This study compares environmental goal-setting and monitoring priorities of EMAS-registered and non-EMAS organizations in the European Union. Using a dataset of 847 organizations and exploratory factor analysis, it examines differences in the structu...
The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is the official Environmental Management System (EMS) issued by the European Union (EU). Italy is the country where EMAS is most widespread, accounting for over 1000 registered organizations. Since entry int...
The last revision of the EMAS (Eco Management and Audit Scheme) Regulation encouraged a cluster approach to increase the participation of the organizations and to involve local stakeholders in the commitment to sustainability. Our research activity i...
The adoption of formal environmental management systems (EMS) according to EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) represents a voluntary approach that aims to increase corporate environmental performance. Though EMAS can offer several advantages for...
One of the tools set by the European Community (EC) to reduce the environmental impact of firms is EMAS Regulation (Regulation (EC) No 1221/2009), setting up an Environmental Management System (EMS), which aims for a continuous improvement of environ...
The purpose of this article is to analyze and compare the benefits of and barriers to the implementation of Environmental Management Systems (EMS)—International Standard ISO 14001 and Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS)—by organizations. This pape...
One of the most important manufacturing areas of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region is the territory close to Pordenone, the Livenza furniture district. This industrial district, consisting of industries of wood, wood and cork products, furniture, stra...
The adoption of Energy Management Systems (EnMSs) based on international standards has gained momentum since the ISO 50001 standard was launched in 2011. Before that, the potential to improve the energy management with Environmental Management System...
The Eurobarometer report from December 2019 revealed that 80% of European Union (EU) citizens believe that industry is doing too little to protect the environment and that more work needs to be done to help companies transition to a more sustainable...
The objective of this paper is to analyze the influence of the sources of motivation that lead companies to adopt a global standard of the Environmental Management System and the barriers found in the process, on the perceived benefits of the impleme...
The adoption of environmental management systems (EMSs) based on standards such as ISO 14001 and EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) has become very popular and the academic literature has studied the adoption of these standards extensively. Howev...
This study examines how EU EMAS-registered organizations prioritize environmental goals, monitor environmental indicators, and report achievement outcomes. Based on a Computer-Assisted Web Interview survey of 297 organizations from different sectors...
The score-based diffusion model has made significant progress in the field of computer vision, surpassing the performance of generative models, such as variational autoencoders, and has been extended to applications such as speech enhancement and rec...
Background: Obesity is a complex health issue influenced by various factors, including behavioral patterns that can be assessed more deeply in real time using Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA), which can capture the moment in which a person exper...
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide and the solid tumor type for which the highest number of drugs have been approved to date. This study examines new drug approvals for breast cancer by the United States Food and Drug Administ...
This study aims to evaluate the rates and timeframes of the availability and reimbursement of biologic drugs in Morocco, after approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The results will help to identif...
Accurate cattle body detection is crucial for precision livestock farming. However, traditional cattle body detection methods rely on manual observation, which is both time-consuming and labor-intensive. Moreover, computer-vision-based methods suffer...
Stereochemistry is an important determinant of a molecule’s biological activity. Stereoisomers can have different degrees of efficacy or even opposing effects when interacting with a target protein. Stereochemistry is a molecular property difficult t...
Background: Eosin-5-Maleimide (EMA)-based flow cytometry binds to red blood cell (RBC) membrane-associated proteins which can be used to detect red blood cell (RBC) membrane disorders. Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are stem cell disorders resulting...
Biosimilar medicines expand the biotherapeutic market and improve patient access. This work looked into the landscape of the European and US biosimilar products, their regulatory authorization, market availability, and clinical evaluation undergone p...
The inherent brittleness of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) limits its use in a wider range of applications that require plastic deformation at higher stress levels. To overcome this, a series of poly(l-lactic acid) (PLLA)/biodegradable thermoplastic polyest...
Objective: Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for binge eating disorder (BED) is fairly effective, yet relapse remains problematic. Treatment outcomes may be improved if patients gain more insight into symptom patterns. In this qualitative study embed...
Mobile-based ecological momentary assessment (mEMA) offers a novel method for dietary assessment and may reduce recall bias and participant burden. This review evaluated mEMA methodology and the feasibility, acceptability and validity as a dietary as...
A drug dissolution profile is one of the most critical dosage form characteristics with immediate and controlled drug release. Comparing the dissolution profiles of different pharmaceutical products plays a key role before starting the bioequivalence...
The number of grains per spike is a critical determinant of wheat yield and plays an important role in phenotyping, breeding evaluation, and yield-related trait analysis. However, conventional grain counting methods rely on manual operation, which is...
