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Industrial Service Concept Creation with Professional Service Robots
No full textThis multiple case study provides new knowledge on how companies create professional service robot enabled service concepts in industrial settings. Three cases include service concepts in which logistic, inspection and maintenance services are provided through various autonomous mobile robot platforms. As a result, central activities in the creation of multi-purpose service robot enabled service concepts are identified. Companies need to seamlessly configure their offerings, services, multi-purpose robots and humans in service delivery. The study raises the need for an operator company for total solution sales and a network lead. A fleet management software is needed for multi-purpose robot system operation
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Transición hacia la sostenibilidad: el 'qué', 'por qué' y 'cómo' de la integración de prácticas sostenibles en los modelos de negocio
Full text link[ES] En el ecosistema empresarial actual, la sostenibilidad se está convirtiendo cada vez
más en un elemento vital para la prosperidad a largo plazo de las empresas. La sostenibilidad
está ganando importancia paulatinamente, y actualmente se está convirtiendo en una
tendencia imparable en todas las dimensiones de nuestro marco socioeconómico. Por lo
tanto, el enfoque de las empresas hacia prácticas sostenibles también ha cambiado. El bajo
perfil que tenía el tema de la sostenibilidad hace algunos años ahora está completamente
olvidado. Las consideraciones de sostenibilidad han evolucionado para ser uno de los
elementos clave que las empresas desean integrar en sus modelos de negocio. Este nuevo
escenario ha dejado a innumerables empresas luchando por adaptarse a estos nuevos
tiempos. La integración de prácticas sostenibles no es una tarea fácil. La compleja red de
actores e interacciones entre entidades complica la identificación de mecanismos para
fomentar la sostenibilidad. Consecuentemente, este documento explora cuál es el estado del
arte de la integración de prácticas sostenibles, incluido un análisis de por qué se implementan estas prácticas y cómo su integración es finalmente efectiva. Los resultados muestran que existe una amplia
variedad de investigaciones, principalmente centradas en la creación de marcos y herramientas de lluvia de
ideas para ayudar a las empresas a integrar prácticas sostenibles. Con respecto al desencadenante de estas
iniciativas sostenibles, las investigaciones existentes expresan que la integración sostenible se desencadena
principalmente para adaptarse a las nuevas demandas futuras de la legislación y la sociedad. Finalmente,
sobre cómo se integran estas prácticas sostenibles, las estrategias se aplican a lo largo de toda la cadena
de valor, tanto en productos como en procesos. En cuanto a la relación entre la integración de prácticas
sostenibles y los resultados económicos, no se encontró tendencia a una correlación directa.[EN] In today¿s business ecosystem, sustainability is increasingly becoming a vital
element to firms¿ long-term prosperity. Sustainable considerations have evolved to turn a key
element that firms wish to integrate into their business models. This new scenario has left
countless companies struggling to adapt to these new times. The integration of sustainable
practices is not an easy task. The complex web of stakeholders and interactions between
participating actors complicate the identification of mechanisms that foster sustainability.
Consequently, this paper explores what is the state-of-the-art of the integration of sustainable
practices, including an analysis of why these practices are implemented and how their
integration is ultimately effective. Results show that there is a wide variety of research,
predominantly focused on the creation of frameworks and brainstorming tools to help
companies integrate sustainable practices. Regarding what is the trigger of these sustainable
initiatives, existing research expresses that sustainable integration is mainly triggered to
fit new upcoming demands of legislation and society. Finally, about how these sustainable
practices are integrated, strategies are applied across the entire value chain, on both products
and processes. Regarding the relationship between the integration of sustainable practices
and economic results, no tendency for a direct correlation was found.Díez-Martínez, I.; Peiró Signes, A. (2022). Transitioning towards sustainability: The 'what', 'why' and 'how' of the integration of sustainable practices into business models. TEC Empresarial. 16(1):44-86. https://doi.org/10.18845/te.v16i1.6013S448616
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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