Variety in the Knowledge base of knowledge intensive business sectors

25 páginas, 4 tablas, 1 figuraKnowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are intermediary firms which specialize in knowledge screening, assessment and evaluation, and trade professional consultancy services. The remarkable rise of this broad class of activities is perceived by many as the natural by-product of modern knowledge economies within which increasing specialisation induces the need for professional agents in the markets for external knowledge. This paper addresses critically a conceptual flaw in the specialised literature which portrays KIBS as a homogeneous group of activities. Using official data on occupational information in the United States we observe and analyse high variety across KIBS sectors’ occupational structures and skill requirements.European Community (FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008-235278)Davide Consoli acknowledges financial support from the European Community (FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008-235278).Peer reviewe

Комплексный подход к управлению адаптацией иностранных студентов

This article describes an integrated approach to the assessment, prediction and management of adaptation of foreign students studying at the university. The basic stages of management decision-making adaptation of foreign students such as selection factors, the negative impact of which can lead to the disruption of adaptation; comprehensive assessment and prediction of the level of adaptation of foreign students; the development of technology to reduce exclusion

The analysis of Dostoevsky's Weltanschauung in the essays of Russian émigré philosophers 1919-1939: Lev Shestov, Nikolai Berdiaev, Boris Vysheslavtsev

The subject of this thesis is the Weltanschauung of Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) as presented in philosophical essays written by the emigre Russian thinkers, Lev Shestov (1866 -1938), Nikolai Berdiaev (1874 -1948), and Boris Vysheslavtsev (1877 - 1954), who represent an important aspect of Russian emigre culture. The thesis focuses on the philosophical views and principal themes of Dostoevsky's work as interpreted by emigre philosophers in "Russia Abroad" (1919 - 1939) in the context of modernism

Effect of Handwriting on Scoring Essay Tests

The effects of handwriting on scoring essay tests were explored. The data were obtained from a newspaper company. The examinees were the applicants for the company jobs, and they were asked to write a small essay under the title of "About nation". The essays written by the applicants were copied and are called "handwriting" in this paper. The same paper were typed by a word-processor and are called "word-processed" in this paper. Five university or school teachers rated the essays. It was found that 1. there were no consistent differences between the averaged scores of handwriting and word-processed essays. 2. there were significant differences among rators

Mesoscopic study on the effect of CFRP layers on the mechanical properties of coal circular-columns

In order to study the effect of CFRP layers on the mechanical properties of coal cylinders. A discrete-continuous coupled meso-mechanical numerical model of CFRP passively confined coal cylinders was developed using a three-dimensional FLAC-PFC coupling method. The validity of the model was verified with experimental data of 0-2 layers of CFRP passively confined coal cylinders. On this basis, studies of the influence of 3-7 layers on mechanical properties and energy evolution of CFRP confined coal cylinders was carried out. The results show that the yield limit and the peak of the coal cylinders gradually coincide with the increase of CFRP layers, showing a state of yielding or failure without warning. With the increase of CFRP layers, the increment in the peak strength of coal cylinders first increases and then decreases. A function is obtained to characterize the evolution of the peak strength increment of CFRP confined coal cylinders under different layers. The increment in the peak strain shows a behavior of first increasing and then decreasing, and then increasing and decreasing again. When the elastic strain energy is constant, the axial strain of the coal cylinders has no correlation with CFRP layers, but its peak strain and ultimate strain both increase with the increase of CFRP layers. The dissipative energy conversion ratio at peak point increases first and then decreases with the increase of CFRP layers. A function is established to characterize the evolution of the dissipative energy conversion ratio of CFRP confined coal cylinders with different layers. The ductility characteristics of stress-strain curves, peak strength increment, peak strain increment, dissipative energy conversion ratio and total energy increment of coal cylinders are considered comprehensively, and taking into account the principles of economic cost and winding level, the three layers are determined as the optimal winding layers for CFRP confined coal circular-columns