The aim of this project is to investigate the influence of AI on CBMs, specifically focusing on the aggregated dimensions of value proposition, value creation and delivery, and value capture. This study employs a qualitative research design inspired by a deductive approach. A systematic literature review was conducted from scientific articles. Interviews with manufacturing companies and AI experts are also utilized to enrich understanding and validate the theoretical model. A thematic analysis was conducted to extract and examine patterns and themes and from that a framework has been developed about how AI influences the circular business values of value proposition, value creation and delivery, and value creation. The key enablers and challenges are outlined, categorized into three main groups: Technological, Organizational, and Environmental factors. The conclusion is that AI enables CBMs in manufacturing by optimizing materials, enhancing predictive maintenance, improving recycling processes, and enabling dynamic pricing models. Key enablers include robust AI infrastructure, organizational support, and regulatory frameworks. Challenges encompass inadequate infrastructure, data issues, and skill shortages. Competitive pressures and regulations drive adoption but also pose hurdles.

This study focuses on the cybernetic complementarity of stability and change in family therapy. Stability and change involve both the client and therapist, and is a selfreferential process where the observer is part of that which is observed. One couple was involved in ten therapy sessions. During the action research cycles of planning, acting and reflecting, the principles of systems theory, cybernetics and second cybernetics were implemented. A team consisting of one lecturer and two students were actively involved throughout all the phases of the research process. During therapy, the therapist focused on stability to facilitate change in the structure of the couple's organizational system. The research served as a good example of how punctuation of two complementarity processes (stability and change) can enable and empower clients to autonomously reflect on their own behaviour, and to make decisions regarding patterns they would like or feel ready to change. / Social Science (Mental Health) / Thesis (M. Soc. Science)--University of South Africa, 2001. / M.A. (Social Science (Mental Health))

The circular economy is promoted by the EU, governments, and businesses all over the world as a concept to reach a sustainable future. The concept is embedded into the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 and aims to decouple economic growth and environmental pressure. Many studies have been conducted on the circular economy in recent years but the research on the actual environmental performance of the concept is limited. To move forward with the concept of the circular economy and reach a sustainable future, the environmental performance must be investigated. In this thesis, the environmental impact of circularity in products is investigated by comparing the environmental impact from one circular and one linear product case. To achieve this, the environmental impact and the degree of circularity is calculated with two different methods. The circularity is calculated with a circularity indicator called the Linear Flow Ratio and the environmental impact is assessed with the environmental evaluation technique Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). In the LCAs, the cases are compared for different environmental impact categories (e.g. global warming). The product that is investigated is an LED lighting fixture from the company 2P1. The circular case is based on a leasing business model and includes remanufacturing, reuse and recycling. The linear case includes production, sales, use, and disposal. The LCA results show that the environmental impact from the circular case is lower for all environmental impact categories. The environmental impact is almost exclusively from the manufacturing phase (including extraction and production of raw materials) and the use phase. The circularity results from the Linear Flow Ratio show contradicting results, presenting that the degree of circularity is higher for the linear case. By comparing the results to calculations from another circularity indicator (Material Circularity Indicator), it is concluded that a unified framework for circularity measurements is required. / Cirkulär ekonomi är introducerat av EU, länder och företag över hela världen som ett koncept för att nå en hållbar framtid. Den cirkulära ekonomin är en del av arbetet mot agenda 2030 för hållbar utveckling och strävar efter att frånkoppla ekonomisk tillväxt från miljöpåverkan. Det har forskats mycket på cirkulär ekonomi under de senaste åren men studier som undersöker det miljömässiga utförandet av konceptet saknas. För att fortsätta att utveckla konceptet och för att nå en hållbar framtid så måste den miljömässiga påverkan från cirkularitet undersökas. I denna studie undersöks miljöpåverkan från cirkularitet hos produkter genom att jämföra miljöpåverkan från ett cirkulärt och ett linjärt fall. Miljöpåverkan och cirkularitetsgraden beräknas med två olika metoder. Cirkulariteten beräknas med cirkularitetsindikatorn Linear Flow Ratio och miljöpåverkan analyseras men livscykelanalys. I livscykelanalyserna värderas miljöpåverkan för de två fallen för olika påverkanskategorier (t.ex. global uppvärmning). Produkten som undersökt är en LED-armatur från företaget 2P1. Det cirkulära fallet basers på uthyrning av armaturerna och innehåller renovering, återanvändning och återvinning. Det linjära fallet innehåller produktion, försäljning, användning och bortskaffande av produkten. Resultaten från livscykelanalyserna visar att det cirkulära fallet medför mindre miljöpåverkan för alla kategorier. Miljöpåverkan kommer nästan enbart från produktion (inklusive material) samt användning. Cirkularitetsresultaten från Linear Flow Ratio visar motsägelsefulla resultat då det linjära fallet har en högre cirkularitetsgrad än det cirkulära fallet. Genom att jämföra resultaten med beräkningar från en annan cirkularitetsindikator (Material Circularity Indicator) kan det fastställas att ett enhetligt ramverk för beräkning av cirkularitet är nödvändigt framöver.

