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Castagne, Saavedra Astrid Dagsfney. "Es conveniente reforzar el concreto con viruta de cuero, en Lima." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2013. http://cybertesis.urp.edu.pe/handle/urp/810.
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Como sabemos el concreto es un material que está sujeto a cambios volumétricos de acuerdo a la temperatura de exposición, siendo el más frecuente el caso de la contracción por secado en las primeras horas de fraguado, para el cual es necesario el uso de fibras sintéticas.
Para este proyecto se realizó un análisis comparativo entre fibra sintética (FibroMac) y fibra natural de origen animal (Viruta de cuero).
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Ferreira, Jorge Miguel Magalhães. "O teorema das vantagens comparadas na OMC : um teorema conveniente ou simplesmente incompreendido?" Master's thesis, FEUC, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/26600.
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Trabalho de projeto do mestrado em Economia (Economia Financeira), apresentado à Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, sob a orientação de Margarida Antunes.A Organização Mundial do Comércio como organismo internacional que rege as trocas comerciais entre os seus membros, desde a sua criação teve como objectivo terminar com o proteccionismo económico, permitindo deste modo a promoção de um comércio internacional liberalizado. O teorema de referência é o das vantagens comparadas de David Ricardo tal como se deduz das suas publicações. Discutimos a pertinência desta escolha ao nível das hipóteses subjacentes ao teorema e das determinates actuais do comércio internacional e da globalização económica e concluímos que existe uma total incongruência entre eles. Deste modo, ou a OMC segue a sua referência teórica e começa a regular a concorrência internacional, de modo que a diferença na estrutura de custos seja o único fundamento para a existência de comércio internacional, ou então, não concorda com esta e não utiliza o teorema das vantagens comparadas. A verdade é que este teorema é conveniente, pois parece simples de entender e para além disto sugere benefícios repartidos com o comércio internacional.
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Villarroel, Araya José Luis D. "La hipoteca revertida: ¿es factible y conveniente su aplicación para mejorar las pensiones en Chile?" Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2017. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/146459.
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Tesis (Magister en Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social)Actividad formativa equivalente a Tesis (AFET)
El objetivo del presente trabajo es verificar si es factible y conveniente la aplicación de la hipoteca revertida en nuestro país como mecanismo destinado a incrementar las pensiones de los jubilados. Para esto se revisará el contexto actual del país que permitiría aplicar esta figura jurídica, se indagará en su concepto, características y diferencias con la hipoteca tradicional, los riesgos que se deben tener presentes a la hora de implementar esta figura y se revisará la experiencia comparada. Se mostrará el estado actual del debate en Chile, cuyo mayor desarrollo viene del ámbito privado y se propondrán directrices que debiesen considerar en el marco jurídico que las regule. Finalmente, se concluye que es factible y conveniente aplicarla en Chile por cuanto permitiría en el corto plazo obtener un complemento significativo a las pensiones, siendo indispensable para el éxito de la misma que sea un producto desarrollado dentro de los márgenes de la Seguridad Social.
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Arias, Carrasco Gerardo More. "¿Es el piso podotáctil conveniente para la mejora en la movilidad de personas con discapacidad visual?: el caso de Lima." Bachelor's thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/17781.
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Dada la creciente cifra de personas que poseen algún tipo de discapacidad según el último
censo del INEI (2018), en especial de las personas con discapacidad visual, y debido a la brecha
existente en el desarrollo de una correcta movilidad por esta parte de la población. Movilidad
que se debería caracterizar por los principios de autonomía, autosuficiencia y seguridad. Se
decidió analizar una herramienta que busca romper con esta brecha y que viene siendo
incorporada en la ciudad de Lima. Hablamos de las baldosas de alto relieve, conocidas como
pisos podotáctiles.
En la presente investigación se busca comprobar la conveniencia del uso de pisos podotáctiles
para la mejora en la movilidad de personas con discapacidad visual; asimismo, diagnosticar la
situación actual de la implementación de estos pisos en la ciudad de lima, identificar los
problemas específicos asociados a su utilización y conocer las posibles mejoras en la
implementación de los mismos.
La metodología empleada fue cualitativa, cuyo sustento se basa en la recopilación de
información a través de un inventariado de zonas, entrevistas en ruta, entrevistas informales y
entrevistas a profundidad.
Tras la ejecución de metodología, se concluye que el uso de pisos podotáctiles sí son
convenientes para la mejora de la movilidad de las personas con discapacidad visual; sin
embargo, esta implementación está afectada debido a la presencia de grandes discontinuidades
y obstáculos (baldosas retiradas, faltantes, dañadas, etc.) en las redes disponibles; asimismo
por el desconocimiento por parte de los usuarios respecto al uso del sistema y la extensión del
sistema en la ciudad de Lima. Por otro lado, se observó una implementación no uniformizada
a través de la ciudad de Lima, esto debido a la utilización de baldosas de distintas características
tales como forma, tamaño, distribución de relieves, entre otros.
Respecto a las posibles mejoras, se concluye que la estandarización en la implementación de
pisos podotáctiles, a una ampliación de la red actual y a un plan de capacitación a los usuarios
y no usuarios sobre el uso del sistema, como las principales soluciones ante los problemas
identificados.
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Freitas, Maria Luiza de. "O lar conveniente: os engenheiros e arquitetos e as inovações espaciais e tecnológicas nas habitações populares de São Paulo (1916-1931)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2005. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18142/tde-14032006-123351/.
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Com o intuito de contribuir para preencher a lacuna existente na historiografia sobre os engenheiros e arquitetos atuantes no campo da construção civil, procura-se resgatar a discussão sobre habitação popular no âmbito dos periódicos de engenharia e de publicações editadas em São Paulo entre 1916 e 1931. Assim, toma-se como escopo o tratamento dado à questão da habitação popular entre o Concurso para projetos de Habitações Proletárias Econômicas, de 1916, e o I Congresso de Habitação, realizado no início de 1931. Estes dois acontecimentos são momentos nos quais engenheiros e arquitetos travaram discussões importantes em torno de uma proposta de habitação econômica. Entre as questões discutidas estão as inovações espaciais, que são influenciadas por questões de conforto, higiene e economia, concomitantemente à discussão tecnológica, que perpassa as questões da racionalização dos materiais de construção, das técnicas construtivas e de urbanismo. Discute-se também a atuação do engenheiro-arquiteto Bruno Simões Magro, útil para se entender a complexidade do tema da habitação econômica e como esse tipo de profissional, dito engenheiro arquiteto, atuou na questão da habitação popularWith the intention of contributing towards filling the historical gap existent in our knowledge of the activities of engineers and architects in the field of the construction, a discussion on popular housing in engineering periodicals and in publications edited in São Paulo between 1916 and 1931 is resuscitated. With this aim, the treatment given to the subject of popular housing between the I Contest for projects of Cost-Saving Proletarian Housing, of 1916, and the I Housing Congress, accomplished in the beginning of 1931, were taken as a basis. These two events are moments in which engineers and architects had important discussions around a proposal of cost-saving housing. Amongst the subjects discussed, space innovations are discussed as influenced by questions of comfort, hygiene and economy, side by side with technological discussion that permeates the subjects of rationalization of construction materials, construction techniques and urbanization. In addition, the performance of the engineer-architect Bruno Simões Magro is useful to understand the complexity of the theme of the low-cost housing, and how this type of professional, known as engineer-architect, acted in questioning of popular housing
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Sundström, Malin. "De säger att nätbutik är bekvämt." Doctoral thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Handels- och IT-högskolan, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-3419.
