In this thesis we consider how user-generated content that is assembled by different popular Web portals can be exploited for Multilingual Information Retrieval. We define the knowledge that can be derived from such portals as Social Semantics. We present to approaches, Cross-lingual Explicit...

The object of the present paper is to analyze the productivity of marketing cooperatives incorporating environmental inputs/outputs. In the European agricultural policy, expectations for attaining sustainable and competitive agriculture lie to a great extent on the cooperative sector’s ability...

Replaced with revised version of paper 09/23/11.

This research report focuses on the impact of environmental management systems(EMS) on the economic performance of business enterprises with respect to the threeresearch variables, namely water, energy and raw materials. A systematic samplingtechnique with a random start and the K-Value sampling...

Every stage of the apparel production process has the potential to impact theenvironment. Using R. E. Freeman’s 1984 stakeholder theory as a framework thiswork seeks to a) identify current stakeholder groups’ expectations for environmentalperformance on key environmental issues within the...

Dilia Lopez-Gydosh

Previous empirical work suggests that poor firm environmental performance is negativelyassociated with firm financial performance. A common measure of firm environmentalperformance is emissions of toxic chemicals, typically taken from the EPA’s ToxicRelease Inventory (TRI). However, TRI...