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Classical and mixed finite elements for static and dynamic analysis of piezoelectric plates
No full textDissemination: the fatal risk for a missed diagnosis of Strongyloides stercoralis infection
No full textSerologic tools are the most sensitive available assays for the screening of chronic strongyloidiasis and should be always used in case of suspicion, in order to avois the risk of the fatal, disseminated infection
Hierarchic multilayered plate elements for coupled multifield problems of piezoelectric adaptive structures: Formulation and numerical assessment
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Total quality management elements and risk resilience at the operational level
Full text linkThe complex and systematic methods of risk management are not always suitable for addressing the risks in the operational level and the activities performed by blue-collar workers. This study is focused on such risks and how they could be mitigated without employing complex mathematical risk management approaches, which can be difficult to implement at the shop-floor level. In fact, the literature review here conducted revealed a significant gap in the research on risk management at this level. The central stage of the study was a field survey, which was focused on the potentials of total quality management (TQM) to address low-level activity risks. The findings confirm an interrelation between TQM and risk management, and they also reveal that trust and integrity are the most effective elements of TQM that can help to mitigate risks related to the blue-collar workers’ activity
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