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Founded in 2009, R-Group (Reno-Solutions) is a group of companies based in Liège (Belgium) and active in the sectors of construction and renovation, with an emphasis on improving the energy consumption of buildings. With activities spread around southern and central Belgium, the group has been experiencing a significant and sustained growth that drives it towards a continuous professionalization of its management. 

In this framework, the main objective of this project-thesis was to analyze the efficiency of the tools and processes currently implemented in the main company of the group in order to collect, manage and store the financial information generated by its activities, and subsequently implement a new financial reporting tool in order to help the management to retrieve valuable insights from this information and use these as decision keys. 

The first step of this project consisted in obtaining a deep understanding of the cost structure of the company alongside with its financial information management processes. This first step helped us uncover several vulnerabilities of the system, such as the lack of an appropriate tool for the recording of structural costs, or the lack of a clear vision on the profitability of each department that composes the organization. After addressing the first through the implementation of a new module in the ERP, we then followed two work axes identified during the analysis in order to address the second. 

The first axis consisted in the implementation of a profitability table in the ERP, allowing any member of the management team to obtain a condensed summary of each department’s financial performance, while the second consisted in the development and implementation of a suite of financial dashboards using a data visualization solution. Both axes were addressed in this project, resulting in an enhanced vision on the financial results of the organization.

Finally, we performed a short analysis of the results of the first quarter of 2020 using the newly implemented financial dashboards. This latter illustrated both the benefits and limitations of the tool and helped us identify further perspectives of evolution such as the development of a similar tool for supporting the profitability analysis of a selection of construction sites and the extension of the tools developed in this project to the remaining operational entities that compose the group. Fondé en 2009, R-Group (Reno-Solutions) est un groupe d'entreprises basé à Liège (Belgique), actif dans les secteurs de la construction et de la rénovation, avec l’accent mis sur l'amélioration de la consommation énergétique des bâtiments. Présent en Région wallonne ainsi qu’en Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, le groupe connaît une croissance importante et soutenue qui le pousse vers une professionnalisation continue de sa gestion.

Dans ce cadre, l'objectif principal de ce mémoire-projet était d'analyser l'efficacité des outils et des processus actuellement implémentés dans la société principale du groupe afin de collecter, gérer et stocker les informations financières générées par ses activités, et ensuite d’implémenter un nouvel outil de reporting sous forme de tableaux de bord financiers afin d'aider la direction à obtenir les informations financières pertinentes pour orienter et appuyer ses décisions. 

La première étape de ce projet a consisté à obtenir une compréhension approfondie de la structure des coûts de l'entreprise ainsi que de ses processus de gestion de l’information financière. Cette première étape nous a permis de découvrir plusieurs failles du système, telles que l'absence d'un outil approprié pour l'enregistrement des coûts structurels, ou le manque de clarté sur la rentabilité de chaque département qui compose l'organisation. Après avoir traité la première par la mise en place d'un nouveau module dans l'ERP, nous avons ensuite suivi deux axes de travail identifiés lors de l'analyse afin de traiter la seconde. 

Le premier axe consistait en l'implémentation d'un tableau de rentabilité dans l'ERP, permettant à tout membre de l'équipe de direction d'obtenir un résumé condensé de la performance financière de chaque département, tandis que le second consistait en l'élaboration et l'implémentation d'une suite de tableaux de bord financiers à l'aide d'une solution de visualisation des données. Ces deux axes ont été abordés dans ce projet, ce qui a permis d'améliorer la vision des résultats financiers de l'organisation. 

Enfin, nous avons effectué une brève analyse des résultats du premier trimestre 2020 en utilisant les tableaux de bord financiers nouvellement mis en œuvre. Cette dernière a illustré à la fois les avantages et les limites de l'outil et nous a permis d'identifier d'autres perspectives d'évolution telles que le développement d'un outil similaire pour soutenir l'analyse de rentabilité d'une sélection de sites de construction et l'extension des outils développés dans ce projet aux autres entités opérationnelles qui composent le groupe.

financial information --- financial reporting --- business intelligence --- decision support system --- cost structure --- data visualization --- information system --- financial dashboards --- profitability analysis --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Comptabilité & audit --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Gestion des systèmes d'information

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This edited book contains twelve studies, large and pilots, in five main categories: (i) adaptive imputation to increase the density of clinical data for improving downstream modeling; (ii) machine-learning-empowered diagnosis models; (iii) machine learning models for outcome prediction; (iv) innovative use of AI to improve our understanding of the public view; and (v) understanding of the attitude of providers in trusting insights from AI for complex cases. This collection is an excellent example of how technology can add value in healthcare settings and hints at some of the pressing challenges in the field. Artificial intelligence is gradually becoming a go-to technology in clinical care; therefore, it is important to work collaboratively and to shift from performance-driven outcomes to risk-sensitive model optimization, improved transparency, and better patient representation, to ensure more equitable healthcare for all.