[pt] A dissertação relaciona as considerações sobre seguir regras com as críticas ao tratamento extensional do infinito como uma totalidade atual no segundo Wittgenstein. No primeiro capítulo, são apresentadas as críticas de Wittgenstein ao padrão mentalista de solução para determinação do significado, elucidando- se a seguir o que considera-se o cerne do Argumento da Linguagem Privada. A partir disso, argumenta-se que a solução comunitarista, formulada em termos da confirmação de um padrão independente, não pode ser coerentemente atribuída a Wittgenstein. No segundo capítulo, a antinomia histórica entre o infinito pensado como potencial ou como atual é introduzida. São apresentados alguns elementos dos tratamentos propostos por Cantor e Dedekind e, a seguir, as críticas que Wittgenstein faz aos mesmos. No terceiro capítulo, a associação das críticas de Wittgenstein ao tratamento do infinito como uma atualidade extensional com a questão da generalidade lingüística é explorada, e o caráter normativo que Wittgenstein atribui às proposições matemáticas é ressaltado. Mostra-se que, para Wittgenstein, a diferença conceitual entre finito e infinito expressaria a diferença entre contextos empíricos e gramaticais. O infinito, enquanto expressão da generalidade, não poderia ser tratado como passível de descrição extensional sem acarretar confusões, mas só poderia ser pensado no âmbito normativo, enquanto regra. Retorna-se então à questão da determinação de uma regra no contexto da discussão sobre as provas matemáticas e analisa-se a noção de surveyability. No quarto capítulo, considera-se a noção de semelhança de família. Ressalta-se então os pontos centrais da estratégia de Wittgenstein para o problema da determinação de uma regra: o abandono da extensionalidade e da univocidade do significado. Ao invés de classes ou elementos primariamente determinando a relação entre as instâncias de uma regra, teríamos antes a própria relação constituindo tais instâncias, e esta relação interna seria estabelecida na própria prática de emprego linguístico. Finalmente, na conclusão, elabora- se uma reconsideração do que foi desenvolvido a partir das relações entre generalidade e circularidade. / [en] The dissertation relates second Wittgenstein s considerations on following rules with his criticism about the extensional treatment of the infinite as actual totality. In the first chapter, a presentation of Wittgenstein s criticism of the mentalist solution pattern for the determination of the meaning is followed by an account of what is taken to be the heart of the Private Language Argument. On that basis, it is argued that the communitarianist solution, formulated in terms of the confirmation of an independent pattern, cannot be consistently attributed to Wittgenstein. In the second chapter, the historical antinomy between the infinite as potential and the infinite as actual is introduced. Some aspects of Cantor s and Dedekind s approaches, as well as Wittgenstein s criticism of those, are also presented. In the third chapter, the connection between Wittgenstein s criticism of the treatment of the infinite as extensional actuality and the question of linguistic generality is explored, and the normative character attributed by Wittgenstein to mathematical propositions is highlighted. It is shown that, according to Wittgenstein, the conceptual difference between finite and infinite expresses the difference between empirical and grammatical contexts. The infinite as expression of generality could not be treated as susceptible to extensional description without bringing about confusion, and it should, therefore, be thought of solely in a normative context, as a rule. The problem of the determination of a rule is thus retaken in the context of the discussion on mathematical proof, and the notion of surveyability is analysed. In the fourth chapter, the notion of family resemblances is considered. The central aspects of Wittgenstein s approach to the problem of the determination of a rule - the abandonment of extensionality and the univocality of meaning - are emphasised. Instead of classes or elements primarily determining the relationship among the instances of a rule, the relationship itself would constitute such instances, and such internal relationship would be established by linguistic usage itself. Finally, in the conclusion, a general reconsideration of what was discussed is carried out, starting from the relationships between circularity and generality.