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The starting point of this dissertation is the increasing number of Swedish consumers who use the Internet forshopping. Convenience is said to be an important ground for this choice. However, there are few studies thatattempt to understand the true meaning of convenience. This study sets out to understand what convenienceentails for Internet shoppers, what characterizes a convenient Internet shopper, what charterizes a convenientonline product or service, and finally how different meanings of convenience can be explained in differentshopping situations. The purpose of this study is to deepen the understanding of consumers’ conveniencegrounds when shopping online. Qualitative data was collected from 24 respondents, 12 female and 12 male,living in the Swedish cities of Örnsköldsvik, Stockholm, Göteborg and Borås. Data collection was mainlyconducted by means of group interviews and additional personal interviews, questionnaries and shoppingexperiment observations. The study has its theoretical outlook based in convenience literature, and conveniencemotives when choosing a particular store, however, adjusted to better fit the phenomenon of onlineshopping.This theoretical approach emphasizes different dimensions of convenience and gives special insight intoremote shopping consumers. Results show that convenience is an important ground for Internet shopping.Convenience in this context, can be seen from a psychological and/or behavioural perspective. However,grounds for convenience entail efficiency and rationality reasons for all of the respondents included in thestudy. These results indicate that convenience is best understood by using a resource efficiency approach.When using this approach the study shows the importance among the respondents to save time and energy,both from a psychological as well as a physiological perspective. Another useful explanation in order tounderstand the meaning of convenience is to use consumers’ descriptions of themselves as planned orimpulsive. In most cases the respondents describe themselves as planned consumers, which in turn indicatethat the use of a resource efficency perspective is valuable.It is a great variety of products and services described as convenient, however the study pinpoints twoexceptions: home electronic devices and tickets. The study shows that one reason for the differences inconsumers’ convenience perceptions is how time is perceived. Another reason is how customer perceivespsychological or physiological energy. A third reason is how they perceive security and safety. Another importantresult is that convenience differs between women and men in the study. The female consumer givespriority to saving time and saving physical energy. The male consumer gives priority to timing. The study’s resultscan help online businesses to identify how their customers perceive convenience to better designcommunication, virtual store, information, payment and deliviery according to their wants and needs. Anotherpractical implication drawn from the findings is to use direct delivery when possible and offer home delivery.AKADEMISK AVHANDLING: För avläggande av ekonomie doktorsexamen i företagsekonomi som
med tillstånd av Handelshögskolans fakultetsnämnd vid Göteborgs
universitet framlägges till offentlig granskning fredagen den 5 oktober
2007, kl 10—12 i sal B33 vid Företagsekonomiska Institutionen,
Vasagatan 1, Göteborg.
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Zuzunaga, Gutíerrez Belén. "Tratamiento Térmico de los Residuos Sólidos para Lima y Callao." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Ricardo Palma. Programa Cybertesis PERÚ, 2008. http://cybertesis.urp.edu.pe/urp/2008/zuzunaga_b/html/index-frames.html.
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Raimundo, Lívia Maria Borges. "Uso de alimentos convenientes : uma proposta de modelo conceitual." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2017. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/8896.
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Convenience food can provide individuals with savings in time and effort – both physical and mental – at all stages of food provisioning, from meal planning to cleaning up. In this sense, its consumption fits into the contemporary changes in eating habits, attitudes towards the act of cooking, and also into increasingly stressful lifestyles. Although there is an increasingly shift on the demand from raw foods to foods with some degree of convenience in Brazil, national studies portraying this topic are still scarce. In order to contribute to this debate, this thesis proposes a conceptual model relating attitudinal and socio-demographic variables – directly and indirectly – to the declared consumption of convenient food. This framework is based on premises of two main theories: the theory of domestic production and the convenience orientation approach. The methods we employed include a systematic bibliographic research, followed by a survey with consumers of the state of São Paulo. In order to test the proposed hypotheses we employed a structural equation modeling approach based on a valid sample of 1391 consumers. The use of convenient foods was mainly promoted by an individual’s convenience orientation on the food provisioning process, in the stages of meal planning and preparation and cleaning up, and by an individual’s perception of time constraint. The main attitudinal factors that are likely to restrict the consumption of those products were the desire to keep a healthy and natural way of eating and the pleasure achieved by culinary activities. Based on the impact of certain attitudinal variables on the use of convenient foods, the results deepen the discussion regarding the set of factors supporting the growth of the trend of convenient food consumption in the Brazilian market. By understanding the dimensions of this trend, food manufacturers are able to better seize the emerging opportunities to position their products successfully in the market.
Os alimentos convenientes podem proporcionar aos indivíduos economias de tempo e esforços – físicos e mentais – em todos os estágios do aprovisionamento de alimentos, do planejamento das refeições à limpeza da cozinha. Dessa forma, seu consumo se enquadra nas mudanças contemporâneas dos hábitos alimentares e atitudes em relação ao ato de cozinhar, bem como em estilos de vida cada vez mais atribulados. Embora haja um crescente deslocamento da demanda de alimentos brutos para alimentos com algum grau de conveniência no Brasil, estudos sobre esse quadro ainda são escassos. Visando avançar nesta discussão, esta tese propõe um modelo conceitual que relaciona, direta e indiretamente, variáveis atitudinais e sociodemográficas ao consumo declarado de alimentos convenientes, com base em premissas de duas teorias principais: a teoria da produção doméstica e a abordagem de orientação para conveniência. Os métodos empregados incluíram pesquisa bibliográfica sistemática, seguida de survey com consumidores do estado de São Paulo. Os dados foram tratados com a técnica de modelagem de equações estruturais, a fim de testar as hipóteses propostas com base numa amostra válida de 1391 consumidores. O uso de alimentos convenientes foi principalmente promovido pela orientação para conveniência no aprovisionamento, nos estágios de planejamento e preparo de refeições e limpeza da cozinha, e pela percepção de restrição de tempo do indivíduo. Os principais fatores atitudinais que tendem a restringir o consumo desses produtos foram a busca por uma alimentação natural e saudável e o prazer relacionado às atividades culinárias. Os resultados elencados permitem o aprofundamento da discussão sobre o conjunto de fatores que sustentam o crescimento da tendência de consumo alimentos convenientes no mercado brasileiro, com base no impacto de determinados fatores atitudinais sobre a utilização desses produtos. Ao entender as dimensões dessa tendência, os fabricantes de alimentos serão capazes de melhor aproveitar as oportunidades emergentes e posicionar seus produtos com sucesso no mercado.
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Echecopar, García Luis. "¿Es posible o conveniente que las Facultades de Derecho de las Universidades americanas uniformen sus programas y planes de estudios sobre disciplinas jurídicas fundamentales? Ponencia presentada por el Dr. Luis Echecopar García en la Comisión de Educación Jurídica." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/116517.
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Vice, President Research Office of the. "A Convenient Truth." Office of the Vice President Research, The University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/9512.
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Mata, Susana Melo. "Improving convenience at Continente." Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/9607.
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A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and EconomicsThe purpose of this work project is to develop a communication strategy for Continente in order to reinforce its market leadership, mainly vis a vis Pingo Doce. From a survey conducted with a sample of 382 respondents, I perceived that shopping for food is associated with negative feelings like boredom, messiness and time consumption. The proposed strategy, tested with another quantitative survey on a sample of 120 respondents, aims to address these aspects and simultaneously increase convenience at Continente’s stores, delivering several solutions to target different consumer segments.
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Edvalson, Eric John. "Cozy Mart: Convenient Aesthetics." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6207.
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Convenience stores in their various forms are not only commercial outlets of foodstuffs and sundry items but are also experiential in nature; the act of going to a convenience store is a culturally shared experience. In homage to these spaces, Cozy Mart is a public art installation and performance which recreates this shared experience in an idealized form. Based on do-it-yourself culture, appropriation of public space, and artistic traditions of sculpture and printmaking, Cozy Mart invites interaction with art outside of the traditional gallery space and capitalizes on alternative methods of art distribution.
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Van, Der Horst Timothy W. "Convenient Decentralized Authentication Using Passwords." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2010. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3417.pdf.
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Hasenyager, Richard Lee Jr. "Convenience to the Cataloger or Convenience to the User?: An Exploratory Study of Catalogers’ Judgment." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799476/.
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This mixed-method study explored cataloger’s judgment through the presence of text as entered by catalogers for the 11 electronic resource items during the National Libraries test for Resource Description and Access (RDA). Although the literature discusses cataloger’s judgment and suggests that cataloging practice based on new cataloging code RDA will more heavily rely on cataloger’s judgment, the topic of cataloger’s judgment in RDA cataloging was not formally studied. The purpose of this study was to study the differences and similarities in the MARC records created as a part of the RDA National Test and to determine if the theory of bounded rationality could explain cataloger’s judgment based on the constructs of cognitive and temporal limits. This goal was addressed through a content analysis of the MARC records and various statistical tests (Pearson’s Chi-square, Fisher’s Exact, and Cramer’s V). Analysis of 217 MARC records was performed on seven elements of the bibliographic record. This study found that there were both similarities and differences among the various groups of participants, and there are indications that both support and refute the assertion that catalogers make decisions based on the constructs of time and cognitive ability. Future research is needed to be able to determine if bounded rationality is able to explain cataloger’s judgment; however, there are indicators that both support and refute this assertion. The findings from this research have implications for the cataloging community through the provision of training opportunities for catalogers, evaluating workflows, ensuring the proper indexing of bibliographic records for discovery, and recommended edits to RDA.
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Saleh, Rosli Bin. "The analysis of consumers' decision-making style dimensions across different product classes." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1998. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20370.
