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The Covid-19 has shifted the face of many markets including e-commerce and online business with many bottlenecks to be cleared. The last-mile delivery project has the greatest effect on all types of e-commerce companies because it has many consumer touchpoints as well as the Covid-19 pain points. Due to these interconnected issues, the delivery projects itself requires modern solutions. The purpose of this paper is to identify, analyse and categorize the major factors that affect the last mile delivery projects in e-commerce, food sector, retail sector and so on using total interpretive structural modelling approach during the Covid-19. Ten major factors are identified from literature review, and expert opinions are collected from multiple organizations that are involved in the last mile delivery projects. The results indicate that types of goods, achieving routing efficiency and meeting fulfilment timeline are the key factors for last mile delivery projects during the time of Covid-19. This study helps the managers to identify the key factors and to focus on these factors for the successful implementation of last mile delivery project.

Автори проаналізували інноваційні маркетингові інструменти медичних закладів, що набули розвитку під впливом COVID-19. Досліджено ступінь ефективності цих нововведень та їх перспективність. Авторы проанализировали инновационные маркетинговые инструменты медицинских учреждений, получивших развитие под влиянием COVID-19. Исследованы степень эффективности этих нововведений и их перспективность. The authors analyzed the innovative marketing tools of medical institutions that have developed under the influence of COVID-19. The degree of effectiveness of these innovations and their prospects have been studied.

Treball fi de màster de: Master in Intelligent Interactive Systems Tutor: Vicenç Gómez Designing and generating wiser policies for urban systems and infrastructures is a challenge of paramount importance. Today, the cities that present the most successful transport strategies are prioritising the movement of people, giving residents and visitors a wider variety of attractive transport options while creating effective ways to switch from private to public transport means. Understanding the use and the impact of public infrastructures that facilitate mobility is crucial. We consider a dataset of one year of activity in the form of car park occupancy in the province of Barcelona. The data comprises ten different parking facilities located close to train stations. We propose and analyze different and intuitive prediction models based on statistical and mathematical approximations. First, we analyze the occupancy recordings in different parking locations and show that the activity is strongly coupled with the circadian rhythm, following a 24-hours cyclic pattern. Second, we implement a predictive model to provide the occupancy of a particular parking for an entire future day. We show that for both, statistical and mathematical approximations it performs quite accurately. Third, we implement a predictive model to guess the occupancy of the remaining hours of the day given the occupancy of the previous hours. Finally, a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the parking occupancy during the Covid-19 pandemic has been performed in order to understand how the global situation has influenced the parking usage. Our results show that, despite the apparent complexity associated to public mobility and use of car parks, very simple models motivated in intuitive principles are sufficient to understand and predict this dynamics. Overall, our results can facilitate the design of public policies to facilitate the mobility within Barcelona and its surroundings, by providing a better understanding of how the citizens switch between private cars and public trains.

Einleitung: Gerade in Zeiten der COVID-19 Pandemie gestaltet es sich als schwierig für SeniorInnen, Bewegungsempfehlungen zu erfüllen. Primär aus den Gründen, dass Fitnessstudios geschlossen sind und Gymnastikkurse und andere Mannschaftssportarten nicht abgehalten werden können. Außerdem zögern viele SeniorInnen in die Öffentlichkeit zu gehen, weil sie befürchten, infiziert zu werden.Zielsetzung: Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist, die Frage ob und wie sich die COVID-19 Pandemie auf die körperliche Aktivität von SeniorInnen auswirkt, zu beantworten. Die Arbeit wird auch während der Corona-Krise einen gewissen Nutzen haben, da durch sie schnell ersichtlich werden kann, wie sehr sich unter anderem die körperliche Aktivität von SeniorInnen während einer Pandemie verändert hat.Methodik: Durchgeführt wird die Literaturrecherche unter Verwendung von vorab definierten Suchbegriffen sowie Inklusions- und Exklusionskriterien. Die Suche erfolgte in Datenbanken, wie GoogleScholar, PubMed, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink und LitCovid. Für die Arbeit besonders relevante Publikationen werden hinsichtlich der Stärke der Evidenz mithilfe einer Checkliste überprüft und in einer Datenentnahmetabelle eingetragen. Ergebnisse: Die Datengrundlage für diese Arbeit sind 9 relevante Quellen, die in der Literaturrecherche gefunden wurden und den Inklusionskriterien und den Kriterien der Checkliste nach Haas et al. entsprochen haben. Es wurden die Veränderungen der körperlichen Aktivität zu Transport-, Freizeit- und Sportzwecken untersucht. Die Hypothese, dass sich die körperliche Aktivität von SeniorInnen während der COVID-19 Pandemie verändert hat, konnte in der vorliegenden Arbeit bestätigt werden. Die Anzahl der körperlichen Aktivität von SeniorInnen schwankt in allen Bereichen.Conclusio: Die körperliche Aktivität von SeniorInnen hat sich während der COVID-19 Pandemie verändert. Für die weitere Forschung ist eine Empfehlung der Autorin, die Determinanten der körperlichen Aktivität während der COVID-19 Pandemie zu untersuchen. Des Weiteren wird in den bisherigen Studien häufig nicht ersichtlich, wie SeniorInnen eventuelle Bewegungsdefizite während einer Pandemie ausgleichen können. Die Autorin rät daher, Maßnahmen zur Bewegungsförderung zu untersuchen und zu publizieren. Introduction: Especially in times of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is difficult for seniors to fulfil exercise recommendations. Primarily for the reasons that gyms are closed and gymnastics classes and other team sports cannot be held. In addition, many seniors are reluctant to go out in public for fear of being infected.Objective: The aim of this work is to answer the question if and how the COVID-19 pandemic affects the physical activity of senior citizens. The work will also be of some use after the Corona crisis, as it can quickly show how much, among other things, the physical activity of seniors has changed during a pandemic.Methodology: The literature search is conducted using predefined search terms as well as inclusion and exclusion criteria. The search was conducted in databases such as GoogleScholar, PubMed, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink and LitCovid. Publications that are particularly relevant for the work are checked with regard to the strength of the evidence using a checklist and entered in a data extraction table.Results: The data basis for this work are 9 relevant sources that were found in the literature search and met the inclusion criteria and the criteria of the checklist according to Haas et al. Changes in physical activity for transport, leisure and sport purposes were investigated. The hypothesis that the physical activity of seniors changed during the COVID-19 pandemic could be confirmed in the present work. The amount of physical activity of seniors varies in all areas.Discussion: The physical activity of seniors changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the author's recommendations for further research is to investigate the determinants of physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, previous studies often do not show how seniors can compensate for possible physical activity deficits during a pandemic. The author therefore advises that physical activity promotion measures be investigated and published. eingereicht von: Julia Braun Abweichender Titel laut Übersetzung der Verfasserin/des Verfassers Bachelorarbeit FH JOANNEUM 2021