O circo-teatro, presente na paisagem urbana de São Paulo em todo o século XX, constituiu-se em espetáculo popular baseado na hibridização cultural, com elementos da cultura erudita e da cultura de massa. Por sua vez, essas duas se apropriaram do discurso circense, num processo evidente de circu-laridade cultural. / The circus-theater, that could be seen at São Paulos urban landscape throughout twentieth century, constituted itself in a form of popular per-formance based in the cultural hybridization, with elements from learned culture and mass culture. In turn, both of these cultures assimilated the cir-cus discourse, in an unequivocal process of cultural circularity.

Submitted by Mariana Dornelles Vargas (marianadv) on 2015-03-24T15:04:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 alem_midias.pdf: 1130568 bytes, checksum: 20270da2e2fa0248ab2ec0d00fc8e6e4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-24T15:04:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 alem_midias.pdf: 1130568 bytes, checksum: 20270da2e2fa0248ab2ec0d00fc8e6e4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-23 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta dissertação de mestrado tem como tema principal as práticas de repórteres internacionais, conceito que compreende os profissionais das diferentes categorias do jornalismo internacional como, por exemplo, os correspondentes internacionais, os enviados especiais e os correspondentes de guerra. O mapeamento das práticas desses jornalistas foi concentrado em estudos já publicados sobre essas profissões do jornalismo e em livros com as memórias e as experiências de repórteres em diferentes épocas, locais e cobertura de acontecimentos entre os anos de 1917 e 2011. Esses livros escritos por jornalistas se revelam como um outro espaço legítimo de produção do jornalismo, além dos meios tradicionais como os jornais, o rádio e a televisão, ao permitirem que seus próprios autores realizem a interpretação e o comentário sobre a prática jornalística. Por meio desses materiais, são trabalhadas observações que envolvem os diferentes estágios da profissão, o impacto proporcionado pelo surgimento de novas tecnologias de informação e a interferência dessa evolução junto ao conjunto das práticas e processos dos repórteres internacionais. O trabalho contempla também questões problemáticas relacionadas à idealização glamurizada da profissão, à visão crítica desses jornalistas a partir dos novos formatos do jornalismo, e, principalmente, à prática de cobertura determinada a partir do conceito de circularidade nos processos da produção de conteúdo jornalístico. Além de contribuir com os estudos que envolvem as práticas, pretende servir como elemento para compreensão dos contextos políticos e econômicos que envolvem a profissão do repórter internacional. / The main theme of this Masters Thesis is the international reporters' practices, a concept that encompasses professionals from different categories such as the international correspondents, the special envoys and the war correspondents. The mapping of these practices focused on studies already published about these branches of journalism and in books with the memories and the experiences of the reporters in different times, places and coverages between the years of 1917 and 2011. These books that were written by journalists reveal themselves as another legitimate space to produce journalism beyond the traditional means like newspapers, radio and television when they allow their own authors to perform the interpretation and comment about the practice. Through these materials, we work on observations that involve the different phases of the profession, the impact derived from the rise of new information technologies and the interference of this evolution in the set of practices and processes of the international reporters. The thesis also contemplates problematic issues related to the glamorous idealization of the profession, to the critical view of these journalists based on new formats of journalism and, mainly, the practice of coverage determined from the concept of circularity in the processes of production of journalistic content. Besides contributing to the studies that involve the practice, it intends to serve as an element of understanding of the political and economical scenarios that involve the profession of international reporter.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:33:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jorge Garcia Basso.pdf: 12299381 bytes, checksum: 3f90d30ed4d89aeffcca6ad216794043 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-26 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This is a study of the trajectory of Agenor Miranda Rocha s formation and experiences as a Portuguese Language and Literature teacher at Colégio Pedro II (Pedro II School), in Rio de Janeiro, between the decades of 1930 and 1960, as well as his practice as a spiritual leader (oluô and olossãe) of nagô-kêtu religious traditions, in Brazil. The research is based on documents that record his memories, in testimonials of people with whom he was related, and in his private collection, which is partially preserved in the house where he lived during the last years of his life. This study is guided by Carlo Ginzburg evidential method, which reconstructs characteristics of one s life itinerary and the formation and diversity of one s experiences. It was aimed in the construction of the study to detail and rebuild the sociability nets and the contexts in which the teacher and spiritual leader describes his actions, revealing one of the main assumptions of the research, the one that says that the individuals are constituted by their social practices conduct, having to be considered the relationships to which they are attached, the actions that they promote and the ones that have been inherited, all of them dynamic and contradictory, as E. P. Thompson indicates. Through the study of Agenor Miranda Rocha s trajectory it was possible to identify, in a microscale, the endurance and the practices of knowledge formation and transmission present on nagô-kêtu candomble communities, from the African matrix, as strongholds of Afro-Brazilian knowledge and memories. From the analysis of this teacher and spiritual leader s experiences, it is possible to follow the link between the written and the oral communication, the dominant and the subordinate ones, revealing the mechanisms of circularity present in his trajectory / Este é um estudo da trajetória de formação e das experiências de Agenor Miranda Rocha como professor de Língua e Literatura Portuguesa, no Colégio Pedro II do Rio de Janeiro, entre as décadas de 1930 e 1960, e como sacerdote - oluô e olossãe - das tradições religiosas nagô-kêtu, no Brasil. A pesquisa baseia-se em documentos que registram suas memórias, em depoimentos de pessoas que com ele conviveram e no acervo particular do professor e sacerdote parcialmente conservado na casa onde residiu nos últimos anos de sua vida. É uma pesquisa orientada pelo método indiciário de Carlo Ginzburg, que reconstrói aspectos de seu itinerário de vida, formação e diversidade de experiências. Na construção da pesquisa, procurou-se esmiuçar e reconstituir as redes de sociabilidade e os contextos em que o professor e sacerdote descreve os seus movimentos, evidenciando um dos principais pressupostos da pesquisa, a de que os sujeitos se constituem no embate das práticas sociais, considerando-se as relações a que estão atados, as ações que promovem, as que são herdadas, todas elas dinâmicas e contraditórias, como indica E. P. Thompson. Por meio do estudo da trajetória de Agenor Miranda Rocha, foi possível identificar, em uma microescala, as sobrevivências e as práticas de formação e transmissão de conhecimentos de matriz africana presentes nas comunidades de candomblé nagô-kêtu, como redutos dos saberes e da memória afro-brasileira. A partir da análise da experiência desse professor e sacerdote, é possível acompanhar a articulação entre o escrito e o oral, o dominante e o subordinado, revelando mecanismos de circularidade cultural presentes em sua trajetória

