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The Role of Attachment in the Life Aspirations of Portuguese Adolescents in Residential Care: The Mediating Effect of Emotion Regulation
Quality of attachment relationships developed within an institutional environment may be a risk or protective factor for the creation of life aspirations and for emotion regulation abilities among adolescents ...
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Waste to 3D Printing: A Systematic Literature Review
Additive manufacturing is one of the most prominent technologies seen as an enabler for circular economy strategies, including the development of additive symbiotic networks. There is a gap in the literature r...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Drivers and Barriers of Residual Agroforestry Biomass Valorization: A Bibliometric Analysis
Residual agroforestry biomass, a byproduct of agricultural and forestry practices, can be used as feedstock in various industries, including bioenergy, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. In addition to its potent...
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Maturity Tools in the Supply Chain Context: A Framework Proposal
The ability to recognize the gradual growth of a given supply chain considering a specific characteristic or factor by understanding its level of maturity is important for progress and benchmarking. These proc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Product-Service System Development for 3D Customized Production in Hospitals
Customized prosthesis and orthosis (P&O) manufacturing is growing as a market advantage and contributes to the positive impact on patient’s wellbeing. Three-dimensional printing allows a flexible manufacturing...
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Social interaction matters to job search over the long haul
Based on social cognitive, reasoned action, and basic needs theories, this study examines whether co-rumination with others about the job search mediates the positive relation between state negative affect and...
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‘What could make me stay at work’: Retirement transition profiles
Aging populations pose a persistent challenge to the sustainability of public pension systems. To tackle these financial pressures, many countries strengthen the incentives to work by increasing the statutory ...
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Attachment, Emotional Regulation and Perception of the Institutional Environment in Adolescents in Residential Care Context
There is a scarcity of studies that relate attachment, emotional regulation difficulties and perception of the institutional environment among adolescents in a residential care context (RCC). Research has sugg...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards a Conceptual Framework for Agroforestry Residual Biomass Sustainable Business Models
Residual agroforestry valorization reduces the dependency on nonrenewable resources. It is also a source of cheaper, renewable, and greener raw materials. Apart from being used for energy production, it has th...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Maturity Tools in the Supply Chain Context: a Framework Proposal
The ability to recognize the gradual growth of a given supply chain considering a specific characteristic or factor by understanding its level of maturity is important for progress and benchmarking. These proc...
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Open AccessA randomised control trial protocol of MuST for vascular access cannulation in hemodialysis patients (MuST Study): contributions for a safe nursing intervention
The vascular access preservation and the maintenance of a complication-free fistula remains an Achilles’ heel of hemodialysis in chronic kidney patients due to its substantial contribution to the morbidity and...
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Industry 4.0 maturity follow-up inside an internal value chain: a case study
Social, economic, and technological developments are leading companies to face new production challenges. The use of information and communication technologies offers to companies physical and virtual structur...
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Tracking the maturity of industry 4.0: the perspective of a real scenario
To track industry 4.0 status, readiness models are used to analyze the state of industry 4.0 technologies’ implementation, allowing the quantification and qualification of its readiness level considering diffe...
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Open AccessConceptions of Learning and Teaching for Faculty Who Teach Basic Science
Conceptions of learning and teaching refer to what faculty think about teaching effectiveness. Approaches to teaching refer to the methods they use to teach. Both conceptions and approaches range from student-...
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From Taken for Granted to Taken Seriously: The Linked Lives Life Course Principle Under Literature Analysis
The life course principle of linked lives, emphasising the interdependent nature of lives, is under-explored and taken for granted. Yet, it constitutes an independent contribution to the Life Course and Sociology...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Advanced Technologies Supporting the Implementation of Lean/Green Supply Chain Management Practices and Its Influence on the Performance
The lean/green supply chain paradigm supports a better performance in terms of economic, environmental and social dimensions. This paper describes a research about the deployment of advanced technologies such ...
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Towards Continuous Improvement by Using a Lean-TRIZ Approach
The search for excellence and operational benefits forces organizations to adopt new types of techniques and approaches for the systematic creation of innovative solutions. In view of this context, this paper ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Impacts of Additive Manufacturing Technology on Lean/Green Supply Chain Management Practices
Additive manufacturing (AM) is an emerging technology that is changing the supply chain’s structure in a context where consumers are looking for more diversified, customizable, and yet more environmentally fri...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Lean Ground Handling Processes at an Airport
Globalization of markets and the technological growth promote new business opportunities for companies, but also present major challenges in terms of competitiveness and sustainability. To meet these challenge...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Impact of Additive Manufacturing on Supply Chain Resilience
Additive Manufacturing is changing the structure and dynamics of supply chains, influencing their ability to cope with disturbances, i.e. supply chain resilience. To date, no empirical research has investigate...
