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Course innovation in business higher education – A case study of a BA Commerce and Marketing course

Attila Kurucz Szandra Gombos

Publication Name: International Conference on Higher Education Advances

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: Unknown

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 448-455

Description:

This paper explores the dynamic landscape of higher education, specifically in the domain of Commerce and Marketing, over the past decade. As higher education faces evolving challenges and changing stakeholder expectations, the study delves into the ongoing debate regarding the alignment of higher education, including business education on a Commerce and Marketing BA course in West-Hungary. The research employs a comprehensive case study methodology spanning ten academic years to showcase the course's development and innovations. The study scrutinizes changes in teaching methodologies, course materials, seminar and project assignments, applied technologies, and assessment methods. Findings from in-depth interviews with business professionals, and student observations reveal the course's adaptation to market needs and challenges encountered during the online transition. The results suggest that, despite disruptions in the academic year 20/21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the development of this course in the examined years successfully aligns with market expectations, fostering competencies essential for the business domain, thanks to introducing new methodologies (interactive project-based, seminars), usage of AI assisted applications, and introducing new forms of assessments.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.4995/HEAd24.2024.17347

Assessing the Long-Term Groundwater Level Dynamics in Szigetköz, Hungary

Katalin Bene Máté Chappon Klaudia Madarász

Publication Name: Chemical Engineering Transactions

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: 114

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 859-864

Description:

Szigetköz, a large island in the Hungarian Upper Danube, features unique gravel subsoils ranging from 10 to 600 m thick. The region’s groundwater levels, profoundly influenced by the Danube’s flow, are crucial for drinking water, irrigation, flood retention, and ecosystem functioning. Groundwater levels also impact topsoil moisture, affecting agriculture and forestry. Throughout the 20th century, human interventions, such as river regulation and hydropower plants, disrupted the groundwater balance in Szigetköz. Over the past three decades, water replenishment systems have been implemented to mitigate these effects and restore natural water levels. This study analyses long-term groundwater data from the 1950s until 2022, utilizing over 50 monitoring wells to map fluctuations in groundwater levels. For three periods, decadal, annual, and seasonal groundwater level analyses revealed the impacts of human intervention and the impacts of revitalization. Results of this study show that in the crucial spring and summer seasons, particularly in the vulnerable central regions of Szigetköz, the water table has been elevated by an average of 20-30 cm, recovering more than one-third of the water level reduction caused by the Danube’s diversion. However, in the winter period, groundwater levels dropped further in the last 30 y in the upper areas of Szigetköz. These partly unexpected insights highlight the need for further investigations to identify the main drivers of groundwater level dynamics, including studying the effect of bed clogging and the possible consequences of restoring the water levels of the Old Danube.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.3303/CET24114144

SUSTAINABLE APPROACH OF CORPORATE EMBEDDEDNESS: GOOD PRACTICES OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED FAMILY COMPANIES

Lívia Ablonczy-Mihályka Zsuzsanna Pálffy

Publication Name: Journal of Community Positive Practices

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: 24

Issue: 2

Page Range: 115-135

Description:

Academic literature explores the term sustainability embeddedness as the highest degree of integration of sustainability into corporate strategies, however, its interpretation lacks the conceptual meaning applied in regional economics. While the focus of sustainability practices is often local, companies embed in the local space, conversely, increasing local embeddedness and commitment are leading companies to move from compliance-based sustainability practices towards sustainability embeddedness. The results based on interviews with small- and medium sized family businesses in Győr-Moson-Sopron County, Hungary illustrate that sustainable embedding as suggested as a new approach of the study are applied by this group of companies, the study concludes with a collection of good practices

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.35782/JCPP.2024.2.06

Design Considerations for a Low-Voltage Scalable Battery-Test Laboratory †

István Lakatos Gábor Szakállas

Publication Name: Engineering Proceedings

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: 79

Issue: 1

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

The rapidly developing battery industry entails the need for battery testing. Battery charging and discharging require time-consuming testing, so it is necessary for the battery testing laboratory to take effective personnel protection, area isolation, fire and smoke extraction, remote monitoring, and other measures. The software plays a crucial role in optimizing the scheduling of battery test labs. It might start testing on a small scale initially, but later, as demands on the lab grow, an appropriate software will be needed to schedule testing for optimal usage. This article presents the design considerations and steps of a test lab for testing and analyzing low-voltage battery cells and packs, including all components, safety requirements for safety circuitry, and the purpose of laboratory testing for industrial and research purposes.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.3390/engproc2024079072

Electric Vehicles and Environmental Attitudes: The Social Dimensions of Sustainable Mobility

Boglárka Eisingerné Balassa Boglárka Eisinger Balassa Réka Koteczhi

Publication Name: International Scientific Business Conference Limen Leadership Innovation Management and Economics Integrated Politics of Research

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: 2024

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 709-719

Description:

The widespread uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) is key to reducing emissions and achieving sustainable development goals. However, the acceptance of EVs depends not only on technological progress but also on consumers' environmental attitudes. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of these attitudes through a regionally representative survey of a sample of 500 people in a Central Eastern European country. The questionnaire was used to measure consumers' attitudes towards environment, acceptance of EVs and the availability of charging infrastructure. K-means cluster analysis was used to identify four clusters. Following the purchase intention of each cluster for EVs and the influence of charging stations location were analysed. Results showed that respondents with positive environmental attitudes were significantly more likely to plan to purchase an EV. These results underline the need not only for infrastructure development but also for initiatives to promote environmentally conscious attitudes in order to accelerate the uptake of EVs.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.31410/LIMEN.2024.709

