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THE USE of CONSORTIA for the INTERNATIONALIZATION of FIRMS – MOTA-ENGIL CASE STUDY
No full textInternationalization has been widely studied throughout the years. Broadly, it has been predicted as irrevocable and having increasing impact on firm-related strategy. Within entry modes, consortium, has not received as much attention as others. Hence, it seems important to understand how this specific entry mode allows the entrance of firms in the international markets. This study intends to answer the question of “how” to internationalize, anticipating the consortium as the most feasible way for construction firms to enter certain markets. The reasons that determine its choice concern the specificness of the projects, markets and of the firm. In the first part of the study, we review the existent literature on consortia as an entry mode and as a tool of internationalization used by construction firms. Through this review we build a framework that reveals the motivations that lead to this choice. In the second part, we present the case study of Mota-Engil, as a potential source of valuable information which may contribute to the understanding of the phenomenon under study. This case study corroborates the motivations found to create consortia. The paper closes with its contributions, limitations and suggestions for future researches.consortia, internationalization, cooperation, construction
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
H.E. Mr. Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil
No full textPhoto 01: On the surface at the LHCb pit, H.E. Mr Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil (centre) with from left to right G. Carboni, C. Melo, J. Ellis, J.A. Rubio, T. Nakada, B. Maréchal, R. Lindner. Photo 02: On the surface at the LHCb pit, H.E. Mr Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil (left) with from left to right, C. Melo, B. Schmidt, B. Maréchal, G. Carboni. Photo 03: On the surface at the LHCb pit, H.E. Mr Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil inspecting an electronic sample. Photo 04: In the LHCb cavern H.E. Mr Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil (third from left) with from left to right C. Melo, B. Maréchal, T. Nakada, B. Schmidt, W. Riegler, G. Carboni, R. Lindner. Photo 05: In the LHCb cavern H.E. Mr Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil (third from left) with from left to right C. Melo, B. Maréchal, T. Nakada, B. Schmidt, W. Riegler, G. Carboni, R. Lindner. Photo 06: In the LHCb cavern H.E. Mr Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil (fourth from left) J.A. Rubio, B. Maréchal, C. Melo, T. Nakada, B. Schmidt, W. Riegler, G. Carboni, A. Santoro, R. Lindner, R. Salmeron, J.G. Kadri, O. Vieira
TINA as a virtual market place for telecommunication and information services: the VITAL experiment
No full textThe VITAL (Validation of Integrated Telecommunication Architectures for the Long-Term) project has defined, implemented and demonstrated an open distributed telecommunication architecture (ODTA) for deploying, managing and using a set of heterogeneous multimedia, multi-party, and mobility services. The architecture was based on the latest specifications released by TINA-C. The architecture was challenged in a set of trials by means of a heterogeneous set of applications. Some of the applications were developed within the project from scratch, while some others focused on integrating commercially available applications. The applications were selected in such a way as to assure full coverage of the architecture implementation and reflect a realistic use of it. The VITAL experience of refining and implementing TINA specifications and challenging the resulting platform by a heterogeneous set of services has proven the openness, flexibility and reusability of TINA. This paper describes the VITAL approach when choosing the different services and how they challenge and interact with the architecture, focusing especially on the service architecture and the Ret reference point definitions. The VITAL adjustments and enhancements to the TINA architecture are described. This paper contributes to proving that the TINA-based VITAL ODTA allows for easy and cost-effective development and deployment of advanced end-user and operator services, and can indeed act as the basis for a virtual market place for telecommunications service
H.E. Mr Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil, visits the CMS experiment.
No full textPhoto 01: At the CMS assembly hall (left to right): J.A. Rubio; T. Virdee; J. Ellis; H.E. Mr Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil; A. Hervé; B. Maréchal; C. Melo; A. Santoro; R. Salmeron; J. Varela; J.G. Kadri; O. Vieira. Photo 02: At the CMS assembly hall (left to right): J.A. Rubio; T. Virdee; J. Ellis; H.E. Mr Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil; A. Hervé; B. Maréchal; C. Melo; J.G. Kadri; A. Santoro; R. Salmeron; J. Varela; W. Korda; O. Vieira. Photo 03: H.E. Mr Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil (second from right) with, from left to right, J. Varela, J.G. Kadri, R. Salmeron, C. Melo and A. Hervé.<P
Handwritten biographical information on Paulina T. McClung Merritt
No full textA handwritten biography of Paulina T. McClung Merritt by an unknown author, 1892.
Heterogeneous and tissue-specific regulation of effector T cell responses by IFN-gamma during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection.
No full textIFN-γ and T cells are both required for the development of experimental cerebral malaria during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection. Surprisingly, however, the role of IFN-γ in shaping the effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cell response during this infection has not been examined in detail. To address this, we have compared the effector T cell responses in wild-type and IFN-γ(-/-) mice during P. berghei ANKA infection. The expansion of splenic CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells during P. berghei ANKA infection was unaffected by the absence of IFN-γ, but the contraction phase of the T cell response was significantly attenuated. Splenic T cell activation and effector function were essentially normal in IFN-γ(-/-) mice; however, the migration to, and accumulation of, effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells in the lung, liver, and brain was altered in IFN-γ(-/-) mice. Interestingly, activation and accumulation of T cells in various nonlymphoid organs was differently affected by lack of IFN-γ, suggesting that IFN-γ influences T cell effector function to varying levels in different anatomical locations. Importantly, control of splenic T cell numbers during P. berghei ANKA infection depended on active IFN-γ-dependent environmental signals--leading to T cell apoptosis--rather than upon intrinsic alterations in T cell programming. To our knowledge, this is the first study to fully investigate the role of IFN-γ in modulating T cell function during P. berghei ANKA infection and reveals that IFN-γ is required for efficient contraction of the pool of activated T cells
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Pelevin’s Trinity in the novel “t”: author – protagonist – reader
No full textThe article attempts to interpret Pelevin's artistic strategy in the novel "T" by exploring its subject organization and addressing the key problems of the author, the protagonist, and the reader as they are seen by the researcher. The article analyzes the peculiarities of constructing the narrative reality in the novel "T", and goes on to discuss Pelevin's philosophic models of the development of the humankind, and the emergence of his new anthropology
Measuring industry-science links through inventor-author relations: A profiling method
No full textIn this pilot study we examine the performance of text-based profiling in recovering a set of validated inventor-author links. In a first step we match patents and publications solely based on their similarity in content. Next, we compare inventor and author names on the highest ranked matches for the occurrence of name matches. Finally, we compare these candidate matches with the names listed in a validated set of inventor-author names. Our text-based profile methodology performs significantly better than a random matching of patents and publications, suggesting that text-based profiling is a valuable complementary tool to the name searches used in previous studies.innovation; industry-science links; text-based profiling;
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