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Industry 4.0 and world class manufacturing integration: 100 technologies for a WCM-I4.0 matrix
Get PDFIn the last decade, technological progress has profoundly influenced the industrial world and all industrial sectors have been confronted with a change in technological paradigms. In such a context, this study aims to analyze the synergies between the technological world of Industry 4.0 and the purely organizational and managerial domain ofWorld Class Manufacturing, a model of Operational Excellence. The objective is relating the driving dimensions of the World Class Manufacturing (WCM) system to the technological macrocategories of Industry 4.0: this would allow the identification of which technological solution to leverage on, aiming at optimization in a given World Class Manufacturing pillar. The result is a "WCM-I4.0 matrix": a proposal to reconcile, exploit and trace the relations between the two complex concepts. The WCM-I4.0 matrix includes, by now, 100 Industry 4.0 technologies that best suits with the World Class Manufacturing pillars
Supply chain management competencies: Proposal of a competency framework for job posting analysis
No full textThe search for skilled people in the field of Supply Chain Management is increasing, being widely recognised that people’s competences and ability, as well as knowledge and expertise, are the main success factors for a company. At the same time, notwithstanding the recent academic attention on this issue, is not simple to define which personal abilities are needed for a professional in this field: the nature of competence itself is multidimensional and there is no consensus among researchers on which one of these dimensions, if one, is most important. This work aims precisely at recognise which are the most important competencies in the field of SCM: taking clue from a number of reference frameworks, and after the identification of the main competencies, a comprehensive framework has been conceived, which has been used to analyse a set of job postings for SC manager job positions, in order to gain insight about the real/declared/perceived company needs. More precisely, the authors are interested in highlighting the difference in terms of needs between the so-called soft skills – as attitudes, behaviour, traits and motives – and the personal characteristics linked to technical knowledge and expertise in the SCM field. The objective is achieved through contentbased analysis of the selected job postings, leveraging on the proposed framework. Results show that, in a generic job description for an open job position in SCM, soft skills are often better detailed than hard skills; this suggest that the first ones are believed to be more important than the second. This study and the framework proposed may help HR managers in a more precise definition of the competencies required for a certain professional
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Sindromi epilettiche ed imputabilità
No full textGli Autori mettono alla luce delle recenti nosografie in tema di epilessia, si raffrontano gli stati intercritici ed i disturbi di personalità con le importazioni derivanti dall'esame della giurisprudenza che si è espressa sul giudizio di imputabilità.The authors bring the light of recent nosographies regarding epilepsy, comparing states intercritical and personality disorders with imports resulting from the examination of case law that has been expressed on the judgment of imputability
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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