Forms and role of the cluster initiatives in fostering innovation in post-industrial regions: A comparative study of environmental clusters in British West Midlands and Spanish Basque country. ACES Working Paper No. 8, August 2008

The objective of this research is to present cluster initiative approaches in post industrial regions characterized by similar economic history and challenges, with additional emphasis on their role in promoting innovation among regional businesses. The research is based on a comparison study of two environmental industry clusters: Environmental Technology Cluster (ET) from British West Midlands and ACLIMA from Spanish Basque Country. The study analyzes clusters' design and their role in fostering innovation based on environment industry clusters. In both regions environmental industry clusters represent strong potential for further dynamic development with grow opportunities driven by legislation introduced at EU, national or regional levels. The paper compares clusters' heterogeneity, goals and priorities, financing schemes, management structure, types of projects, character of private-public partnerships, challenges, as well as clusters' collaboration at regional/national/international levels. Also focus is given on how the clusters enhance innovation and what types of projects are executed by the regions in this field.

Market clusters for international franchising. ACES Working Papers, August 2009

While many studies of franchising have examined the organizational antecedents of internationalization, few have examined how differences among markets lead to this internationalization. Studies linking environmental factors to the companies' decision to internationalize showed that various political, social and economic factors either attract or repel international franchising investment. We build on these studies' selected variables to understand the similarities and differences among international franchising markets. Using these variables, our results show that countries divide into eight clusters with similar international franchising market characteristics. A discussion of each cluster follows with implications for franchising research.

Changing cultural clusters: A research note. ACES Working Papers, August 2009

The purpose of this research note is to investigate the changing cultural clusters that emerged between the studies of Hofstede (1970s) and GLOBE (1990s) using similar measures and overlapping countries. Our study analyzes the world's cultural clusters using two seminal and comparable cultural classifications: Hofstede and GLOBE. Four common cultural dimensions are empirically examined: individualism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity. We use two leading methods from cluster analysis and display data in both dandrograms and pie chart forms showing the grouping of countries. Our results suggest diverging cultural typologies that transcend geography, language, and religion. Countries are engaged in selective cultural borrowing that leads to new and changing global cultural structures.

Il femminismo nell'era di Internet: proposta di traduzione di "The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy" di Sam Maggs

Il presente elaborato analizza la figura della fangirl geek e del linguaggio tipico della nerd culture attraverso la traduzione di un estratto del libro "The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy" di Sam Maggs. In particolare, l'autrice ha tentato di contestualizzare certi termini nati su Internet per un pubblico italiano e approfondire il fenomeno delle fangirl, spesso vittime di stereotipi. Nei due capitoli che compongono l’elaborato si è voluto dare spazio all'analisi etimologica del termine fangirl, all'approfondimento in ottica femminista dell’evoluzione moderna di questa categoria e all'impatto che la nerd culture ha nel mondo di oggi. Il secondo capitolo analizza la traduzione di una parte del Capitolo 4 dedicato al femminismo geek. L'analisi traduttiva si concentra sulla resa dello humor e di uno slang ormai consolidato e conosciuto in inglese.

Using multiple landscape genetic approaches to test the validity of genetic clusters in a species characterized by an isolation-by-distance pattern

Bayesian clustering methods are typically used to identify barriers to gene flow, but they are prone to deduce artificial subdivisions in a study population characterized by an isolation-by-distance pattern (IbD). Here we analysed the landscape genetic structure of a population of wild boars (Sus scrofa) from south-western Germany. Two clustering methods inferred the presence of the same genetic discontinuity. However, the population in question was characterized by a strong IbD pattern. While landscape-resistance modelling failed to identify landscape features that influenced wild boar movement, partial Mantel tests and multiple regression of distance matrices (MRDMs) suggested that the empirically inferred clusters were separated by a genuine barrier. When simulating random lines bisecting the study area, 60% of the unique barriers represented, according to partial Mantel tests and MRDMs, significant obstacles to gene flow. By contrast, the random-lines simulation showed that the boundaries of the inferred empirical clusters corresponded to the most important genetic discontinuity in the study area. Given the degree of habitat fragmentation separating the two empirical partitions, it is likely that the clustering programs correctly identified a barrier to gene flow. The differing results between the work published here and other studies suggest that it will be very difficult to draw general conclusions about habitat permeability in wild boar from individual studies.

Self-tuning for cloud database clusters

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Fakultät für Informatik, Dissertation, 2016

Commentary on interstellar matter associated with 18 open clusters /

"September 1989"--Cover.

The galaxy.

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A new general catalogue of nebulae and clusters of stars, being the catalogue of the late Sir John F.W. Herschel.

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The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, and stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy, or milky-way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or northern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, & c. Illustrated by numerous maps and engravings.

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The Galaxy of wit : or, Laughing philosopher, being a collection of choice anecdotes, many of which originated in or about "The Literary emporium."

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Uranography ; or, a description of the heavens; designed for academies and schools; accompanied by an atlas of the heavens, showing the places of the principal stars, clusters, and nebulæ /

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A galaxy of southern heroes, and other poems,

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The Galaxy.

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The Galaxy : a magazine of literature /

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