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Packaging Scorecard for Closed-loop Logistics Systems: A Sustainable Development Perspective
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): François Fulconis, Bernd PhilippAbstractPackaging is omnipresent in modern production, distribution and consumption systems. It has multiple functions. They refer to the quality of the products it covers, their advertising/promotion via its marketing aspects and to the logistics via handling/storage/transportation activities it enables. Indispensable partner of different supply chain actors (suppliers, manufacturers, logistics service providers, carriers, wholesalers, retailers, consumers), it is at the heart of packaging scoreca...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A Comparison Between Smart City Approaches in Road Traffic Management
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Mădălin-Dorin Pop, Octavian ProșteanAbstractThe population growth and economic development increase the need for mobility. As consequences, we can mention the environmental impact of CO2 emissions and that the road accidents are among the top 10 causes of death worldwide. As a solution to this problem, the concept of Intelligent Transportation Systems emerged. Part of this concept is smart city approach, consisting in a combination of Internet of Things and Information and Communication Technology to manage city issues. After 2...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Implementation of Eye-Tracking Technology in Holonic Manufacturing Systems
This study discusses the implementation of Eye-Tracking technology as an holon. (Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences)
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Microgrid supply management
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Cezara Rat, Cristian Vasar, Ovidiu Gana, Octavian ProsteanAbstractMicrogrids represent a means of improving the conventional electrical grid network, making it more reliable, secure, cooperative, efficient and, especially cleaner. This paper presents the management of a hierarchical DC-coupled microgrid with distributed architecture implemented in a microgrid laboratory containing two renewable sources, namely wind and hydro. Power supply management strategies are applied in order to supply a critical, non-dispatchable load. Due t...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Business-process Modelling of basic Customs Procedures in EAEU
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Ekaterina N. Salimonenko, Evgeny A. StepanovAbstractCustoms procedures improvement is conducted to reduce the time of customs control. Reducing customs control time will lead to reducing operating and transaction costs of participants of customs control procedures as well as of participants of foreign economic activities. Business-process improvement models of basic customs procedures has a hierarchical structure to carry out specification on several levels. The model comprises official sequence of actions and stages of the data p...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Influencing Factors and Outcomes of the Learning by Sharing Process
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Ionuţ Viorel Herghiligiu, Alexandru Pohonţu, Marius Pislaru, Adrian VilcuAbstractThe mergіng оf оrgаnіzаtіоnаl leаrnіng theоry аnd knоwledge mаnаgement іn recent yeаrs hаs gіven rіse tо іmроrtаnt іnsіghts regаrdіng the leаrnіng рrоcess аnd knоwledge trаnsfer thаt stіll requіres much reflectіоn іn оrder tо be іntegrаted іntо рrаctіce. However, few studies could be found in literature which focuse on what and how the influencing factors are related to organizational learning and ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Attraction and Retention of the Employees. A Study based on Multinationals from Romania
This study has focused on two key steps taken from human resource management: attracting candidates to job interviews and maintaining the chosen personnel in companies. The research model was designed so that the two aspects are simultaneously and comparatively analyzed. (Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences)
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

What We Expect and What We Get? Total Rewards for Potential Employees
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Elena-Sabina TurneaAbstractIt would be advised that those who are looking to change their job or get a new one to be very well informed with respect to what kind of organizational rewards they can expect. In most of the cases, people want to be rewarded, but do not know what they need. Compatibility tests used in professional practice or job rotation on workstations are great possibilities to find out what kind of organizational rewards people are able to claim.Without a doubt, total reward will be applied differently, depending o...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Time Perspective as a Predictor of Procrastination
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): E. Zabelina, Yu. Chestyunina, I. Trushina, E. VedeneyevaAbstractThe article presents the results of the study of time perspective as a predictor of procrastination. It shows how the test subjects with high procrastination rates are more pessimistic and negative about past events; they are less focused on future plans, goals, and prospects, and are convinced that their future is predetermined and cannot be influenced by individual actions. The discriminant analysis revealed negative attitude toward the past, fatalistic perception o...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Soft Skills Development Needs and Methods in Micro-Companies of ICT Sector
This article calls for the inclusion of soft skills in the development of information and communication technology (ICT) sector's specialists in order to increase the competitiveness of ICT SME's. For a successful activity, ICT specialist needs two categories of skills: hard and soft skills. When talking about hard skills, we refer to direct technical knowledge. On the opposite, soft skills refer to communication, team work, creativity, problem solving and other personal skills. Experts agree that beside hard (technical) skills, soft (also called people-) skills are necessary. The research was based on an analysis of Europ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Career Opportunities for PhD Graduates in the knowledge-based Economy: Case of Slovenia
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Valentina Jošt Lešer, Nada Trunk Širca, Valerij Dermol, Aleš TrunkAbstractHigher education institutions are recognized as key agents of creating knowledge society and knowledge-based economy. In this context, the preparation of doctoral students for careers in various sectors of society is a key task. Recently, the role of doctoral studies has changed significantly. Traditionally, they were treated as an entrance ticket for an academic career, but nowadays the importance of doctoral studies is recognized in various spheres of ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Multi-layered Functional Analysis for Smart Homes Design
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Dorin Popescu, Diana Rusu, Laura Bacali, Sorin PopescuAbstractThe conception of smart homes exceeds the boundaries of a simple design process. It becomes mainly a managerial, multidisciplinary process in which added value depends on the measure in which these answer, in an adequate manner, to a set of requirements raised by a target group of users and stakeholders with specific needs.The paper proposes a methodology for functional analysis of smart living spaces that combines a multi-level approach for its structure with FAST (Fun...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Innovation - Corporate Performance Relationship in Emergent Countries
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Gabriela Lucia Sipos, Alin IonescuAbstractInnovation has become a highly actual topic. The main goal of this study is to identify the existence of any possible impact of innovation on companies’ performances in the case of companies from 115 emergent countries, based on data provided by the World Bank. Thus, using the methodology of principal components analysis, we proposed two composite indexes: a multidimensional composite index measuring the corporate sector's innovation and another composite index measuring the companies’...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A New Approach for Assessing Function-cost Correlation in Product Value Analysis
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Şerban Miclea, Adrian Pugna, Romeo Negrea, Sabina PotraAbstractThe paper presents a new approach for product value analysis by combining a classical approach with a straightforward (intuitive) one and incorporating a new method of calculating (setting up) a statistical confidence interval in terms of functionality and cost. In this process, the value analysis team can observe the differences between the ideal and real function to cost ratio and easily set up a confidence interval avoiding negative effects on the overall product q...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Knowledge Management – from its Inception to the Innovation Linkage
Publication date: 2018Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238Author(s): Kristijan BreznikAbstractKnowledge management started to be perceived as a scientific discipline relatively recently. Since its beginnings in the 1990s, the interest for this research field has been constantly growing especially in the past two decades. However, it seems that the peak of interest has already passed. In this paper, we provided the review of the most important research documents that are related with this topic, all collected from the Web of Science. The most important scholars and journals in the field are identifi...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research