How to promote knowledge sharing in cross-functional NPD teams

This paper investigates the common issues that may arise in cross-functional new product development (NPD) teams from a Knowledge Management perspective. The study has been built around a contextualized trigger, where several factors were preventing a new-born NPD team from performing effectively. The purpose of this paper is to give insights of the main dynamics involved in the knowledge sharing process throughout the application of a systematic problem-solving approach to the case investigated by the authors. Due to the impossibility of building a universal recipe suitable for every team in every situation, this work represents a compromise trying to exemplify how to prioritise interventions in a given context, in order to provide a benchmark for similar circumstances. This paper, using an action research method within a single case context, takes shape around the advises and suggestions made by authors to Electronic Connected Ltd (disguised name), a small-medium enterprise (SME) in a situation of NPD paralysis. In particular, the paper emphasizes the importance of effective leadership and supporting environment in facilitating communication, enhancing cohesiveness, fostering joint commitment and giving direction in order to enable knowledge sharing and to leverage capabilities to conclusively deliver new products

The Eye’s Construction of Power in Richard II, Julius Caesar and Macbeth

This study seeks to analyze the optical performance of power in three of Shakespeare’s plays: Richard II, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth. Using a political framework via Kantorowicz’s King’s Two Bodies and Maus’s Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance, this paper explores the interior and exterior personas as they pertain and interact with public and private spaces. This paper will track Shakespeare’s contribution to this developing “modern” shift in the understanding of appearance and its role in the presentations of power in these three plays. In each of these plays, I argue, Shakespeare provides us with a series of presentational actions or reactions that jeopardize the structure and order of the sovereignty depicted

Some properties of partitions, with special reference to primes other than 5,7 and 11

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Analysis of Capital Distribution Among Ohio’s Publicly Funded Higher Education Institutions

In 2012, Governor Kasich instituted a call-to-action, “Campus leaders throughout Ohio must work together to rethink how the state allocates its investment in our public higher educational facilities.” (Ohio Higher Education Capital Funding Commission, 2016). The intent of Governor Kasich was to drive more equitable outcomes and opportunities in higher education, including capital allocation (2016). However, despite the changes in processes over time, there continues to be disproportion in allocation of capital funding (Maiden & Stearns, 2007; Manns, 2004; Tandberg 2010). A deeper understanding of the historical and current trends of capital allocation to postsecondary public institutions in Ohio is needed to increase awareness of both the favorable and unfavorable aspects of the State’s funding processes. The findings of this study will inform policy makers, university administrators, and community stakeholders of the past and current status of capital allocation to public post-secondary education and may allow enhancement of the decision making processes and choice of viable metrics for computing allocation of funds. Additionally, the results of this proposed study may be utilized by higher education administrators and community stakeholders to assist in predicting a particular higher education institutions future capital allocations that may assist them with long term capital planning. The purpose of this quantitative, cross-sectional, historical study is to determine the basis of capital allocation among Ohio higher education institutions per FTE (as per the reporting precedent set in historical Board of Regents reports and research by Johnson (2012)) as it relates to (1) campus condition, (2) school type (2 year vs. 4 year), (3) county population, (4) party of the governor, and (5) party of the legislative majority. A 30-year period from 1988 through 2018 will be analyzed. The research questions will be investigated with an ordinary least squares (OLS) fixed-effects regression model for cross-sectional panel data. STATA v.14 software will be used with the “XT” command for analysis of the model. A .05 level of significance will be set for the analysis

An All Optical Fibre Quantum Controlled-NOT Gate

We report the first experimental demonstration of an optical controlled-NOT gate constructed entirely in fibre. We operate the gate using two heralded optical fibre single photon sources and find an average logical fidelity of 90% and an average process fidelity of 0.83<F<0.91. On the basis of a simple model we are able to conclude that imperfections are primarily due to the photon sources, meaning that the gate itself works with very high fidelity.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, comments welcom

Cost-effective strategies to knock down genes of interest in the retinas of adult zebrafish

High throughput sequencing has generated an enormous amount of information about the genes expressed in various cell types and tissues throughout the body, and about how gene expression changes over time and in diseased conditions. This knowledge has made targeted gene knockdowns an important tool in screening and identifying the roles of genes that are differentially expressed among specific cells of interest. While many approaches are available and optimized in mammalian models, there are still several limitations in the zebrafish model. In this article, we describe two approaches to target specific genes in the retina for knockdown: cell-penetrating, translation-blocking Vivo-Morpholino oligonucleotides and commercially available lipid nanoparticle reagents to deliver siRNA. We targeted expression of the PCNA gene in the retina of a P23H rhodopsin transgenic zebrafish model, in which rapidly proliferating progenitor cells replace degenerated rod photoreceptors. Retinas collected 48 h after intravitreal injections in adult zebrafish reveal that both Vivo-Morpholinos and lipid encapsulated siRNAs were able to successfully knock down expression of PCNA. However, only retinas injected with Vivo-Morpholinos showed a significant decrease in the formation of P23H rhodopsin-expressing rods, a downstream effect of PCNA inhibition. Surprisingly, Vivo-Morpholinos were able to exit the injected eye and enter the contralateral non-injected eye to inhibit PCNA expression. In this article we describe the techniques, concentrations, and considerations we found necessary to successfully target and inhibit genes through Vivo-Morpholinos and lipid encapsulated siRNAs

A Fantasy of Justice

L’essai « Des Cannibales » contient le passage bien connu que Shakespeare incorpora à La Tempête à partir de la traduction de Florio. Il s’agira ici d’examiner le lien entre ce passage chez chacun des deux écrivains et la notion de justice du prince posée à la fin de l’essai xxxi du livre i et qui clôt presque la pièce. Dans les deux cas, la question est posée dans un contexte géographique et idéologique permettant une distanciation. Les deux écrivains s’interrogent, explicitement et implicitement, sur les formes possibles de la justice, et se demandent si la justice est seulement possible dans les contextes envisagés et si la justice elle-même est un fantasme, au vu de l’injustice dont Montaigne dessine les traits dans son essai. Pour partie, nous examinerons le point de vue des critiques actuels, notamment ceux de David Quint dans « Montaigne et la nature de la miséricorde » et de Michel de Certeau.Montaigne’s essay « Des cannibales » contains the well-known passage that Shakespeare incorporated into The Tempest via Florio’s translation of The Essays. The present paper will examine the relationship of this passage, in each of the two writers, to the notion of princely justice with which essay i, xxxi ends and with which the play almost ends. In both cases, questions of princely justice are framed in a setting that is geographically and ideologically distanced. Both writers ask, explicitly and implicitly, what kinds of justice are possible, whether justice is only possible in such settings, and whether justice is itself just a fantasy, given the injustice which Montaigne describes in his essay. Part of the discussion will examine the views of modern-day critics, especially David Quint, Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy and Michel de Certeau