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Dispositivo aspiratore/erogatore per un liquido
No full textContagocce per non vedenti: il dispositivo è un ausilio per rendere autosufficienti i non vedenti nell’assunzione di farmaci in forma liquida da dosare in gocce. A partire da questa specifica esigenza il progetto si è poi sviluppato in ottica di Design for All: questo prodotto infatti può essere usato anche da persone con difficoltà motorie, disfunzioni visive in genere, anziani e chiunque abbia difficoltà a dosare in gocce i farmaci con gli attuali strumenti offerti dal mercato quali contagocce, pipette manuali e tappi integrati in alcune boccette di medicinali.
L’aspetto innovativo del prodotto è la modalità con cui si aspira e si rilascia il liquido dosato che riprende la familiare gestualità di penne a scatto in particolare agendo attraverso la pressione di un pulsante; la funzionalità e questo nuovo meccanismo caratterizza anche l’aspetto estetico finale del contagocce
il progetto proposto permette un controllo a priori del dosaggio - che ammonta ad un max. di 20 gocce – e che può essere monitorato in ogni fase dell’aspirazione controllando la scala graduata e il pulsante che man mano che si aspira una quantità sale di una tacca. Le tacche sono numerate da zero a venti: la numerazione comprende sia i numeri classici per persone vedenti sia la numerazione in braille per i non vedenti. Potendo conteggiare a priori la quantità desiderata di farmaco si assicura una corretta posologia dello stesso; nel caso in cui si abbia aspirato delle gocce in eccesso è possibile rilasciarle anche singolarmente per un ulteriore controllo
Risorse, competenze e internazionalizzazione nelle PMI di subfornitura. Un'analisi esplorativa nel comparto plasto-meccanico
No full textWith the aim of exploring the strength of the existing relationships between small and medium-sized subcontractors’ resources and capabilities and their international profile a web-based survey has been carried out on a sample of 89 Italian subcontracting SMEs belonging to the plastic and to the mechanical industries.
The results confirm the existence of positive and significant relationships between firms’ resources and capabilities and their international profile. Further, they also show that the role of resources and capabilities taken into consideration change as subcontractors grow
Going 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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
To be (cap)able to be driven abroad. How subcontractors’ relational capabilities support their internationalization processes
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The article focuses on subcontractors' capability of linking to local hubs of internationalized networks and use them as springboards for international markets. The aim of this paper is analyzing the causal relationships between subcontractors' relational capabilities and their degree of internationalization, mediated by subcontractors' network strength ties.
Contribution
Industrial subcontractors' internationalization processes are typically close related to their customers' ones. However, the research on the active role of subcontractors in creating the conditions to be driven in international markets by their clients is pretty scarce. In order to contribute to fill this gap we create and empirically test a theoretical model.
Methodology
A multivariate causal model has been tested through structural equation modeling on a sample of 104 Italian subcontracting SMEs.
Results
Data suggest the positive role of local but internationalized networks in supporting subcontractors' internationalization processes, while, surprisingly, we found that the linkage to localized MNEs can have a negative influence on internationalization outcomes
Relational bridges to international markets. How subcontractors’ relational capabilities support their internationalization routes
No full textThe article focuses on subcontractors’ capability of linking to local hubs of internationalized networks and using them as springboards to international markets. The aim of this paper is to analyze the causal relationships between subcontractors’ relational capabilities and their degree of internationalization, mediated by the level of the subcontractors’ involvement with local firms and networks linked to international markets. A multivariate causal model was tested through structural equation modelling on a sample of 104 Italian subcontracting small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The data suggest the positive role of local but internationalized supply networks in supporting subcontractors’ internationalization processes, while, surprisingly, we found that the linkage to localized multinational enterprises (MNEs) can have a negative influence on internationalization outcomes
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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