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This thesis investigates the usefulness and reliability of consumers' decision-making style dimensions across the Copeland's (1923) convenience, shopping and speciality product classification. In addition, it also explore the relationships of the differences of consumers' age, household size, job type, income, marital status, child existence in household and gender, and the consumers' decision-making style dimensions. The findings indicate that different profiles of consumers' decision-making style dimensions are formed in different product classes, reflecting the significant product class effect on consumers' purchase behaviour across different product classes. It also suggests that consumers differ along these valid and reliable dimensions when dealing with products from the respective product classes. Product intangibility is also found to be positively related to the dimensionality of consumers' decision-making styles. Relatively, the differences in consumers' age and types of jobs are found to be strongly related to the differences of consumers' decision-making styles. While, differences in income and child existence in household are moderately related, and marital status, gender and household size are weakly related to the differences of consumers' decision-making styles. These variables provide more information on how consumers differ along their decision-making style dimensions. Methodologically, this study uses structural equation modeling in generating the measurement model, other studies in the same area which rely only on the exploratory factor analysis technique. The generated measurement model provides a good starting point for the study on consumers' decision-making styles in the UK environment. This study uses heterogeneous samples to represent the general public in contrast to the student samples used in the earlier studies. Discussions on the theoretical and managerial contributions, research limitations and suggestions for further research summed up this thesis.
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Purdy, Joanna Mary Alexandra. "Sensory quality and consumer acceptance of reduced salt ready meals." Thesis, Ulster University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252430.
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Papaioannou, Maria Andriana. "Fisheries management and flags of convenience." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33432.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 2004.Page 123 blank.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-107).
The over-exploitation of the world's fish resources and the depletion of many fish stocks have brought into focus the need for effective fisheries management and conservation measures. Many states have adopted international instruments or have participated in regional conservation committees to regulate and control fishing activities within their jurisdiction as well as on the high seas. However, compliance with the provisions of the fishery laws has been limited and as fishing restrictions increase, more incidents of illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing activities are being reported. IUU fishing is facilitated by the use of flags of convenience (FOC), which enable fishing vessel owners to escape regulations, and often avoid liability for their actions. Many measures have been introduced and many existing laws have been reinforced to address the implications of FOCs in effective fisheries management. However, the FOC fishing fleet continues to increase, indicating that there are flaws in the current regulatory scheme. The objective of this thesis is to identify those flaws by examining both the conservation regime for fisheries as well as the role of FOCs in the world's fish trade, rather than focusing solely on their negative impact.
(cont.) By studying the rationale for the decisions of all participants in the fishing industry, from lawmakers, to major traders, we conclude that increasing transparency and flag state responsibility, although necessary, will not eliminate IUU fishing. FOCs are not the driving force for illegal fishing; on the contrary, they are the means to serve the purpose, which in this case is the satisfaction of high demand for high-valued scarce fishery resources.
by Maria Andriana Papaioannou.
S.M.
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Woźniak, Anna. "Decision-making as a 'convenient fiction'." kostenfrei, 2008. http://www.unisg.ch/www/edis.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/3491.
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Bonte, Achim. "Convenient Service - Die SLUB als Universitätsbibliothek." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2008. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-ds-1228921166630-23935.
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Die Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) ist nicht zuletzt wegen ihres außergewöhnlich breiten Dienstleistungsspektrums eine der größten wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken der Bundesrepublik....
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Carbain, Benoît. "A convenient synthesis of bioactive cyclohexenephosphonates." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2367/.
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Influenza virus infection and the shikimic acid pathway are two of many examples of microbe-host interactions and microbial biosynthetic pathways that are interesting for investigation by means of small molecules. A particularly interesting structural motif common to both is the cyclohexenecarboxylic acid. In the former, this structural motif has been employed as a mimetic of the sialyl cation intermediate and forms the scaffold of the anti-influenza drug and neuraminidase inhibitor Oseltamivir (or TamifluTM). In the latter pathway, crucial modifications towards aromatic amino acids are carried out via shikimic acid, a cyclohexenecarboxylic acid, as a substrate. A straightforward method to replace the carboxylate moiety in such structures with a phosphonate would provide access to a wide variety of mimetics, for instance monoesters, that still retain a negative charge under physiological conditions usually required for bioactivity. The aim of this research project was to develop an efficient synthesis of the cyclohexenephosphonate scaffold from chiral pool precursors via two key steps, a Hunsdiecker-Barton iododecarboxylation followed by a palladiummediated coupling step to introduce the phosphonate moiety, thus giving a convenient access to interesting bioactive molecules. This approach has successfully been applied to the shikimic acid to afford ‘phospha'-shikimic acids and 3-dehydro-‘phospha'-shikimic acids, and further development of this strategy has led to the synthesis of ‘phospha'-Tamiflu and its derivatives from an Oseltamivir precursor.
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Woolsey, Trevor L. "Wellness Check| A Convenient Care Clinic." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10839054.
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The United States health care system has evolved over the years, to be a massive system with many steps required to obtain medical care. With the current shortage of primary care providers, patients are often waiting for an available appointment to receive basic medical treatments, screenings, immunizations, etc. A trip to the physician’s office, urgent care, or emergency department can be an entire day ordeal. The emergence of retail clinics since the year 2000, has been tackling this issue to provide convenient medical care in the community. The cost of health care has also risen, leading to many individuals, even those that are newly insured, to avoid seeking treatment. Wellness Check is a new convenient care clinic seeking to fill the gap in the market for patients that wish to be seen quickly and conveniently. This new retail health clinic chain will be in central hubs throughout multiple communities, with the goal of bridging the gap in primary care. The following proposed business plan outlines an analysis of the market, business feasibility, legal and regulatory factors, and finances. Wellness Check will succeed in providing expedient convenient care with tremendous growth potential looking towards the future.
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Ettinger, Andreas. "Auswirkungen von Einkaufsconvenience." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2009. http://d-nb.info/997161191/04.
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Perunski, Dejan. "Convenience-Dienstleistung Konzeptualisierung und Integration in das Dienstleistungsmarketing." Hamburg Kovač, 2006. http://d-nb.info/986185191/04.
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Huang, Bing. "Enabling Convenience in IoT-based Smart Homes." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26656.
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We present a novel framework for enabling convenience for the residents in IoT-based smart homes. Enabling convenience in smart homes requires the study of three main research tasks: IoT service usage pattern discovery, IoT-based service composition, and conflict detection and resolution. The three tasks are interconnected, i.e., the outcomes produced by the first task serve as knowledge aid for residents to personalize service composition; Conflicts may arise when several service compositions execute simultaneously. In this regard, the third task is needed to detect and resolve conflicts. Specifically, the task of discovering IoT service usage patterns focuses on extracting IoT service relationships and IoT service periodical patterns from human-IoT service interaction history. We propose a new ontology-based hybrid approach combing the strength of the knowledge-driven and data-driven techniques to discover a variety of IoT service relationships. We propose a novel approach to discover periodic composition patterns from IoT service usage history considering the quality of the discovered candidates. As for the task of IoT-based service composition, we propose a novel approach to empower non-technical residents to personalize smart home environments through composing services using the ECA (Event Condition Action) rule paradigm (i.e., The composite service is also referred to as a trigger-action rule or an ECA rule.). As for the task of conflict detection and resolution, it relies on a knowledge graph model for IoT services and a conflict taxonomy. We propose a new approach to accurately detect conflicts and properly resolve conflicts. Experimental results validate the performance and effectiveness as well as the applicability of these proposed approaches.
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Karmali, Karima. "The evolution of Canada's doctrine of forum non conveniens : in the interests of justice." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99142.
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A new legal phenomenon has emerged in recent years, as plaintiffs from developing countries have begun to initiate civil proceedings against multinational corporations in the courts where these companies have their headquarters. These suits have typically claimed damages for personal injuries arising from the multinationals' activities in a developing country. While the doctrine of forum non conveniens blocked many of the earlier attempts by plaintiffs to seek justice overseas, courts are increasingly refusing to dismiss these cases to ensure the interests of justice are served. The purpose of this thesis will be to compare the application of forum non conveniens to these cases in Canada, with the approaches in the U.K., the U.S. and Australia. The thesis concludes that Canadian courts have the jurisdiction to consider civil claims against a resident for extraterritorial harm and that this jurisdiction can be appropriately exercised where the foreign plaintiff is not likely to receive justice in the alternative forum. Precedents from the U.K., the U.S. and Australia, where courts have already accepted such jurisdiction, will also be examined for their relevance in Canada.
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Thom, Aaron Michael. "Convenient truths : empowering employees, empowering energy choices." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119338.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, 2018.Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, 2016.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 112-115).
