57 research outputs found
Systems Thinking. Intelligence in action.
No full textThe core belief underlying this book is that the most useful and effective models to strengthen our intelligence are system ones, developed following the logic of Systems Thinking. Such models can explore complexity, dynamics, and change, and it is the author s view that intelligence depends on the ability to construct models of this nature. The book is designed to allow the reader not only to acquire simple information on Systems Thinking but above all to gradually learn the logic and techniques that make this way of thinking an instrument for the improvement of intelligence. In order to aid the learning and practice of the Systems Thinking discipline, the author has abandoned a rigid formal language for a more discursive style. He writes in the first person, with an ample number of citations and critical analyses, and without ever giving in to the temptation to use formal mathematics
The joint-location of firms in a given area.
No full textThis study considers the phenomenon of the joint-location of firms, which may assume different forms:
- Conglomerate joint-location, typical of industrial and commercial areas;
- Specialist joint-location, typical of business industrial areas;
- Vertically-integrated joint-location, typical of "filières";
- Integrated joint-location, typical of networks;
- Neck joint-location, arriving and departing.
The joint-location phenomenon is explained applying the theory of Combinatory Systems, created by the Author
Intelligence and Stupidity - The Educational Power of Cipolla’s Test and of the “Social Wheel”
No full textThis paper will present the model Carlo Cipolla developed in his worldwide best-selling essay on “The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity” along with the framework of social behaviors it contains. Cipolla did not intend to explore intelligence but to focus primarily in his analysis on stupidity, two characteristics of the social behavior that man, as an individual or group agent, can reveal when he interacts in social groups and organizations of all types and sizes. More generally, Cipolla put forth a simple framework that classified the behavior of the man/actor in a social or organized group based on the advantages and disadvantages such behavior brought to the actor and the group of which he is a part. According to the author, all group individual behavior can be qualified according to two parameters: 1) advantages or disadvantages to the actor, and 2) advantages or disadvantages for “others”. The combination of these parameters produces the four individual types: 1) Intelligent people, 2) Helpless/Naive people, 3) the Bandit and 4) the Stupid person. This general outline is so simple that it represents a powerful and effective educational tool to make people aware of how they can be guided when they interact with other individuals. Therefore, Cipolla’s book is used in schools, universities and training courses for managers to send an educational message: behave intelligently and avoid stupidity, because “the Stupid person is more dangerous than the Bandit”. This study seeks to demonstrate that when a third parameter is introduced—The volition or lack thereof of the actor to cause advantages to others—four other types of individual can be added to Cipolla’s original typology:
1) the Able or Capable person, 2) the Hero, 3) the Incapable person, and 4) the Egoist. These eight types can be represented in a circular model that I have termed the Social Wheel, which increases the educational power of Cipolla’s idea. The paper will show that “the Incapable person is more dangerous than the Stupid one”
The ghost in the production machine: the laws of production networks
No full textAny kind of production flow is obtained not from individual production organizations but from a more or less widespread Production Network of interconnected production modules located in different places and times. All of these modules are, consciously or not, necessarily connected, interacting and cooperating in a coordinated way to combine and arrange, step by step, the factors, materials, components, manpower, machines and equipment to obtain flows of products’ final goods, in particular’ and to sell these where there is a demand for them. The purpose of this paper is to determine, in logical and formal terms, the minimum conditions that bring about the formation of production networks and to discover the laws that explain their dynamics over time.
At the global level, the continuous and accelerated economic progress of mankind is witnessed. There is an increase in the quantity and quality of satisfied and yet to be satisfied needs, of attained and yet to be attained aspirations. The increase in productivity and in quality has become unstoppable and appears to guide the other variables in the system. It is natural to ask who produces and governs these phenomena. It does indeed seem there is a Ghost in the “Production” machine whose invisible hand produces growing levels of productivity and quality, increases the quality and quantity of satisfied needs and aspirations and reduces the burden of work, thus producing increasingly higher levels of progress in the entire economic system. This conceptual framework gives a simple answer: there is nothing metaphysical about this evolution towards unstoppable and irreversible progress, and it is produced by the spontaneous genesis and activity of selfish nodes and governed by the rules and laws of the production networks.
The author has identified ten “rules of selfish behavior” on the part of the nodes, whose application necessarily and inevitably produces three evolutionary dynamic processes “which refer to the network as an entity” which the author has called the “rules of the production networks” to emphasize their cogency: continual expansion, elasticity-resiliency and continual improvement in performance. The cognitive and creative processes that characterize the nodes do not allow us to predict the actual evolution of production networks; nevertheless, if it is assumed that nodes “consciously or not” follow the 10 “rules of selfish behavior”, then several typical trends, or behavioural schema, can be deduced which the author has called as the “laws of networks”, to highlight their apparent inevitability and cogency
Tangential Weak Defectiveness and Generic Identifiability
No full textWe investigate the uniqueness of decomposition of general tensors T∈Cn1+1⊗⋯⊗Cnr+1 as a sum of tensors of rank 1. This is done extending the theory developed in a previous paper by the second author to the framework of non twd varieties. In this way we are able to prove the non generic identifiability of infinitely many partially symmetric tensors
The Pillars of Learning. Understanding, Studying and Explaining
No full textThis paper is based on the hypothesis that intelligent persons have a high capacity to understand and learn effectively, because processes involving study and explanation allow them to develop the capacity to construct a system of coherent models that can be quickly updated. The first part of the paper will highlight the logic and power of systemic understanding and learning that is founded in Systems Thinking. It is clear that understanding and learning represent different mental activities: We understand when we form a coherent model of a concept, but we learn only when that model becomes stable and permanent; when it is memorized so that we can repeat and apply it. There is no learning without studying. For this reason, the second part of the paper proposes ten steps for studying effectively (which permits understanding) and efficiently (using minimum effort). But how do we attain understanding? Often we reach understanding through personal experience; in most cases, however, we are helped by a professor, a teacher or a textbook that provides us with an explanation. The explanation process represents the topic of the third part of the paper, where the author considers the five most important structures of the explanation process—the common, classical, procedural, systemic and teleological structures. In this sense, Understanding, Studying and Explaining can be considered the three pillars on which are based learning and knowledge
Il fejeton come simbolo dell'identità culturale del dissenso cecoslovacco
No full textMy thesis focuses on the clandestine literature developed during the twenty years following the Prague Spring in 1968. I will particularly analyze the role of the fejeton, an ‘hybrid’ genre, often considered of a minor importance, yet extremely popular among the Czechoslovakian literature of the 70’s and 80’s.
