scholarly journals Wine after the pandemic? All the doubts in a glass

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-71
Author(s):  
Daniele Vergamini ◽  
Fabio Bartolini ◽  
Gianluca Brunori
Keyword(s):  
Financial Stability ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Face ◽  
Wine Sector ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Related Trade

COVID-19 has triggered an unprecedented global crisis, the increasing recessions in many countries and related trade uncertainties are affecting the whole wine sector, from production to distribution, sales, and consumption. While the full recovery is still uncertain, and even worse scenarios are possible if it takes longer to bring back trust and financial stability on wine markets, the crisis risks to jeopardies recent developments and sustainability in wine territories. Developing from a mixed-method participatory research process that integrates recent economic prospective with diverse experience data, we offer a critical reflection made by researchers and stakeholders supporting several socio-economic narratives and policy implications in the light of the current crisis. Distinguishing between short and long-term implications, we offer a reflection on the policy needs to alleviate the ongoing suffering of the sector. The speed and scope of the pandemic crisis underscore the need for the wine sector to become more resilient by increasing the ability to cooperate and coordinate among supply chain actors and between policy levels. The latter offers a reflection on the balance between short-term interventions and the complementarity of post-2020 CAP measures to stabilize market and future incomes. We conclude that once the crisis abates, it will be necessary to reaffirm credible commitment and trust at all levels, not only with regard to the vineyard and the cellars but also on distribution, especially in the face of a changing demand that in the future will become more pressing for issues related to safety and sustainability.

scholarly journals Key performance indicators of major companies: a study on Russian metallurgical industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 05086
Author(s):  
Daria Baklanovskaya ◽  
Marat Goguadze ◽  
Alexey Shmatko
Keyword(s):  
Financial Stability ◽  
Metallurgical Industry ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Energy Costs ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Energy Complex ◽  
Fixed Assets ◽  
Short And Long Term

The development of the metallurgical industry requires investing in the environmental safety of processes and technologies of metal processing, as well as to the measures aimed at energy costs reduction. We will look at the economic impact of reducing production costs by saving resources and improving the efficiency of the energy complex. The financial effect of reducing energy consumption per unit of production can be achieved by optimizing the purchase of energy resources, modes of operation of technological and support equipment, improving the management of the company’s energy complex. The article examines the most important indicators of the operating and financial activities of the three companies in the steel industry—Novolipetsk and Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plants, as well as Severstal PJSC. The financial stability of these companies and the agility of their capital are quite high, and their fixed assets are financed by their own funds. Companies are also financially stable in the short term, as evidenced by the high current liquidity ratios (2 and above), and their own capital exceeds borrowing by 1.5 to 2 times. Thus, we can conclude that they are operationally efficient and have good financial sustainability in the short and long term.

Introduction to the JPCC special issue: Professionalism in the Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 201-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Scanlan
Keyword(s):  
School Effectiveness ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Professional Capital ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Field Area

PurposeIntroduction to the JPCC special issue: Professionalism in the Pandemic.Design/methodology/approachAs educators around the world respond to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Journal of Professional Capital and Community (JPCC), the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) and the ARC Education Project are collaboratively launching a special issue of JPCC: Professionalism in the Pandemic. This essay provides a brief introduction to this special issue.FindingsThe purpose of this special issue is to create a scholarly forum for sharing perspectives from around the world about how educators in classrooms, schools, school systems and broader communities are innovatively, creatively and productively responding to this unfolding crisis. Some guiding questions these essays consider: In your field/area of expertise, what are some examples of creative responses to the pandemic that you are witnessing? What lessons do you see educators learning in the short term? Medium term? Long term? What are some ways the current crisis is spurring new opportunities to build professional capital and community? How are educators (re)conceptualizing their roles in the face of this crisis? What kinds of connections are educators fostering to support one another through this time? How are responses exhibiting consistency and variation internationally?Originality/valueThe thought leaders contributing to this special issue come from around the world. Speaking in the voice of public intellectuals, they provide perspectives for practitioners and policymakers who are seeking to not simply adapt to meet the crisis at hand but also to step back and consider the medium to longer-term implications.

scholarly journals Short and long-term consequences of high-school tracks for earnings in Israel

2020 ◽  
pp. 000169932092091
Author(s):  
Limor Gabay-Egozi ◽  
Meir Yaish
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
College Degrees ◽  
School Tracking ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Long Term Consequences

Vocational and academic curricula are said to hold both short-term and long-term consequences for economic outcomes. The literature on this topic, however, fails to address the long-term consequences of educational tracking. Just as important, this literature did not examine returns to high-school tracking within levels of further education. This paper aims to fill these gaps in the literature. Utilizing longitudinal data of Israeli men and women who graduated high school in the late 1980s and entered the labor market in the early 1990s, we examine their earning trajectories throughout age 50 in 2013. The results indicate that for men without college degrees, vocational education provides pay premiums at labor-market entry. With time, however, these earnings’ premiums decline and diminish. A similar pattern characterizes degree holders, though the decline in the pay premiums is less steep when compared to men without a college degree. For women we do not find similar vocational effects. Taken together, our results indicate that the more substantial differences in earnings trajectories in Israel, among men and women alike, are associated with level of education and not with high-school tracks. The theoretical and potential policy implications of these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Towards an integration of deep learning and neuroscience