Journey Health is an industry leader in medical testing, touching a large portion of Americans each year. To maintain this position, the company makes strategic investments in R&D, business development, and continuous operations improvement. The company faces dual challenges in resource allocation nationwide due to high rates of turnover among first-year employees, specifically in Specimen Processing, as well as electric utility bills that, across the company, cost tens of millions of dollars per year and continue to increase as business grows. Each turn of an employee costs an estimated $7,500, accounting for recruiting, training, and productivity losses. The aim of this research is twofold: 1) to examine the causes of employee turnover and leverage the Good Jobs Strategy to develop a solution and 2) to examine the viability of on-site solar generation as a means of cost improvements and other ancillary benefits including the safety and convenience of covered parking. Nationwide first-year turnover among Specimen Processing Technicians (SPTs) at Journey laboratories averages 50%. Primary reasons for employee attrition included lack of engagement and competing opportunities. The Good Jobs Strategy is a combination of investment in people with four operational choices that leverage that investment by increasing productivity, contribution and motivation of employees and by driving continuous improvement. These choices are: standardize and empower, cross-train, operate with slack, and focus and simplify. I conducted phone interviews and in-person observations with ten Journey locations. Within the framework of the Good Jobs Strategy, I developed a set of recommendations that includes clearly defining job descriptions, increasing opportunities for employees to build rewarding careers, empowering employees to feel engaged and motivated on the job, and aligning interests across both Specimen Management and Logistics in frontline operations. I also find that the current state of knowledge-sharing across Journey locations can be improved, and that changes to management perceptions of frontline employees is critical for the Good Jobs Strategy to succeed in the long-term. As an additional initiative, I evaluated the potential for on-site solar generation to be a value-added opportunity at Journey in Westborough, Massachusetts. I estimated that solar production can offset approximately 40-50% of utility consumption and find broad support among employees due to the benefits of having covered parking where the solar panels are installed in the form of carport solar, elevated panels above the parking lots I also estimate that the project has a net present value (NPV) up to $4.9M in Westborough with the internal rate of return (IRR) up to of 12%. I conducted a sensitivity analysis on the input parameters and found a significant influence of precipitation on system output, with less influence by variation in vegetation height and performance of the solar modules themselves. I find that NPV and IRR may vary significantly, from $3.5-$8.0M and 6% to 19%, depending on installation costs and system output. Critically, I find that a regulatory framework is necessary to require utilities to allow grid connections from distributed solar generation. Also, I find non-technical and nonfinancial factors that drive decision-making, including willingness to make capital investments, leased-versus-owned status of property, and familiarity with solar electricity and utility markets. I found that a clear reframing the discussion in terms more understandable to the client is particularly useful, such as considering the project separate from solar energy, but more as constructing covered parking for employees, yet being paid to do so. I conclude that on-site solar generation has significant financial benefits for Journey. Although the estimated payback period of four to ten years is longer than Journey's typical capital investment payback, solar offers a low-risk form of investment. Alternate installation models may be investigated, including a leased model, which would require no upfront capital investment by Journey.
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Simelane, Bhaba Dorothy. "The acceptability and use of convenience foods by black women employed by government in Mpumalanga." Diss., Pretoria ; [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01272009-124652.
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Perunski, Dejan. "Convenience Dienstleistung : Konzeptualisierung und Integration in das Dienstleistungsmarketing /." Hamburg : Kovač, 2008. http://www.verlagdrkovac.de/978-3-8300-3312-7.htm.
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Young, Daniel Edward. "Script issues in Xinjiang : nationalism, commerce, computers, convenience." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.551264.
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This thesis tests the hypothesis that the use of multiple writing systems for Uyghur language in Xinjiang is due to differences in social practices which language users rationalise within the framework of main discourses on language use in the region. Xinjiang's Uyghur language community has experienced diverse linguistic influences over the past century, and language users in Xinjiang still face economic and political transformations, competing ideals of desired collective identity and demographic fluctuations, which cause Uyghur to be written in at least four different scripts and with many diverging orthographies. It tests this hypothesis by first looking at choices made in the process of designing writing systems for Uyghur, then examining the writing behaviour of users of different social demo graphics, before finally analysing the different discourses that run through the interviews I collected with users in Xinjiang in 2009. The thesis concludes that different scripts tend to be used in different domains, while younger users often use Latin versions of Uyghur script, while users based in more rural areas, and those educated in schools where Uyghur language is taught, will more often use the official Perso-Arabic script. It also examines the variation in orthographies used for writing Uyghur within the same script, and concludes that, while variation in orthographies can often be attributed to a user's educational background or hometown, diversity in script use is linked more to differences in age, languages spoken or domains of use. The thesis also determines that recurring discourses of language improvement, links to history, financial motivations, affirming a Uyghur identity and of modernisation are linked to people's choices for using a particular writing system, and the fact that users employ the same discourses to legitimise the use of different writing systems demonstrates why multiple writing systems are now in use in Xinjiang.
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Kleynhans, Karin Belinda Margerete. "Customer service of convenience stores / by K. Kleynhans." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/3733.
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This study researches the topic customer service of convenience sores. Two objectives are set, namely to measure the customer service levels of convenience stores, and then to determine if any differences exist between customer perceptions and customer expectations.
The literature review covers two models of service quality, namely the Kano model and the SERVQUAL model. Both the Kano model and the SERVQUAL model are client service models that currently exist in practice. The Kano model provides insights into the dynamics of customer preferences and their needs, which ensures the delivery of successful products and services. The SERVQUAL method is a technique that can be used for performing a gap analysis of an organisation's service quality performance against customer service quality needs. Because of SERVQUAL's strong empirically based methodology and popularity amongst services organisations who aims to improve their service quality, SERVQUAL is the research methodology of choice.
The empirical research was done by collecting primary data from a selected group, using the SERVQUAL questionnaire to measure customer expectation and customer perception. The sample size is 65 respondents, and they all responded by completing the structured SERVQUAL questionnaires. A seven-point Likert scale was used in the questionnaire. A "1" was labelled as "strongly disagree" while a "7" was labelled as "strongly agree".
The reliability of the data was confirmed by means of Cronbach alpha and a-values of 0.879 (customers' perceptions) and 0.906 (customers' expectations) showed satisfactory reliability. Descriptive statistical analysis was used to calculate mean values of the criteria while principle factor analyses were employed to extract factors from both groups of data. The factors pertaining to the perceived service has been identified as Employee Mind-Set (explaining the variance of 29.72%), Excellent Service (19.14%) and Display (8.92%).
Regarding the factor analysis of the expected levels of service, the factors identified are: Employee Mindset (35.78%), Service Reputation (25.22%) and Transactions (5.90%).
From the research it became evident that the three major recommendations to managers of convenience stores who aims to improve their service quality are managerial actions focussed at:
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*Induction programmes
*Surveys (further research and monitoring).Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009.
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Omura, Akihiro. "Essays on the Convenience Yield of Base Metals." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/368014.
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The purpose of this thesis is to explore important determinants of the implied value inherited in a readily available durable commodity. Under the notion of convenience yield, such a value represents all the benefits that can be enjoyed by the owner of a physical asset. To disentangle the dynamic behaviour of this implied value embedded in the price of physical assets, various measures of scarceness of commodities are identified in this thesis and three interrelated studies are conducted to examine the lead-lag relationships between these measures and the convenience yield. In particular, I examine (1)how current geographical scarcity, represented by a regional supply/demand condition,affects the future convenience yield, (2) whether relative scarcity of a commodity contains valuable predictive information on its convenience yield, and (3) how the perceived level of a convenience yield is related to the second moment of futures price. Taking together, the results of these studies mostly support the presence of statistically significant relationships between the convenience yield and these measures, which can be used for constructing effective inventory and investment strategies.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith Business School
Griffith Business School
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Dallinger, Ioana. "Chefs' perceptions of convenience food products in university food service operations." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78077.
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The decision regarding when and to what extent to use convenience food products is a perennial issue in the hospitality industry. Despite the pertinence of this issue in the industry, it has never been explicitly examined in the hospitality literature. Potential advantages of adopting convenience food products in food-service operations include: savings in time and costs, better portion and cost control, ease of training and evaluation, superior customer relationships through product consistency, increased safety, ease of storage, and added eye appeal. On the other hand, noticeable disadvantages may include: staff motivation problems, facilitated labor mobility, increased emotional labor for supervisor, health and nutrition down-sides, and more waste. Therefore, to further explore this issue, a paper and pencil survey was administered to culinary managers in a large university dining setting. Respondents included 132 chefs representing ten dining facilities. The results indicate that even though the time and labor cost savings brought about by the use of convenience food products are perceived as advantageous, the implied consistency of the final product and superior portion control are not as important. Furthermore, customer relationships, catering to special groups, and final products' eye appeal appear to be better facilitated by non-convenience foods. Even though it is easier to train chefs/ cooks/ employees to use convenience food products rather than non-convenience ones and these employees appear to be under less psychological pressure in their jobs, they will conversely be less motivated and worse paid. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed herein.Master of Science
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Neill, Lindsay. "The contested "White Lady" perceptions and social meanings of the "White Lady" in Auckland : a thesis submitted to AUT University in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of International Hospitality Management, 2009 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/818.