Literature Review of Vibroacoustic Simulation in Geared Vehicle Power Transmission Systems for the Reduction of Radiated Noise

Ambrus Zelei Krisztián Horváth

Publication Name: Advances in Science and Technology

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: 153

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 89-98

Description:

The radiated noise reduction of vehicular power transmission systems is one of the most actively researched areas. Noise not only impacts the comfort and safety of the driver and passengers but also regulated by the legislators. The simulation-based prediction of radiated noise of gear-drives is a rapidly evolving area and combines gear meshing models, finite element analysis, multibody dynamics and airborne noise simulation tools. The interfacing of these tools makes virtual noise prediction challenging. In this research, we conducted a literature review on vibroacoustic simulations, with a particular focus on reducing noise in power transmission systems. Based on the reviewed articles, it became evident that, although numerous measurement data are available, the usability of the data is limited. Most research focuses on individual stages of the structure and on smaller-sized powertrains. The measurement methods contain abundant valuable information; however, the literature lack of comprehensive articles that track the simulation process from the inception of excitation to body and air noises. Moreover, the majority of articles investigate the relationship between transmission error and NVH, considering it as a primary source of noise. New methodological approaches, such as the application of FEM meshes on gears, open new horizons in this domain. Throughout the literature review, we compiled potential noise-reduction solutions and highlighted directions for future methodology development research.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.4028/p-Ucpx27

Parallels and patterns in the Italian (1901) and Hungarian (1903) legislation on migration

Balázs Pálvölgyi

Publication Name: Comparative Legal History

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: 12

Issue: 1

Page Range: 51-79

Description:

The second half of the nineteenth century was an era of mass labour migration in Europe, when the Atlantic route became of paramount importance alongside intra-continental mobility. From the last third of the century Italy and Hungary were among the most important emigrating countries. By this time changes in the regulation of migration had begun to take place with the development of stronger state control, which affected mobility and the relationship between emigrants and transporters. The question also arose as to whether and how the large emigrating states could ensure the loyalty of their emigrant citizens and control them en route and in the destination states. The regulatory process which began in the 1880s gradually moved from an administrative approach to the development of more comprehensive legal sources covering more and more aspects of emigration with the Hungarian government making use of foreign solutions, particularly the Italian Emigration Act of 1901.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1080/2049677X.2024.2349852

Social Impact Assessment in Urban Security Management Projects: A Case Study from Pakistan

Dávid Fekete Eniko Varga Usman Ghani Peter Toth Zoltán Baracskai

Publication Name: Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: 13

Issue: 1

Page Range: 33-56

Description:

Public safety and security management projects are devised to reduce crime, fear and calamities by prevailing law and order to reduce the harm in society. In a certain context, social impact assessment is a novel way to reveal the extent of effectiveness for these projects. This case study presents an Expert System based methodology regarding social impact assessment for two urban security management projects in Pakistan. An Expert System, DoctuS is employed as a tool to build a rule-based model tool using social impact attributes (as variables) from literature and expert knowledge (Author’s own insight as being involved in projects). Case-based reasoning (CBR) method is employed for the measurement of the impact of urban security management KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) in the two case projects. The empirical findings in this case study approaches the impact assessment by quantitative analysis of crime rates in JMP statistical package and Qualitative Expert knowledge-based model in DoctuS. Thereby, the study evaluates the pre and post ante project situations in order to assess the project’s effectiveness and impact on improved urban safety and security. In the first step, the projects are briefly described, followed by the crime rate analysis under the project jurisdictions and rules between attributes are defined. The second step defines the qualitative rule-based model along with the two cases described, and validated in DoctuS tool. Some attributes and rules have changed, and a new concise model is presented. The Expert System compares the project cases and evaluates the social impact assessment based on the defined KPIs. The Expert system validation presents a novel model for social impact assessment of subject urban security management projects. We propose this methodology and model as useful in investigating social impact assessment of projects specifically dealing with urban safety and security management. However, the generalizability of the findings of this case-study based articles need more sophisticated tests as recommendation for the extension to this study

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.36941/ajis-2024-0004

Regional Inequality Through Income Disparities and Migration Patterns: Systematic Literature Review

László Buics Tihana Vasic Tihana Czakó-Vasic

Publication Name: International Scientific Business Conference Limen Leadership Innovation Management and Economics Integrated Politics of Research

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: 2024

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 427-436

Description:

Regional inequality nowadays represents a big issue when it comes to economic and social growth. This inequality is present in internal migration patterns and in income distribution as well. In order to be able to find the relationships between these variables and to investigate how do they or whether they affect regional disparities, this paper uses a systematic literature review (SLR). This research examines 101 papers published between 2014 and 2024. The methodology of the paper is PRISMA and PEO frameworks, with these methods, the scientific papers are researched in a transparent and reproducible manner. The results show that regional disparities are mostly researched in a quantitative way, using mostly economic and demographic data. Next to this, most of the papers conclude that there is a need for a better policy intervention from the government’s side. This study contributes to the existing body of knowledge by identifying gaps in current research and suggesting pathways for future inquiry.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.31410/LIMEN.2024.427