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Micro-Level Mechanisms to Support Value Co-Creation for Design of Digital Services
2023
This study identifies micro-level value co-creation mechanisms that support the design of digital services. As services are now becoming digital—or at least digitally enabled—how to design digital services that enable value co-creation between a service provider and customers has become an increasingly important question. Our qualitative research study provides one answer to this question. Based on 113 in-depth laddering interviews analyzed using interpretive structural modeling, our study shows that value co-creation mechanisms differ between business-to-business and customer-to-customer digital service types. We identify five mechanisms to support value co-creation in the design of digit…
Explaining knowledge intensive firms’ performance through internal factors: evidence from an IT consulting firm
2022
Our research contributes to knowledge-intensive firms research streams. We propose an explanation of their performance based on organizational design theory and the resource-based view. Through a case study on an IT consulting firm in France, we examined the impact of a coherent organizational architecture and a cognitive asset on the performance of the firm. The results show a complementarity between a coherent organizational design and a meticulously formed and maintained human resources asset to explain the performance of an IT consulting firm.
Static output-feedback controller design for vehicle suspensions: an effective two-step computational approach
2014
In this study, a novel two-step methodology is applied in designing static output-feedback controllers for a class of vehicle suspension systems. Following this approach, an effective synthesis of static output-feedback controllers can be carried out by solving two consecutive linear matrix inequality optimisation problems. To illustrate the main features of the proposed design strategy, two different static output-feedback H 8 controllers are designed for a quarter-car suspension system. The first of those controllers uses the suspension deflection and the sprung mass velocity as feedback information, whereas the second one only requires the sprung mass velocity to compute the control acti…
Erratum for “Simple Relationships for the Optimal Design of Paired Drip Laterals on Uniform Slopes”
2017
In the original paper, errors in exponents of Eq. (11b) were detected. The corrected Eq. (11b) is reported.
Un'identità femminile
2018
Il testo illustra la figura di Anna Maria Fundarò, architetto e docente universitaria, fondatrice negli anni '70 della scuola di design dell'Università di Palermo; è strutturato con una breve profilo di A.M. Fundarò e una successiva conversazione a tre voci tra Mario Damiani Almeyda, custode dell' archivio Damiani Almeyda Fundarò, Paola Barbera, storica dell'architettura, Viviana Trapani che oggi insegna Design all'Università di Palermo, diretta dallo studio OMA, curatore della Biennale Nomade d'Arte Contemporanea Manifesta, svoltasi a Palermo nel 2018. Il contributo di V.M. Trapani è centrale nel delineare la rilevanza e l'originalità scientifica e didattica della figura di Anna Maria Fund…
An integrated multiobjective design tool for process design
2006
An integrated multiobjective design tool has been developed for chemical process design. This tool combines the rigorous process calculations of the BALAS process simulator and the interactive multiobjective optimization method NIMBUS. With this design tool, the designer can consider several conflicting performance criteria simultaneously. The interactive nature of this tool allows the designer to learn about the behavior of the problem. To illustrate the possibilities of this design tool, two case studies are considered. One of them is related to paper making while the other one is related to power plants.
Physics with the KLOE-2 experiment at the upgraded DAFNE
2010
Investigation at a $\phi$--factory can shed light on several debated issues in particle physics. We discuss: i) recent theoretical development and experimental progress in kaon physics relevant for the Standard Model tests in the flavor sector, ii) the sensitivity we can reach in probing CPT and Quantum Mechanics from time evolution of entangled kaon states, iii) the interest for improving on the present measurements of non-leptonic and radiative decays of kaons and eta/eta$^\prime$ mesons, iv) the contribution to understand the nature of light scalar mesons, and v) the opportunity to search for narrow di-lepton resonances suggested by recent models proposing a hidden dark-matter sector. We…
A case study on gamified interventions for team cohesion in factory work
2018
In this article, we aim to provide insights into the design and implementation of game elements for teamwork on the work floor and to study their effect. Inventing games to break monotonous jobs is a long-standing practice, yet conscious implementation of motivational elements of games at work is a recent phenomenon. Generally, gamification is used to enhance individual performance; it may be effective in enhancing teamwork as well. We developed game elements aimed at team cohesion and examined the effect of two gamified interventions (team performance feedback and personal profiles) on team cohesion in a factory. Results suggest that the interventions mainly raised attention toward the asp…
Relationships betweenin vitrodrug dissolution andin vivoresponse
2012
In recent years there has been an effort to relate manufacturing variables to the performance of the dosage form from a clinical point of view (in terms of safety and efficacy). Consequently any control strategy or the establishment of meaningful specifications should take into consideration the clinical impact on the patient. Since plasma levels are considered to be one of the most useful surrogates for clinical safety (in that bioequivalent plasma levels are considered therapeutically equivalent) and dissolution is the best surrogate for bioavailability, it is a natural consequence that dissolution be used to establish the design space in which all the formulations would have similar safe…
Reconsidering the Role of Research Method Guidelines for Qualitative, Mixed-methods, and Design Science Research
2019
Guidelines for different qualitative research genres have been proposed in information systems (IS). As these guidelines are outlined for conducting and evaluating good research, studies may be denied publication simply because they do not follow a prescribed methodology. This can result in “checkbox” compliance, where the guidelines become more important than the study. We argue that guidelines can only be used to evaluate what good research is if there is evidence that they lead to certain good research outcomes. Currently, the guidelines do not present such evidence. Instead, when it is presented, the evidence is often an authority argument or evidence of popularity with usability exampl…