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Growth rate of Morone americana determined experimentally
No full textGrowth rate of Morone americana determined experimentall
Comment on Anwer et al. Rehabilitation of Upper Limb Motor Impairment in Stroke: A Narrative Review on the Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Economic Statistics of Stroke and State of the Art Therapies. Healthcare 2022, 10, 190
No full textWe are writing to you as the corresponding author of the interesting review study entitled “Rehabilitation of Upper Limb Motor Impairment in Stroke: A Narrative Review on the Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Economic Statistics of Stroke and State of the Art Therapies” [...
Knowledge Diffusion and Innovation: Modelling Complex Entrepreneurial Behaviours by Piergiuseppe Morone and Richard Taylor: A Response to the Review
No full textIn this brief note we reply to C�sar Garc�a-D�az and Diemo Urbig who reviewed our book on Knowledge Diffusion and Innovation (Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, 2010). We take this opportunity to reaffirm our personal view on several relevant issues, such as the need for a holistic view in economics, the adoption of a pragmatic heuristic approach when dealing with complex socio-economic systems, the relevance of a \'prototype model\' to setting a rigorous conceptual framework and the proposition of a novel way of looking at knowledge and innovation.Knowledge Diffusion, Innovation, Agent-Based Model, Validation
Acute pulmonary embolism: Focus on the clinical picture
No full textAcute pulmonary embolism (APE) is characterized by numerous clinical manifestations which are the result of a complex interplay between different organs; the symptoms are therefore various and part of a complex clinical picture. For this reason, it may not be easy to make an immediate diagnosis. This is a comprehensive review of the literature on all the various clinical pictures in order to help physicians to promptly recognize this clinical condition, remembering that our leading role as cardiologists depends on and is inffuenced by our knowledge and working methods
Do markets drive out lemmings - or vice versa?
No full textThis paper investigates experimentally a market inspired by two strands of literature: on herd behaviour in non-market situations, and on the aggregation of private information in markets. The first strand suggests that socially undesirable herd behaviour may result when information is private; the second suggests that in a market context the price mechanism may cause the private information to be aggregated correctly and efficiently. This latter therefore suggests that socially undesirable behaviour may be eliminated through the market. We test this experimentally, and find that socially undesirable behaviour may result: the market is misled by agents privately optimizing
Inequality, segregation and the Chilean labour market
No full textThe aim of this paper is to shed some light on the dynamics of the Chilean labour market
over the last thirty years or so. We investigate the relations between wage inequality and the
level of segregation which characterise the Chilean society as a whole. We show the presence
of high segregation in the labour market, and we argue in favour of the existence of a casual
nexus between segregation and wage inequality. We test our hypothesis calculating a
segregation index and testing causality, in the Granger sense, with a Gini index over the period
1967 – 1996. We also measure the magnitude of the impact of segregation on inequality
through OLS estimations
Looking around: the smart way of Italian SMEs to innovate
No full textIn this paper we assess the relevance of both knowledge creation and diffusion processes in affecting Italian SMEs’ propensity to innovate. In doing so a knowledge production function (KPF) is estimated for a representative sample of small and medium manufacturing firms over the period 1998-2003. To account for endogeneity of R&D effort in the KPF, we estimate a Heckman selection model on R&D decisions. The KPF is estimated for three different samples of firms using a standard probit where the probability that SMEs will innovate depends upon intramural R&D effort, regional and industrial spillovers and a vector of interaction and control variables. The main results obtained are the following: first, being located in the South, although does not affected the firm’s choice of starting R&D projects, affects negatively the amount of R&D investments. Second, the probability to innovate is positively related to sectoral spillovers and the magnitude of such impact is decreasing in firms’ size. Third, knowledge diffusion via geographical proximity enhances the probability of the recipient firm to innovate only if it has an appropriate endowment of human capital
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