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Leão, Francisco. "Communication strategy for Continente online store: improving the Ecommerce experience." Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/9605.
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A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and EconomicsNowadays, convenience is a key dimension in the grocery retail sector. Comparing with other grocery brands, Continente is not capable of providing the same level of physical proximity to consumers. Therefore, it should make an effort to communicate that it is able to offer convenience through the Continente online store, taking advantage of the long term potential of online channels in the grocery market. New technologies have been gaining an increasing role in people’s lives and Continente has the right conditions to seize the opportunities afforded by this reality through its online sales service. In this instance, the communication strategy developed in this work aims to improve Continente online store’s functionality, communication and the promotion of its service.
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Noronha, Miguel Alexandre Pires de 1970. "Graffiti e street art : verdade lúcida e dogma conveniente." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/33634.
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For the last decades we have witnessed an artistic phenomenon on a global scale, which is particularly evident since the beginning of this millennium. It is characterized by interventions in urban environment, whether legal or illegal, using a variety of techniques and materials, predominantly in the fields of drawing and painting. A myriad of concepts, such as 'graffiti' and 'street art' among others, have been used in an attempt to define this phenomenon. These concepts are part of an already institutionalized and perhaps mystified narrative that presents these interventions as having been carried out in a spirit of rebellion, courage and transgression. However, a number of public and
private institutions have sponsored events whose centrality resides precisely in so-called street art or graffiti, evoking their supposed critical intent and revolutionary potential in terms of political and social realities. In this context, there seems to be a general and fascinated acceptance of the image of urban artists as brave rebels who revolutionize the art world. However, if transgression is a marginal action in its nature, it seems impossible for it to become institutionally incorporated, since we know that the role of institutionalization is precisely to empty the unique character of events, presenting them as models for social behavior, turning them into integrated, standardized and repetitive
practices. Thus, the obedient way of telling the story of disobedient artistic expressions is a hoax in which the authorized revolution, with a predetermined time and place, has been carried out by the writers, street artists or urban artists who are idolized as heroic criminals under the spotlight, but whose identity everyone knows, though pretending it's clandestine and transgressive. The subservience to the current historical narrative of graffiti, conceived with an exaggerated centrality in the USA, especially in New York, does not make sense. It leads us to forget the several historical moments before the
official emergence of graffiti as it is presented today. It is inaccurate to overlook local particularities at the portuguese level, certainly rich in unique and decisive details, that form our own identity within contemporary street art, which deviate from that model. We are convinced that it is necessary to face critically the certainties that have been assumed as unquestionable, rejecting as absolute truths the reductive versions of the history of urban art. With this study we intend to verify the pertinence of the dominant discourse, unveiling the interests that support it. We will focus on concepts, techniques and historical facts, in a view that allows us to understand and demystify the intentionality of drawing in the public space within the framework of this artistic phenomenon. Our main goal is bringing up to light the lucid truths that oppose the convenient dogma
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Chiang, Kuo-Chuan, and 蔣國全. "Does Convenient Measure Delight Citizen Overly Excessive?- A Case Study on The Government Convenience Service." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81681415501303319846.
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碩士亞洲大學
經營管理學系碩士班
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According to the marketing evolution, it is the era of “relationship oriented marketing” which requires to establishing long-term relationships with customers. Under the trend of government reconstituting, electronic government, knowledge-based economy, and customer-oriented services, the government institutes are no longer the supply of administrative support functions, instead, are the continuous innovation, technology and humanization convenience services. However, when delighted the customers, is it too much and does it ignore the customers’ real problems? This is what this research for. This research uses PZB service quality table to construct “household registration office convenience services”, and then uses Kano model to analyze types of convenience service qualities, and thus searches for if there is excessive delight. According to the research, the government convenience services are already too excessive, mainly on three "certain quality items”, including “setting up volunteer service area or rotating staff to approach and help people when entering the government institutes”, “scheduling rotating supervision, and implementing the management by walking around and taking the initiative to help the people", “the government institutes regularly holding tour promotion of household administration, to accept the public petition, advice and recommendations”. And one more item of "No difference in quality factor " is “the appearance of the institute”.
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Romero, María Cecilia. "Regeneración natural y asistida de especies leñosas en un relicto de Espinal en la provincia de Córdoba: ¿es conveniente utilizar la siembra como técnica para promover la regeneración?" Bachelor's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11086/21834.
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31 h. con tabls.; figuras; ilus. Contiene Referencia Bibliográfica.El avance de la frontera agrícola ha significado la destrucción de grandes extensiones de Espinal en la provincia de Córdoba. Actualmente, el Espinal está representado por fragmentos aislados en los cuales la regeneración de especies arbóreas es clave para su conservación a largo plazo. En este trabajo comparamos la regeneración natural de especies leñosas y el establecimiento temprano de plántulas de Prosopis alba a partir de siembras, entre distintas unidades de vegetación (arbustal, bosque abierto, bosque bajo y bosque alto) dentro de un relicto de Espinal, en la provincia de Córdoba. Para ello, se determinaron 32 transectas de 50 m de largo y 3 m de ancho distribuidas en 4 unidades de vegetación las cuales se diferenciaron en relación a las características de la vegetación. Para evaluar la regeneración natural, por cada transecta se registraron los renovales (individuos con DAP < 2,5 o con altura ≤ 1,3) en 5 parcelas al azar de 1x1 m. Para evaluar el establecimiento de P. alba a partir de siembras, por cada transecta se sembraron 3 grupos de 100 semillas distribuidos en 3 cuadratas de 50x50 cm. Se encontraron renovales de una especie nativa (Celtis ehrenbergiana) y tres especies exóticas (Gleditsia triacanthos, Ligustrum lucidum y Morus alba) y su densidad fue 8 veces mayor en el bosque alto que en las demás unidades de vegetación (p <0.001). Al excluir a las especies exóticas del análisis, no se encontraron diferencias en cuanto a la regeneración, entre las distintas unidades de vegetación. El establecimiento temprano de P. alba fue del 0,03% de las semillas sembradas un mes después de la siembra. Concluimos que la regeneración natural es escasa, lo cual comprometería la persistencia a largo plazo del relicto y que, dado el bajo establecimiento a partir de siembras, ésta no sería una técnica apropiada para promover la regeneración, al menos para P. alba y en las condiciones estudiadas.
Fil: Romero, María Cecilia. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Centro de Ecología y Recursos Naturales Renovables; Argentina.
Fil: Romero, María Cecilia. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas y Tecnológicas; Argentina.
Fil: Romero, María Cecilia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas y Tecnológicas; Argentina.
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HSU, CHIA-HSIU, and 許嘉修. "The role of convenient service involvement between satisfaction and loyalty: an empirical study of chain convenience store." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10905475781326707840.
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碩士南台科技大學
商管專業學院
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Abstract Involvement theory has numerous strategic applications for the marketer, such as psychological segmentation (low-involvement, high- involvement), media strategy, central or peripheral routes to persuasion, cognitive processing or passive processing paradigm, etc. The Convenience store to join the development of industry has been more than twenty years, and now the daily lives of the people of Taiwan have been closely linked with the convenience store and not be divided into Micronesia. The Convenience stores in Taiwan belong to a high degree of development of industry,and the first two largest convenient stores(7-11 and FM) has accounted for more than half of the Market share rate This research uses after revision PII to measure the convenient service involvement,and test the role of involvement between satisfaction and loyalty for convenience service that chain convenience stores offer. Six hundred questionnaires are distributed to generally consumers randomly inside the convenience store. By deleting questionnaires with flaw five hundred and fifty-two valid questionnaires are remained. Olsen (2007) showed that product involvement played as a full mediator between satisfaction and repurchase loyalty for seafood food and beverage. Instead of product involvement, this research considers service involvement for chain convenience store under competitor threat. Our empirical data shows that convenience service involvement plays as a partial mediator between satisfaction and behavioral loyalty. In other words, when the convenience stores provided innovation service so that consumers are satisfied with the time, consumers will increase the degree of involvement . Increase in the chain of convenience stores to the frequency of consumption, and become a loyal customer.
