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In-house versus external basic research and first-to-market innovations

2016

This paper explores to what extent conducting internal basic research, as opposed to external basic research (i.e. outsourcing and collaboration with universities) encourages firms to bring new products into the market ahead of competitors, and contributes to innovation performance. The analysis is based on a sample of Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 2006–2012. Our findings suggest that conducting in-house basic research affects firm's propensity to introduce product novelties. Furthermore, performing this activity continuously affects the probability of being product-pioneer in low and medium–low tech sectors. Collaboration with universities also helps in introducing new produc…

business.industryStrategy and Managementmedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesSample (statistics)Competitor analysisManagement Science and Operations ResearchOutsourcingProduct (business)Basic researchManagement of Technology and Innovation0502 economics and businessEconomicsManufacturing firmsFirst-mover advantage050207 economicsMarketingbusinessImitation050203 business & managementmedia_commonResearch Policy
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BIOPHARMACEUTICAL ALLIANCES AND COMPETITION: A REAL OPTIONS GAMES APPROACH

2013

The competitive landscape where pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies operate has changed radically due to a scientific/technological progress that has revolutionised the process by which drugs are developed. In fact, pharmaceutical industry more and more relies on advances in biochemistry and molecular biology. As a consequence, the number of partnerships between pharmaceutical and biotech firms has grown significantly. Research contributions addressing the biopharmaceutical alliances design have also focused on the optimal timing to sign a partnership. In this paper, we introduce and analyse the effect of competition in biotechnology industry by modelling the decisions of whether and…

business.industryTechnological changeProcess (engineering)Strategy and ManagementSettore ING-IND/35 - Ingegneria Economico-Gestionalereal options games.Biopharmaceutical alliances competition real options gamesCompetition (economics)AllianceBiopharmaceuticalBiopharmaceutical allianceManagement of Technology and InnovationGeneral partnershipEconomicsFirst-mover advantageBusiness and International ManagementMarketingbusinesscompetitionPharmaceutical industryInternational Journal of Innovation Management
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Psychosocial and socioeconomically aspects of mothers having a child with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) : a pilot-study during the first year of life

2020

Background The emotional impact on parents at the birth of their new-born with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) can be traumatic for parents, especially mothers, and affect the sensitive early parent-child relationship. Unlike many other congenital malformations facial deformities are visible to all. The uncommon facial appearance creates feelings and reactions in the mother, families and other people. Only few studies deal with this psychosocial burden of these mothers. Material and methods This pilot-study deals with mothers' early experiences (n=84) having a child with CL/P. Mothers were asked to complete a questionnaire at diagnosis, birth and after lip surgery. The questions were focused…

business.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectResearchFirst year of life030206 dentistryPrenatal care:CIENCIAS MÉDICAS [UNESCO]Affect (psychology)Community and Preventive Dentistry03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineFeeling030225 pediatricsUNESCO::CIENCIAS MÉDICASMarital statusMedicineGriefbusinessGeneral DentistryPsychosocialSocioeconomic statusmedia_commonClinical psychology
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Updated secondary implant stability data of two dental implant systems. A retrospective cohort study

2017

Background At present, updated secondary implant stability data generated by actual versions of resonance frequency analysis (RFA) and mobility measurement (MM) electronic devices of 2 different implant systems with actual manufactured surfaces seem to lack and/or are incomplete. Material and Methods Secondary implant stability data based on both RFA and MM measurements were collected and analyzed from 44 formerly treated patients (24 f, 20 m) that received either Ankylos Cellplus (Ø3.5mm) (A) (n=36) or Straumann regular neck SLA tissue level (Ø4.1mm) (S) (n=37) implants in posterior positions of both jawbones (total number= 72). These results were interpretated in view of formerly publishe…

business.industrymedicine.medical_treatmentResearchTissue levelDentistryRetrospective cohort study:CIENCIAS MÉDICAS [UNESCO]First generationResonance frequency analysisUNESCO::CIENCIAS MÉDICASMedicinePeriodontologyImplantbusinessDental implantGeneral DentistryJournal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry
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Second Language Interference during First Language Processing by Arabic-English Bilinguals.

2017

The research investigated whether a bilinguals’ second language (L2) is activated during a task involving only the first language (L1). We tested the hypothesis that the amount of L2 interference can vary across settings, with less interference occurring in testing locations where L2 is rarely used. In Experiment 1, we compared language processing for 50 Arabic–English bilinguals tested in Saudi Arabia and 49 Arabic–English tested in the United States. In the task, participants viewed a picture and judged whether a phoneme presented over headphones was part of the L1 picture name. The results showed no effect of testing location on processing. For both groups of bilinguals, we observed L2 i…

business.product_categoryArabic–English bilingualsArabicFirst languagelcsh:BF1-990Saudi ArabiaInterference (wave propagation)050105 experimental psychologyTask (project management)Psychology0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesbilingual memoryNeuroscience of multilingualismGeneral PsychologyHeadphonesOriginal Research060201 languages & linguistics05 social sciencesMean and predicted response06 humanities and the artsbilingualismL2 interferencelanguage.human_languagelcsh:Psychology0602 languages and literaturelanguagePsychologybusinessBilingual memoryCognitive psychologyFrontiers in psychology
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Sport and Quality of Life

