Study models the transition from Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe
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Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in PLOS One
The Economic and Social Committee of the Valencian Community has awarded one of its 2025 Doctoral Thesis Awards to Iluminada Vallet Bellmunt, a lecturer in the Department of Business Administration and Marketing at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló. The thesis, entitled "The resilience of independent retail: a model of antecedents and consequences", was supervised by Marisa Flor and Víctor del Corte and tutored by Teresa Vallet-Bellmunt.
The thesis, defended in December 2024 in the Interuniversity Doctoral Programme in Marketing, explores the factors that foster organisational resilience in small independent retailers and analyses how this capacity enhances innovation and business performance. The results highlight that the individual resilience of the owner and the entrepreneurial orientation of the business are two of the factors that drive organisational resilience.
In addition to the resilience and adaptability of the people who lead the businesses, organisational resilience is also influenced by the characteristics of the work team, the organisational structure, external networks and environmental conditions. The methodology was based on a closed-ended questionnaire, with 150 validated responses. The distribution of the businesses surveyed was 26.74% from Alicante, 11.42% from Castelló de la Plana and 61.84% from Valencia, representing different sectors such as food, drugstores and perfumeries, flowers, jewellery and watches, home, fashion, leisure, stationery and health.
Teacher noticing refers to how teachers attend to, interpret, and respond to classroom events, which is known as a crucial skill of effective mathematics instruction. A new article synthesizes multinational research across five countries, finding that teacher noticing varies significantly across different cultural settings, and the frameworks for developing teacher noticing cannot be simply transplanted from one culture to another.