Resource scarcity and increasing environmental pressure have raised the stakes for rethinking material efficiency and textile recycling potential. As current practices fail to feed a closed loop recycling system, this research aims to contribute to the improvement of prevailing practices regarding denim as one of the most popular apparel materials worldwide while focusing on the issue of increasing amounts of discarded post-consumer textiles. The superordinate objective to define the optimum point for denim recycling to retain the value of the cotton fibre as long as possible in a closed loop system, thereby elevating the recycling efficiency, can be considered a key driver for the present research. The following data acquisition is constructed and executed along a mixed method research, in which a qualitative approach based on expert interviews informs and builds up on the quantitative counter part of laboratory use simulation testing on two different denim fabrics and vice versa, leading to an embedded research design. A subjective assessment of potential alterations of the denim fabrics’ visual and tactile characteristics, caused by the use simulation, provides quantitative data through an employed expert panel, which is enhanced by objectively recorded results from the conducted tear strength test and comparative weight investigation to inform changes regarding the physical properties. The applied research methods provide parameters to monitor the decomposition and weakening of the overall fabric structure throughout the experiment. The analysis of the data allowed to assign the number of washing and drying cycles, that a denim garment has undergone, to a corresponding degree of degradation. The presented findings are a valuable resource for developing and innovating current open-end recycling options. The maintenance of the raw material value throughout various reprocessing cycles can counteract the elevated natural fibre scarcity. The insights on the material and process level build a fundament for the successful operationalisation and management of sustainable recycling practices. Further research in this field can pave the way towards value retaining circularity.

This study focuses on the cybernetic complementarity of stability and change in family therapy. Stability and change involve both the client and therapist, and is a selfreferential process where the observer is part of that which is observed. One couple was involved in ten therapy sessions. During the action research cycles of planning, acting and reflecting, the principles of systems theory, cybernetics and second cybernetics were implemented. A team consisting of one lecturer and two students were actively involved throughout all the phases of the research process. During therapy, the therapist focused on stability to facilitate change in the structure of the couple's organizational system. The research served as a good example of how punctuation of two complementarity processes (stability and change) can enable and empower clients to autonomously reflect on their own behaviour, and to make decisions regarding patterns they would like or feel ready to change. / Social Science (Mental Health) / Thesis (M. Soc. Science)--University of South Africa, 2001. / M.A. (Social Science (Mental Health))

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