Financial Services Providers usually conduct multiple concurrent IT projects and have to constantly allocate their resources on the projects in an efficient way. Naturally, they may realize cost synergies among projects – e.g., due to infrastructure sharing – depending on the projects’ resource requirements. However, exploiting resource interactions leads not only to cost synergies but also to ...

Musicians sway expressively as they play in ways that seem clearly related to the music, but quantifying the relationship has been difficult. We suggest that a complex systems framework and its accompanying tools for analyzing non-linear dynamical systems can help identify the motor synergies involved. Synergies are temporary assemblies of parts that come together to accomplish specific goals. ...

This paper develops a conceptual model, based on a structural equation approach, for empirically investigating the role played by relational embeddedness in the process of creation of synergies of knowledge related capabilities in international strategic alliances. The theoretical model identifies an underlying latent construct; knowledge embeddedness and its antecedents: distance, which needs ...

Humans do not only perform individual motion separately, but they transit motions from one to another. It has been widely known that human sit-to-stand and walking motions are composed of four and five muscle synergies, but it is not clarified how humans utilize these muscle synergies to generate sit-to-walk motion. This study conducted a measurement experiment to identify muscle synergy struct...

This brief review addresses the problem of motor redundancy, which exists at many levels of the neuromotor hierarchies involved in the production of voluntary movements. An approach to this problem is described based on the principle of abundance. This approach offers an operational definition for motor synergies using the framework of the uncontrolled manifold hypothesis. It is shown that hier...

Denna avhandling är skyddad enligt upphovsrättslagen. Alla rättigheter förbehålles. Abstract The principal objective of this thesis was to advance the level of understanding in the field of biolubrication, finding inspiration from the human synovial joints. This was addressed specifically by investigating the synergistic association of key biolubricants and the resulting lubrication performance...

“Heuristic synergy” refers to improvements in search performance when the decisions made by two or more heuristics are combined. This paper considers combinations based on products and quotients, and a less familiar form of combination based on weighted sums of ratings from a set of base heuristics, some of which result in definite improvements in performance. Then, using recent results from a ...

In this paper we explore synergies between the machine learning and knowledge representation fields by considering how scientific knowledge is represented in these areas. We illustrate some of the knowledge obtained through machine learning methods, providing two contrasting examples of such models: probabilistic graphical models (aka Bayesian networks) and artificial neural networks (including...

Citation: Raicevich S, Battaglia P, Fortibuoni T, Romeo T, Giovanardi O and Andaloro F (2017) Critical Inconsistencies in Early Implementations of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and Common Fisheries Policy Objectives Hamper Policy Synergies in Fostering the Sustainable Exploitation of Mediterranean Fisheries Resources. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:316. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00316 Critical Inco...

In the presence of corporate taxes and default costs, mergers can realize purely financial synergies due to reduced risk and the potential for greater leverage, as suggested by Lewellen (1971). But his conclusion that mergers always create positive financial synergies is incorrect: when firms have quite different risks or default costs, the loss from no longer being able to fit different capita...