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Types of Complementarity, Combinative Organization Forms and Structural Heterogeneity: Beyond Discrete Structural Alternatives
In the first Section, this paper offer a critical re-reading of the notions of organization forms as clusters of 'attributes' in organization theory and organization economics aimed at singling out what they have established and what problems have to be solved. In the second Section, building on those elements and on earlier works of the authors, the paper provides a typology of organizational âfeaturesâ, a theory of how they are expected to combine inspired by an analogy with chemistry, and a formalized operationalization of the main propositions through an innovative application of Boolean algebra
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Configurational Analysis and Organization Design: Towards a Theory of Structural Heterogeneity
This chapter reconstructs the roots, evolution and some prospects of configurational analysis (CA) in organization theory (OT) and organizational economics (OE), focusing on those components of CA that are particularly relevant to organizational design. This excursus leads to: a) revealing the presence of elements of CA in many OT and OE approaches - a continuity that is seldom acknowledged and arguably extends (rather than diminishes) the implications and applications of CA; b) identifying âstructural heterogeneityâ (SH) -both âinternalâ among organizational attributes within a configuration, and âexternalâ among configurations under the same conditions (or âequifinalityâ)- as an organizational property that can be distinctively studied by CA. This claim, as well as the substantive insights that can be gained by a configurational analysis of structural heterogeneity, is substantiated by an empirical analysis on a multi-sector sample of firm
Visual Object Tracking in First Person Vision
The understanding of human-object interactions is fundamental in First Person Vision (FPV). Visual tracking algorithms which follow the objects manipulated by the camera wearer can provide useful information to effectively model such interactions. In the last years, the computer vision community has significantly improved the performance of tracking algorithms for a large variety of target objects and scenarios. Despite a few previous attempts to exploit trackers in the FPV domain, a methodical analysis of the performance of state-of-the-art trackers is still missing. This research gap raises the question of whether current solutions can be used âoff-the-shelfâ or more domain-specific investigations should be carried out. This paper aims to provide answers to such questions. We present the first systematic investigation of single object tracking in FPV. Our study extensively analyses the performance of 42 algorithms including generic object trackers and baseline FPV-specific trackers. The analysis is carried out by focusing on different aspects of the FPV setting, introducing new performance measures, and in relation to FPV-specific tasks. The study is made possible through the introduction of TREK-150, a novel benchmark dataset composed of 150 densely annotated video sequences. Our results show that object tracking in FPV poses new challenges to current visual trackers. We highlight the factors causing such behavior and point out possible research directions. Despite their difficulties, we prove that trackers bring benefits to FPV downstream tasks requiring short-term object tracking. We expect that generic object tracking will gain popularity in FPV as new and FPV-specific methodologies are investigated
Bronchial to subclavian shunt in a CF patient. A potential pitfall for embolization
Bronchial artery embolization is a well accepted and widely used technique in the management of massive haemoptysis in cystic fibrosis (CF). It can be a complex procedure requiring a deep knowledge of the bronchial artery anatomy including the possible bronchial anastomoses. We report a case of complex vascular anatomy of the left bronchial artery with multiple anastomoses with the ipsilateral subclavian artery as cause of non-attempted embolization. \ua9 2003 European Cystic Fibrosis Society. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Concettualizzazione e contestualizzazione dei beni culturali archeologici
This report describes the observations made while developing a new methodology for historic surveys used for the re-contextualisation of archaeological finds. This particular methodology avails itself of both traditional historic surveys as well as the representation of knowledge through ontology. The methodology described here was developed in reference to specific cases of re-contextualisation of archaeological artefacts from Pompeii which are now in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples
The efficacy of epidermal growth factor receptor-specific antibodies against glioma xenografts is influenced by receptor levels, activation status, and heterodimerization
