scholarly journals Commercial Buildings in Town. The Influence of Discount Shops on the Trade Structure of a Small Town

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 585
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Szumilas ◽  
Pawel Pach
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Simple Relation ◽  
Commercial Buildings ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Additional Advantage ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Structure Of Trade

Changes taking place in the spatial structure of trade in cities have been very dynamic in recent decades. The goal of the research was to determine the dynamics and direction of changes in shaping the traditional commercial structure of small towns, in the context of discount shops location. The subject matter of the research constituted more than ten towns in southern Poland. Traditional shops located there were analysed in terms of their location, the profile and length of their activity. Studies on global trade development processes are available, as well as detailed research results on individual trade assumptions. On the other hand, there is a research gap regarding studies involving the location of commercial buildings, especially in small towns. The research results are a valuable source of information for representatives of various scientific disciplines as well as city authorities. The presented research provides knowledge and constitutes the basis for further research for representatives of various research fields. The areas with the most intensive commercial activity in the last 30 years were correlated with the number of inhabitants. For a selected group of towns, their binding urban planning documentation was verified with respect to specifications facilitating or excluding the establishment of discount shops. The conclusions reached on the basis of the research do not confirm a popular view that discount shops have a negative effect on urban space. The performed analyses indicate that there is no simple relation between a discount shop location and the decreasing number of traditional shops in the investigated cities. The presented research results gain an additional advantage—they form an archive of the development of commerce structure in towns in the period starting with the fall of the centrally planned economy and finishing with the COVID–19 pandemic. The presented material forms a basis for further urban studies which will use the experience gained at this stage

scholarly journals Svalbardforskning og svalbardpolitikk 1870-1925 Forskere som politiske aktører

Nordlit ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Einar-Arne Drivenes
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Far North ◽  
The 19Th Century

The research and commercial activity in the Scandinavian portion of the Arctic increased appreciably in the last decades of the 19th century and up until the 1920s. Not unexpectedly, the idea arose during this period to bring the largest group of the as yet unclaimed Arctic islands, Spitsbergen, under Norwegian or Swedish control. Norwegian political ambitions in the far north seem to have expanded proportionally with economic and scientific activity. What role did science play in this process? In the contest to win Svalbard, Norwegian authorities deliberately used research results and research activity as justification that Spitsbergen was Norwegian. Also, Spitsbergen researchers worked systematically towards a Norwegian conquest of the archipelago, economic and cultural at first, but ultimately political.

Exploring M-Commerce and Social Media

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panagiota Papadopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Environment ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Mobile Context

The proliferation of mobile phones and tablets shape a new arena for online commercial activity with unprecedented opportunities and challenges. In this omnipresent mobile environment, understanding consumer behavior constitutes a challenge for m-commerce vendors, as they seek to understand factors that affect it, positively and negatively, and to integrate social media in their mobile strategy and across mobile devices. This paper presents an exploratory qualitative research examining separately mobile phones and tablets and the use of social media, in the context of m-commerce. The results of our qualitative analysis show important factors for m-commerce and social media adoption and use, highlighting the similarities and differences between mobile phones and tablets. Our qualitative results also reveal factors having a negative effect to m-commerce, for both mobile devices. Business opportunities enabled by social media for m-commerce and how these can be leveraged in this promising multiple-device mobile context are also discussed.

Effect of Phenol on Treatment of Sewage from Channel Discharge with Biological Accelerator-Biofilm Process

2011 ◽  
Vol 243-249 ◽  
pp. 3761-3764
Author(s):  
Gai Mei Guo
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Process ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Ammonia Nitrogen ◽  
Removal Rates ◽  
Promotion Effect ◽  
Initial Concentration ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Biofilm Process

The research studied enhanced treatment of sewage from discharging points of rivers by biofilm process dosing with enzyme and the effect of phenol on removal rates of the main pollution indexes, and investigated promotion effect of enzyme (including the laboratory developed compounded enzyme and the foreign composite enzyme) on treatment of sewage by biofilm process. The research results indicated that when initial concentration of phenol was 5mg/L, the removal rates of phenol, CODCrand ammonia nitrogen obviously decreased compared to no phenol added to reactor A, B and C, and the negative effect of phenol was smaller on reactor B and C than on reactor A. Moreover, enzyme had good promotion effect on biofilm process during the sewage treatment process.