The first part of my work will provide an in-depth analysis of the genre of the fejeton; from describing its typological characteristics, I will tackle the context that originated it and its future development within the Czechoslovakian cultural life, adding an in-depth analysis of the fejeton-model created by Karel Havlíček Borovský, Jan Neruda e Karel Čapek.
The second part will concentrate on the analysis of the cultural context of the twenty years before the Velvet Revolution in which the fejeton was created, whereas the following section will review the editorial project elaborated by Ludvík Vaculík and focused on the realization of four volumes entitled Československý fejeton/fejtón, a collection of fejeton written by the prohibited writers from 1975 through 1979. I will explain the key-role of Vaculík within this project and the several personal reasons that led each author to take part of it.
The last section represents the essence of my thesis as I will analyze the thematic cores of the four miscellanies: the elaboration of the dissident writers’ personal lives, their urge to speak out the truth of history against the false one imposed by the dictatorship, the description of the several pathological aspects of their degenerated society and the theme of the controversy into the Czechoslovakian dissident. Thanks to its position on the borderline between journalism and literature, the fejeton will gain new and unique features and its original literacy value will provide the readers with a lively portrait of that historical time and the daily, yet dangerous, work of the dissident writer
Pembentukan destination branding konservasi hutan sebagai destinasi ekowisata: Studi deskriptif Taman Hutan Raya Ir.H. Djuanda
No full textDestination branding merupakan strategi yang digunakan suatu destinasi untuk memperkenalkan identitasnya, termasuk ciri khas dan keunggulan yang dimiliki, sehingga dapat membangun citra yang diinginkan. Pendekatan ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kesadaran publik terhadap destinasi serta menarik wisatawan. Destination branding dibentuk melalui komunikasi dan hubungan dengan berbagai elemen yang saling terintegrasi.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis bagaimana Taman Hutan Raya Ir. H. Djuanda di Provinsi Jawa Barat membangun destination branding dengan menggunakan empat konsep dasar yang dikemukakan oleh Hankinson (2004) sebagai kerangka analisis. Konsep tersebut meliputi hubungan dengan konsumen (relationship with customer), hubungan dengan penyedia layanan utama (relationship with primary service), hubungan dengan media (relationship with media), serta hubungan dengan penyedia infrastruktur (brand infrastructure relationship).
Penelitian ini menggunakan paradigma konstruktivisme dengan pendekatan kualitatif melalui metode deskriptif kualitatif. Data dikumpulkan melalui wawancara mendalam serta observasi non-partisipatoris.
Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa pembentukan destination branding Taman Hutan Raya Ir. H. Djuanda dilakukan melalui berbagai aktivitas. Hubungan dengan konsumen dibangun dengan wisatawan melalui komunikasi langsung di front office serta tidak langsung melalui layanan customer service online, media sosial, dan keterlibatan masyarakat lokal. Hubungan dengan penyedia layanan utama dijalin melalui program kerja sama dengan mitra dan penyelenggaraan acara dengan non-mitra. Hubungan dengan media dilakukan melalui pemanfaatan media sosial, media online, dan relasi dengan media lokal. Sementara itu, hubungan dengan penyedia infrastruktur diperkuat melalui kolaborasi dengan pemerintah dalam forum daerah dan dengan perusahaan melalui program CSR.
Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini menyatakan bahwa Taman Hutan Raya Ir. H. Djuanda menjalankan aktivitas destination branding menggunakan beberapa pendekatan dengan berpacu pada konsep yang dikemukakan oleh Hankinson dalam rangka menciptakan pengalaman positif bagi wisatawan dan memperkuat destinasi sebagai tujuan ekowisata yang berkelanjutan
On the locus of points of high rank
No full textGiven a closed subvariety X in a projective space, the rank with respect to X of a point p in this projective space is the least integer r such that p lies in the linear span of some r points of X. Let Wk be the closure of the set of points of rank with respect to X equal to k. For small values of k such loci are called secant varieties. This article studies the loci Wk for values of k larger than the generic rank. We show they are nested, we bound their dimensions, and we estimate the maximal possible rank with respect to X in special cases, including when X is a homogeneous space or a curve. The theory is illustrated by numerous examples, including Veronese varieties, the Segre product of dimensions (1,3,3), and curves. An intermediate result provides a lower bound on the dimension of any GLn orbit of a homogeneous form. © 2017, The Author(s).TRU
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