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Unlocking the Potential of Agriculture 4.0: A Comparative Study on Italian Farms' Technological Evolution, Business Demands, and Perceived Benefits
No full textMaturity level and Effects of the 4.0 Paradigm on the Italian Agricultural Industry: A preliminary study
No full textDigital supply chain capabilities to face the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic
No full textThe troubles in sourcing raw materials and components, as well as logistics bottlenecks due first to the COVID 19 pandemic and more recently to geopolitical tensions and conflicts, have contributed to strong turbulence in the supply chains. To deal effectively with these disruptive events, the mere adoption of digital technologies is not enough, but the targeted development of appropriate digital capabilities is also necessary. The literature has contributed to investigating capabilities in the supply chain, but the topic of digital capabilities to face disruptive scenarios is an under-investigated topic. In this regard, this article aims to answer the following question: How the digital capabilities were able to mitigate and reduce the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic? Therefore, the purpose of this article is to explore the role of digital technologies to enable the digital capabilities that can face the latest supply chain challenges. In addition, particular attention is paid to the role of digital capabilities in mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, this paper adopts the empirical case-study methodology and develops a framework that can serve as a guide for companies facing the challenges listed. This article aims to present the preliminary results of this research, shedding light on the digital capabilities developed by four manufacturing companies, engaged in structural plans for digital transformation
Agriculture 4.0: A systematic literature review on the paradigm, technologies and benefits
No full textDemographics will increase the demand for food and reduce the availability of labour in many countries all over the world. Moreover, scarcity of natural resources, climate change and food waste these are issues that are strongly impacting the agricultural sector and undermining sustainability. Digitalisation is expected to be a driving force in tackling these problems that are characterising agriculture. In particular, the adoption of digital technologies to support processes in the primary sector goes by the name of Agriculture 4.0. Although the number of contributions related to these issues is constantly growing, several areas are still unexplored or not fully addressed. This paper addresses the adoption of digital technologies and investigates the application domain of these technologies, presenting a systematic review of the literature on this subject. Moreover, this research shed light on the technologies adopted and related benefits. Hence, the research has turned its attention to the description of the main pillars, such as the categorisation of its main application domains and enabling technologies. The results of the research show that the different technologies applied in the various fields of application provide benefits both in terms of efficiency (cost reduction, farm productivity) and reduced environmental impact and increased sustainability
Agriculture 4.0 paradigm: a preliminary systematic literature review
No full textIn recent years Agriculture 4.0 is gaining attention in literature. But even with a strong scientific background there is a lack of contributions that aim to define the meaning of the paradigm and systematise its pillars. The paper we propose investigates the enabling technologies describing the paradigm, its domain of application, benefits, and challenges, presenting a systematic review of the literature. So, 93 papers have been analysed with the aim at characterizing the phenomenon of “Agriculture 4.0” by examining how the literature describe the convergence of digital agriculture and digital technologies. During the analysis of the chosen literature set, we identify a set of 10 main application domains of digital technologies in agriculture, 11 characterising enabling technologies, 6 main benefits and 7 obstacles related to agriculture 4.0. Indeed, from the review, it emerges that there are significant areas of the phenomenon that are still unexplored and/or not fully addressed; this calls for future researchers to expand the area of investigation into smart agriculture (regarding the technologies covered and the effect achievable from the combinatorial effect among them) and to develop models and frameworks to support policy and decision making related to the agriculture 4.0 paradigm
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
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
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