Increase urban freight efficiency with delivery and servicing plan

Delivery and Servicing Plan (DSP) is an innovative logistics concept for more efficient organisation of deliveries from the point of view of the receiver of the goods. DSP actions tested in this study include reducing the number of suppliers, grouping deliveries, selecting less distant suppliers and others. It is shown that DSP can help reduce externalities and lead to a substantial reduction of costs. A new tool was developed to calculate the benefits of different DSP options for businesses and the public sector. Reductions in costs and externalities exceeding 50% have been demonstrated in a few cases. Remaining difficulties with the concept are organisational issues, lack of knowledge, need to give external advisory support for shop owners and the limited number of successful applications to date.

Best practice factory for freight transport in Europe: demonstrating how ‘good’ urban freight cases are improving business profit and public sectors benefits

The objective of this study is to better understand why selected urban freight solutions represent innovations that are technically feasible, economically profitable in different contexts, sustainable, transferable, and with tangible beneficial impacts. A total of 15 solutions are evaluated in the fields of Urban Consolidation Centre, clean and electric vehicles, IT solutions, use of urban waterways, and others. Three solutions are analysed more thoroughly, the Cityporto Padova, the Basel Exhibition Centre logistics support system, and the Berlin laboratory area test of the Bentobox. This paper ends with a transversal analysis of the solutions observed, and with methodological conclusions.

D. Juan de e.t.a. Hoffmann e don gionvanni de lorenzo da ponte – análise comparativa e intertextual

Através da análise comparativo/intertextual do conto Don Juan, de E.T.A. Hoffmann e do libreto da ópera Don Giovanni, de Mozart, da autoria de Lorenzo da Ponte, o objectivo deste artigo foi pôr em relevo a relação intrínseca, presente em muitas das obras de E.T.A. Hoffmann, entre a escrita e a música, explicável pela enorme sensibilidade musical deste autor, a que não só dedicou a sua vida, como também produziu várias obras musicais. Tal como na ópera Don Giovanni, de Mozart, a escrita de Hoffmann é dirigida por uma batuta imaginária, apresentando o suspense próprio dos enigmas, cuja revelação é suspensa por um entreacto – neste caso, uma carta escrita a um amigo, em que nos é apresentada uma reformulação do mito de Don Juan – entreacto este que vem prolongar o mistério e nos encaminha para um finale, em que a progressão da melodia e a sequência narrativa se unem mais uma vez. Por seu turno, na análise puramente intertextual, é feita uma tentativa de estabelecer, de forma clara, os paralelismos existentes com o pré-texto, isto é, com o libreto da autoria de Lorenzo da Ponte, bem como com outros pré-textos presentes no texto de forma mais esbatida, mas cujo peso é, também ele, significativo para a criação do novo mito de Don Juan, um homem sempre consciente do absurdo da existência, interpretação esta que abriu caminho para novas abordagens do mito, do herói e da história. Tal como em muitas outras obras, o pós-texto procura, em geral, apropriar-se do texto pressuposto, tentando ultrapassá-lo em mestria, o que acontece com este texto de Hoffmann, literária e semanticamente mais rico que o seu pré-texto.

From Mind to Body: Is Mental Practice Effective on Strength Gains? A Meta-Analysis

Mental practice is an internal reproduction of a motor act (whose intention is to promote learning and improving motor skills). Some studies have shown that other cognitive strategies also increase the strength and muscular resistance in healthy people by the enhancement of the performance during dynamic tasks. Mental training sessions may be primordial to improving muscle strength in different subjects. The aim of this study was to systematically review and meta-analiyze studies that assessed whether mental practice is effective in improving muscular strength. We conducted an electronic-computed search in Pub-Med/Medline and ISI Web of Knowledge, Scielo and manual searchs, searching papers written in English between 1991 and 2014. There were 44 studies in Pub-Med/Medline, 631 in ISI Web of Knowledge, 11 in Scielo and 3 in manual searchs databases. After exclusion of studies for duplicate, unrelated to the topic by title and summary, different samples and methodologies, a meta-analysis of 4 studies was carried out to identify the dose-response relationship. We did not find evidence that mental practice is effective in increasing strength in healthy individuals. There is no evidence that mental practice alone can be effective to induce strength gains or to optimize the training effects.

