, transport, finance, ICT, and energy. On the other hand, despite their great importance, the agriculture and education sectors are little explored. The results of the research call on actors to further explore the housing, agriculture, education, and energy sectors in emerging and developing countries.
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Nocera, Daniel G. "Can We Progress from Solipsistic Science to Frugal Innovation?" Daedalus 141, no. 3 (July 2012): 45–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_00160.
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Energy demand in the twenty-first century will be driven by the needs of three billion people in the emerging world and three billion new inhabitants to our planet. To provide them with a renewable and sustainable energy supply is perhaps the greatest challenge for science in the twenty-first century. The science practiced to meet the energy needs of the twentieth century responded to a society of wealth, and energy systems were designed to be large and centralized. However, the inability of the emerging world to incur large capital costs suggests that a new science must be undertaken, one that does not rely on economy of scale but rather sets as its target highly manufacturable and distributed energy systems that are affordable to the poor. Only in this way can science provide global society with its most direct solution for a sustainable and carbon-neutral energy future.
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Adam AHMAT, Dr Taha. "OBSTACLES TO AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE HAJAR LAMIS REGION OF CHAD IN THE PERIOD FROM 2005-2015." RIMAK International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 06, no. 01 (January 1, 2024): 251–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2717-8293.27.14.
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The study examined the obstacles to agricultural development in the Hadjer Lamis region of Chad, over the period from 2005 to 2015. Agriculture is one of the professions that founded civilization, and the first revolution of humanity in the history of mankind. It is a human activity that has been widely adopted by most peoples, because about half to two thirds of the world's population depends on it, including Chad, like other developing countries that largely depend on agriculture, where more than 60% of the population works there. It also contributes significantly to economic and social development, and the prolific lands for agricultural production are concentrated on vast expanses where natural and human conditions are favorable for agricultural production. Chad benefits from vast expanses of agricultural land where agriculture has been practiced for a long time, but despite the availability of all these lands, which represent about a third of the area of Chad, they are hindered by certain obstacles that limit their agricultural development, and for sustainable agricultural development to reach its objectives, it is necessary to find appropriate solutions to overcome these obstacles. in this study, we examine the problems facing agricultural production. The problem of the study: the study area suffers from several natural and human obstacles and that this region practices rudimentary agricultural methods. Its hypotheses are as follows: (1) the study area can produce agricultural crops that promote sustainable development. (2) The study area suffers from natural and human constraints that have led to a decrease in production and its decline. (3) The fluctuation of rainfall and the creep of the desert which limit it on the north side could compromise the agricultural development of the region. The study aimed to: (1) highlight the natural and human geographical characteristics of the study area (2) know the dominant cultivation models of the Hadjer Lamis area (3) Identify the main problems and obstacles to agricultural development in the Hadjer Lamis region (4). The main crops and agricultural tools used, it turned out that the importance is: (1) the identification of the natural and human constraints suffered by the region of Hadjer Lamis. (2) To urge stakeholders on the sufferings of the agricultural sector in this region and (3) to provide information on agricultural development that students and researchers can benefit from. The researcher followed a research methodology in the study of this topic, which included theregional program: According to this regional program, the natural and human characteristics and the geographical location of the study area were studied. The historical program that gathers information related to agriculture in the Hadjer Lamis region in a specific period and then analyzes and presents its results. Analytical descriptive approach: by which the nature of the dominant agricultural activity in the study area has been described and the data and results have been interpreted. The statistical approach: gathered statistical information on agricultural production and benefit from their analysis and interpretation in the agricultural field.She highlighted many natural constraints that contribute to the slow pace of agricultural development in the study area: fluctuations in rainfall and rising temperatures, as well as agricultural pests such as locusts, other insects, migratory birds and those fixed. The Government and the Ministry in charge of the Agricultural Sector should raise awareness and guide farmers, provide them with the necessary agricultural equipment that will increase production, look for improved and frugal seeds and reduce the cultivation of crops that require a large amount of water and a long period of time, due to the rainfall observed in the territory in addition to the desert sprawl
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Alleo, Luciana Galve, Sonia Buongermino de Souza, and Sophia Cornbluth Szarfarc. "Feeding practices in the first year of life." Journal of Human Growth and Development 24, no. 2 (June 1, 2014): 195. http://dx.doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.81222.
