Although technology discontinuities represent one of the most challenging organization events, the micro-processes by which incumbent organizations adapt to such technology transitions remain remarkably opaque. Some prior research has observed that during such discontinuities incumbents develop hybrid recombinations of the old and new technology. Although some work implies that such inter-gener...

BACKGROUND Child abuse or maltreatment is a significant global public health problem of unknown global prevalence. About 40 million children aged 0-14 years require health and social care globally. The prevalence, determinants, and trends of national or global rates of child abuse and maltreatment are largely unknown. METHODS Data for this retrospective cross-sectional study were derived from...

The uptake of anthropogenic CO2 emissions by oceans has started decreasing pH and carbonate ion concentrations of seawater, a process called ocean acidification (OA). Occurring over centuries and many generations, evolutionary adaptation and epigenetic transfer will change species responses to OA over time. Trans-generational responses, via genetic selection or trans-generational phenotypic pla...

Although learned mate preferences are suspected to have important effects during speciation, theoretical models have largely neglected the effects on speciation and population divergence of within-generational learning, that is, learning based upon prior experience with potential mates. Here, we use population genetic models to address this deficit. Focusing on the situation of secondary contac...

In this paper we characterize inter-generational and intra-generational patterns of earnings for Italian dependent workers for the period 1984-1995. Using data from the Bank of Italy’s Survey of Household Income and Wealth, we construct cohort specific age profiles for mean wages (the measure of central location here adopted) and for the 90-10 percentile differential (the inequality measure); w...

Today's workplace often includes workers from 4 distinct generations, and each generation brings a unique set of core values and characteristics to an organization. These generational differences can produce benefits, such as improved patient care, as well as challenges, such as conflict among employees. This article reviews current research on generational differences in educational settings a...

From a critical analysis of Howe and Strauss (2000; 2003) theory of recurrent cycles of generations in History, we intend to extract useful Advertising principles that can be applied when aiming at Millennials as consumers. Noting that the notion of “generational trait” resembles the empirically validated concept of “cohort effect”, we find Howe and Strauss ideas to be very compelling, and usef...

This article describes the similarities between learning classifier systems (LCSs) and coevolutionary algorithm, and exploits these similarities by taking ideas used by LCSs to design a non-generational coevolutionary algorithm that incrementally estimates fitness of individuals. The algorithm solves some of the problems known to exist in coevolutionary algorithms: it does not loose gradient an...

illuminating account of the "generational family" prevalent in Middle European peasant society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in which unlike England households typically comprised three generations living together, often under the same roof. The authors carefully distinguish this generational family from the largely mythological "stem family", and show its rootedness in the largel...