Universities have traditionally been key players in producing and validating new scientific knowledge, but other actors have also become major research performers. Meanwhile, the notion of research has been extended considerably, and the environment of universities is also undergoing fundamental changes. Thus, it is timely to consider alternative futures for them, to be better prepared for thei...

ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection) satellite imagery is useful in assisting lithologic mapping and, however, its effectiveness is yet to be evaluated for lithologic complex such as tectonic mélange. The Mugagangri Group (MG), the signature unit of the Bangong-Nujiang suture zone (BNSZ), Tibet and consisting of ophiolitic mélanges, was previously mapped as a single unit ...

Platform ecosystem participants often draw from capabilities provided to them by other actors in the ecosystem. While heralded as a driver of innovation, it is unclear how exactly platform evolution is affected by this dynamic. In this short paper we apply event sequence analysis to extract and analyse sequential patterns related to capability redeem – i.e. the internalization and subsequent ut...

Rohollah Kalhor, Mohammad Zakaria Kiaei, Mohammad Azmal, Saeideh moosavi, Seyed Saeed Tabatabaee, Soheyla Gholami. Assistant Professor, Ph.D. of Health Services Management, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran; Health Services Management Department, School of Public Health, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran; PhD in ...

The main purpose of this paper is to present a three-phase periodization of modern Western futures studies to construct historical classification. In order to reach this goal, the following intellectual traditions are introduced to review the philosophical and historical contexts that affect the very foundations of futures studies: (a) religions, (b) utopias, (c) historicism, (d) science fictio...

This paper examines risk-averse and risk-seeking investor preferences for oil spot and futures prices by using the mean-variance (MV) criterion and stochastic dominance (SD) approach. The MV findings cannot distinguish between the preferences of spot and futures markets. However, the SD tests show that spot dominates futures in the downside risk, while futures dominate spot in the upside profit...

Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the individuals and organizations who dedicated significant time towards informing the recommendations in this report. Families receiving services funded by the Brighter Futures Initiative as well as key informants and focus group participants from both public and private sectors involved in administration, research, planning, policy, and advocac...

a r t i c l e i n f o The typical characteristics of subsistence markets challenge not only the generalizability of marketing theories but also the applicability and validity of the field research methods generally practiced by marketing researchers. This article discusses challenges inherent to field research in subsistence markets that may influence bias and equivalence. Moreover, it illustra...

While issues such as clean production and energy efficiency are still central in sustainable development discourse, attention is increasingly on patterns of consumption at multiple levels in society. This opens new opportunities and responsibilities for design research, as we shift from a focus on product lifecycles to people’s lifestyles. It also requires further understanding the ‘social sust...