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- Investigação clínica – Aspectos globaisPublication . Adubeiro, NunoO campo da investigação na saúde é inerentemente uma área de extrema compexidade, com muitas particularidades, mas cujo aporte é fulcral pra que se possam tomar decisões baseadas na evidência.
- Combining lean and green practices to achieve a superior performance: The contribution for a sustainable development and competitiveness—An empirical study on the Portuguese contextPublication . Teixeira, Pedro; Coelho, Arnaldo; Fontoura, Pedro; Sá, José Carlos; Silva, Francisco J. G.; Santos, Gilberto; Pinto Ferreira, LuísThis research assesses the lean and green (LG) practices' impact on the competitive advantage (CA) of organizations, through sustainable performance, considering lean maturity as the moderator. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from a cross-sectional sample of 261 companies operating in Portugal. Hypotheses are tested through structural equation modeling and multigroup analysis to examine the lean maturity moderating role. Results demonstrate a positive impact of LG practices on sustainable development and that their three dimensions of CA, with lean maturity boosting most relationships. This research highlights the impact of LG practices on organization's competitiveness and helps them underpin the importance these practices when comes to enhance their sustainable performance and their CA with help of environmental policy and also stakeholder engagement. Future studies should address these relationships upon a specific dimension, namely the correlation between environmental performance and CA, as it was not dealt in this study.
- Editorial: Biomass, Bioenergy and Biofuels for Circular BioeconomyPublication . Caetano, Nídia S.; Xu, Suyun; Banu, Jeyakumar Rajesh; Sani, Rajesh K.; Karthikeyan, Obulisamy ParthibaThe huge demand for energy and products, mostly based on fossil fuels, have caused severe environmental impacts, that are based on pollution, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and finally of climate changes. While energy can be supplied from different renewable sources, such as solar, wind or hydro energy, they are intrinsically impossible or hard to control, or dependent on climatic conditions that are becoming more and more unpredictable. In this context, biomass has come, once more, as one of the potential solutions to add to the renewable energy mix.