We examine how industrial clustering affects biotechnology firms’ innovativeness, contrasting similar firms not located in clusters or located in clusters that are or are not focused on the firm’s technological specialization. Using detailed firm level data, we find clustered firms are eight times more innovative than geographically remote firms, with largest effects for firms located in cluste...

[1] A method based on linear regularization is presented for the deduction of the effective collision frequency profile in the D-region using an incoherent scatter radar and a colocated riometer. The deduced collision frequency above EISCAT, Tromsø, for the period 09 November 2004 to 13 November 2004 matches very well with that calculated using neutral densities and temperatures from the NRLMSI...

Fast-flowing glaciers and ice streams are pathways for ice discharge from the interior of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to ice shelves, at rates controlled by conditions at the ice-bed interface. Using recently compiled high-resolution data sets and a standard inverse method, we computed basal shear stress distributions beneath Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers, which are currently losing mass at an ...

Virtual machine technology enables highly agile system deployments in which components can be cheaply moved, cloned, and allocated controlled hardware resources. In this paper, we examine in the context of multitier Enterprise applications, how these facilities can be used to provide enhanced solutions to the classic problem of ensuring high availability without a loss in performance on a fixed...

Eliminativist metaphysicians have recently explored various arguments, including those about over-determination, colocation, the problem of the Many and ontological parsimony, for dispensing with kinds and their token continuants. Further, David Lewis’s missing “real temporary intrinsics” has paved the way to treating the sortal and the modal properties yielding the persistence conditions of co...

The importance of spatial data mining is growing with the increasing incidence and importance of large spatial datasets repositories of remote-sensing images, location based mobile app data, satellite imagery, medical data and crime data with location information, three dimensional maps, traffic data and many more. However, as classical data mining techniques are often inadequate for spatial da...

Contact rates vary widely among individuals in socially structured wildlife populations. Understanding the interplay of factors responsible for this variation is essential for planning effective disease management. Feral swine (Sus scrofa) are a socially structured species which pose an increasing threat to livestock and human health, and little is known about contact structure. We analyzed 11 ...

A comparative genetic and QTL mapping was performed between Quercus robur L. and Castanea sativa Mill., two major forest tree species belonging to the Fagaceae family. Oak EST-derived markers (STSs) were used to align the 12 linkage groups of the two species. Fifty-one and 45 STSs were mapped in oak and chestnut, respectively. These STSs, added to SSR markers previously mapped in both species, ...

This research explores the enablers of emerging-market firms (EMFs) leapfrogging in internationalization process. Although many studies on rapid focus exporting activities, we expand concept to a higher-commitment entry mode: foreign direct investment (FDI). In addition, investigate role an understudied force, multinational enterprises (MNEs) emerging markets, enabling EMFs. Our hypotheses are ...