Complementarily another important goal is not only to promote and present the Network services to the regional SMEs and assess their potential future needs in order to become a Network client but to reinforce the participation of existing clients and their achievements. The face to face meeting with companies will allow us to identify the needs raised by them at all times, increase the number of clients and constantly maintain and improve the access, proximity and the quality of the integrated services supplied by the Network towards them, searching for the greatest possible knowledge of the Network among regional SMEs, and giving more visibility to Network brand and brand culture. However, although the consortium will define advice, support and information activities based on the future needs detected for SMEs, the service delivery will be enriched through the combination of this approach with already analysed and contrasted requirements from regional companies. In this sense, companies in the Canary Islands raise some weak points where focused advice and support services are highly required in relation to aspects such as language, foreign trade, e-commerce, digital economy or innovation and technology based cooperation. This initiative will be continued based on recent studies on the current regional market and thus separating regional companies by sector and island. In this regard, the consortium sets a twofold objective. On one hand we intend to better identify the target audience in order to recruit new clients with real potentiality to benefit from our services. On the other hand, we shall develop a more active strategy for gaining the loyalty of our existing clients, increasing second visits, continuous consultancy, diversifying services and implementing a more frequent monitoring. Complementarily the communication to be carried will target both a case-by-case basis to those SMEs it is best suited for (on-demand approach) and those SMEs that receive a larger number of services from the Network. In any case, for the new period 2019 the EEN Canary Node will adopt an even more client-centric and “hub and spoke” model for designing services around a client/company, and in particular for client SMEs. The Network hub or consortium member first responding a client demand will be the support integrator for the individual client, providing the core services and pulling together the 'spokes' of other consortium members to provide additional or more specialized services avail...
Complementarily. Xxxxxxx et al. (2015) find that characteristics of voluntary environmental disclosures, such as whether the disclosures are quantifiable and whether the disclosure is about a positive activity, are associated with the cost of equity capital. This result provides additional support that not all disclosures are treated equally, so research specifically regarding the effect of CSR disclosures, rather than disclosures in general, is required to understand their impact. Although these studies demonstrate 2 See Xxxxx et al. 2010 for a review of the disclosure literature and Xxxxxx 2004 for a framework of disclosure credibility. positive effects associated with voluntary CSR reporting, they do not disentangle the effects of the report from the effects of the activities that are reported, so we cannot determine whether the observed effects are due to the activities, the reporting, or both. This study extends previous archival results on CSR reporting and experimental results on CSR performance by using an experiment to examine the effects of CSR reports while holding CSR performance constant. It also builds on prior literature by focusing on the effects of CSR reports on manager, rather than investor, decision-making. Corporate Social Responsibility, Organizational Identification, and Manager Self- concept Employees often identify with the organizations for which they work (e.g. Ashforth and Mael 1989). “Organizational identification is the degree to which a member defines him - or herself by the same attributes that he or she believes define the organization” (Xxxxxx et al. 1994). This self-definition that the employee compares to the organization’s identity is the employee’s self-concept. A person’s self-concept is her understanding of herself as a “physical, social, and spiritual or moral being” consisting of “various identities and attributes, and their evaluations” (Gecas 1982). Extended from social identity theory, which describes a person’s identification with their social groups (Tajfel and Xxxxxx 1986), an employee’s organizational identification is stronger when she believes that more aspects of her self-concept are shared with the organization (Xxxxxx et al. 1994). Employees initially identify with their organizations because they observe that the organizations have attributes that match those in their self-concepts. Since social identification represents a “psychological merging” of the self and the group (Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx and Sleebos 2006, Xxxxxx et al...
Complementarily we must continue to respond to the needs of companies already established by a further strengthening of initiatives aimed at their consolidation and growth, the main objectives being to achieve increased business survival rates and expansion and improvement of competitiveness of already consolidated companies. The measures described below take these aspects into account, and particularly the agreements reached between the social partners and the Government of the Principality of Asturias, under the Agreement for Competitiveness, Employment and Welfare in Asturias (ACEBA), the main commitments of which we aspire to strengthen and promote within the local context. 12 Short outline of the socio-economic background The basis for the formulation of this new Agreement was the essential data of the socio-economic background that characterizes our municipality and the region in which it is located..
Complementarily higher virus replication was seen in LGP2-/- DCs and macrophages compared to WT cells. LGP2-/- mice exhibited increased mortality over WT mice upon WNV infection and higher viral loads were found in the brains of mice lacking LGP2, similarly suggesting a positive regulatory role for LGP2. However, the authors concede that the effects of LGP2 appear to be limited in this context as peripheral innate immune responses were comparable between LGP2-/- and WT mice. It should also be noted that both RIG-I and MDA5 are important for the antiviral response to WNV (Xxxxxxxxxxxx et al., 2008), which may confound conclusions from this study about the role of LGP2 in regulating RIG-I-specific signaling. Another study suggests that LGP2 is required for adequate responses to DNA PAMPs (Xxxxxxxxx et al., 2011). LGP2-/- MEFs and BMDMs transfected with poly(dA-dT), a dsDNA ligand, or infected with Listeria monocytogenes, an intracellular bacterial pathogen, exhibited reduced IFN-β and pro-inflammatory cytokine transcription, and decreased IFN-β protein secretion. In vivo, LGP2-/- mice (Xxxxxxxxxxxx et al., 2007) showed increased colonization of the liver and spleen by L. monocytogenes compared to WT controls (Xxxxxxxxx et al., 2011). Antiviral responses to modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA), a poxvirus with a dsDNA genome, were also suppressed in LGP2-/- MEFs (Xxxxxxxxx et al., 2011). In this case, it should be noted that MVA has been shown to be preferentially recognized by MDA5 (Xxxxxxxx et al., 2009) and as LGP2 is a positive regulator of MDA5 signaling activity it is not surprising that antiviral responses would be depressed in the absence of LGP2. As the non-coding RNAs generated by Pol-III are generally between 100-1500 nucleotides in length (Lesniewska and Boguta, 2017; Xxxxxx et al., 1997), placing them within the size range preferentially recognized by RIG-I (<2kb), this may support the direct recognition of longer RNA replication intermediates by MDA5, which would make LGP2 a necessary part of the innate immune response to dsDNA-containing pathogens. In other cases, LGP2 appeared to have little to no effect on the innate response to virus infection. While Xxxxxx and colleagues demonstrated that WNV infection of LGP2-/- MEFs, DCs and macrophages resulted in a slight decrease of IFN-β production compared to WT cells, there was no difference in downstream ISG induction (Xxxxxx et al., 2012b). Satoh and colleagues also showed a negligible difference in IFN-β product...
Complementarily base don the proposed matrix of responsibilities for energy planning, the Consultant will prepare:
