First come, first served: an analysis of pioneer and follower firms' market and nonmarket actions in the European mobile telephone industry

This study examines the relationship between erosion of the first-mover's market share and the differences in competitive behaviour of pioneer firms and followers. Particularly, we pay particular attention to market actions related to innovation, pricing and promotion, and to non-market actions related to judicial issues. The empirical study has been carried out with companies that are present in a dynamic context, such as the European mobile telephone industry. Our results show that when followers take more non-market actions than pioneers the negative effect on the firstentrant's advantage is more significant. On the contrary, we have not found a significant impact of innovating and pricing actions

FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED: AN ANALYSIS OF PIONEER AND FOLLOWER FIRMS' MARKET AND NONMARKET ACTIONS IN THE EUROPEAN MOBILE TELEPHONE INDUSTRY

This study examines the relationship between erosion of the first-mover’s market share and the differences in competitive behaviour of pioneer firms and followers. Particularly, we pay particular attention to market actions related to innovation, pricing and promotion, and to non-market actions related to judicial issues. The empirical study has been carried out with companies that are present in a dynamic context, such as the European mobile telephone industry. Our results show that when followers take more non-market actions than pioneers the negative effect on the firstentrant’s advantage is more significant. On the contrary, we have not found a significant impact of innovating and pricing actions.

Regulación emocional y género : un estudio exploratorio con estudiantado de grados feminizado

Treball Final de Grau en Psicologia. Codi:  PS1048. Curs: 2015/2016El objetivo de este estudio es comprobar si el estudiantado de profesiones que son estereotípicamente femeninas se identifica con rasgos feminizados o no y conocer cómo se relacionan las diferencias de género con el tipo de estrategia de regulación emocional utilizadas. El estudio contó con una muestra de 89 estudiantes de ambos sexos, de los cuales, 49 de ellos eran del grado de magisterio y 40 del grado de enfermería. Del total, un 76,4% fueron mujeres, con un rango de edad de 18 a 51 años. Les administré el “Cuestionario de Rasgos Psicológicos” elaborado por el equipo de investigación MPAGER de la UJI de manera anónima. Analicé con el programa SPSS 22.0. Los resultados del análisis exploratorio, confirman que los grados de magisterio y enfermería obtienen puntuaciones elevadas en feminidad. Por otro lado, resultados de comparaciones de medias, muestran que la utilización de una estrategia de regulación emocional u otra no parece depender del género, sino más bien se relaciona con rasgos más biológicos, como es el sexo.The aim of this study is to check whether the students of professions who are stereotypically feminine are identified with feminized and features and to know how gender differences are related to the different emotional regulation strategies used. The study included a sample of 89 students of both sexes, 49 of them were teachers and 40 nursing bachelor degree students. Of the total, up 76.4% were women, with an age ranging from 18 to 51 years old. I use the "Psychological Traits Questionnaire" developed by the MPAGER research team from UJI anonymously. I analysed data using the SPSS 22.0 statistical program. The results of the exploratory analysis confirm that teaching and nursing students score high in femininity. On the other hand, results of the mean comparisons manifest the use of a strategy of emotional regulation not seems to depend on the gender, but rather relates to features most biological, such as sex

Agentes inteligentes aplicados a la gestión de información para la investigación

Se presentan diferentes aplicaciones de los agentes inteligentes para la gestión de información científica, técnica y comercial. Se estudian los diferentes servicios existentes y se analizan algunas herramientas que pueden contribuir el desarrollo de servicios de información especializados

Análisis de la experiencia internacional en servicios de administración electrónica basados en XML

Se analiza la utilización del lenguaje de marcado XML y las tecnologías asociadas en el desarrollo de servicios de administración electrónica para automatizar la codificación, integración e intercambio de información electrónica. La metodología empleada para la aplicación de las tecnologías XML ha sido diversa dependiendo de los objetivos de la organización y las necesidades del servicio de administración electrónica. Existen diferentes alternativas para la aplicación de las tecnologías XML en los servicios de administración electrónica: la utilización del lenguaje de marcado XML en sentido estricto, la utilización de un lenguaje basado en XML pero orientado a la administración electrónica, como GovML, o bien, la utilización de lenguajes de marcado específicos para realizar tareas de administración electrónica particulares, como UBL y EML. Se concluye que las tecnologías basadas en XML pueden tener ciertas aplicaciones estratégicas dentro de una organización, entre ellas cobran especial relevancia, la automatización eficiente de la cadena de suministro, el retorno de inversiones a medio plazo, la gestión de los activos intangibles de la organización, y el desarrollo de servicios innovadores de administración electrónica. Sin embargo, la tecnología XML por sí misma no reporta valor a la organización, su valor depende de cómo se utilice esta tecnología dentro de la organización

Molecular line probes of activity in galaxies

The use of specific tracers of the dense molecular gas phase can help to explore the feedback of activity on the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies. This information is a key to any quantitative assessment of the efficiency of the star formation process in galaxies. We present the results of a survey devoted to probe the feedback of activity through the study of the excitation and chemistry of the dense molecular gas in a sample of local universe starbursts and active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Our sample includes also 17 luminous and ultraluminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs and ULIRGs). From the analysis of the LIRGs/ULIRGs subsample, published in Gracia-Carpio et al.(2007) we find the first clear observational evidence that the star formation efficiency of the dense gas, measured by the L_FIR/L_HCN ratio, is significantly higher in LIRGs and ULIRGs than in normal galaxies. Mounting evidence of overabundant HCN in active environments would even reinforce the reported trend, pointing to a significant turn upward in the Kennicutt-Schmidt law around L_FIR=10^11 L_sun. This result has major implications for the use of HCN as a tracer of the dense gas in local and high-redshift luminous infrared galaxies.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, contributed paper to Far-Infrared Workshop 07 (FIR 2007

The Green Bank Telescope Maps the Dense, Star-Forming Gas in the Nearby Starburst Galaxy M82

Observations of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies show that dense molecular gas correlates with recent star formation, suggesting that the formation of this gas phase may help regulate star formation. A key test of this idea requires wide-area, high-resolution maps of dense molecular gas in galaxies to explore how local physical conditions drive dense gas formation, but these observations have been limited because of the faintness of dense gas tracers like HCN and HCO+. Here we demonstrate the power of the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope -- the largest single-dish millimeter radio telescope -- for mapping dense gas in galaxies by presenting the most sensitive maps yet of HCN and HCO+ in the starburst galaxy M82. The HCN and HCO+ in the disk of this galaxy correlates with both recent star formation and more diffuse molecular gas and shows kinematics consistent with a rotating torus. The HCO+ emission extending to the north and south of the disk is coincident with the outflow previously identified in CO and traces the eastern edge of the hot outflowing gas. The central starburst region has a higher ratio of star formation to dense gas than the outer regions, pointing to the starburst as a key driver of this relationship. These results establish that the GBT can efficiently map the dense molecular gas at 90 GHz in nearby galaxies, a capability that will increase further with the 16 element feed array under construction.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, accepted to ApJ