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Understanding how Human Resource Knowledge Accumulation, Depletion Processes impact on a Service Firm Performance

This paper outlines how soft stock variables, such as human resource knowledge and more broadly Intellectual Capital (IC), accumulation and depletion processes are dynamically interrelated with firm performance. To this goal, the author suggests a framework making explicit the relationships between policy levers, strategic resources, drivers, end-results and performance indicators. The author argues that to explain a firm superior performance, it is not sufficient to look at the endowment of ...

Oxidative stress induces necropolis in mouse mesoangioblast stem cells

Nowadays stem cells are extensively used in regenerative medicine, as they show a great potential in restoration of several pathologies such as ischaemic heart disease, stroke, degenerative disorders and so on. However, it is well known that their therapeutic efficacy is compromised not only due to a reduced homing towards the target site, but also for their massive death during the first several days post-transplantation caused by the cytotoxic environment. In fact, the microenvironment with...

Scheletrizzazione di modelli di sistemi di approvvigionamento idrico regionali – Un caso di studio

In questo lavoro viene esaminata la possibilità di ridurre i tempi di calcolo, mediante la "scheletrizzazione" dei modelli, adottando come caso di studio un sistema di approvvigionamento idrico regionale reale, modellato in ambiente AQUATOR. La scheletrizzazione è stata in origine introdotta nel campo dell'ingegneria idraulica al fine di includere nei modelli idraulici delle reti solo le parti dalla rete reale che hanno un significativo impatto sul funzionamento del sistema, riducendo l'o...

Heterogeneous Photocatalysis for Green Synthesis