Search results for " cooperative"

Translating with the Internet, Translating with Speechy Project

2011

The Speechy Project (SP henceforth) arose in the last autumn of 2009 with the aim of helping advanced students of English to make the most of the Internet. Since then, this website has been sieving the net in order to pick out the best online resources and classify them orderly into field-related lists. On this trend, several sieves have been performed onto different fields of the English Language. The one which this article is concerned with corresponds to the Translation field that is projected in SP as a neat cooperative network teamed up (and managed) by six volunteers.

La crisi de l'agricultura mediterrània a l'Arc Mediterrani Central. Un estudi de les seues causes, propostes de solució i finançament des de l'Econom…

2011

L'agricultura mediterrània es troba en una situació de crisi, degut en part a l'especialització productiva (fruites i hortalisses) i la segmentació comarcal (comarques costaneres), al reduït tamany de les explotacions, a la competència sorgida dels països del Nord d'Àfrica i del Sudest Asiàtic i a l’elevada concentració de la demanda (empreses de distribució); la qual cosa quasi la condemna a tenir un pes testimonial dins de l'economia dels països que formen l'Arc Mediterrani Central, és a dir, el País Valencià i Catalunya. En canvi, són molt pocs els treballs que intenten aportar solucions front a aquesta situació, sobre tot, propostes de solució des de dins del sector. En aquest sentit, e…

The wheel of collaboration tools

2006

Paper from the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work We present a holistic framework for analyzing and specifying collaboration solutions, developed by an oil and gas company in response to practical needs in supporting integrated collaboration and information management. A typology of collaboration tool capabilities, termed the Wheel of Collaboration Tools (WCT), is described. We assess its contributions, and discuss areas of application and potential further development. Our intent is to stimulate discussion and research related to this type of collaboration modeling.

Forward Kinematic Modelling with Radial Basis Function Neural Network Tuned with a Novel Meta-Heuristic Algorithm for Robotic Manipulators

2022

The complexity of forward kinematic modelling increases with the increase in the degrees of freedom for a manipulator. To reduce the computational weight and time lag for desired output transformation, this paper proposes a forward kinematic model mapped with the help of the Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN) architecture tuned by a novel meta-heuristic algorithm, namely, the Cooperative Search Optimisation Algorithm (CSOA). The architecture presented is able to automatically learn the kinematic properties of the manipulator. Learning is accomplished iteratively based only on the observation of the input–output relationship. Related simulations are carried out on a 3-Degrees…

Cooperation in Rural Areas as a Local System Development Opportunity

2017

The development of rural areas requires the adoption of technology innovation and market approach strategies without departing from the specific features of local production systems, such as agricultural practices and the wealth of knowledge of operators. It is even better the exploitation of these resources to characterize the competitive positioning of territorial systems. In this framework, the cooperative Rinascita, which works in an internal rural area of Sicily region (Southern Italy), represents an attempt to maintain agricultural activities, traditions and rural culture as well as to promote and contribute to the development of the area by giving value to and promoting, a typical lo…

THE SUCCESS FACTORS OF A SICILIAN MARKET-ORIENTED WINE COOPERATIVE

2014

Wine cooperatives have a long tradition in Sicily, as well as in Italy and in Europe. The objective of this paper is to reconstruct the general framework of the Sicilian wine cooperatives that still account for nearly 80% of the regional wine grapes production. In this context we examine the productive, organizational and commercial strategies of a case study: Cantine Settesoli. Founded in Menfi (Western Sicily, Italy) in 1958 on the initiative of a group of wine grape-growers, the Cantine Settesoli has developed over the decades and now represents the major bottled wine cooperative in Sicily, whose 2,135 members own 5% of Sicilian vineyards. With its four wine-making plants, a volume of gr…

Implementation of green harvesting in the Sicilian wine industry: Effects on the cooperative system

2015

This paper contributes to assessing the effectiveness of the GH measure to contribute in reducing the supply of wine grapes, and thus contrasting the fall of wine prices in those years when especially abundant productions are expected. By analysing the application of this measure to the Sicilian wine sector during the three-year period (2010–2012), we assess its effects on the regional wine cooperative system. The results from the analysis of the statistical data show that the GH measure was successful in terms of the number of applications, the supported area and financial expenditures, and contributed with other factors to determining a reduction in wine grape production. The empirical su…

Old wine in new wineskins? Understanding the cooperative movement: Catalonia, 1860-1939

2020

Different factors have been proposed to explain why in some regions there is a greater tendency to form cooperatives. The debate remains open. In this study, we look at the spread of cooperativism within Catalonia from 1860 to 1939. Catalonia was not just the leading industrial region in Spain but also where cooperatives first emerged and had a greater presence. In line with the existing evidence, we find that cooperativism spread from coastal municipalities to the hinterland. In particular, it seems that local conditions (literacy and social capital) facilitated this process, while accessibility to the transport network and neighbouring effects also played a significant role. This work was…

Understanding the role of documents in a hierarchical flow of work

1997

Publication Network Analysis of an Academic Family in Information Systems

2011

The study of scientific collaboration through network analysis can give interesting conclusions about the publication habits of a scientific community. Co-authorship networks represent scientific collaboration as a graph: nodes correspond to authors, edges between nodes mark joint publications (Newman 2001a,b). Scientific publishing is decentralized. Choices of co-authors and research topics are seldomly globally coordinated. Still, the structure of co-authorship networks is far from random. Co-authorship networks are governed by principles that are similar in other complex networks such as social networks (Wasserman and Faust 1994), networks of citations between scientific papers (Egghe an…