Purpose: Factors affecting the efficacy of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAb) directed to the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) remain relatively unknown, especially in glioma. Experimental Design: We examined the efficacy of two EGFR-specific mAbs (mAbs 806 and 528) against U87MG-derived glioma xenografts expressing EGFR variants. Using this approach allowed us to change the form of the EGFR while keeping the genetic background constant. These variants included the de2-7 EGFR (or EGFRvIII), a constitutively active mutation of the EGFR expressed in glioma. Results: The efficacy of the mAbs correlated with EGFR number; however, the most important factor was receptor activation. Whereas U87MG xenografts expressing the de2-7 EGFR responded to therapy, those exhibiting a dead kinase de2-7 EGFR were refractory. A modified de2-7 EGFR that was kinase active but autophosphorylation deficient also responded, suggesting that these mAbs function in de2-7 EGFRâexpressing xenografts by blocking transphosphorylation. Because de2-7 EGFRâexpressing U87MG xenografts coexpress the wild-type EGFR, efficacy of the mAbs was also tested against NR6 xenografts that expressed the de2-7 EGFR in isolation. Whereas mAb 806 displayed antitumor activity against NR6 xenografts, mAb 528 therapy was ineffective, suggesting that mAb 528 mediates its antitumor activity by disrupting interactions between the de2-7 and wild-type EGFR. Finally, genetic disruption of Src in U87MG xenografts expressing the de2-7 EGFR dramatically enhanced mAb 806 efficacy. Conclusions: The effective use of EGFR-specific antibodies in glioma will depend on identifying tumors with activated EGFR. The combination of EGFR and Src inhibitors may be an effective strategy for the treatment of glioma
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Exploring the topology of the plausible: Fs/QCA counterfactual analysis and the plausible fit of unobserved organizational configurations
The main aim of this contribution is to expand the dominant rationale of organizational design research by including solutions and possibilities not observed in reality. We believe that the
counterfactual approach to configurations responds to an open call in organization theory and strategy to move the modelling of fit towards a more robust and theory-based specification. With this new approach we propose to rediscover the roots of organization design as a distinct normative discipline that âshould stand approximately in relation to the basic social sciences as engineering stands with respect to physical sciences or medicine to the biologicalâ. At a more general level, our view implies an expansion of the dominant meaning of the concept of ârelevanceâ in management research. While we agree with Gulati (2007: 780) that we as scholars should probe âmore deeply into the problems and other issues that managers care aboutâ, we also believe that relevance does not necessarily mean that researchers have to use an ex-post rationality by studying only empirically frequent phenomena. In contrast, we think that any management esearcher should bring with her or himself a fragment of the spirit
of the great Greek philosopher Anaximander (c. 610âc. 546 BC), who foresaw the concept of the infinite universe without the support of any empirical observation and against the predominant
wisdom of the time. Not by chance, Karl Popper (1998) onsidered Anaximanderâs intuitions among the most vivid demonstrations of the power of human thought and logic
Forecasting Human-Object Interaction: Joint Prediction of Motor Attention and Actions in First Person Video
We address the challenging task of anticipating human-object interaction in
first person videos. Most existing methods ignore how the camera wearer
interacts with the objects, or simply consider body motion as a separate
modality. In contrast, we observe that the international hand movement reveals
critical information about the future activity. Motivated by this, we adopt
intentional hand movement as a future representation and propose a novel deep
network that jointly models and predicts the egocentric hand motion,
interaction hotspots and future action. Specifically, we consider the future
hand motion as the motor attention, and model this attention using latent
variables in our deep model. The predicted motor attention is further used to
characterise the discriminative spatial-temporal visual features for predicting
actions and interaction hotspots. We present extensive experiments
demonstrating the benefit of the proposed joint model. Importantly, our model
produces new state-of-the-art results for action anticipation on both EGTEA
Gaze+ and the EPIC-Kitchens datasets. Our project page is available at
https://aptx4869lm.github.io/ForecastingHOI
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Author Correction: Longitudinal assessment of tumor development using cancer avatars derived from genetically engineered pluripotent stem cells.
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