Satisfaction and performance in research and development tasks as related to information accessibility

1978 ◽  
Vol EM-25 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Dudley Dewhirst ◽  
Richard D. Arvey ◽  
Edward M. Brown
Author(s):  
Eduard Hovy

This article describes research and development on the automated creation of summaries of one or more texts. It defines the concept of summary and presents an overview of the principal approaches in summarization. It describes the design, implementation, and performance of various summarization systems. The stages of automated text summarization are topic identification, interpretation, and summary generation, each having its sub stages. Due to the challenges involved, multi-document summarization is much less developed than single-document summarization. This article reviews particular techniques used in several summarization systems. Finally, this article assesses the methods of evaluating summaries. This article reviews evaluation strategies, from previous evaluation studies, to the two-basic measures method. Summaries are so task and genre specific; therefore, no single measurement covers all cases of evaluation


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (07) ◽  
pp. 1950069
Author(s):  
JUSTIN DORAN ◽  
NOIRIN McCARTHY ◽  
MARIE O’CONNOR

This paper analyses the knowledge sourcing, transformation, and exploitation stages of the innovation value chain for a sample of Irish small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using Community Innovation Survey data. It explores the role of internal research and development (R&D) and external knowledge on SMEs’ innovation and performance. The open innovation paradigm, which stresses the importance of external linkages, is used to examine the impact of different external knowledge sources on SMEs’ innovation. The consideration of external linkages in the innovation performance of SMEs is crucial as these firms may be constrained in their ability to perform R&D due to their size. The analysis expands the traditional CDM methodology beyond the consideration of research and development as the sole source of knowledge for innovation by also considering a range of potential external knowledge sources. The findings indicate that SMEs generate knowledge internally through the performance of R&D, while also exploiting linkages to external agents. However, the impact of external sources of knowledge is not uniform. The results suggest that backward linkages have a positive impact on SME product innovation, but negatively affect SME process innovation, while public knowledge sources are positively related to the probability of product innovation occurring. This may have important policy implications. Finally, process innovation is also found to be a key determinant of SME productivity, while product innovation has no impact on SME performance.


2014 ◽  
Vol 06 (03) ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Litao ZHAO

As China progresses, its Science and Technology (S&T) system evolves as well, driven by new aspirations, changing needs and surging resources. With the rapid growth of research and development expenditure and a growing supply of talents, China has been reshaping the global research landscape. The quality of research however has been criticised as less impressive than the quantity. To become a global innovation powerhouse, China needs to reform its S&T governance, funding and evaluation.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Woodhouse ◽  
David Feldman ◽  
Vignesh Ramasamy ◽  
Brittany Smith ◽  
Timothy Silverman ◽  
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Author(s):  
Ankit Kumar Mishra ◽  
Vinit Goswami ◽  
Priyanka Sarma

Aerospike nozzles are now-a-days one of the most emerging topics for research and development work leading for the futuristic goals of an aerospace industries and organizations. They are indulging in a class of elevation balancing nozzle engines. These nozzle engines are basically constructed for single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) as well as foremost engine for space vehicles. These nozzles are about 75% shorter than the standard nozzle for similar expansion ratios. Aerodynamic thrust variation and performances play a key role in estimating forces along with the injected flow and their characteristics. This review paper deals with the aerodynamics characterization, its properties at different conditions in addition with the performance analysis of the aerospike nozzle.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Narto Irawan Otoluwa ◽  
Ibriati Kartika Alimuddin ◽  
Nur Alamzah ◽  
Mursalim Nohong

The purpose of study was to explain the effect of entrepreneurship orientation and innovation in improving the performance and competitiveness of creative industries in Maros Regency. The primary data used in this study were collected by using questionnaires. The data is then processed in the form of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Based on the analysis, it is found that the orientation of entrepreneurship which is reflected by the activities of research and development activities, technological leadership, and innovation will be able to improve the performance and competitiveness of creative industry. Performance as measured by the company's ability to increase sales will be able to create competitiveness. The study also found an insignificant effect between innovation with competitiveness and performance with competitiveness


Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe A. P. de Figueiredo ◽  
Dragoslav Stojadinovic ◽  
Prasanthi Maddala ◽  
Ruben Mennes ◽  
Irfan Jabandžić ◽  
...  

DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency from the United States, has started the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge with the aim to encourage research and development of coexistence and collaboration techniques of heterogeneous networks in the same wireless spectrum bands. Team SCATTER has been participating in the challenge since its beginning, back in 2016. SCATTER’s open-source software defined physical layer (SCATTER PHY) has been developed as a standalone application, with the ability to communicate with higher layers through a set of well defined messages (created with Google’s Protocol buffers) and that exchanged over a ZeroMQ bus. This approach allows upper layers to access it remotely or locally and change all parameters in real time through the control messages. SCATTER PHY runs on top of USRP based software defined radio devices (i.e., devices from Ettus or National Instruments) to send and receive wireless signals. It is a highly optimized and real-time configurable SDR based PHY layer that can be used for the research and development of novel intelligent spectrum sharing schemes and algorithms. The main objective of making SCATTER PHY available to the research and development community is to provide a solution that can be used out of the box to devise disruptive algorithms and techniques to optimize the sub-optimal use of the radio spectrum that exists today. This way, researchers and developers can mainly focus their attention on the development of smarter (i.e., intelligent algorithms and techniques) spectrum sharing approaches. Therefore, in this paper, we describe the design and main features of SCATTER PHY and showcase several experiments performed to assess the effectiveness and performance of the proposed PHY layer.


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