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Social, Technological, Economic, and Policy Factors in the Circular Economy Transition in Brazil

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A well‐functioning circular economy (CE) integrates resilience across economic, environmental, and social dimensions. This study identifies key drivers and barriers to Brazil's CE transition through 20 semi‐structured interviews with stakeholders. Major sociocultural barriers include inadequate education and limited CE awareness, while growing
Alejandro Gallego‐Schmid   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploratory Analysis of Sustainable Consumption and Production Factors in Services: Insights From Four Case Studies Using Interpretive Structural Modeling

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how 14 sustainable consumption and production (SCP) factors interact across four service categories—Mass Service, Professional Service, Service Factory, and Service Shop—using interpretive structural modeling (ISM). ISM enables the identification and hierarchical classification of interdependencies among SCP factors in ...
Amanda Duarte Feitosa   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prague, the city of traditions and shopping centres. A case study

open access: yesHungarian Geographical Bulletin, 2013
Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. In this metropolis of history and traditions shopping centres have also appeared and they have made remarkable impact on the city’s commercial structure.
Tamás Sikos T
doaj  

Unsupervised Work Behavior Pattern Extraction Based on Hierarchical Probabilistic Model

open access: yesIEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, EarlyView.
In this study, we address the challenge of analyzing worker behaviors in high‐mix, low‐volume production environments, where traditional supervised learning methods struggle owing to the lack of labeled data and task variability among workers. To overcome these issues, we propose a novel hierarchical approach for unsupervised behavior pattern ...
Issei Saito   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

An empirical research of the factors determining customer behaviour in food retail stores [PDF]

open access: yes
For years the Institute of Marketing at Szent István University has been conducting research in customer and consumer behaviour. This research project focuses on which food shops retail customers choose when it comes to traditional food.
Gyenge, Balazs   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Multichannel integration evidence from the States and a review of the field [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Members of the Henley Centre for Customer Management requested a report on the status of multichannel marketing. The focus of the research examines best practice examples from the United States and a detailed review of the field.
Clark, Moira, Hair, N.
core  

Academic Delay of Gratification: Research Trends in Japan and Asia

open access: yesNew Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT One factor that influences students’ academic performance and outcomes in postsecondary education is their ability to delay gratification for long‐term academic goals. This ability, known as academic delay of gratification (ADOG), is closely related to self‐regulated learning, which involves using cognitive and emotional strategies to regulate
Motoyuki Nakaya   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

BaYaka forager and Bantu fisher‐farmer adolescent engagement with intensifying market integration in the Republic of the Congo Participation des adolescents BaYaka chasseurs‐cueilleurs et Bantous pêcheurs‐agriculteurs à l'intégration croissante au marché en République du Congo

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
A substantial body of anthropological research has investigated how subsistence communities engage with market‐based economies. In this study, we contribute to this body of work by examining adolescent orientations towards intensifying market integration in the Congo Basin.
Sheina Lew‐Levy   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dwelling in a post‐fallout landscape: re‐shaping and sustaining life in a former evacuation zone in Fukushima Habiter après la catastrophe : redonner forme au monde et entretenir la vie dans une ancienne zone évacuée à Fukushima

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
wiley   +1 more source

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