Absorptive Capacity (AC) is a set of organizational routines and processes to acquire, assimilate, transform, and exploit knowledge to produce an organizational capability. The AC concept stresses the opportunity to capitalize on knowledge management to increase firms’ business model innovations, recognizing the value of new opportunity platforms, external and internal information, assimilate i...

This paper proposes an emotion recognition system. Human emotion can be expressed through many kinds of medium such as speech, image, facial expression, and so forth. This paper focuses on the textual data of them. Proposed system is a hybrid system that uses alternatively two methods, keyword-based and machine learning method. Keyword-based methods are traditional approaches using emotional ke...

Rice varieties with ultra-high yields play an important role in grain production and global food security. However, little information is available on the source–sink relationships that underpin quality ultra-high-yield properties. Photosynthesis, carbohydrate accumulation allocation, vascular bundle morphology, nutrient uptake characteristics were, therefore, compared two ‘super rice’ varietie...

Infrared Functional Imaging was applied to the study of Raynaud’s Phenomenon obtaing a simultaneous assessment of the thermal properties of all five fingers of both hands of a group of patients with respect of a control group. The method is based on the use of high-resolution telethermography imaging and allows identification of objective parameters from the re-warming curves of finger immediat...