The mechanical response of stone masonry depends on the properties of the components and also on the typology created by the stone units and the mortar joints. While the influence of the component strength on masonry is relatively well studied, mainly due to the difficulty of varying the masonry typology systematically, few research studies have been devoted to its influence on masonry properti...

We aim to characterise the comparability of corpora, we address this issue in the trilingual context through the distinction of expert and non expert documents. We work separately with corpora composed of documents from the medical domain in three languages (French, Japanese and Russian) which present an important linguistic distance between them. In our approach, documents are characterised in...

We aim to characterize the comparability of corpora, we address this issue in the trilingual context through the distinction of expert and non expert documents. We work separately with corpora composed of documents from the medical domain in three languages (French, Japanese and Russian) which present an important linguistic distance between them. In our approach, documents are characterized in...

This article presents an overview of the goals and methods of semantic typology, the study of the distribution of semantic categories across languages. Results from this field inform theoretical accounts of syntax-semantics interface phenomena, as well as the nature of the relationship between language and cognition. This article discusses a variety of quantitative methods that represent recent...

This paper deals with the identification of effective entrepreneurial behaviors in hostile environments. Extant contributions argue that entrepreneurship is a complex phenomenon, which needs to be addressed in a multidimensional perspective (i.e. strategic posture, behavioral attitudes, economic performance, and so forth). Drawing from fifteen streams of research in the entrepreneurship domain,...

This paper addresses one of the most contested issues in phonology: the derivation of phonological typology. I argue that the unnatural process of postnasal devoicing does not derive from a single unnatural sound change, but rather from a combination of two or three sounds changes, each of which is natural and well-motivated. Evidence from both historical and dialectal data is brought to bear t...

Despite rhetoric arguing that enhanced agriculture leads to improved nutrition and health, there is scant empirical evidence about potential synergies across sectors or about the mix of actions that best supports all three sectors. The geographic scale and socioeconomic nature of these interventions require integration of previously separate research methods. This paper proposes a typology of i...

This study develops a typology of coopetition in value networks, wherein a distinction is made based on two factors. Firstly, whether coopetition takes place inside a particular value network (i.e., intra-value network coopetition) or between value networks (i.e., inter-value network coopetition); and secondly, whether the nature of collaboration is focused on value leveraging or value co-creat...

The phenomenon of customer experience (CE) is of increasing interest to both academics and business executives. The current literature on the practice and management of CE, while multifaceted, lacks conceptual and strategic direction. Marketing research believes CE interactions and strategies have a positive influence on the customer perceived value since value is experiential, resulting in fin...

AIMS To establish an alcohol-dependent drinker's clinical typology, based on patients attending the Alcoholism Unit of Santa Maria's General Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal. METHODS A multivariate statistical analysis was used to extract the typology solution. RESULTS We obtained five factors: Anxiopathic, typifies anxious functioning; Heredopathic, congregates familiar and genetic influences ...