Medicine --- machine learning-enabled decision support system --- improving diagnosis accuracy --- Bayesian network --- bariatric surgery --- health-related quality of life --- comorbidity --- voice change --- larynx cancer --- machine learning --- deep learning --- voice pathology classification --- imputation --- electronic health records --- EHR --- laboratory measures --- medical informatics --- inflammatory bowel disease --- C. difficile infection --- osteoarthritis --- complex diseases --- healthcare --- artificial intelligence --- interpretable machine learning --- explainable machine learning --- septic shock --- clinical decision support system --- electronic health record --- cerebrovascular disorders --- stroke --- SARS-CoV-2 --- COVID-19 --- cluster analysis --- risk factors --- ischemic stroke --- outcome prediction --- recurrent stroke --- cardiac ultrasound --- echocardiography --- portable ultrasound --- aneurysm surgery --- temporary artery occlusion --- clipping time --- artificial neural network --- digital imaging --- monocytes --- promonocytes and monoblasts --- chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) for acute monoblastic leukemia and acute monocytic leukemia --- concordance between hematopathologists --- mechanical ventilation --- respiratory failure --- ADHD --- social media --- Twitter --- pharmacotherapy --- stimulants --- alpha-2-adrenergic agonists --- non-stimulants --- trust --- passive adherence --- human factors

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Environmentally sustainable and economic waste management is of significant importance to various fields, including the healthcare, mining, industrial, metal-processing, municipal and commercial sectors. This book provides a global perspective and covers a wide range of state-of-the-art topics on waste management, recycling, material and energy recovery, industrial waste, etc. Information in the form of in-depth reviews and research articles will be a valuable resource for academics, professionals and regional as well as international organizations.

Research & information: general --- thermo-electrochemical cell --- waste heat harvesting --- carbon fiber --- surface modification --- efficiency --- sustainability --- healthcare waste management --- Saudi Arabia --- social responsibility --- assessment method --- policy analysis --- solid wastes --- MSW --- industrial wastes --- iron/steel sector --- aluminium sector --- copper mining --- decision support system --- combustible MSW --- energy potential --- power potential --- selection of power plant --- dross --- roasting --- calcium chloride --- ammonium chloride --- impurities --- sublimation --- extraction --- zinc --- zinc oxide --- red mud --- iron recovery --- waste utilization --- smelting --- low grade iron ore --- reduction --- thermo-electrochemical cell --- waste heat harvesting --- carbon fiber --- surface modification --- efficiency --- sustainability --- healthcare waste management --- Saudi Arabia --- social responsibility --- assessment method --- policy analysis --- solid wastes --- MSW --- industrial wastes --- iron/steel sector --- aluminium sector --- copper mining --- decision support system --- combustible MSW --- energy potential --- power potential --- selection of power plant --- dross --- roasting --- calcium chloride --- ammonium chloride --- impurities --- sublimation --- extraction --- zinc --- zinc oxide --- red mud --- iron recovery --- waste utilization --- smelting --- low grade iron ore --- reduction

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Environmentally sustainable and economic waste management is of significant importance to various fields, including the healthcare, mining, industrial, metal-processing, municipal and commercial sectors. This book provides a global perspective and covers a wide range of state-of-the-art topics on waste management, recycling, material and energy recovery, industrial waste, etc. Information in the form of in-depth reviews and research articles will be a valuable resource for academics, professionals and regional as well as international organizations.

thermo-electrochemical cell --- waste heat harvesting --- carbon fiber --- surface modification --- efficiency --- sustainability --- healthcare waste management --- Saudi Arabia --- social responsibility --- assessment method --- policy analysis --- solid wastes --- MSW --- industrial wastes --- iron/steel sector --- aluminium sector --- copper mining --- decision support system --- combustible MSW --- energy potential --- power potential --- selection of power plant --- dross --- roasting --- calcium chloride --- ammonium chloride --- impurities --- sublimation --- extraction --- zinc --- zinc oxide --- red mud --- iron recovery --- waste utilization --- smelting --- low grade iron ore --- reduction --- n/a

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Landscapes have long been viewed as ‘multifunctional’, integrating ecological, economic, sociocultural, historical, and aesthetic dimensions. Landscape science and public awareness in Europe have been progressing in leaps and bounds. The challenges involved in landscape-related issues and fields, however, are multiple and refer to landscape stewardship and protection, as well as to the development of comprehensive theoretical and methodological approaches, in tandem with public sensitization and participatory governance and in coordination with appropriate top-down planning and policy instruments. Landscape-scale approaches are fundamental to the understanding of past and present cultural evolution, and are now considered to be an appropriate spatial framework for the analysis of sustainability. Methods and tools of landscape analysis and intervention have also gone a long way since their early development in Europe and the United States. Although significant progress has been made, there remain many issues which are understudied or not investigated at all—at least in a Mediterranean context. This Special Issue addresses the application of landscape theory and practice in the Eastern Mediterranean and mainly, but not exclusively, reports on the outcomes of an international conference held in Jordan, in December 2015, with the title “Landscapes of Eastern Mediterranean: Challenges, Opportunities, Prospects and Accomplishments”. The focus of this Special Issue, landscapes of the Eastern Mediterranean region, thus constitutes a timely area of research interest, not only because these landscapes have so far been understudied, but also as a rich site of strikingly variegated, long-standing multicultural human–environmental interactions. These interactions, resting on and taking shape through millennia of continuity in tradition, have been striving to adapt to technological advances, while currently juggling with manifold and multilayered socioeconomic and climate–environmental crises.

n/a --- landscape archaeology --- Cyprus --- Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Land Description Units --- stakeholders’ analysis --- UK --- local authority --- ancient sanctuaries --- East Med landscape --- Twain-born Border Lord --- Landscape Decision Support System --- mapping --- topography --- Byzantine landscape and garden art --- economy --- LCA --- classification --- churches --- Arabic-speaking --- participatory --- Landscape Risk Assessment Model --- landforms --- GIS --- planning --- typology --- Greek-speaking --- public realm --- landscape changes --- sacred space --- comparative study --- urban environment --- ideology --- political power --- Arabic landscape and garden art --- cultural sustainability --- historical maps --- religion --- rural land --- multi-functional landscapes --- Lebanon --- Mediterranean --- geographical information system --- spatial distributions --- Land Description Unit (LDU) --- political sustainability --- landscape --- landscape character assessment --- governance --- stakeholders' analysis