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Santos, Tânia Catarina Gomes dos 1992. "Uma verdade conveniente sobre os β-lactâmicos : caracterização das reacções adversas medicamentosas aos β-lactâmicos notificadas espontaneamente nos últimos 15 anos, entre 1 janeiro de 2000 a 31 dezembro de 2015". Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/29539.
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Trabalho Final do Curso de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 2016Preâmbulo: As Reacções Adversas Medicamentosas (RAM’s) incluem todos os efeitos adversos relacionados com a administração de um fármaco. Estas incluem as reacções de hipersensibilidade, que se restringem às mediadas pelo sistema imunitário em pessoas sensíveis ao estímulo, descritas como 5 a 10% dos casos. Os antibióticos β-lactâmicos são o grupo de mais prescrito em Portugal, verificando-se que cerca de 10% da população refere ser alérgica à penicilina, quando no entanto cerca de 90% desses toleram a penicilina. Objectivos: Analisar e caracterizar detalhadamente as RAM’s notificadas espontaneamente de todos os β-lactâmicos entre 1 Janeiro de 2000 a 31 Dezembro de 2015 e diferenciar reacções alérgicas de outro tipo de reacções medicamentosas. Métodos: Estudo observacional retrospectivo da base de dados do SNF, inclui todos os casos de RAMs aos β-lactâmicos notificados entre 2000 e 2015. As RAMs foram agrupadas de acordo com a classificação MedDRA. Resultados: Houve 1674 casos de RAMs notificadas aos β-lactâmicos entre 2000 e 2015. Dos 1674 casos, 54% representam casos de reacções alérgicas e 46% casos de reacções não alérgicas. Dentro dos casos alérgicos a reacção mais frequente foi o rash. A percentagem de casos graves era sobreponível nos 2 grupos, cerca de 75%. A hospitalização também foi o critério de gravidade mais frequente entre os dois grupos. Contudo, a taxa de mortalidade foi maior no grupo dos casos não alérgicos com 4,5% em comparação aos 1,6% dos casos alérgicos. Já a percentagem de cura foi maior nos casos alérgicos em relação aos casos não alérgicos, 80,6% vs 63,1%. Já a via de administração mais associada com reacções alérgicas foi a via oral, com 46,9% dos casos. Conclusões: 5,8% do número total de notificações de RAMs entre 2000 e 2015 referiam-se aos β-lactâmicos, tendo sido a maioria delas relativas a reacções de alergia, possivelmente mais valorizadas pelos profissionais de saúde. Contudo, continua a ser importante referenciar estes casos para consultas de imunoalergologia de forma a identificar a sua sensibilidade aos β-lactâmicos.
Context: Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) include all the adverse reactions related to the administration of a drug. These include hypersensivity reactions, the ADRs due to the immune system in people sensitive to that challenge. Hypersensivity reactions account for 5 to 10% of the ADRs. β-lactam antibiotics are the most used antibiotics in Portugal and about 10% of the population says they’re allergic to penicillin, but it’s estimated that about 90% of those will tolerate treatment with penicillin. Objectives: Analyze and characterize the spontaneously notified ARDs to all β-lactam antibiotics between January 1st 2000 and December 31st 2015, differentiating allergic from non-allergic reactions. Methods: Observational retrospective study of the national pharmacovigilance system database including all notified ARDs to β-lactam antibiotics between 2000 and 2015. The ARDs were grouped according to the MedDRA classification. Results: There were 1674 notified ADR to β-lactam antibiotics between 2000 and 2015. 54% were allergic reactions and 46% were non-allergic reactions. Among the allergic reactions, the most frequent sign was the rash. The percentage of severe cases was nearly the same in both groups, around 75%. Hospitalization was the most frequently described severity criterion among both groups. However, the mortality rate was higher in the non-allergic group with 4,5% (compared to 1,6% in the allergic group). The percentage of cure was higher in the allergic cases than that of the non-allergic (80,6% vs. 63,1%). The route of administration that was associated the most with allergic reactions was the oral route, with 46,9% of the cases. Conclusions: 5,8% of all the ADRs notified between 2000 and 2015 were caused by β-lactam antibiotics. Most of them were allergy reactions, which suggests these are the most important for the healthcare professionals. However, it's still important to reference these cases to an immunoalergologist so that he can indentify the patient's sensitivity to β-lactam antibiotics.
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Lee, Bo-Yuan, and 李博淵. "A Study on the Room Lighting Performance for the Convenience Stores－Taking Example from some Convenient Stores in Sonthern Taiwan." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76035241460336541614.
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碩士樹德科技大學
建築與環境設計研究所
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The industry of the convenience store 24 hours operation brings more comfortable but convenient living environment and quality for the people.Along with convenience store while"quantity"ing growth, for illuminate environment"quality", it promotes, and implementation"the economy energy reduces carbon" efficiency, this text carries on illuminate the lamp usage of the environment by the study of current environment of the convenience store lighting to and indoor shine on a degree of actually measure a survey, and concert the consumer cross the difference of the environment of the analysis lighting to put forth an improvement suggestion for the degree result of the feeling satisfaction of indoor lighting environment.The research finds as a result that illuminate environment it shine on one degree electric power cost that height consumes with the lamp used to use into a direct proportion, shine on a degree more high, consume electricity cost more high, but shine on the lighting environment of one degree height with consumer for illuminate to feel that the satisfaction presents inverse ratio and shines on one degree exaltation, the satisfaction reduces.Accordingly, illuminate the environment whole programme to use high-efficiency province to give or get an electric shock lighting lamp, match with the light source whole usage, is maintaining lighting quality in the meantime, the decrease reduces electric power to consume to use cost, and considers a consumer to illuminate usage to feel and carries out economy energy effect and constructs comfortable good high-quality consumption environment and creates enterprise and the consumer's win-win situation.
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SHENG-WEN, WU, and 吳聖文. "Happy Convenience Store." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06935349392006821653.
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碩士國立臺灣藝術大學
應用媒體藝術研究所
98
“Happy Convenience Store” describes a middle-aged taxi driver, A-Fa, who robs a convenience store because of the bad economy. A-Fa fights with police and then kidnaps a girl (Xiao-Ping) who is buying condoms and trying to sell herself in the convenience store. In that weird moment, they tell each other their own sad story, and also admit their past mistakes. Finally, they turn to good because they realize it’s the only way to reach salvation. A-Fa helps Xiao-Ping return to her family, and later goes to the police station to turn himself in. This film shows how everyone needs to be loved and have their own sense of happiness and satisfaction, whether through family, friends or lovers. However, there are many things that destroy love—economic pressure, life distress, and emotional deficiencies. All the pressure and pain that people have to deal with is only made worse by all the negative news that is constantly surrounding us. An excellent way to get rid of all this pain would be if they sold happiness at 24-hour convenience stores. Depressed people could fully enjoy the satisfaction and happiness of being loved. This thesis includes creation and producing procedure. The first chapter is an introduction, referring to the motivation and theory behind the project. The second chapter is documentary review, referring to the development and design of the script, learning model and image style setting. The third chapter is creation planning, divided into synopsis, character setting and scene scheduling. Chapter 4 is about the film production process, which is divided into two parts—production and filming. This chapter takes record of the production process problems and solutions encountered. Chapter 5 is the audience’s comments and questions after the public screening. Chapter 6 is the film’s review and conclusions. This thesis contains the script, production project, working album, related forms, and materials of production. The film leaves full record, and hopefully can provide a reference to future film making students.
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Neizel, Albert. "Kritiese suksesfaktore by die vestiging van diensstasie-geriefswinkels." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/13498.
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M.Com. (Business Management)With the coming of deregulation, many service station operators and oil companies have had high expectations from convenience stores. They saw it as an extra revenue stream. The reality is proving much tougher. To be successful one has to have the right location, external image and internal layout. Unfortunately very few oil companies went about setting up their convenience store franchises in accordance with franchise disciplines in the first place. Many of them insufficiently developed their pilot operations and set up as many shops in as short a time as possible, with proliferation of their convenience stores as the driving force. The idea at the time was to capture as big a share of the market as was possible, before competition moved in. In many of these stores there was a lack of research into the target market, there was insufficient training and information for the dealers/operators and product range was haphazard. These problems themselves were exacerbated as the number of stores grew. The objective of this study is to analyse TOTAL's convenience store location decision making process, external image and internal layout.
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Bellucci, Debbie L. "Unbundling convenience in distance education: How do distance education students define convenience?" 2008. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3325252.
