scholarly journals Assistive Robotics Competition Robowaiter: A New Approach To Socially Responsible Robotics Education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ahlgren ◽  
Igor Verner
2019 ◽  
pp. 1633-1655
Author(s):  
Catalina Soriana Sitnikov ◽  
Claudiu Bocean ◽  
Sorin Tudor

Currently, the adoption of a specific approach to business activities that highlights the strategic importance of corporate social responsibility hereafter CSR is the most important element influencing the existence and continuity of an organization. Thus, there is not a surprise that universities shall identify, in terms of own activities, the possibility to lead their orientation beyond teaching-learning process, towards the operations and institutional activities. At the same time, recent decades have experienced the failure of CSR as a way of doing business, govern or provide solutions and evaluate ethical issues and, thus, of the need to apply and implement a new approach - CSR 2.0. The transition from the current CSR, or 1.0, to CSR 2.0 requires the adoption of five new principles—creativity, scalability, responsiveness, glocality, and circularity—and embedding them within organizations management and culture. The paper will unfold towards two steps: the first, dedicated to the correlation between education (Blessinger's models and frameworks elements) with business (based on higher education business models), and the second, represented by integrating the new built model with the concepts and principles of CSR 2.0 developed by Visser. The new framework can be used to manage the context and processes of a socially responsible university as part of a world influenced by CSR 2.0 principles.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Erwan Le Saout

Over the last few years, the microfinance sector has seen its transformation. Microfinance institutions seek a wide range of sources of funding, while private investors seek not only social returns but also financial returns. This new approach has led to the emergence of microfinance investment funds and initial public offerings of certain Microfinance institutions. Microfinance now seems to be seen as a new investment opportunity by global investors.Aim of this paper is to study the performance of public Microfinance Investment Vehicles. Despite a significant currency risk, we find that the integration of microfinance assets diversifies the investor’s risks and improves the efficient frontier. We conclude that microfinance institutions, via investment vehicles, are likely to attract capital from socially responsible investors seeking new investment opportunities despite a sharp decline in the Sharpe ratio over the past few months.


Author(s):  
Catalina Soriana Sitnikov ◽  
Claudiu Bocean ◽  
Sorin Tudor

Currently, the adoption of a specific approach to business activities that highlights the strategic importance of corporate social responsibility hereafter CSR is the most important element influencing the existence and continuity of an organization. Thus, there is not a surprise that universities shall identify, in terms of own activities, the possibility to lead their orientation beyond teaching-learning process, towards the operations and institutional activities. At the same time, recent decades have experienced the failure of CSR as a way of doing business, govern or provide solutions and evaluate ethical issues and, thus, of the need to apply and implement a new approach - CSR 2.0. The transition from the current CSR, or 1.0, to CSR 2.0 requires the adoption of five new principles—creativity, scalability, responsiveness, glocality, and circularity—and embedding them within organizations management and culture. The paper will unfold towards two steps: the first, dedicated to the correlation between education (Blessinger's models and frameworks elements) with business (based on higher education business models), and the second, represented by integrating the new built model with the concepts and principles of CSR 2.0 developed by Visser. The new framework can be used to manage the context and processes of a socially responsible university as part of a world influenced by CSR 2.0 principles.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-64
Author(s):  
Chirag Malik ◽  
Sonali Yadav

Sustainability is the new approach of corporations of the world over which is catching a lot of attention due to its divergence from the short-term approach to the long-term horizon. Sustainability indexes, that represent a set of companies for being socially responsible in terms of its corporate approach, need to be assessed in terms of forecasting the return as well as volatility of these returns. Autoregressive nature of three sustainability indexes, viz, Greenex, Carbonex and ESG index has been captured using autoregressive integrated moving averages method. The residuals of the model are subjected to generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity modeling to address volatility clustering. ARIMA results of three indices specify AR (1) for forecasting Carbonex is AR (1), MA (3) for forecasting ESG and AR (3) MA (3) for forecasting Greenex. Variances are changing as well as are a function of its past behavior, as shown by GARCH (1,1) process in the case of Carbonex and Greenex. Whereas in the case of ESG GARCH (1,1) does not explain such variance in residuals which could possibly be due to the presence of other exogenous factors in the time series. These results find place in the area of asset pricing and risk management of sustainability indexes in India. The research is based on the works of Joshi, Pandey, and Ross (2017), and it contributes to findings of Makridakis, Wheelwright, and Hyndman (1998).


1999 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 185-188
Author(s):  
Gy. Szabó ◽  
K. Sárneczky ◽  
L.L. Kiss

AbstractA widely used tool in studying quasi-monoperiodic processes is the O–C diagram. This paper deals with the application of this diagram in minor planet studies. The main difference between our approach and the classical O–C diagram is that we transform the epoch (=time) dependence into the geocentric longitude domain. We outline a rotation modelling using this modified O–C and illustrate the abilities with detailed error analysis. The primary assumption, that the monotonity and the shape of this diagram is (almost) independent of the geometry of the asteroids is discussed and tested. The monotonity enables an unambiguous distinction between the prograde and retrograde rotation, thus the four-fold (or in some cases the two-fold) ambiguities can be avoided. This turned out to be the main advantage of the O–C examination. As an extension to the theoretical work, we present some preliminary results on 1727 Mette based on new CCD observations.


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