Logics Hindering Digital Transformation in Cultural Heritage Strategic Management: An Exploratory Case Study

Museums play an important role in tourist flows, especially in cities that are famous for their cultural heritage. To valorize their role, these cultural institutions should open themselves to visitors as vectors of social, educational, and entertainment values. In particular, museums need to reinvent how they transmit information about their collections and how they engage visitors, keeping in mind the opportunities triggered by digitalization. Digital technologies could in fact be a powerful tool to assist in adopting a visitor-oriented approach and to stimulate a two-way communication. This article aims to analyze the extent of digitalization that should be integrated in museums' communication strategies, and to recognize the logics hindering digital transformation in cultural heritage strategic management. We developed an exploratory case study, focused on museums in Turin, Italy, gathering online data through institutional reports, museum websites, and social media, as well as onsite data mainly from semistructured interviews with museum managers. The research shows that most of the interviewees understand the strategic role of digitalization for museum development; however, the level of digital readiness remains low. Alongside the well-known systemic financial deficit of cultural institutions, there are other critical factors that hinder the integration of digitalization processes in the cultural heritage management. Common barriers include the presence of institutional pressures, and the lack of organizational and managerial coordination between different departments and functions that should be involved in the development of digital strategies and their integration in the strategic planning systems of museums. This research offers insights to tackle these challenges, allowing museums to compete in the international context of the cultural and heritage tourism

Business model innovation in SMEs engaging in innovation ecosystems. A decoupling perspective

Digital technologies have been increasingly affecting our day-to-day activities, drastically reshaping markets and society. The diffusion of new digital technologies\u2014such as social media, cloud computing, mobile computing, 3D printing, and big-data analytics \u2013 is posing firms to challenges, creating opportunities to develop radically new business models. However, despite the growing interest towards this issue, the contribute of digitalisation from the perspective of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is still such an under-investigated topic. SMEs are considered a driving force in most national economies, contributing heavily to employment, innovation and economic growth, but at the same time they often suffer from lack of both financial and human resources. These weaknesses may be compensated by the inflow and outflow of knowledge and capital boosted by technological innovation and participation within innovation ecosystems. The aim of this paper is to understand, through the lens of the institutional theory, how both the relationships established within the ecosystem and the internal organizational capabilities of SMEs impact on business model innovation thanks to the adoption of digital technologies such as Internet of things, big data, and open data. To do so the authors carried out an embedded case study on an Italian Industry 4.0 project which involved several actors (e.g. food SMEs, universities, technology consulting companies, and Piedmont Region). First findings on this ongoing research show that innovation ecosystems could represent a strong driver for developing an innovative business model oriented to value co-creation provided that SMEs already own distinctive dynamic capabilities. Without these capabilities it would be difficult to fully exploit the digital opportunities arising from the relationships among the heterogeneous actors which are part of the project

Estudio de la relación y el sexo de la Haematobia irritans (Diptera: Muscidae) y la susceptibilidad/resistencia a la cipermetrina

La Haematobia irritans, mosca de los cuernos es un díptero hematófago, parásito obligado de los bovinos, que provoca importantes pérdidas ecónomicas en la producción de leche y carne. Está ampliamente distribuida en nuestro país y para combatirla se han utilizado en forma masiva piretroides sintéticos, lo cual produjo poblaciones de moscas resistentes a este principio activo de bajo costo y alta toxicidad para el parásito. Uno de los mecanismos de la resistencia a los piretroides es la mutación en el gen del canal de sodio reemplazando una leucina por fenilalanina, otorgándole resistencia del tipo kdr (knockdown resistance). Esta mutación puede detectarse, en forma individual, mediante la reacción en cadena de la polimerasa (PCR). El objetivo del presente ensayo fue evaluar la relación de la proporción entre individuos adultos machos y hembras con ausencia o presencia de la mutación kdr. Para estimar la cantidad de especímenes homocigotos y heterocigotos según el sexo, se capturaron moscas de bovinos de la EEA INTA Rafaela desde febrero a diciembre de 2003. Para determinar la dosis letal 50 ( DL50 ) se utilizaron papeles de filtro impregnados con diferentes concentraciones de cipermetrina. Según la DL 50 se estratificó en: DL50 menor 4 μg/cm2; entre 4.1 y 6 μg/cm2 y mayor de 6 μg/cm2. De cada una de las muestras obtenidas de esta población de campo, se tomaron al azar moscas y se determinó el sexo de las mismas y mediante la técnica de PCR se constató la presencia o ausencia de la mutación genética. Para cada uno de los estratos se comparó la proporción de machos homocigotos susceptibles (ss) vs hembras homocigotas susceptibles (ss), machos heterocigotas (sr) vs hembras heterocigotas (sr) y machos resistentes homocigotas (rr) vs hembras resistentes homocigotas (rr). La comparación de proporciones según sexo y DL 50 se analizó mediante Chi - cuadrado. En las condiciones de este ensayo no hubo diferencias significativas, en los diferentes rangos de DL50, en la proporción de hembras y machos ya sea homocigotas o heterocigotas.Fil: Castelli, M. E.. Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria. Centro Regional Santa Fe. Estacion Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela. Agencia de Extension Rural Carlos Pellegrini.; ArgentinaFil: Mangold, Atilio Jose. Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria. Centro Regional Santa Fe. Estacion Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela. Agencia de Extension Rural Carlos Pellegrini.; ArgentinaFil: Bertello, C.. Sin filiación; ArgentinaFil: Faletti, C. M.. Universidad Nacional de Rosario; ArgentinaFil: Guglielmone, Alberto Alejandro. Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria. Centro Regional Santa Fe. Estacion Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela. Agencia de Extension Rural Carlos Pellegrini.; Argentin

Gamma-Ray Burst observations by the high-energy charged particle detector on board the CSES-01 satellite between 2019 and 2021

In this paper we report the detection of five strong Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) by the High-Energy Particle Detector (HEPD-01) mounted on board the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES-01), operational since 2018 on a Sun-synchronous polar orbit at a $\sim$ 507 km altitude and 97$^\circ$ inclination. HEPD-01 was designed to detect high-energy electrons in the energy range 3 - 100 MeV, protons in the range 30 - 300 MeV, and light nuclei in the range 30 - 300 MeV/n. Nonetheless, Monte Carlo simulations have shown HEPD-01 is sensitive to gamma-ray photons in the energy range 300 keV - 50 MeV, even if with a moderate effective area above $\sim$ 5 MeV. A dedicated time correlation analysis between GRBs reported in literature and signals from a set of HEPD-01 trigger configuration masks has confirmed the anticipated detector sensitivity to high-energy photons. A comparison between the simultaneous time profiles of HEPD-01 electron fluxes and photons from GRB190114C, GRB190305A, GRB190928A, GRB200826B and GRB211211A has shown a remarkable similarity, in spite of the different energy ranges. The high-energy response, with peak sensitivity at about 2 MeV, and moderate effective area of the detector in the actual flight configuration explain why these five GRBs, characterised by a fluence above $\sim$ 3 $\times$ 10$^{-5}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ in the energy interval 300 keV - 50 MeV, have been detected.Comment: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