A Literature Review of Manufacturing Eco-Friendly Comfort Textiles and Future Agenda

2017 ◽  
Vol 866 ◽  
pp. 444-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kam Hong Chau ◽  
Chris Kwan Yu Lo ◽  
Chi Wai Kan
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Subjective Test ◽  
Textile Materials ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Wash Durability

Comfort is now a hot topic in textile and clothing field. While textile materials are improving against our comfort feeling in various aspects, a lot of technologies were introduced for manufacturing comfort textile. The technologies may produce negative effect to the environment. Also, “eco-friendly” always draws much attention by the public and many research fields. Therefore, in this study, we conducted a literature review from 2005 to 2015 for analysing the current trends in developing eco-friendly comfort textile and proposed future agenda. The results of this paper identified 4 research questions and directions: (i) How to increase and ensure wash durability? (ii) Recycling of used comfort materials? (iii) Subjective test and Commercialize of materials and (iv) Marketing, how to promote eco-friendly and comfort products?

scholarly journals Public Life of Small Towns Public Open Spaces in North Sumatra Province

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 375
Author(s):  
Achmad Delianur Nasution ◽  
Wahyuni Zahrah
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Common Criteria ◽  
Public Open Space ◽  
Well Design ◽  
North Sumatra

The urbanization process that change urban space and people also goes on in small towns in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. As the region becomes more urbanized, commercial centers grow up. In contrast, public open space tends to decline. In this condition, the study aim is to explore the public life that goes on. The research indicates that almost POS was not designed based on common criteria of successful POS in those of developed countries. However, people utilize the POS intensively and meet people needs. The using grade of the POS shows that there is no a significant different between well-design and poor design POS. © 2016. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.Keywords: Public life; public open space; small towns; North Sumatra

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION ON THE ACCOUNTING LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT USING SELF-EFFICACY AS MODERATING VARIABLE AT SMK YPKK 1 SLEMAN

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismi Nur Rahmah
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Academic Procrastination ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Learning Achievement ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Achievement Data ◽  
Significant Negative Effect ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Academic Year

This research has two objectives. First, it is aimed to determine the effect of Academic Procrastination on the Accounting Learning Achievement in Accounting Study Program at grade X of SMK YPKK 1 Sleman academic year of 2014/2015. Second, it is amied to determine the effect of Academic Procrastination on the Accounting Learning Achievement through Self-efficacy as moderating variable in Accounting Study Program at grade X of SMK YPKK 1 Sleman academic year of 2014/2015 The population in this study was the students in Study Program at grade X of SMK YPKK 1 Sleman consists of 54 students. Data collection in this research were Questionnaire and Documentation. The questionnaires consisted of academic procrastination and self-efficacy instruments while the documentation was used to obtain Accounting Learning Achievement data. Research results showed that: (1) There is a significant negative effect of Academic Procrastination on the Accounting Learning Achievement in Accounting Study Program at grade X of SMK YPKK 1 academic year of 2014/2015, with rx1y = 0.575; r2x1y = 0.331; t-count -5.068 > t-table and sig 0.000 < 0.05;  (2) There is significant negative effect of Academic Procrastination on the Accounting Learning Achievement through Self-efficacy as moderating variable in Accounting Study Program at grade X of SMK YPKK 1 academic year of 2014/2015, with rx1y = 0.699; r2x1y = 0.489; t-count -2.030 > t-table and sig 0.048 < 0.050. Keywords: Accounting Learning Achievement, Academic Procrastination, Self-efficacy

scholarly journals Formation of visual comfort of small cities architectural environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 244 ◽  
pp. 05031
Author(s):  
Evgeny Ponomarev ◽  
Konstantin Ivshin ◽  
Oksana Golubeva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Visual Comfort ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Urban Architecture ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Meaningful Context ◽  
Architectural Language ◽  
Definition Of

