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Experimental assembly reveals ecological drift as a major driver of root nodule bacterial diversity in a woody legume crop
(2020)Understanding how plant-associated microbial communities assemble and the role they play in plant performance are major goals in microbial ecology. For nitrogen-fixing rhizobia, community assembly is generally driven by ... -
Identification of vegetation and soil carbon pools out of equilibrium in a process model via eddy covariance and biometric constraints
(2010)Assumptions of steady-state conditions in biogeochemical modelling are often invoked because knowledge on the development status of the modelling domain is generally unavailable. Here, we investigate the role of vegetation ... -
Process value analysis for business process re-engineering
(2010)Two decades of studies about business process re-engineering have proposed several strategies for the reorganization of a production process aimed at costs saving and waste reduction. Nevertheless, there is still a substantial ... -
Seasonal hysteresis of net ecosystem exchange in response to temperature change: patterns and causes
(2011)Understanding how net ecosystem exchange (NEE) changes with temperature is central to the debate on climate change-carbon cycle feedbacks, but still remains unclear. Here, we used eddy covariance measurements of NEE from ... -
Influence of spring and autumn phenological transitions on forest ecosystem productivity
(2010)We use eddy covariance measurements of net ecosystem productivity (NEP) from 21 FLUXNET sites (153 site-years of data) to investigate relationships between phenology and productivity (in terms of both NEP and gross ecosystem ... -
Wood pellet manufacturing improvements through product-driven process value analysis
(2011)The paper reports an exemplary application in the field of wood pellets production of an original methodology to support business process re-engineering by mapping product requirements to product development phases in order ... -
Investigating the patterns of value-oriented innovations in blue ocean strategy
(2012)Several scholars dealing with business innovation individuate a great role played by customer value in achieving market success. With this perspective the investigation of prescriptive means for New Value Proposition ... -
Seasonal variation of photosynthetic model parameters and leaf area index from global Fluxnet eddy covariance data
(2011)Global vegetation models require the photosynthetic parameters, maximum carboxylation capacity (V(cm)), and quantum yield (alpha) to parameterize their plant functional types (PFTs). The purpose of this work is to determine ... -
Innovation trajectories within the support of decisions: Insights about S-curve and dominant design models
(2012)The research about the patterns of technology evolution is populated by descriptive models, explaining quite regular trends of product development processes. The most popular schemes share the idea of long innovation periods ... -
Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply
(2010)More than half of the solar energy absorbed by land surfaces is currently used to evaporate water(1). Climate change is expected to intensify the hydrological cycle(2) and to alter evapotranspiration, with implications for ... -
Redefinition and global estimation of basal ecosystem respiration rate
(2011)Basal ecosystem respiration rate (BR), the ecosystem respiration rate at a given temperature, is a common and important parameter in empirical models for quantifying ecosystem respiration (ER) globally. Numerous studies ... -
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(2020)Industria 4.0. Sistemi sempre più digitalizzati ed interconnessi. Processi ancor più automatizzati. E anche nella progettazione meccanica i computer stanno trovando sempre maggiore impiego. Se tradizionalmente la cinematica ... -
Quaderni di progettazione: calibrazione del modello di danneggiamento duttile
(2020)Al fine di proteggere gli acciai dalla corrosione è pratica comune utilizzare trattamenti superficiali come ad es. verniciatura o zincatura. I costi di questi trattamenti specifici e della manutenzione necessaria negli ... -
Industry 4.0 technologies assessment: A sustainability perspective
(2020)The fourth industrial revolution, also labelled Industry 4.0, was beget with emergent and disruptive intelligence and information technologies. These new technologies are enabling ever-higher levels of production efficiencies. ... -
The Impact of the United Nations Global Compact on firm performance: A longitudinal analysis
(2020)The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) is one of the most important corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives aimed at aligning companies' strategies and operations with principles that involve human rights, ... -
Oil distribution and churning losses of gearboxes: Experimental and numerical analysis
(2020)Currently, energy efficiency represents one of the main requisites in mechanical design. Gearboxes play an important role in several industrial applications and, even if they are already characterized by high efficiency, ... -
The future of manufacturing: A Delphi-based scenario analysis on Industry 4.0
(2020)Industry 4.0 is expected to impart profound changes to the configuration of manufacturing companies with regards to what their value proposition will be and how their production network, supplier base and customer interfaces ... -
From the extraction of currently fulfilled requirements to value curves: a case-study in the field of harvesting machines for shell fruits and lessons learnt in engineering design
(2020)The market for agricultural machinery is characterized by products with a high degree of maturity in the product life cycle. Consequently, current improvements in new machinery are predominantly incremental and new projects ... -
Diet influences the functions of the human intestinal microbiome
(2020)Gut microbes programme their metabolism to suit intestinal conditions and convert dietary components into a panel of small molecules that ultimately affect host physiology. To unveil what is behind the effects of key dietary ... -
Optimal design for the passive control of vibration based on limit cycles
(Hindawi Limited, 2019)The optimal design of damping parameters for passive vibration control remains a challenge for both research and industrial applications. Here, we introduce a design methodology based on limit cycle analysis in concert ...
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