Digital disruptive technologies are an integral component of the modern world. These technologies are transforming the globalindustries from traditional to more innovative and adaptive. However, the state of global real estate is yet to improve and is currently lagging the technology curve. Because of this lag, useful information is either not made available to the end-users or is shared too late that is raising concerns among the online real estate platform users. This results in larger vacancy rates and post-occupancy regrets among the service consumers. The current study based on the concepts of Technology Acceptance Models (TAM), presents a conceptual Real Estate Stakeholders Technology Acceptance Model (RESTAM) for addressing the key needs of the four important stakeholders of the real estate industry including the end-users or consumers, government & regulatory authorities, agents & agencies and complementary industries. Based on comprehensive literature review of 213 articles, the needs of these stakeholders are assessed and addressed through the Big9 technologies namely drones, the internet of things (IoT), clouds, software as a service (SaaS), big data, 3D scanning, wearable technologies, virtual and augmented realities (VR & AR), and artificial intelligence and robotics. The resulting RESTAM framework with a specific focus on the online platform based real estate users are expected to lay the foundation for introducing the missing technology acceptance model for real estate stakeholders whereby these Big9 disruptive technologies are implemented in real estate industry to uplift it from traditional to smart real estate. This will reduce the post-occupancy regrets of the real estate service users and improve the relations between various real estate stakeholders.
The contribution of arts for the transformation of the city is the result of a tension between domination and resistance, in which the former is linked to commodification and to cities' competition and the latter to the reflexive, critical and disruptive impulses that seem to be intrinsic to a wide array of contemporary art expressions. Hence, it becomes relevant to grasp up to what extent artistic dynamics are connected to quarrels between the forces of the market, political powers and the refusal of the neoliberal model. We would like to focus our analysis in a Southern European metropolis: Lisbon and in the particular case of migrants. Migrants are often economic but also culturally and spatially segregated in the cities where they live, where market models have tended to be dominant and shape artistic spaces. Migrants resist by drawing on origin countries' cultural heritages and references. Music has been a key artistic expression in this process, used both to recreate and remind the culture of the past and the place where she/he came from and to affirm her/his identity in societies where they are or feel marginalized. It has also been appropriated in some cases by cities wishing to promote interculturality and multicultural environments. We develop the idea of Borja (2011) about the importance of valuing original or reconstructed identity elements in urban collectives, feelings of belonging, sense of places and collective memories in Cova da Moura (Portugal) and contrast it with appropriations made by the dominant city model. ; N/A
This paper discusses the use of risk assessment and risk management techniques within the Australian underground coal mining industry, within the context of geotechnical risk. The industry works within a pro-active, "enabling" legislative framework, where companies and management apply a range of risk assessment tools as part of their everyday management processes. Different geotechnical risk factors and approaches are reviewed, together with application examples – ranging from mine planning and design, operations, and accident investigations.A particularly powerful resource in each of the above stages of geotechnical management is the RISKGATE system. RISKGATE is an assembled "body of knowledge" structured under different topics across the Australian coal industry, of which three topic areas address rock mechanics issues for both the underground and surface mining sector. This paper will provide an overview of RISKGATE in the context of risk-based rock mechanics applications in underground coal mining.
Este artículo demuestra que la introducción de medidas de ajuste no contribuye a la recuperación económica sino que, en cambio, trae aparejadas consecuencias negativas en términos de crecimiento económico, coeficientes de endeudamiento e igualdad, generando frecuentemente una serie de impactos negativos en materia de derechos humanos. Y, por lo tanto, que existe una sólida base legal para sostener una inconsistencia prima facie entre la imposición de políticas de ajuste en tiempos de recesión y el disfrute de derechos humanos. Debido a las circunstancias particulares en las que los Estados suelen encontrarse cuando requieren asistencia de instituciones financieras internacionales es que estas últimas suelen imponer condiciones que no necesariamente se han negociado con los Estados prestatarios. La población de los mismos se encuentra aún menos involucrada que su gobierno en las consultas, discusiones y negociaciones asociadas. El extenso alcance de tales condicionalidades, que se ha ampliado continuamente durante las últimas décadas, permite explicar su penetrante omnipresencia en cuestiones soberanas cruciales. Estas condicionalidades son observables aún en el contexto de la pandemia del COVID-19. Según los estándares del derecho internacional, las instituciones financieras internacionales podrían ser consideradas responsables por la complicidad en la imposición de reformas económicas violatorias de derechos humanos. El nexo causal entre la asistencia brindada por las instituciones financieras internacionales (en forma de préstamos, vigilancia, asistencia técnica y condicionalidades anexas) en la comisión de un hecho internacionalmente ilícito (complicidad) y el daño causado (violaciones de derechos humanos) es evidente y se encuentra bien documentado. Se puede presumir que una institución tiene conocimiento de la naturaleza ilícita del acto si, incluso cuando se avanza en la implementación de reformas económicas que normalmente conducen a violaciones de derechos humanos, no se realiza una evaluación de impacto ex ante. La responsabilidad legal por complicidad genera obligaciones en términos de cesación, no repetición y reparación. ; This Article demonstrates that the introduction of austerity measures does not contribute to economic recovery, but instead has negative consequences in terms of economic growth, debt ratios, and equality, and routinely results in a series of negative human rights impacts. There is therefore a solid legal basis to make the case for a prima facie inconsistency between the imposition of austerity policies in times of recession and the enjoyment of human rights. Because of the circumstances in which States usually find themselves when seeking assistance from international financial institutions, lender institutions often impose conditionalities that have not necessarily been negotiated with borrower States. States' populations are even less involved than their governments in the associated consultations, discussions, or negotiations. The broad scope of such conditionalities, which has been continuously expanded over recent decades, helps to explain their pervasiveness and omnipresence in key sovereign businesses. These conditionalities are even seen in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to standards of international law, international financial institutions may be held responsible for complicity in the imposition of economic reforms that violate human rights. The causal link between the assistance provided by international financial institutions (in the form of loans, surveillance and technical assistance, and attached conditionalities) in the commitment of an internationally wrongful act (complicity) and the harm done (human rights violations) is evident and well documented. An institution's knowledge of the wrongful nature of the act can be presumed if, even when advancing the implementation of economic reforms that normally lead to human rights violations, no ex ante impact assessment is undertaken. Legal responsibility for complicity raises obligations in terms of cessation, non-repetition, and reparation. ; Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales
