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Explaining a Surge in IPR Filings: Uncertain Design Rights and Learning Their Boundaries in the Finnish Sauna Heater Market
2017
We present a case study of a surge in design right filings in an industry transforming from technology-based to design-based competition. The motives for and outcomes of filing, and how these changed over time are discussed. We go on to explore the events, which offered the agents opportunities to update their beliefs about the scope of design right protection. We find that filing motives change from specific protection goals to freedom to operate over time. We also find that the actors faced several, but sometimes contradictory, learning opportunities. Finally, we argue that uncertain design rights may have fostered entrepreneurial optimism. Policy makers could level the playing field and …
How Democratic is Latvia? Audit of Democracy 2005–2014
2015
The Audit of Democracy 2014 prepared within the scope of National Research Programme “National Identity”. Audit preparation and publication supported by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the United States Embassy in Latvia.
Distributed Scrum when Turning into Maintenance : A Single Case Study
2015
Global software development using agile methods is commonplace in software industry nowadays. Scrum, as the agile development management framework, can be distributed in many ways, especially concerning how the key roles are presented in different sites. We describe here a single case study of a distributed Scrum, mainly for maintenance of the already constructed web portal. Using a qualitative method, both working well and challenging parts of the software work, as experienced by the project stakeholders, are revealed and discussed.
How to find information on national food and nutrient consumption surveys across Europe: systematic literature review and questionnaires to selected …
2009
The present research was conducted within the framework of the EURopean micronutrient RECommendations Aligned project. In order to identify the best practice in assessing nutrient intakes, a search strategy for collecting data from national food consumption surveys/studies in Europe was developed. Systematic literature searches were carried out on twenty-eight European and the four European Free Trade Association countries. A questionnaire was also sent to two to five experts in each country. Systematic reviews using PubMed yielded 12 703 abstracts that were reduced to 200 studies using inclusion and exclusion criteria. Similarly, a search of ministry web sites yielded 3033 hits, and subseq…
First Life Cycle Impact Considerations of Two Wave Energy Converters
2018
The work presents two different revolutionary devices for the utilization of a new entry of renewable energy sources: sea wave. The first technology is based on linear generators, able to directly converts a linear motion into electrical output, limiting to minimum the chain of energy conversion. The other solution is based on a mechanical motion converter, coupled with alternators. The scope of this paper is to compare the two different systems designed by University of Palermo, through Life Cycle Assessment, in order to evaluate the global effects of the two systems to the environment.
Influence on self-efficacy of the degree of authenticity of the inquiry carried out in two secondary school science projects
2021
Las creencias sobre la propia capacidad para llevar a cabo con exito una tarea concreta (autoeficacia) influyen en la implicacion y la motivacion hacia dicha tarea. En las ultimas decadas se ha incrementado el foco de atencion hacia estas creencias en el area de ciencias no solo como uno de los predictores mas consistentes del desempeno real del alumnado, sino por la existencia de desigualdades sistematicas en la autoeficacia de chicos y chicas. Aunque el Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos (ABP) en el aula de ciencias posee diversas caracteristicas que potencialmente pueden contribuir a la mejoria de la autoeficacia en ciencias del alumnado, las evidencias entre la relacion de los elementos de…
El aprendizaje basado en proyectos en el aula de música: una revisión sistemática
2021
El Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos (ABP) es una de las metodologías de mayor expansión en las aulas actualmente. A pesar de no existir una definición unificada sobre el término, existe un consenso en torno a dos ideas: que el proyecto constituye el eje del currículo y que el alumno desarrolla una investigación. En música, la adopción de la etiqueta ABP es reciente, aunque los trabajos que relacionan música y proyectos son numerosos. La presente revisión identifica cuatro características comunes a los principales trabajos publicados: generación de una investigación, desarrollo de la práctica artística, planteamiento multidisciplinar y muestra pública del proyecto.
*-Representations of Partial *-Algebras
2002
This chapter is devoted to *-representations of partial *-algebras. We introduce in Section 7.1 the notions of closed, fully closed, self-adjoint and integrable *-representations. In Section 7.2, the intertwining spaces of two *-representations of a partial *-algebra are defined and investigated, and using them we define the induced extensions of a *-representation. Section 7.3 deals with vector representations for a *-representation of a partial *-algebra, which are the appropriate generalization to a *-representation of the notion of generalized vectors described in Chapter 5. Regular and singular vector representations are defined and characterized by the properties of the commutant, and…
Finnish Cyber Security Strategy and Implementation
2015
Technical and automated solutions and information networks, which make planning, guidance and implementation possible fast and in a cost-efficient way, are widely used in Finnish information society. The flipside of this development is increased dependency on extensive and complicated technical systems and information networks. Failures in these systems or, for example, in their power supply may rapidly affect comprehensive security in society. Threats against security in society have become more multifaceted and, as a consequence, more complicated. Threats can no longer be divided clearly into military and non-military threats or internal and external threats; they are often interconnected…
Reliability and validity of the Home Care STAT (Safety Task Assessment Tool).
2013
Abstract Home care workers are a priority population for ergonomic assessment and intervention, but research on caregivers' exposures to hazards is limited. The current project evaluated the reliability and validity of an ergonomic self-assessment tool called Home Care STAT (Safety Task Assessment Tool). Participants (N = 23) completed a background survey followed by 10–14 days of self-monitoring with the STAT. Results showed that the most frequent task was house cleaning, and that participants regularly performed dangerous manual client moving and transferring tasks. Researcher in-home observations of 14 workers (duration ≤2 h) demonstrated that workers' self-assessments were moderately re…