As a part of the strategies identified during the Estates General of livestock farming, the Region of Piedmont has financed a project in order to verify the level of appreciation of medium heavy swine in the swine sector. The Region has involved the Department of Commodity Science of Turin...

Purpose: The aim of the paper is to test and demonstrate the potential benefits in applying reinforcement learning instead of traditional methods to optimize the content of a company's mobile application to best help travellers finding their ideal flights. To this end, two approaches were...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the impact of leverage on the cost of capital and market value in the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX), where there are Sharīʿah and non-Sharīʿah compliant firms. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses a mixed methods sequential exploratory design...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the progress of risk management and the tools that can help companies to better deal with the risks they face. The research carried out on a sample of companies from different sectors offers confirmation and new conviction. The documentation collected was...

Latest advancements in tractors engineering have allowed farmers to increase productivity, and simultaneously to reduce operator’s hazards. However, little attention has been given to farmers’ behaviour and attitude toward the adoption of technological innovations concerning agricultural...

This paper is concerned with the development of a statistical model with the purpose to evaluate under which conditions the introduction of flexible work in a full-time environment may produce an increase of profit and/or occupation. The model allows to determine the optimum levels of full-time...