Across establishments, within firms: worker’s mobility, knowledge transfer and survival

We analyze the recruitment strategies and the survival of newly created establishments that are affiliated with pre-established _rms. For the new establishments, the existence of ports of entry as well as the importance of internal and external recruitment is assessed. Being affiliated with a pre-established firm may be a source of competitive advantage and improve the new plant’s chances of survival as the parent firm may supply the newly created unit with expertise and firm-specific knowledge. In this research we suggest a channel for knowledge transfer that has been little addressed in previous literature: within firm and across establishments mobility of workers. As firm-specific knowledge is mainly embodied and non-tradable, we suggest that it can be successfully transferred to the new unit embodied in the workers that are internally recruited. We find that internally transferred workers, particularly skilled workers hired at high-rank jobs play an important role in improving the survival of new establishments.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Creation of an integrated tasting plan in hypermarkets

Retailer ABC is a Portuguese food retailer owner of several hypermarket and supermarket stores across the country that decided to take advantage of the natural curiosity of consumers, through tasting actions in their hypermarkets. So, in 2010, Retailer ABC worked on the development of a tasting actions plan to be applied in their hypermarket stores with the main objective to increase sales and to promote their products. After a year and a half of implementation, it became clear that the tasting actions were not having the expected return. So, it became urgent to do an entire analysis of the tasting action plan to detect the failures, identify opportunities and develop a new integrated tasting plan that increases sales and promotes the retailer products, at the same time that creates dynamism and animation in the point of purchase

Collaborating to Compete: A Search into Capabilities and Strategic Alliances in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Athough there is a profusion of studies related to strategic alliances and technological capacities which evaluate the issues individually, there is a scarcity of studies with empirical evidence relative to the implications of strategic alliances at the technological capacity configuration. Drawing on a scrutiny of specialised databases (Galé, Dialog, and Business & Industry) covering the 1993-2003 period, this article examines the entry and exit composition of innovative capabilities of 25 pharmaceutical companies’ capabilities involved in such alliances. They are organised in three groups: (i) large pharmaceutical companies (‘big-pharma’); (ii) large bio-pharmaceutical companies (‘bio-pharma’); and (iii) small and research-intensive companies. In terms of strategic alliance implications, a change was observed on the technological capacities’ configuration. The evidence suggests that the criteria for partner choice and technological capacity depend on the objectives and needs of each different group of company. Such type of evidence is important to provide researchers, corporate managers, and policy-makers with a concrete notion of the extent to which such division of innovative labour occurs and the actual changes going on the structure and organisation of innovative activities in the pharmaceutical industry.Titulo: Colaborando para Competir: Búsqueda Dentro de las Capacidades y Alianzas Estratégicas en la Industria Farmacéutica Pese a la existencia de muchos estudios relacionados a las evaluaciones individuales de las alianzas estratégicas y las capacidades tecnológicas, hay escasez de estudios con evidencia empírica relacionados con las implicaciones de las alianzas estratégicas en la configuración de las capacidades tecnológicas. Este artículo organiza un escrutinio de bases de datos (Galé, Dialog, and Business & Industry) entre los años del período 1993-2003, examinando la composición de entrada y salida de las capacidades innovativas de 25 compañías farmacéuticas involucradas en dichas alianzas. Las cuales se organizan en tres grupos (i)¨grandes compañías (grandes farmacéuticas); (ii)grandes compañías bio-farmacéuticas (bio-farma); y (iii) pequeñas compañías y compañías de investigación intensiva. En términos de las implicaciones de las alianzas estratégicas, se observa un cambio en la configuración de las capacidades tecnológicas. La evidencia sugiere que el criterio de para la elección de socios y de las capacidades tecnológicas depende de los objetivos y necesidades de los diversos grupos de compañías. Cada tipo de evidencia es de importancia para proveer a los investigadores, a los gerentes corporativos y los gestores con una noción concreta del grado de de importancia de cada división en las labores innovativas desarrolladas y en los cambio reales que se llevan a cabo en la estructura y la organización de las actividades innovativas en la industria farmacéutica .Athough there is a profusion of studies related to strategic alliances and technological capacities which evaluate the issues individually, there is a scarcity of studies with empirical evidence relative to the implications of strategic alliances at the technological capacity configuration. Drawing on a scrutiny of specialised databases (Galé, Dialog, and Business & Industry) covering the 1993-2003 period, this article examines the entry and exit composition of innovative capabilities of 25 pharmaceutical companies’ capabilities involved in such alliances. They are organised in three groups: (i) large pharmaceutical companies (‘big-pharma’); (ii) large bio-pharmaceutical companies (‘bio-pharma’); and (iii) small and research-intensive companies. In terms of strategic alliance implications, a change was observed on the technological capacities’ configuration. The evidence suggests that the criteria for partner choice and technological capacity depend on the objectives and needs of each different group of company. Such type of evidence is important to provide researchers, corporate managers, and policy-makers with a concrete notion of the extent to which such division of innovative labour occurs and the actual changes going on the structure and organisation of innovative activities in the pharmaceutical industry