More accurate self-forecasting not only provides a better-integrated solution for electricity grids but also reduces the cost of operation of the entire power system. To predict solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation (SPVG) for a specific hour, thi...
Biosimilars are a new category of medicines that have revolutionized the treatment of patients with life-threatening conditions, such as cancer and autoimmune diseases. A biosimilar is a biological product that is very similar to an already approved...
Strictly causal dense arm-motion recognition from surface electromyography (sEMG) requires past context without future samples. We evaluated single-scale exponential moving average (EMA) latent memory as a lightweight causal temporal mechanism under...
To overcome the limitations of current methods in architectural scene segmentation accuracy, this study presents a hybrid attention-enhanced YOLOv8 framework and introduces a dedicated building interior profile dataset. The proposed approach extends...
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Several studies have reported on increasing psychosocial stress in academia due to work environment risk factors like job insecurity, work-family conflict, research grant applications, and high workload. The STRAW project adds novel aspects to occupa...
The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) was established in 1993 in the European Union as a voluntary instrument facilitating the implementation of organisational environmental policies and management of environmental aspects. We present a comprehe...
Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) have progressed from proof of concept to an established commercial pipeline, yet global translation remains constrained by fragmented regulatory frameworks; heterogeneous Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC) req...
Deep learning networks facilitate automated metal material/structural stress identification when employing the electromechanical impedance/admittance (EMI/EMA) of piezoelectric ceramic (PZT) transducers, while insufficient data quantity and low quali...
This study investigates how the environmental performances of biodegradable waste (e.g., organic fraction of municipal solid waste, green waste, agro-industrial waste) treatment plants are reported and how their improvement is planned by the managing...
Objective: To evaluate the impact of recommendations issued by the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) and endorsed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) on rheumatologists’ prescribing pa...
Spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) is an effective method to measure the optical constants of thin film materials which is very sensitive to the surface topography of thin films. When performing ellipsometric measurements of the optical constants of sol...
This paper takes a multi-stage Electro-mechanical Actuator (EMA) as the research object, analyzes the lateral force of the multi-stage EMA in the vertical state, and the overall mathematical model of the multi-stage EMA system. Firstly, a permanent m...
Introduction: Advancements in oncology have revolutionized cancer treatment, with new drugs being approved at different rates worldwide. Our objective was to evaluate the approval of new oncological drugs for solid tumors by the Food and Drug Adminis...
The COVID-19 pandemic posed challenges to communicating accurate information about vaccines because of the spread of misinformation. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) tried to reassure the public by communicating early on about the development and...
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Background: Interoception is a multi-facetted phenomenon including interoceptive accuracy, awareness and sensibility. Deficits in interoception have been associated with psychological distress. However, little is known about the course of interocepti...
7 November 2018
Purpose: We aimed to evaluate the rate of usage and the kind of patient-reported outcome (PRO) claims in orphan drug approvals from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) dated between 1/1/2012 and 31/12/2016 and to compare them to those from the US Foo...
This study investigates the determinants of the intention to adopt Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) in Vietnam’s steel industry by integrating the Technology–Organization–Environment (TOE) framework with Rational Choice The...
This research developed a novel crack localization technique that employed cross-electromechanical admittance (EMA), and its validity was verified through both analytical simulations and experimental measurements. Initially, an analytical model of th...
Piezoelectric (PZT) sensors employed in the electro-mechanical impedance/admittance (EMI/EMA) technique are vulnerable to temperature variations when applied to concrete structural health monitoring (SHM). However, in practice, the ambient temperatur...
Relapse prevention models suggest that positive outcome expectancies can constitute situational determinants of relapse episodes that interact with other factors to determine the likelihood of relapse. The primary aims were to examine reciprocal rela...
Background and Objectives: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an increasingly important global health challenge and is frequently accompanied by psychiatric symptoms, including anxiety. A multidimensional assessment of anxiety in hemodialysis (HD) using...
Protein structures play a very important role in biomedical research, especially in drug discovery and design, which require accurate protein structures in advance. However, experimental determinations of protein structure are prohibitively costly an...
The deployment of electro-mechanical actuators plays an important role towards the adoption of the more electric aircraft (MEA) philosophy. On the other hand, a seamless substitution of EMAs, in place of more traditional hydraulic solutions, is still...
Acinetobacter baumannii is a well-known nosocomial pathogen that can survive in different environments through the use of intricate networks to regulate gene expression. Two-component systems (TCS) form an important part of such regulatory networks,...
Background: The primary objective of the present study was to examine the drug approval process and the time to approval (TTA) for cancer drugs by 3 major international regulatory bodies—Health Canada, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and...
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