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The focus of this study is to examine the factors that comprise convenience for distance education students. The prevailing assumption regarding student selection of distance education is that the choice is directly related to convenience and the ability to control the time and place of their learning. Students are selecting and repeatedly taking distance education courses; this research sought to understand the reasons behind this selection. The premise of this study is there are many bundles that underlie the convenience in distance education and they are related to factors other than anywhere, anytime learning. Previous studies have relied on the use of survey data regarding students' preferences regarding distance education. This study utilized a qualitative approach to allow the students to tell their own stories. Nine distance students attending community college were interviewed for this research. The student stories and experiences provide the data and basis for the findings of this study. Implications for future research are discussed.
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"The study of the development of the convenience stores in Hong Kong." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5886350.
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by Wong Chin-nang, Yan Man-fai, Yen Sui-chi.Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990.
Bibliography: leaves [29]-[31]
ABSTRACT --- p.ii
TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv
LIST OF TABLES --- p.vii
LIST OF FIGURES --- p.vi
Chapter
Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1
Summary --- p.5
Chapter II. --- GROWTH POTENTIAL OF CONVENIENCE STORE --- p.6
Degree of Market Saturation --- p.6
Summary --- p.8
Chapter III. --- CONVENIENCE STORE 一 EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN THE RETAIL BUSINESS --- p.9
"Traditional Stores, Supermarkets and Convenience Stores" --- p.9
Life Cycle of Retailing Institutions --- p.11
Dalrymple's Theory on Retail Outlets --- p.11
Economic Growth and Convenience Stores --- p.12
Summary --- p.12
Chapter IV. --- GROWTH AND EXPANSION --- p.14
Internal Development --- p.15
Acquisition --- p.16
Joint Development --- p.18
Joint Ventures --- p.19
Franchising --- p.19
Licensing --- p.19
Agents --- p.20
Internal Reorganization --- p.20
Summary --- p.20
Chapter V. --- FRANCHISING --- p.22
Definition of Franchising --- p.22
Overview of Franchising --- p.24
United States --- p.24
United Kingdom --- p.25
Australia --- p.25
Growth and Expansion through Franchising --- p.26
Advantages --- p.26
Disadvantages --- p.27
Future Development of Franchising --- p.27
Summary --- p.29
Chapter VI. --- CONSUMER BUYING BEHAVIOUR SURVEY --- p.30
Proposition --- p.31
Demographic Factors --- p.31
Preference of Various Retail Outlets --- p.31
Retail Outlet Choice --- p.32
Survey Objective --- p.33
Methodology --- p.33
Sampling Design and Coverage --- p.33
Data Analysis Method --- p.34
Results and Analysis --- p.34
Result Summary --- p.34
Detail Result Analysis --- p.35
Transaction Amount --- p.35
Shopping Frequency --- p.35
Items Purchased --- p.35
Salient Factor for Retail Outlet Selection --- p.36
Discussion and Implication --- p.37
Limitation and Restriction --- p.38
Sampling Error --- p.38
Summary --- p.39
Chapter VII. --- SURVEY ON ACCEPTANCE OF FRANCHISING --- p.40
Proposition --- p.40
Attitude Towards Franchising --- p.40
Monetary Reward as Motivation Factor --- p.41
Non-monetary Reward as Motivation Factor --- p.41
Survey Objective --- p.42
Survey Methodology --- p.42
Coverage and Sampling Design --- p.42
Survey Method --- p.43
Survey Findings --- p.43
Attitude Towards Franchising --- p.43
Monetary Reward as Motivation Factor --- p.45
Non-monetary Reward as Motivation Factor --- p.46
Limitation of the Research --- p.48
Sample Error --- p.48
Sample Size --- p.49
Summary --- p.49
Chapter VIII. --- IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.50
Implications of the Two Surveys --- p.50
Recommendations --- p.51
Change People's Attitude on Franchising --- p.51
Appeal to Younger Generation --- p.51
Search for Other Potential Franchisees --- p.52
Internal Development --- p.53
Summary --- p.53
Chapter IX. --- CONCLUSION --- p.54
APPENDIX
TABLE
FIGURES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Huang, Ta-Chou, and 黃大洲. "Convenience Store Management Tactic." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bau8x9.
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碩士國立中興大學
財務金融系所
99
Taiwan has the highest density of Chain Convenience Stores (CCSs) in the world with keen competition, CCSs’ operation patterns have high similarity with little differentiation, especially when the market players continue expanding their stores. Hence, franchisees are facing the challenges for survival. This thesis conducts a research on the business strategy of CCSs, adopting different operation strategies for franchisees of CCSs, using a case study for the analysis of Taichung company, and establishing various operation strategies by company’s own operation strategy、expansion model、cooperation partner…etc. These strategies will be helpful for franchisees’ actual operation and make them stay competitive.
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Chu, Chang-chung, and 朱正忠. "Is EasyCard really convenient?" Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42327023620664213604.
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碩士國立中央大學
資訊管理研究所
100
Since 2011 April 1, EasyCard has become a payment tool to pay for small amount purchase in convenience stores and other chain stores. However, a preliminary investigation revealed that despite its usefulness, not too many people use EasyCard for small amount purchase in convenience stores. Thus, it motivates this research to look into the contradiction and the diffusion of small amount purchases using EasyCard. This study is based on the Innovation Diffusion Theory and the Technology Adoption Lifecycle model. The preliminary study showed that the reasons why many people do not make use of EasyCard for small amount purchase include: they don’t have the habit of using EasyCard, EasyCard is inconvenient in recharging, and that using cash is more convenient than EasyCard. The purpose of this research is to investigate the difference of adopter in “habit”, “service convenience” and “compatibility”. Data was collected through a questionnaire survey. This research adopted cluster analysis to divide the sample into different types of adopters, and it also employed ANOVA to find the difference between these different adopters in “habit”, “service convenience” and “compatibility”. Results of cluster analysis divide users of EasyCard for small amount purchase into four groups, namely, “early adopter”, “early majority”, “late majority” and “laggard”. These different adopters’ experience in “habit”, “service convenience” and “compatibility” rank from high to low respectively, are “early adopter”, “early majority”, “late majority” and “laggard”. From the result, this research found that the earlier adopters have more habit of using EasyCard for small amount purchase, and they also feel more convenient and compatible in small amount purchase with EasyCard.
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Lin, Wei-chen, and 林瑋珍. "The Business Competitive Advantage of Convenience Stores : Case Study of a Convenience Store." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91060247887140289783.
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碩士國立中央大學
資訊管理學系碩士在職專班
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It''s been more than twenty years passed that Taiwan convenient stores run business with alliance strategy. Now the people in Taiwan quite get used to this kind of chain stores and cannot live without them in their normal days. In the market research of AC Nelson held in 2005, the density of the chain stores in Taiwan is the top one in Asia, and the average amounts shows us that each 2800 persons in Taiwan can share one of the stores. It''s been an obviously truth that the market of convenient stores is a progressively business in Taiwan, and two of them cover over the 1/2 market in Taiwan. The research project here focus on case studies and trying to base with the physical operation in reality to discuss where the competitive advantage of chain stores. In this project, we''re going to take the top one market share convenient store company to be the object discussed here, and interview with its own organization structure, alliance program, store products, backup office support systems, goods delivery and creativity as well. With the organized information and analysis, we conclude with the followings: 1. The advantage of company organization will make the object competition priority to be the most powerful to internal resource management or the external business development. 2. The leadership and company culture can pull together with the employees'' internal source and also meanwhile the advantage will get support to the company from customers. 3. For the financial differentiation, it makes the object here with the highest management skill capabilities and advantages. Also it will be a powerful strength to pull off the distance between competitors gradually.
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Flamigni, Gabriele. "La notion de καθῆκον chez les stoïciens romains". Doctoral thesis, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/2158/1277324.
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Questa tesi verte sulla maniera in cui i principali Stoici romani, vale a dire Seneca, Musonio Rufo, Epitteto, Ierocle e Marco Aurelio, concepivano e si servivano della nozione di καθῆκον (officium in latino), ereditata dalla tradizione stoica precedente. L’idea centrale che argomentiamo nel corso della tesi è che gli Stoici romani avevano tutti una concezione forte del καθῆκον, che testimonia una loro tendenza teorica comune, derivata dalla riflessione degli Stoici precedenti su questa nozione; inoltre, la prospettiva degli Stoici romani sul καθῆκον ci permette di conoscerne aspetti trascurati dalle fonti dossografiche apparentemente più informative a questo proposito: pensiamo, per esempio, al rapporto fra καθήκοντα e parenesi, all’importanza delle emozioni nel compimento dei καθήκοντα e all’antagonismo fra καθήκοντα e πάθη. Nella letteratura critica esistente sull’etica stoica e sul pensiero degli Stoici romani la tematica del καθῆκον è spesso considerata tangenzialmente rispetto ad altre, soprattutto perché, a eccezione di Epitteto, gli Stoici romani non tematizzano quasi mai la nozione di καθῆκον. Tuttavia, la nostra ricostruzione della rete concettuale del καθῆκον nella tradizione stoica ci permette di riconoscere la presenza, importante sebbene talora implicita, di questa nozione nella riflessione e nell’insegnamento degli stoici romani. Riusciamo così a delineare, per quanto possibile, la concezione del καθῆκον di questi filosofi.
