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A risk-based approach was used to develop guidance to be followed by food business operators (FBOs) when deciding on food information relating to storage conditions and/or time limits for consumption after opening a food package and thawing of frozen foods. After opening the package, contamination may occur, introducing new pathogens into the food and the intrinsic (e.g. pH and a(w)), extrinsic (e.g. temperature and gas atmosphere) and implicit ...

© 2016, American Accounting Association. All rights reserved. Christ and Nicolaou (2016) develop a model predicting that when firms are engaged in alliances with multiple objectives, they are more likely to use Integrated Information Systems (IIS) and more extensive formal controls to manage alliance risk. In addition, they hypothesize that higher levels of IIS are associated with lower information exchange risk and subsequently lower overall ...

Christ and Nicolaou (2016) develop a model predicting that when firms are engaged in alliances with multiple objectives, they are more likely to use Integrated Information Systems (IIS) and more extensive formal controls to manage alliance risk. In addition, they hypothesize that higher levels of IIS are associated with lower information exchange risk and subsequently lower overall alliance risk. Finally, they argue that the relationship between ...

In order to substantially reduce food waste at the household level, it is essential to change consumer behavior. Informing consumers about the food waste issue is a promising means of bringing about behavior change: research confirms that information can increase food waste reduction behavior. However, it has yet to be determined what kind of information is most effective and exactly how that information affects consumer food waste behavior. ...

This paper investigates how the organization and presentation of performance measures affect how evaluators weight financial and non-financial measures when evaluating performance. We conduct two experiments, in which participants act as senior executives charged with evaluating two business-unit managers. Performance differences between business units are contained in either a financial or one of the three non-financial categories. ...

In a 21st century superdiverse world, public service providers increasingly resort to technologies facilitating face-to-face consultations. In this paper, we evaluate the use and efficiency of a multilingual website in 11 video-recorded consultations of HIV/STI counselling. We address three central research questions: (i) How is the multilingual website embedded (or not) in the consultations? (ii) For what particular communicative purposes? ...

In this paper we reflect on how research and policies can and/or should help in the development of a sustainable information society for all. More specifically, we critically investigate how social computing & informatics can entail both potential and pitfalls, especially with regard to the difficult relationship between digital and social inclusion. First of all, traditional information society policies are scrutinized. Furthermore, we ...

Temporal information processing of text is a complex information extractiontask in which temporally relevant information in text has to be extracted andproperly represented in order to be used by a machine. In general the temporalinformation processing task regards the major concepts of temporal cognitionsuch as time, events, and relations between events and times when they areencoded in language.This thesis explores the algorithms for temporal ...