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Henry Marblestone ◽  
Greg Wayne ◽  
Konrad P Kording
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Memory Storage ◽  
Cost Functions ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
The Brain ◽  
And Training ◽  
Learning Data

Neuroscience has focused on the detailed implementation of computation, studying neural codes, dynamics and circuits. In machine learning, however, artificial neural networks tend to eschew precisely designed codes, dynamics or circuits in favor of brute force optimization of a cost function, often using simple and relatively uniform initial architectures. Two recent developments have emerged within machine learning that create an opportunity to connect these seemingly divergent perspectives. First, structured architectures are used, including dedicated systems for attention, recursion and various forms of short- and long-term memory storage. Second, cost functions and training procedures have become more complex and are varied across layers and over time. Here we think about the brain in terms of these ideas. We hypothesize that (1) the brain optimizes cost functions, (2) these cost functions are diverse and differ across brain locations and over development, and (3) optimization operates within a pre-structured architecture matched to the computational problems posed by behavior. Such a heterogeneously optimized system, enabled by a series of interacting cost functions, serves to make learning data-efficient and precisely targeted to the needs of the organism. We suggest directions by which neuroscience could seek to refine and test these hypotheses.

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 on China's agricultural trade

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lijuan Cao ◽  
Tianxiang Li ◽  
Rongbo Wang ◽  
Jing Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Food Availability ◽  
Scenario Analysis ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Agricultural Exports ◽  
The World ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe outbreak of the novel COVID-19 virus has spread throughout the world, causing unprecedented disruption to not only China's agricultural trade but also the world's agricultural trade at large. This paper attempts to provide a preliminary analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on China's agricultural importing and exporting from both short- and long-term perspectives.Design/methodology/approachThis study seeks to analyze how the outbreak of COVID-19 could potentially impact China's agricultural trade. With respect to exports, the authors have pinpointed major disruptive factors arising from the pandemic which have affected China's agricultural exports in both the short and long term; in doing so, we employ scenario analysis which simulates potential long-term effects. With regard to imports, possible impacts of the pandemic regarding the prospects of food availability in the world market are investigated. Using scenario analysis, the authors estimate the potential change in China's food market—especially meat import growth—in light of the implementation of the newly signed Sino-US Economic and Trade Agreement (SUETA).FindingsThe results show that China's agricultural exports have been negatively impacted in the short-term, mostly due to the disruption of the supply chain. In the long term, dampened external demand and potential imposition of non-tariff trade barriers (NTBs) will exert more profound and lasting negative effects on China's agricultural export trade. On the other hand, despite panic buying and embargoing policies from some exporting and importing countries, the world food availability and China's food import demand are still optimistic. The simulation results indicate that China's import of pork products, in light of COVID-19 and the implementation of SUETA, would most likely see a sizable climb in quantity, but a lesser climb in terms of value.Originality/valueAgricultural trade in China has been a focal-point of attention in recent years, with new challenges slowing exports and increasing dependence on imports for food security. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic adds significant uncertainty to agricultural trade, giving rise to serious concerns regarding its potential impact. By exploring the impact of the unprecedented pandemic on China's agricultural trade, this study should contribute to a better understanding of the still-evolving pandemic and shed light on pertinent policy implications.

scholarly journals Recipe for Disaster: How the Dynamic Ingredients of Risk and Exposure Are Changing the Tornado Disaster Landscape

2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (5) ◽  
pp. 767-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walker S. Ashley ◽  
Stephen M. Strader
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Environment Exposure ◽  
Weather And Climate ◽  
The Face ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Disaster Potential ◽  
Social Vulnerabilities ◽  
Elevated Exposure

Abstract Tornado disasters and their potential are a product of both hazard risk and underlying physical and social vulnerabilities. This investigation appraises exposure, which is an important component and driver of vulnerability, and its interrelationship with tornado risk in the United States since the mid-twentieth century. The research demonstrates how each of these dynamic variables have evolved individually and interacted collectively to produce differences in hazard impact and disaster potential at the national, regional, and local scales. Results reveal that escalating tornado impacts are driven fundamentally by growing built-environment exposure. The increasing tornado disaster probability is not uniform across the landscape, with the mid-South region containing the greatest threat based on the juxtaposition of an immense tornado footprint risk and elevated exposure/development rates, which manifests—at least for one important impact marker—in the area’s high mortality rate. Contemporary, high-impact tornado events are utilized to emphasize how national- and regional-level changes in exposure are also apparent at the scale of the tornado. The study reveals that the disaster ingredients of risk and exposure do vary markedly across scales, and where they have increasing and greater overlap, the probability of disaster surges. These findings have broad implications for all weather and climate hazards, with both short- and long-term mitigation strategies required to reduce future impacts and to build resilience in the face of continued and amplifying development in hazard-prone regions.