Overstock and stock-out in Volkswagen Autoeuropa

The following work is a case study of overstock and stock-out problems at Volkswagen Autoeuropa (VWAE). It introduces the supply chain of Autoeuropa and specializes then on failures connected to inventory problems. Having a successful supply chain is important in a world where products become more and more similar as it can give to companies an edge over their competitors. The case shows three practices that VWAE uses to prevent and to overcome stock problems. Information was gathered by doing interviews with different managers, by analyzing the company’s key processes and by literature research related to the topics of supply chain management and flexibility in the supply chain. Three practices were further investigated: the use of alternative parts, support of the supplier and a rating system of suppliers. In the question section of this work the importance of flexibility and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) when connected to supply chain management are explained. The described different practices are numerically analyzed and it is concluded that each practice brings both cost savings and the possibility of achieving target numbers to the company, showing the company’s flexibility to react to supply chain disturbances. Because of confidentiality reasons, persons in the case are fictionalized and numbers are wherever possible equalized to 100 in order to display true proportions.

La religieuse de Monza, épisode du XVIIe siècle faisant suite aux "Fiancés" de Manzoni, et traduit de l'italien sur la 8e édition, par Jean Cohen

Titre original : Lamonaca di Monza

L'Artusi overo delle imperfettioni della moderna musica ragionamenti dui. Ne' quali si ragiona di molte cose utili, & necessarie alli moderni compositori. Del R. P. D. Maria Artusi da Bologna,... Novamente stampato

Comprend : Duo [sans texte] ; Vobis datum est noce [sic pour noscere] misterium

Recueil.

1.° Germani Audeberti, Aurelii, ad serenissimam ac christianissimam Reginam Catharinam Medicaeam, Henrici III. Galliae et Poloniae Regis christianissimi matrem, carmen : subjicitur ejusdem interpretatio gallica. — 2.° Lachrymae ad tumulum Christophori Thoï. — 3.° Stanze in lode di Carlo V. Imperatore. — 4.° Carmina ejusdem Audeberti adversùs Poloniam, quùm illic regnaret Henricus. — 5.° Antonii Cerruti carmen ad Joannem Morvillerium, pro Gallorum Regibus apud Senatum Venetum Oratorem. — 6.° Carmen in fugam Caroli V. anno 1552. — 7.° Aliud carmen, quod inscribitur Caesar ; in quo Imperator suis hostibus bellum minatur. — 8.° Les furies de feu Pierre Louis Farnese : poëme francois. — 9.° Satira di Jacobo Sellaro da Cento. — 10.° Sonetti di Francesco Coppetta, Perugino. — 11.° Epitaphe du Duc Philippes de Bourgogne, escript sur sa tombe aux Chartreux de Dijon. — 12.° Epithalamium in nuptias Batorianas. — 13.° Diverses pieces de Remy Belleau. — 14.° Diverses stances sur l'amour. — 15.° Imitation de l'Arioste sur le discours de Roland le furieux, par Philippe Desportes. — 16.° Autres poësies du même. — 17.° Joannis Aurati carmen alternum in nuptias Mariae, Reginae Scotiae, Lotharingia oriundae. — 18.° Michaëlis Hospitalis carmen ad Franciscum Lotharingum, Guisiorum Principem. — 19.° Epistola Francisci Olivarii ad Cardinalem Lotharingum. — 20.° Tetrastichon de Roma. — 21.° Lettre du Prince de Piémont à monsieur l'Evêque d'Orleans, du II. Avril 1559. — 22.° Poëme : le monde passe et sa concupiscence ; par la Rochandieu. — 23.° De la science du salut. — 24.° Epitaphe du nez de maître Pierre Lizet. — 25.° Double du bannissement des Caraffes, affiché aux ruës de Rome après la mort du Pape Paul IV. — 26.° Excerptum è querimonia collegii scortorum Romanensium, de afflicto rerum suarum statu ob exilium Cardinalis Caraffae ; ad Paulum Papam IV. — 27.° Varia epigrammata. — 28.° Canzone di Giovanni Battista Leoni, al serenissimo Henrico, Duca di Angio, eletto Rè di Polonia. — 29.° Joannis Dampetri, Julii Scaligeri, Theodori Bezae, Langaei, Brixii et Olympiae Moratae carmina selecta.

Œuvres de Virgile.

Acquis parmi 44 mss. provenant du cabinet du pape Pie VI 1775-1799 (Giovanni-Angelo Braschi) "peu après l'envoi principal des mss. du Vatican en 1797"; cf. B.n.F., département des Manuscrits, Archives Modernes 492, registre des acquisitions du département des Manuscrits an II-an XIV (1793-1805), f. 49v; Laffitte, Bulletin du Bibliophile, 1989/2, 312

Bible écrite à Florence en 1263.

Acquis parmi 44 mss. provenant du cabinet du pape Pie VI (Giovanni-Angelo Braschi) "peu après l'envoi principal des mss. du Vatican en 1797"; cf. B.n.F., département des Manuscrits, Archives Modernes 492, registre des acquisitions du département des Manuscrits an II-an XIV (1793-1805), f. 48v; Laffitte, Bulletin du Bibliophile, 1989/2, 310