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Manufacturing vs. remanufacturing: Study and analysis of a green supply chain in Japan and Europe
No full textIn this study, we analyse the side effects of the remanufacturing process, which are the cannibalisation effect, negative, and the market expansion, positive, when both new and remanufactured goods are sold in the market. This research is conducted analysing a manufacturing Japanese firm which produces printers and whose production process is a hybrid system of manufacturing and remanufacturing. In the first part of our study, we give a quantitative evaluation of both cannibalisation effect and market expansion, in order to estimate which one impacts more on the performance of the firm. Next, through the implementation of a mathematical formulation of the problem by means of a commercial solver, we were able to determine the price of remanufactured items which guarantees the maximum profit to the company, with the aim to compare the latter to the profit gained when only new items are sold. By the experiments conducted, it emerges that the remanufacturing process is more profitable than the model with only new goods sold. Therefore, it is worthwhile to investigate such kind of practices in supply chain management policies
Geological characters and evolution since LGM of Western Pontine continental shelf (Tyrrhenian Sea).
No full textAnalyse der Wechselwirkungen zwischen Print- und Online-Angeboten mittels Wirkungskettenanalysen
No full textAnalyse der Wechselwirkungen zwischen Print- und Online-Angeboten mittels Wirkungskettenanalysen
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Incentivi "488" all'industria negli anni 1996-2004: effetti settoriali e territoriali
No full textFrom the 10 year enforcement of Law 488, it is possible to deduce on one hand its neutrality in terms of industries, in coherence with a low-technology specialization model; on the other hand its contribution to the growth of local systems with cluster organizations emerging or characterized by enterprises with exogenous capital. In accordance with these results, which offer the policy makers supporting elements in the decision-making process in order to exploit the potential of the law, the recent reform of 488 is aimed at making investments more selective and mainly favouring innovative projects, small enterprises and the identification of deprived areas
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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