Development of electrochemical nitrite biosensors using cytochrome c nitrite reductase from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774

Dissertação apresentada para a obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Química Sustentável pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaREQUIMTE ; Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia -(POCI/QUI/58026/2004 and SFRH/BD/28921/2006

Apresentando alguns aspectos históricos do desenvolvimento da lógica clássica, ciência das idéias e dos processos da mente

Lógica é a ciência que tem por objeto determinar, entre as operações intelectuais orientadas para o conhecimento da verdade, as que são válidas e as que não são. Estuda os processos e as condições de verdade de todo e qualquer raciocínio. O conhecimento só é científico quando, além de universal, é metódico e sistemático, ou seja, lógico. Assim, a lógica se entende como método, ou caminho que as ciências trilham para determinar e conhecer seu objeto, e como característica geral do conhecimento científico

Educação matemática na sala de aula: problemáticas e possíveis soluções

O presente trabalho, propõe-se apresentar os fracassos da educação matemática que ocorre em muitas de nossas instituições educacionais. Nesta direção, primeiramente destaca alguns problemas que auxiliam neste fracasso. Em seguida, discute algumas possíveis soluções para minimizar aspectos negativos que levam ao fracasso do ensino de matemática.ABSTRACT This project proposes to present the failures of mathematics education that occurs in many of our educational institutions. First, it stands out some problems that favours these faiures. Next, it discusses some possible solutions to minimize the negative aspects that lead to the failure of the mathematics teaching

Grapevine Subtilase Family: Update on New Sequences and Nomenclature Proposal

In grapevine, serine peptidases from the subtilase family were recently associated to Plasmopara viticola resistance. This family in grapevine, first characterized in 2014, was re-analyzed last year and 82 subtilase genes were identified. However, in November of 2016, the National Center for Biotechnology Information database (NCBI) made a new public release of the grapevine genome annotation based on new sequencing data and better prediction algorithms. As a consequence, some gene annotations and lengths changed. Here we present an update to the grapevine subtilase gene family sequences (SBT), namely sequence identifiers, bioinformatic predictions and recommend a nomenclature for the grapevine SBT genes. Our results show that grapevine subtilase gene family is now constituted by 87 subtilase genes encoding for 109 subtilase proteins and, despite the reported alterations, expression data on subtilases associated to grapevine resistance to P. viticola pathosystem did not suffer any alteration

Envelhecimento, institucionalização e bem-estar subjetivo do idoso

Tendo em conta a problemática levantada, isto é: quais os níveis bem-estar subjetivo e de qualidade de vida, existentes nos idosos institucionalizados e de que forma este variam de acordo como sexo e a idade? E será que existe uma relação entre os níveis do bem-estar subjetivo e de qualidade de vida, nos idosos institucionalizados?, O presente trabalho teve como pretensão obter essas respostas. Desta forma, o estudo foi realizado a 84 idosos institucionalizados, com a idade compreendida entre 65 anos e 85 e mais anos. Para se realizar o estudo utilizou-se um questionário constituído por duas partes, sendo a primeira relativa à caracterização da amostra ao nível sociodemográfico, moti-vos da institucionalização, saúde, visita da família e relacionamento com colegas e fun-cionários e a segunda parte à avaliação do bem-estar subjetivo, com recurso à escala de satisfação com a vida (componente cognitiva) e a escala de afetividade positiva e nega-tiva (PANAS), e da qualidade de vida. Os resultados foram obtidos mediante a análise descritiva e inferencial, através da utilização de técnicas paramétricas, nomeadamente o t-test, a ANOVA e o coeficiente de correlação Pearson. As principais conclusões indicam que as variáveis sociodemográficas; o género, a idade, o estado civil, o meio onde habitavam antes da institucionalização e a escolari-dade ,não influenciam quer o bem-estar subjetivo, quer a qualidade de vida uma vez que os resultados não se revelaram estatisticamente significativos. Por outro lado, conclui-se que a qualidade de vida relaciona-se de forma positiva e significativamente com o bem-estar subjetivo, isto é com a satisfação com a vida e a afetividade positiva.Which are the levels of subjective well being and quality of life among institutionalized elderly and how it is related to gender and age? And is there a connection between sub-ject well being and the quality of life of the institutionalized elderly? This study has the objective of answering these questions. So we studied 84 institutionalized elderly, with ages between 65 and 85 years old and more years. So we filled a form divided in two parts, the first one related to the characterization of the sample at a sociodemographic level, reason of institutionalization, heath, family visits, relationship between the elderly and the between the ederly and the workers of the institution, and the second part mak-ing an evaluation of the subjective well being, based on WHOQOL-OLD, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PNAS) and the quality of life. The outcome was obtained thought descriptive and inferential statistics and parametric tecniques (t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation) The main conclusions are that the sociodemographic changes don’t affect the subject well being and the quality of life, because the outcomes have not statistical significance. On the other hand we can conclude that the quality of life has a positive and statistical relation with the subjective well being, i.e. with the pleasure of life and the positive af-fect