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Fostering Innovation in the National Systems: An Application to Spain

Business Systems Research, 2014
Background: The sharing of practices that enable the flow and the distribution of tacit knowledge and other ways of proprietary knowledge are essential requisites for promoting an innovation system.
de Pablos Heredero Carmen, Bermejo Ruiz Jose Manuel   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

On the Value of Faculty Development Abroad: Reflections on the 2000 Ghana Seminar Experience

Journal of Public and Professional Sociology, 2012
In the summer of 2000, we were part of a three-week faculty development seminar that travelled to the West African nation of Ghana. The seminar was sponsored and organized by the University System of Georgia African Council. The theme of the seminar was "
Albert E. McCormick Jr., Michelle McCormick   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

M2-branes, Einstein manifolds and triple systems [PDF]

, 2009
This is the written version of a talk given on 1 July 2009 at the XXV Max Born Symposium: the Planck Scale, held in Wroclaw, Poland. I review the possible transverse geometries to supersymmetric M2-brane configurations and discuss the representation ...
Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman, José Miguel Figueroa-O’Farrill, M. Szczachor, R. Durka   +3 more
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Hospital Readmission After Traumatic Brain Injury Hospitalization in Community‐Dwelling Older Adults

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To examine the risk of hospital readmission after an index hospitalization for TBI in older adults. Methods Using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, we used propensity score matching of individuals with an index TBI‐related hospitalization to individuals with (1) non‐TBI hospitalizations (primary analysis)
Rachel Thomas, Connor A. Law, Joan A. Casey, Thomas Mosley, Rebecca F. Gottesman, Ramon Diaz‐Arrastia, Holly Elser, Andrea L. C. Schneider   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

How are the SMEs Committed to their Local Communities in the Term of Sustainability?

Economics and Culture
Local communities play a crucial role in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. The role and massive influence of the local environment raise several questions. This paper aims to answer the following questions: (1) how and why the local communities affect SMEs’
Kolnhofer-Derecskei Anita, Reicher Regina Zsuzsánna, Dombi Mihály, Győri Zsuzsanna   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Analytic Hierarchy Process Analysis: Application to Subscriber Retention Decisions in the Nigerian Mobile Telecommunications

International Journal of Management and Economics, 2015
The introduction of mobile number portability (MNP) in the Nigerian telecommunications industry has brought a new challenge for mobile operators. This study investigates the use of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in customer retention decisions in the ...
Adebiyi Sulaimon Olanrewaju, Oyatoye Emmanuel Olateju, Kuye Owolabi Lateef   +2 more
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Rediscovery of a thought to be extinct beauty: a second chance for conservation [PDF]

Nature Conservation
Some rivulids are specialized to live in temporary or ephemeral water bodies, and for this reason they are known as annual or seasonal fishes. The fact that these seasonal species inhabit small temporary wetlands, which are easily modified and destroyed,
Heinz Arno Drawert, Thomas Otto Litz
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Lentiviral-based reporter constructs for profiling chondrogenic activity in primary equine cell populations [PDF]

European Cells & Materials, 2018
Successful clinical translation of mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-based therapies for cartilage repair will likely require the implementation of standardised protocols and broadly applicable tools to facilitate the comparisons among cell types and ...
A Martin-Pena, RM Porter, G Plumton, TM McCarrel, AJ Morton, MV Guijarro, SC Ghivizzani, B Sharma, GD Palmer   +8 more
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Monopole--Instantons in M2-brane Theories [PDF]

, 2011
We study monopole-instantons in M2-brane theories, focussing on the ABJM class of Chern-Simons gauge theories coupled to matter. We calculate calculate explicitly the 8-fermion term in the effective action induced by these monopole-instantons, and ...
Martinec, Emil, McOrist, Jock
core  

Functional Connectivity Linked to Cognitive Recovery After Minor Stroke

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Patients with minor stroke exhibit slowed processing speed and generalized alterations in functional connectivity involving frontoparietal cortex (FPC). The pattern of connectivity evolves over time. In this study, we examine the relationship of functional connectivity patterns to cognitive performance, to determine ...
Vrishab Commuri, Isabella Dallasta, Ciaran Stone, Sophia Girgenti, Neda Gould, Rafael H. Llinas, Jonathan Z. Simon, Elisabeth Breese Marsh   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source