The author highlights the fact that the rationalist paradigm which initiated the social construction of the normative character of the town and country planning issue, is not valid. This leads to one?s wondering about the presuppositions inherent in both research and town and country planning...

Established practice is available as a reference for evaluating sustainable transport and CO₂ emissions at national, European and global levels, but comparing corresponding systems at the regional and local levels are more challenging. Therefore, this paper analyses the use of indicators,...

<b> </b>Increasing the representation of women in academia is a priority challenge in higher education policy. This study uses data from the Italian University habilitation competition in 2012 to test whether this national, standardized and quantitative assessment of researchers contributed to...

This article puts forward the theoretical presentation of the steps/stages taken during a research that aims to identify the degree of resistance to change of mobile phones on the market of durable goods in Romania. The actual research will be conducted on the model presented in this study. The...

The business studies in the European Higher Education System will have to converge in similar frameworks to make students match their country-origin studies. Most of them will not have a traumatic adaptation due to the long tradition of teaching similar contents with the Anglo-Saxon references...

Efficient management of supply chains consists in particular in ensuring possibly highest quality of customer service and striving for minimization of the costs generated by flow between the links. Typical cause of constantly increasing costs is excessive inventory levels throughout the chain....

In the era of digital economy customer satisfaction and loyalty are key factors for the establishment of good relations with customers and partners in the supply chain. For customers to be satisfied data protection and privacy are prerequisite for obtaining quality information. Information...

Phosphorus (P) is an essential element for life. It occurs in living beings in the form of phosphate, which is ubiquitous in biochemistry, chiefly in the form of C-O-P (carbon, oxygen and phosphorus), C-P, or P-O-P linkages to form life. Within prebiotic chemistry, several key questions...

This paper discusses how firms use ¡°big data¡± and the role and challenges for economists when getting involved in big data research. The firms¡¯ success stories have taken advantage of building the biggest databases, using the best extraction tools, and using the fastest algorithms for...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the cross-market interactions between crude oil prices and wheat prices. We investigate the dynamic relationship between world oil market and wheat market in assumption that the increase of volatility in wheat price is caused by the exogenous crude oil price....