Organizations have been striving to demonstrate to society their political of good social and environmental practices. Thus, socially responsible investments have been increasingly significantly, one of the reasons fo...
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(纸本)9780983762447
Organizations have been striving to demonstrate to society their political of good social and environmental practices. Thus, socially responsible investments have been increasingly significantly, one of the reasons for increasing creation of indexes of corporate sustainability. Many studies have been done about the ISE - Corporate Sustainability Index - of BM&FBovespa, verifying if the portfolio composed of sustainable companies brings higher return to shareholders than other portfolios of regular companies. However, most of these researches focus on the stock value and there are few studies that give focus on fundamental analysis. The main purpose of this paper is to compare fundamentalist profitability indicators among a group of companies that compose the ISE index and a reference group, verifying if sustainable management improves business profitability and how it creates value for shareholders. The groups were compared and the evidences found show that despite the ISE have a differentiated theoretical portfolio, focused on social, environmental and ethical issues, the profitability of companies that compose the index is similar to or lower than the profitability of companies of the reference group. Nevertheless, the results show that the ISE Group has other ways to create shareholder value, as lower volatility and lower risk exposure.
In this paper a Hardware Architecture for computing the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is presented which is addressed to solve the self-localization problem of autonomous mobile robots. In this case, the overall EKF al...
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In the last few decades the competitive context development trajectory is leading companies to increase their contribution for sustainable development. Stakeholders' accountability demands are being reflected in p...
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(纸本)9780983762430
In the last few decades the competitive context development trajectory is leading companies to increase their contribution for sustainable development. Stakeholders' accountability demands are being reflected in present multidisciplinary regulatory framework that is formed by standards, guidelines and guidance reports, and allows markets and society to have evidences from sustainable behavior, which is certified or formally agreed or signatory by companies. Operations strategy performance information could be addressed to a set of evolutionary performance indicators, which could represent sustainability present performance, and also could orient companies in reaching higher performance levels according to a preset maturity trajectory. The objective of this paper is to develop a process for generating an integrated set of performance measures for managing sustainability at value chain or operations system level. An applied research was conducted based on action research approach, operationalized by Cambridge process or engineering approach, and managed in research process management cycle. Performance measures are formally and detailed defined as metadata. Process application not only allows a better understanding on how sustainability indicators could be integrated and related to a maturity model, but also created an information system that could be used for auditing, assessment and reporting sustainability performance.
Under-resourced automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become an active field of research and has experienced significant progress during the past decade. However, the performance of under-resourced ASR trained by exi...
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The problem of failure occurrence in flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) tends to increase according to their complexity leading to time-consuming tasks as the localisation and repairing. The occurrence of failures d...
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Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are intricate mathematical models, drawing inspiration from the biological nervous system, and offering intelligence alongside nonparametric capabilities. The efficacy of ANNs heavily...
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In this paper, we propose a new method to estimate the traveling direction for pedestrian by applying IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) and PCA (Principal Component Analysis) to sensor information from a smartwatch. Bec...
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This work presents an FPGA-based Hardware Architecture to implement the Prediction Stage of the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) applied to the localization problem in mobile robotics. The algorithm has been implemented a...
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This article presents an indirect power predictive optimal controller applicable to grid-connected converters. The VSI converter is used as an interface between distributed generators, energy storage systems and the a...
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The companies use the performance results to identify their main problems and to analyse the cause roots in their production systems, supplier network and process technology. The purpose of this paper is to analyze ca...
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