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Editorial: Embodied cognition over the lifespan. Theoretical issues and implications for applied settings
Full text linkThe editorial introduces The Special Topic on Embodied Cognition over the Lifespan and in Applied Settings. The Topic aimed at gathering evidence on the role of EC in development, adulthood, and aging, and to shed light on the applied fields benefiting from this approach
Liouville type theorems for φ-subharmonic functions
No full textIn this paper we presents some Liouville type theorems for solutions of differential inequalities involving the φ-Laplacian. Our results, in particular, improve and generalize known results for the Laplacian and the p-Laplacian, and are new even in these cases. PhragmenLindeloff type results, and a weak form of the Omori-Yau maximum principle are also discussed
Export Pricing Decisions in SMEs: Theory and Practice
No full textSMEs are the backbone of the European economies representing the most important employer and healthiness generator in the European market. The studies on export pricing strategies (EPS) still indicate a lack of clarity and confusion in the literature providing a few clear guidelines for marketers’ export pricing formulations. This study is aimed at the identification of the main determinants that so far have been subjected to analysis by the literature that is at the center of the EPS formulation in the actual context. Furthermore, a comprehensive model of these variables is assembled delivering new insights for more advancements in this research field and providing guidelines for marketers. As a novelty, two new dimensions were found important in the formulation of the EPS, cultural dimensions, and firm/brand reputation providing new stimuli for further advancements in the field
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
Neumann Cut-Offs and Essential Self-adjointness on Complete Riemannian Manifolds with Boundary
Full text linkWe generalize some fundamental results for noncompact Riemannian manfolds without boundary, that only require completeness and no curvature assumptions, to manifolds with boundary: let M be a smooth Riemannian manifold with boundary partial derivative M and let C-c(infinity)(M) denote the space of smooth compactly supported cut-off functions with vanishing normal derivative, Neumann cut-offs. We show, among other things, that under completeness: - C-c(infinity)(M) is dense in W1,p(M & ring;) for all p is an element of(1,infinity); this generalizes a classical result by Aubin [2] for partial derivative M=& empty;. - M admits a sequence of first order cut-off functions in C-c(infinity)(M); for partial derivative M=& empty; this result can be traced back to Gaffney [7]. - the Laplace-Beltrami operator with domain of definition C-c(infinity)(M) is essentially self-adjoint; this is a generalization of a classical result by Strichartz [20] for partial derivative M=& empty;
DAFNE: A dataset of fresco fragments for digital anastlylosis
No full textRestoring artworks seriously damaged or completely destroyed is a challenging task. In particular, the reconstruction of frescoes has to deal with problems such as very small fragments, irregular shapes and missing pieces. Several attempts have been done to develop new techniques for helping restorers in the matching process, starting from traditional image processing methods to the more recent deep learning approaches. However, as often happens in the Cultural Heritage field, the availability of labeled data to test new strategies is limited, and publicly available datasets contain only few samples. For this reason, in this paper we introduce DAFNE, a large dataset that includes hundreds of thousands of images of fresco fragments artificially generated to guarantee a high variability in terms of shapes and dimensions. Fragments have been obtained starting from 62 images of famous frescoes of various artists and historical periods, in order to consider different artistic styles, subjects and colors
Corrigendum to: On the 1/ H-flow by p-Laplace approximation: new estimates via fake distances under Ricci lower bounds [Amer. J. Math . 144 (2022), no. 3, 779–849]
No full textWe correct a mistake in our proof of Lemma 2.17. Although we have to strengthen the assumptions therein and, accordingly, in Theorem 2.22, all of the results on the existence and properties of the IMCF are not affected. Minor changes, with no influence elsewhere in the paper, regard Lemma 3.3, Proposition 4.3 and Lemma 5.3
Conceptual Information on Objects' Locations.
No full textAccording to traditional views, basic and subordinate concepts elicit perceptual information, superordinate concepts abstract information. Two experiments showed that also superordinate concepts activate perceptual and contextual information. In Experiment 1 participants evaluated the adequacy of Scene- and Object-like locations ascribed to basic and superordinate concepts. Superordinate concepts were judged faster when paired with Scene-like locations, where many exemplars can coexist, than with Object-like locations. The results were replicated and extended in the second experiment with a location production task. Theoretical accounts for the results are discussed
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