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Introdução: A alimentação é especialmente importante no primeiro ano de vida quando ocorre o desmame progressivo e compete à alimentação complementar suprir as necessidades nutricionais da criança a fim de garantir o crescimento e desenvolvimento. Objetivo: Descrever a prática alimentar em crianças no primeiro ano de vida. Método: Estudo transversal, com aplicação de questionário sobre a prática alimentar da criança. A amostra foi constituída de 122 criançascom idade até 365 dias divididas em 2 grupos: com até 3 meses completos de idade (34 crianças) e o grupo 2 foi formado por 88 crianças de 4 a 12 meses. Resultados: Entre as crianças do grupo 1, apenas 35,29% estavam em aleitamento materno exclusivo porém 95,9% da população de estudo referiu ter sido amamentada e 55,68% das crianças do grupo 2 ainda tomam leite materno. Dentre os alimentos já introduzidos na alimentação das crianças do grupo 2, obtevese: 83% para frutas, 69% legumes, 52,27% caldo de carnes, 58% de carnes (bovina e frango), 76% caldo de feijão, 42% feijão, 59% arroz/macarrão, 78% batata, 22,72% gema de ovo,16% ovo inteiro e 61% pão e bolacha. Verificou-se ausência de referência a verduras entre 52,27% da população, 73,86% não introduziram peixe e 75% o fígado. Conclusão: As práticas alimentares das crianças que participaram do estudo incluem grande diversidade de alimentos, porém houve baixa proporção de aleitamento materno exclusivo, em consequência da introdução precoce da alimentação complementar. Foi verificado baixo consumo de alguns alimentos como verduras e fígado.
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Castanheira, Karol Natasha Lourenço, Daniel Bruno Fernandes Conrado, and Edson Vieira Bueno Júnior. "PORTAL CÂMARA VIRTUAL: a participação cidadã no legislativo de frutal." Revista Observatório 5, no. 4 (July 1, 2019): 127–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.20873/uft.2447-4266.2017v5n4p127.
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Apesar das Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação impulsionarem novas formas de sociabilidade e práticas sociais, as suas aplicações para a formação de uma cidadania interativa (MARTINEZ, 2001), capaz de dirimir as assimetrias entre governo e sociedade civil, ainda são restritivas e pouco exploradas. Como uma alternativa a encurtar essas distâncias e permitir ao cidadão espaço para a deliberação sobre os assuntos competentes aos trâmites legislativos da sua localidade, criou-se o portal Câmara Virtual, uma solução web com foco especial na produção de material de apoio para o entendimento e divulgação das proposições feitas pelos vereadores, em uma linguagem acessível para a população. Foi implementado um projeto piloto na cidade de Frutal (MG), que, no futuro, pode ser aplicado em outras localidades a fim de fomentar a cultura participativa, principalmente da região. Como metodologia, recorreu-se à pesquisa exploratória acerca de governos eletrônicos e de processos de engenharia de software baseados nos Métodos Ágeis, considerados adequados para lidar com adaptações frequentes de funcionalidade. A partir de um teste de usabilidade, percebeu-se uma deficiência no interesse da própria população em consumir e deliberar sobre a política local. Atento a isso, o projeto elencou como pauta prioritária o processo de divulgação e conscientização da população acerca do portal. Embora o portal esteja fora do ar no momento, por questões financeiras e técnicas da universidade, considera-se viável e importante a exploração de outros projetos a partir desta iniciativa.
PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Câmara Virtual; Cidadania Interativa; Web; Frutal.
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Although Information and Communication Technologies foster new forms of sociability and social practices, their applications for the formation of an interactive citizenship (MARTINEZ, 2001), which is capable of solving the asymmetries between the government and civil society, are still restrictive and little explored. As an alternative to shortening these distances and allowing the citizen space for deliberation on the matters competent to the legislative procedures of their locations, the Câmara Virtual portal was created. It is a web solution with a special focus on the production of support material for the understanding and dissemination of the proposals made by the council members, in a language accessible to the population. A pilot project was implemented in the city of Frutal, State of Minas Gerais (MG), which, in the future, may be applied to other locations in order to foster participatory culture, especially that of the region. As a methodology, we used exploratory research on e-government and software engineering processes based on Agile Methods, considered adequate to deal with frequent adaptations of functionality. From a usability test, we noticed a deficiency in the population’s own interest in consuming and deliberating on local politics. Considering this, the project listed as its priority agenda the process of dissemination and awareness of the population about the portal. Although the portal is currently off-line, due to financial and technical issues of the university, we consider this initiative feasible and important to foster the exploration of other projects.