Le sujet de cette thèse est la façon dont les principaux stoïciens romains, tels que Sénèque, Musonius Rufus, Épictète, Hiéroclès et Marc Aurèle, ont conçu et employé la notion de καθῆκον (officium en latin), héritée de la tradition stoïcienne précédente. L’idée que nous y soutenons est que les stoïciens romains avaient tous une conceptualisation forte du καθῆκον, témoignant d’une tendance théorique commune entre eux qu’ils dérivaient de la réflexion des stoïciens précédents sur cette notion ; de plus, leur perspective sur le καθῆκον nous permet d’en connaître des aspects négligés par les sources doxographiques apparemment les plus éclairantes à ce sujet : nous pensons par exemple au lien entre καθήκοντα et parénèse, à l’importance des émotions dans l’accomplissement des καθήκοντα et à l’antagonisme entre καθήκοντα et πάθη. Dans la littérature critique existante concernant l’éthique stoïcienne ou bien la pensée des stoïciens romains, le thème du καθῆκον est souvent considéré marginalement par rapport à d’autres, surtout parce que, sauf pour Épictète, les autres stoïciens romains ne thématisent presque jamais la notion de καθῆκον. Cependant, une fois compris le réseau conceptuel du καθῆκον dans la tradition stoïcienne, nous parvenons à reconnaître la présence, importante bien que parfois implicite, de cette notion dans la réflexion et l’enseignement des stoïciens romains. Par cette méthode nous reconstruisons, dans la mesure du possible, la conceptualisation du καθῆκον par ces philosophes.
This thesis deals with how the most important Roman Stoics, i.e. Seneca, Musonius Rufus, Epictetus, Hierocles and Marcus Aurelius, conceived and employed the notion of καθῆκον (officium in Latin), that they inherited from the previous Stoic tradition. Our claim is that all the Roman Stoics shared a strong conception of καθῆκον, in accordance with a general theoretical stance derived from the tradition of the earlier Stoics. Moreover, the perspective of the Roman Stoics on this topic allows us to discover some aspects of the καθῆκον that are neglected by the doxographic sources, apparently the most informative ones on this topic: we are thinking, for example, about the link between καθήκοντα and paraenesis, about the importance of emotions in performing καθήκοντα and about the opposition between καθήκοντα and πάθη. In the scholarship concerning Stoic ethics or the thought of the Roman Stoics, the theorical domain of the καθῆκον is often considered tangentially with regards to others, especially because the Roman Stoics almost never focus on the notion of καθῆκον, Epictetus being a notable exception. However, reconstructing the conceptual network of the καθῆκον in the Stoic tradition allows us to recognize its presence, important though sometimes implicit, in the Roman Stoics’ reflection and teaching. Thus, we manage to re-establish, insofar as possible, these philosophers’ conception of καθῆκον.
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Costa, André Pinto da. "New trends in convenience stores." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/18380.
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In the last few decades, several innovations appeared that completely transformed the
concept of convenience all around the world. In Portugal, a country where convenience stores and
gas stations exist side by side, the propagation of electric cars can quickly change what convenience
means for the Portuguese customers – it is expected that these places become unnecessary if they
do not adapt to new trends. Several questions arise: How can one engage customers that will now
spend around 10/15 minutes waiting for their cars to charge? How can these stores become true
entertainment centres instead of being just “places to buy gas”? How can managers prevent that
these stores become “obsoletes”? And how can new trends (such as hybrid stores, “retailtainment”
and interactive screens) impact Portuguese customers and their decision on where to shop?
To try and answer even more questions, this project was developed in a joint effort between
the author, Marketing Future Cast Lab and Galp. With the main purpose of studying the influence
of future trends on Portuguese convenience stores, an extensive literature review and benchmark
analysis phase was started. The most relevant trends were then used as a basis to create new
concepts and innovative ideas while posterior testing (both quantitative and qualitative)
validated/excluded them.
By combining the knowledge obtained from the literature review, the feedback from the
stakeholders of the project and the insights from the chosen methodologies, it was possible to
conclude that there exists a serious possibility of a breakthrough in this sector through a new,
perception-changing positioning on what is a convenience store. The focus should be, namely, on
New Assortments (e.g. food and vending machines), Store-in-Store concepts (e.g. fresh food
stations), Partnerships with recognized brands and investment on Digital/Technology.
In the final remarks, managers are advised to acknowledge the vital need of accepting and
implementing these trends, never losing focus with the fact that the only constant is change.Nas últimas décadas, surgiram diversas inovações que revolucionaram o conceito de conveniência por todo o mundo. Em Portugal, um país onde lojas de conveniência e postos de abastecimento surgem lado a lado, a disseminação de carros elétricos pode rapidamente alterar o que é a conveniência para os portugueses – é expectável que estes locais se tornem desnecessários caso não se adaptem a novas tendências e formas de consumo. Surgem diversas questões: Como entusiasmar pessoas que passam, agora, 10/15 minutos à espera que o seu carro carregue? Como podem estas lojas tornar-se centros de entretenimento e experiências ao invés de serem apenas locais para a compra de gasolina? Como prevenir que se tornem obsoletas? E como podem novas tendências (tais como lojas híbridas, retailtainment e ecrãs interativos) impactar os consumidores portugueses e as suas decisões de escolha de locais de compra? De forma a responder a estas e mais perguntas, este projeto foi desenvolvido entre o autor, o Marketing Future Cast Lab e a Galp. Com um principal foco no estudo da influência das novas tendências nas lojas de conveniência portuguesas, uma profunda revisão literária e análise de benchmark foi efetuada. As tendências mais relevantes foram, então, utilizadas como base para a criação de conceitos e ideias inovadoras que foram posteriormente testadas (quantitativamente e qualitativamente) e consequentemente validadas ou excluídas. Ao juntar o conhecimento obtido pela revisão literária com o feedback recebido pelos stakeholders do projeto e com os insights gerados pelas metodologias escolhidas, foi possível concluir que existe uma forte possibilidade de alteração do paradigma deste sector através de um reposicionamento assente na mudança da perceção dos clientes acerca do objetivo das lojas de conveniência. O foco deve estar, também, na gestão de sortido (como comida e máquinas de venda automática), no conceito loja dentro de loja (estações de comida), em parcerias com marcas conhecidas e no investimento na vertente digital e tecnológica da marca. Nas conclusões finais, sugere-se à Galp que reconheça a necessidade de aceitar e implementar estas novas tendências, nunca perdendo a noção de que a única constante é a mudança.
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Rutenberg, Harry. "Factors influencing the preferences of the millennial generation regarding convenience store choice." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/302.
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Convenience retailing in South Africa is currently experiencing a unique evolution due to the inception of modernised garage convenience stores. Little is known about the actual impact this has had on the fast-moving-consumer-goods market. Furthermore, even less research has been targeted at the young consumers growing up in this digital and more demanding Millennium. This report investigates the role that convenience stores play in the market place with regards to children. It examines the various influences that affect a child’s preferences in store patronage and what retailers can do to maximise their offerings to young consumers. Garage convenience stores and traditional cafés are the primary store targets whilst children aged 9 to 12 (The Millennium Generation) are the specific consumer targets. The research results revealed how children have become more street savvy and that retailers cannot easily pull the wool over their eyes. Kids have become more knowledgeable and demanding, making it that much tougher in the convenience store industry. The fact that younger consumers also have more spending power, are extremely safety conscious and are aware of kid discrimination adds to the pressure. Surprisingly, cafés seem to be more popular with the Millennium Generation than one would initially think. The empirical study verified these findings, leading to a proposed strategic agenda for guiding convenience retailers on how to approach the Millennium Generation and strengthen consumer ties. Consistency, uniformity, loyalty programmes and pricing schemes are some of the typical areas that are addressed. With the implementation of this study’s suggested recommendations, convenience stores should be able to appeal to the Millennium Generation and ensure a healthy mutually advantageous relationship. Failing to heed the importance of the Millennium Generation will inevitable lead to serious business complications in the future.Prof. C.J. Jooste