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Diritto vivo e studenti protagonisti. Tracce dell’innovazione didattica nei corsi giuridici pisani
No full textIl volume contiene gli elaborati sviluppati, sotto la guida dei docenti, dagli studenti di alcuni corsi giuridici del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza dell'Università di Pisa nel primo semestre dell'anno accademico 2022/2023 nell'ambito di percorsi di didattica speciale
Chinese market as a source of global innovation: Foreign MNCs’ R&D Activities in China
No full textThis paper studies the influence of host country peculiarities on R&D activities of foreign MNCs in China. Through case study approach, we analyzed four Italian companies that have R&D and innovative activities in China. We found that innovation activities of foreign MNCs in China are affected by host country characteristics on three dimensions: state intervention; local competition, and local market peculiarities. We show how Chinese competitive context can be a source of global innovation if stimuli are properly received at both local and corporate level and we derive a taxonomy of innovation that might originate from foreign MNCs’ R&D activities in China. Our case studies confirm an evolution path of foreign R&D activities from an exploitative to an explorative nature. Finally, future research directions are suggested
Disruptive Innovation... in Reverse: Adding a Geographical Dimension to Disruptive Innovation Theory
No full textBased on a literature review on disruptive innovation and innovation from emerging economies, we offer an interpretation of a subset of reverse innovation within the disruptive innovation theory. We argue that the combination of these two theories provides a useful framework to look at emerging economies as sources of new products and technological solutions. Finally, we provide a new categorization of disruptive innovation considering a geographical dimension and future research direction
Extending the Uppsala Model: disruptive innovation from a Chinese evolved subsidiary
No full textThe Uppsala Model of Internationalization (Johansson, Vahlne, 1977) has been widely discussed and refined both by scholars and its authors. Relying on these literary contributions and on the concept of disruptive innovation (Christensen, 1997), this paper aims at extending the stages of the internationalization process as intended by the Uppsala Model to a further step where firms get knowledge inputs from the foreign market for developing new products that have commercial value also in their previous markets. We use case study research for showing how a company relied on Chinese market inputs for developing new products that have disruptive characteristics on the Western markets
Rozpor ako východisko, láska ako smer u Simone Weilovej (Contradiction as base, Love as direction in writings of Simone Weil)
No full textArticle is explaining contradiction and love, Simone Weil‘s essential terms of hermeneutics of human Being. It introduces close relation of these terms with her understanding of God as well as with her overall concept of religion. Author also mentions Simone Weil‘s inspirations with philosophical and spiritual concepts of the East
“I beg you to tell me what has become of Djamila”: The Political Mobilization of Simone de Beauvoir’s Readers During the Boupacha Affair
No full textBy Sophia Millman This is a condensed version of a Masters thesis dedicated to the political mobilization of Simone de Beauvoir’s readers. The citations from the letters were translated from French by the author. *** On June 2, 1960, the French government ordered all copies of the daily Algiers edition of Le Monde seized and destroyed to suppress the publication of Simone de Beauvoir’s article “Pour Djamila Boupacha.” Beauvoir, a self-professed “woman of letters”, not “of action[1]”, and one ..
Corsi - dialetti
No full textSintesi delle conoscenze sui dialetti corsi in forma di voce enciclopedic
A comparative study of form and theology in the works of Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil
No full textIn this comparative study of the form and theology of Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil I interrogate how Weil's philosophical writings and her theology illuminate O'Connor's use of both narrative and non-fictional forms, and her Catholicism. The Introduction analyses how Weil's concept of superposed reading provides a new method of approaching both O'Connor, her writings, and O'Connor
studies, and focuses on how such apparently different women interconnect. Chapter One explores how both Weil and O'Connor attempt to write their theologies on the
souls of their readers yet are each subject to constraints imposed by form. Weil's concept of locating equilibrium between incommensurates is discussed, and her
distinctively philosophical approach to fictions and fictionality is used to investigate O'Connor's notion of prophetic fictions and the writer's role. Chapter Two assesses how both writers revivify Christian paradoxes. Weil's monstrous concept of affiiction, and O'Connor's use of the grotesque genre to jolt secular man into an
awareness of the sacred are scrutinised. Chapter Three studies how both writers consider an encounter between God and man is possible through the action of grace. My Conclusion interrogates how Weil's work can deepen our understanding of O'Connor's writings, and examines how successful O'Connor is at realising a truly
Christian literature. I conclude that despite being a writer of powerful fictions, O'Connor can not be totally successful in her mission as writer-prophet because
ultimately fiction escapes orthodoxy
Harnessing Electrostatic Forces: A Review of Bees as Bioindicators for Particulate Matter Detection
No full textBees (Hymenoptera, Anthophila) are widely recognized for their essential ecological roles, including pollination and biodiversity maintenance. Recently, their ability to collect environmental particulate matter through electrostatic forces has been explored for biomonitoring purposes. This review integrates knowledge on electrostatic pollen adhesion with emerging insights into particulate matter adhesion to bees, emphasizing their potential as bioindicators. The mechanisms of electrostatic adhesion, influenced by factors such as the physicochemical properties of particulate matter and bee morphology, are discussed in detail. Additionally, the study evaluates the adhesion efficiency of pollutants, including heavy metals, microplastics, nanoplastics, pathogens, pesticides, radionuclides, and volatile organic compounds. This multidisciplinary approach underscores the role of bees in advancing environmental monitoring methodologies and offers innovative tools for assessing ecosystem health while addressing the drivers of bee decline
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