Statement of the problem. The aim of the study is to analyse the basic elements of creating visual comfort in the urban environment in the conditions of the renovation of the existing development of Russian small towns. Results. The main results of the research are the development of the syntactic context of architecture in urban space; the definition of the architectural language as the basis for the formation of compositional characteristics of visual comfort in urban space. Conclusions. The significance of the obtained results lies in the novelty of the approach to the mechanism of updating the architectural environment of cities based on the reform of the visual characteristics of the existing buildings; in the interpretation of architectural forms that reveal the original qualities of urban architecture. The use of the methodological basis of the mechanism of visual renewal of the architectural environment and the formation of urban space as a meaningful context that reveals individual characteristics to the viewer who is in the space of the city. At the same time, the visual-figurative context of the architectural environment of cities acquires a meaningful meaning, which allows us to comprehensively consider the process of renovation of existing buildings, including the tool for visual-spatial construction of architectural solutions.

scholarly journals Degradation of urban space as a negative effect of mine closures

2021 ◽  
Vol 942 (1) ◽  
pp. 012028
Author(s):  
A Kozlowska-Woszczycka
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
General Condition ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Technical Condition ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The article presents one of the social aspects of mine closure, which concerns degraded urban space. One of the post-industrial districts of Waibrzych: Sobiecin was selected as a case study, in which the general condition of the buildings was assessed. The closure of mines is the last stage of mining activity, the result of which should be a permanent minimization of the negative consequences of the impact of the mining industry. The closure of mining enterprises has environmental, social and economic consequences. The liquidation of the Waibrzych coal mines in the 1990s resulted in a rapid de-industrialization of the region and did not provide the means to contain the domino effect it caused. At that time, economic and social changes began in Waibrzych, and unorganized and intense changes took place in the city space. Liquidation processes in the mining industry have led, among others, to the physical and aesthetic degradation of residential buildings and other facilities. The purpose of this article is to assess the general condition of buildings located in an area affected by the negative consequences of mine closures. To achieve this goal, an inventory of the technical condition of the buildings was made. The external elements of the building were assessed by means of a field interview: the facade, door and window joinery and roof covering. The inventory process was supported by drone flights. The collected data was used for graphic and tabular studies, summarizing the condition of buildings and the degree of degradation of urban space.

scholarly journals Influence of Small Ruminant Lentivirus Infection on Reproductive Traits in Ewes

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
Czesława Lipecka ◽  
Andrej Junkuszew ◽  
Jacek Kuźmak ◽  
Tomasz M. Gruszeck ◽  
Bożena Kozaczyńska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Performance ◽  
Small Ruminant ◽  
Reproductive Traits ◽  
Genetic Group ◽  
Sheep Flock ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Genetic Groups ◽  
Negative Effect

AbstractThe study included a sheep flock comprising five genetic groups. The ELISA was applied to perform constant monitoring (every six months) for the infection of ewes with small ruminant lentivirus (SRLV). The research results demonstrated a negative effect of SRLVs infection on lamb rearing that, depending on the genetic group, proved to be lower 1.3%-1.4% compared to the seronegative mothers. At relatively equal fertility (94%-100%) and more differentiated prolificacy (179%-198%) in all the examined groups (except the Suffolk breed), a rearing index was higher in the seronegative animals 6.8%-24.1% compared to the seropositive mothers. The Suffolk breed proved to be the genetic group most susceptible to SRLV infection. A prolificacy of infected ewes was 10% lower, a lamb rearing rate was 13% lower , and a general reproductive performance was 18% lower in comparison to healthy ewes.

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