This article challenges recent research (Evans, 2008) reporting that the concentration of cited scientific literature increases with the online availability of articles and journals. Using Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, the present article analyses changes in the concentration of citations received (2and 5-year citation windows) by papers published between 1900 and 2005.Three measures of conc...

During the last decade, spoken man-machine dialogue has known significant improvements that should lead shortly to the development of real use systems. In spite of these indisputable advances, numerous limitations restrict still the expansion of common use spoken dialogue systems. In particular, present researches in spoken man-machine communication lack seriously genericity. Most of spoken dia...

In 1992, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission created a secondary market for natural gas transportation whereby shippers holding firm transportation capacity on interstate natural gas pipelines can compete with the pipeline in the provision of transportation services. However, if a shipper does not use some of its contracted firm transportation capacity, the pipeline can resell that ca...

background: this study aimed to investigate dentists’ supply and practice patterns following the implementation of the global budget system in taiwan. materials and methods: data of reimbursement claims, municipal socioeconomic status and dental manpower were collected from the national health insurance administration, the ministry of internal affair, and the ministry of health and welfare, res...

A general framework for the study of outsourcing is introduced that incorporates dynamics and heterogeneity among both upstream and downstream producers to mimic an exit approach (Hirschman, 1970) to building vertical relations. The environment is one of search friction and incomplete contracts, where final-good producers require a specialized input and, upon matching with a supplier, can only ...

This paper challenges recent research (Evans, 2008) reporting that the concentration of cited scientific literature increases with the online availability of articles and journals. Using Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, the present paper analyses changes in the concentration of citations received (twoand five-year citation windows) by papers published between 1900 and 2005. Three measures of co...

This article provides data-driven analyses of Lithuanian foreign trade activities. We combine Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) and Lauraéus-Kaivo-oja (LKI) measures to identify key changes trends in export import structures the economy. The findings suggest that portfolios economy have been successfully diversified Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) successful implemented years 2015 through 202...

This paper seeks to determine the leading sectors of economy North-East region Brazil based on input-output matrix methodology and economic structure 2011. For that purpose, regional was updated from 2004 2011 and, subsequently, Rasmussen-Hirschman linkage indices, field influence pure indices were calculated, along with type I II multipliers production, employment income. The results confirm i...

Albert O. Hirschman’s scheme of “exit and voice,” long a classic in the study of migration and its political implications, was conceived within the framework of “methodological nationalism.” However, the rise of migrant transnationalism is eroding the classic migration paradigm. Combining theoretical considerations with empirical insights from Latin American cases, this paper argues that a crit...

The evidence that economic inequality (or relative deprivation) increases risk taking, as presented in PNAS by Payne et al. (1), is an insightful addition to a broader literature that finds that relative deprivation has distinct effects on individuals, not the least of which is their happiness, in addition to any direct effects of individuals’ absolute wealth or prosperity (2–4). However, when ...