scholarly journals APPROACHES TO ASSESSING THE FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF HIGH-TECH ENTERPRISES IN MODERN CONDITIONS

2018 ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
A. S. Mikaeva ◽  
Yu. B. Nadtochiy
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Financial Sustainability ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Term Operation ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Function

In modern conditions, enterprises of the high-tech sector of the economy (which is an indicator of the development of countries in the field of high technologies) have an important task - improving their financial condition. A stable financial condition is one of the performance indicators of any enterprise, the basis of its long-term operation. Improving the financial sustainability of high-tech enterprises, assessing and analyzing the sustainability of their financial condition in recent years have become the object of close attention, both theorists (scientists) and practitioners (entrepreneurs). The tightening of requirements for the financial sustainability of high-tech enterprises is partly due to economic globalization and the effects of the financial crisis. The article provides an overview of existing approaches to assessing the financial sustainability of domestic high-tech enterprises, and considers a comprehensive methodology for assessing the financial sustainability of modern enterprises. It is important to note that it is necessary to take timely measures to preserve the favorable financial condition of the company, or else measures to identify, analyze and eliminate the factors indicating deviations. Possessing the necessary, sufficient level of financial stability, enterprises of high-tech industries have the ability to successfully and effectively develop and function, even in the face of tough competition and economic instability.

scholarly journals Subjective Well-Being Scarring through Unemployment: New Methods, New Results?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Eberl ◽  
Matthias Collischon ◽  
Tobias Wolbring
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Unemployment Spells ◽  
Scarring Effects

Scarring effects of unemployment on subjective well-being (SWB), i.e., negative effects that remain even after workers reenter employment, are well documented in the literature. Nevertheless, the theoretical mechanisms by which unemployment leads to long-lasting negative consequences for SWB are still under debate. Thus, we theorize that unemployment can have an enduring impact mainly through (i) the experience of unemployment as an incisive life event that, for example, affects health and (ii) unemployment as a driver of future unemployment. Using advanced longitudinal modeling that controls for group-specific trends, we estimate SWB scarring through unemployment using German panel data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our results consistently show a large negative effect of unemployment on SWB as well as significant lasting scarring effects (for both men and women as well as for short- and long-term unemployment spells). Further analyses reveal that repeated periods of unemployment drive these effects, implying that there are hardly any adaptations to unemployment that buffer its effect on SWB. We conclude that scarring effects through unemployment mainly work through unemployment increasing the probability of future unemployment. Regarding policy implications, our findings suggest that preventing unemployment, regardless of its duration, is beneficial for individual well-being.

scholarly journals REFORMULASI SISTEM PENDIDIKAN PESANTREN DALAM MENGHADAPI GLOBALISASI DAN PASAR BEBAS

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Zainal Efendi Hasibuan
Keyword(s):  
Free Market ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Present Context ◽  
The Face ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
Arabic And English

Pesantren as society institutions is believed to be an institution that can still exist in the face of globalization and the free market. Pesantren has a function hang of religious sciences and formed a noble character. Responding to the changing times in the present context, schools need to determine takhassusnya that is not too difficult to get the students due to the proliferation of Islamic boarding schools in Indonesia; schools are required to teach life skills based on local needs and demands of society; schools need to work with various stakeholders to improve the quality of education schools; mastery of Arabic and English is a must; schools need to formulate a vision, mission, goals, short and long term objectives, and evaluate each work program.

scholarly journals Esophageal Stenting in the Setting of Malignancy

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Martinez ◽  
Matthew M. Puc ◽  
Roderick M. Quiros
Keyword(s):  
Esophageal Cancer ◽  
Caloric Intake ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Symptom Palliation ◽  
Esophageal Stenting

Esophageal cancer is often diagnosed at an advanced stage, with many patients found to have locoregional or metastatic disease at time of diagnosis. Because of this, cure may be unlikely, leading treatment efforts to focus more on symptom palliation and improving patient quality of life. The majority of patients with advanced disease suffer from some degree of dysphagia. Palliative efforts are therefore directed at relieving dysphagia, allowing patients to manage their oropharyngeal secretions, reduce aspiration risk, and maintain caloric intake orally. A variety of endoscopic treatment modalities have been utilized with these objectives in mind, with options determined by the location and size of the tumor, as well as the patient's expected prognosis. In this article, we review the use of endoscopically-placed stents for palliation in patients with advanced esophageal cancer. We discuss the history of stent use in such cases, as well as more recent developments in stent technology. We give an overview of some of the more commonly used stents in practice, discuss the technique of insertion, and survey the short- and long-term outcomes of stent placement.

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