2022

Negli ultimi trent’anni lo sport ha assunto un significato molto rilevante nella vita delle persone e, seppure con notevoli differenze, sia nei paesi a sviluppo economico avanzato, sia in quelli in via di sviluppo. A livello individuale, esso ha costituito un’area di investimento identitario quando ha assunto la forma di sport spettacolo del quale fruire, alimentando la pratica del tifo e il fandom o costituendo il modello di uno stile di vita vincente; ma anche quando ha assunto la forma di pratica del tempo libero attraverso la quale tenersi in forma, facendo crescere, in questo caso, la diffusione di una cultura della salute e del benessere. Si tratta di due modalità di approcciare al co…

but also when he took the form of free time practice through which to keep fit making grow in this case the diffusion of a culture of health and well-being. These are two ways of approaching the consumption of sports by spectators and actorIn the last thirty years sport has taken on a very significant meaning in people's lives and albeit with considerable differences both in advanced economic development countries and in developing countries. On an individual level it constituted an area of identity investment when it assumed the shape of “sport spectacle” to be enjoyed fueling the practice of cheering and fandom or constituting the model of a winning lifestyleand the two ways of use can be strongly related to the perception and assessment of the quality of life. The “semantic universes” which however connote sport and “free time sports” have often appeared polarized. Commercial sport and sports professionalism are intertwined with the institutions of economics politics and culture which above all stress its “spectacularity” in order to capture first and foremost the audience. But also the sport of leisure time is intertwined with the actions of the institutions of economics politics and culture with the difference that these stress above all its “healthy value” aimed at the “healthy and rational” investment of time in an activity which improves the quality of life in the short medium and long period. This polarization between the consumption of sport entertainment - commercial sport - and the consumption of sport as a leisure activity - sport for all - has become increasingly interconnected precisely because of the increased collective identity demand via sport. In other words we have witnessed the spread of shape of sports entertainment that recall the importance of sports for psychophysical well-being for integration and social participation for the reduction of social inequalities ethnic and cultural differences and in which the importance assumed was weakened in the show from agonism from competition from the physical confrontation between two contenders or two teams. A sport in which we act with competitors as well as against competitors. And on the other hand we have gradually witnessed the spectacularization of sports in our free time to the point that the sharing of the results obtained through the declination of a competitive spirit that presents itself as directed no longer against other contenders but against its own performance limits it has become the way in which each person makes part of his or her own life spectacular the one he often considers most authentic. The aim of this work is to describe how the intertwining between the commercial/professional dimension of the sports show and the playful/recreational dimension of sports practice are fueled by a demand and an offer of social identity that characterizes these two “semantic universes”.Settore SPS/07 - Sociologia Generale
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Profilo neuropsicologico di un campione di soggetti al primo episodio psicotico in relazione all'abuso di cannabis

2010

cannabis first episode neurocognitività
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Factores de riesgo asociados a la aparición de nuevas lesiones de caries en primeros molares permanentes

2018

Objetivo: Se realizó un estudio retrospectivo longitudinal el cual fue aprobado por el Comité de Ética de la Universidad de Valencia. El objetivo principal fue determinar los factores asociados a la aparición de nuevas lesiones de caries en el primer molar permanente (PMP) en niños de 12 años pertenecientes al Departamento 9 de Salud del Hospital General de Valencia (al que corresponden los Centros de Salud (CS) de Alacuás, Xirivella y Paiporta) seguidos, desde antes de la erupción del PMP y a lo largo de un periodo de 5 y 7 años, a través de la evaluación de su historia clínica. Material y métodos: se listaron en 2015 los niños nacidos en 2005 en los 3 municipios. De este modo se obtuvo un…

caries dentalpermanent first molarUNESCO::CIENCIAS MÉDICASdental cariesfactores de riesgorisk factors:CIENCIAS MÉDICAS [UNESCO]primer molar permanente
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Regole per costruire in campagna

2014

Il saggio illustra l'esperienza didattica di un Laboratorio di Progettazione di primo anno del Corso di Laurea in Architettura della Università di Palermo il cui docente è Michele Sbacchi. Il tema affrontato è il progetto di una casa unifamiliare nella campagna. La didattica è sviluppata in modo da fare scaturire il progetto come un ragionamento a partire dalla osservazione del contesto, nella presupposizione di uno scopo. La didattica è quindi improntata a indurre a una procedura corretta piuttosto che al confezionamento di un prodotto. I progetti svolti individualmente, mettono in scena rigore compositivo e completa derivazione dal contesto. Description of first-year architectural design …

casa unifamiliare didattica primo anno architetturasingle-family house first-year design studioSettore ICAR/14 - Composizione Architettonica E Urbana
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On the first-order collapse transition of a three-dimensional, flexible homopolymer chain model

2005

We present simulation results for the phase behavior of flexible lattice polymer chains using the Wang-Landau sampling idea. These chains display a two-stage collapse through a coil-globule transition followed by a crystallization at lower temperatures. Performing a finite-size scaling analysis on the two transitions, we show that they coincide in the thermodynamic limit corresponding to a direct collapse of the random coil into the crystal without intermediate coil-globule transition.

chemistry.chemical_classificationQuantitative Biology::BiomoleculesChain modelMaterials scienceGeneral Physics and AstronomyThermodynamicsPolymerFirst orderRandom coillaw.inventionchemistrylawLattice (order)Thermodynamic limitCrystallizationScalingEurophysics Letters (EPL)
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