KEYWORDS: Câmara Virtual (Virtual City Council); Interactive Citizenship; Web; Frutal.
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A pesar de que las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación han impulsado nuevas formas de sociabilidad y prácticas sociales, sus aplicaciones para la formación de una ciudadanía interactiva (MARTINEZ, 2001), capaz de resolver las asimetrías entre el gobierno y la sociedad civil, todavía son restrictivas y poco explotadas. A los efectos de acortar estas distancias y ofrecerle al ciudadano un espacio para deliberar sobre los asuntos competentes a los trámites legislativos de su localidad, se ha creado el portal Cámara Virtual, una solución en la web enfocada especialmente en la producción de material de apoyo para la comprensión y divulgación de las propuestas realizadas por los concejales, en un lenguaje accesible a la población en general. Se ha implementado un proyecto piloto en la ciudad de Frutal (MG), que, en el futuro, podrá aplicarse en otras localidades para fomentar la cultura participativa, principalmente de la región. Como metodología, se ha recurrido a la investigación exploratoria sobre gobiernos electrónicos y procesos de ingeniería de software basados en Métodos Ágiles, considerados adecuados para lidiar con adaptaciones frecuentes de funcionalidad. A partir de una prueba de usabilidad, se ha notado una deficiencia notoria en el interés de la propia población en consumir y discutir sobre la política local. Tomando esto en cuenta, el proyecto definió como pauta prioritaria el proceso de divulgación y concientización de la población acerca del portal. Aunque el portal está fuera del aire por el momento, por temas financieros y técnicos de la universidad, se considera viable e importante la investigación de otros proyectos a partir de esta iniciativa.
PALABRAS CLAVE: Cámara Virtual; Ciudadanía Interactiva; Web; Frutal.
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De Santo, Natale Gapare, Carmela Bisaccia, and Luca Salvatore De Santo. "Kidney Stone Disease of Non Gouty Origin in 264 Popes (34-2005 AD): A Historical Review." Clinics In Surgery 6, no. 1 (September 23, 2021): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.25107/cis-v6-id3307.
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A total of 11 non-gouty popes out of 264 (4.1%) died of kidney stones (very probably calcium stones) between the years 34-2005 AD. The prevalence of kidney stones was lower than expected on the basis of recent population-based data. The discrepancy might be due to the changing nutritional habits. Causes of death included acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, and stroke. The disease was highly recurrent in 9 of 11 (88.1%). Recurrences were observed 1 to 30 years after the first attack. Mean age at death was 63.1 years, much shorter than expected in popes. Clinically recurrent back-flank-groin pain emerged as a hallmark indicator of kidney stones in the narratives. It was sometimes associated with fever, hematuria, purulent urine and/or frequent urination and dysuria. Some popes were obese, sedentary, voracious and wine drinkers; others were lean, took long walks, ate frugal meals and practiced restraint when it came to drinking alcohol. They were cured with bed rest, diets, donkey milk, mineral waters, decongestant, purgatives, thermal baths, blood-letting, and surgery.
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Loua, L. R., M. A. Budihardjo, and S. Sudarno. "A review on a machine learning approach of an intelligent irrigation monitoring system with edge computing and the internet of things." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 896, no. 1 (November 1, 2021): 012029. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/896/1/012029.
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Abstract Water consumption during irrigation has been a much-researched area in agricultural activities, and due to the frugal nature of different practiced irrigation systems, quite a sufficient amount of water is wasted. As a result, intelligent systems have been designed to integrate water-saving techniques and climatic data collection to improve irrigation. An innovative decision-making system was developed that used Ontology to make 50% of the decision while sensor values make the remaining 50%. Collectively, the system bases its decision on a KNN machine learning algorithm for irrigation scheduling. It also uses two different database servers, an edge and an IoT server, along with a GSM module to reduce the burden of the data transmission while also reducing the latency rate. With this method, the sensors could trace and analyze the data within the network using the edge server before transferring it to the IoT server for future watering requirements. The water-saving technique ensured that the crops obtained the required amount of water to ensure crop growth and prevent the soil from reaching its wilting point. Furthermore, the reduced irrigation water also limits the potential runoff events. The results were displayed using an android application.