The mature publishing and information industries were faced in the mid ‘90’s by the rise of unforeseen technology and unfamiliar digitized formats as proposed vehicles for information which would previously have been presented in the flat environment of print on paper. During this period, publishers and other content providers were frequently chastised for their seeming inability to adjust to i...

Platform is an established strategy for producing customized products while managing the economy of scale. Innovation in various areas makes different components in a platform outdated or redundant within a short span of time. This poses severe challenge to the robustness of the platform configuration that efficiently satisfies the volatile needs of the customers from various segments. Therefor...

The burden placed on individuals aged 40 to 59 – especially on women – by competing demands from work and both older and younger family members is often addressed using the metaphor of the “sandwich generation“. Based on a systematization of the definitions used in the literature, empirical evidence on the frequency of such generational constellations and on their impact on the well-being of sa...

We describe some simulations that compare cultural transmission between and within generations (inter-generational vs intra-generational transmission) in populations of embodied agents controlled by neural networks. Our results suggest that intra-generational transmission has the role of adding variability to the evolutionary process and that this function seems particularly useful when the pop...

Human-assisted, trans-generational exposure to ocean warming and acidification has been proposed as a conservation and/or restoration tool to produce resilient offspring. To improve our understanding of the need for and the efficacy of this approach, we characterized life-history and physiological responses in offspring of the marine polychaete Ophryotrocha labronica exposed to predicted ocean ...

Little is known of the capacity that marine metazoans have to evolve under rapid p CO 2 changes. Consequently, we reared a marine polychaete, Ophryotrocha labronica, previously cultured for approximately 33 generations under a low/variable pH regime, under elevated and low p CO 2 for six generations. The strain used was found to be tolerant to elevated p CO 2 conditions. In generations F1 and F...

Sciascia S., Mazzola P. and Chirico F. (2013). Generational involvement in the top management team of family firms: Exploring non-linear effects on entrepreneurial orientation. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. GENERATIONAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM OF FAMILY FIRMS: EXPLORING NON-LINEAR EFFECTS ON ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION ABSTRACT The present study contends that an inverted ...

Kinship groups can have considerable importance (e.g., generational support, inheritance, and information for key life events). During demographic transitions, kinship networks are reshaped by changes in mortality fertility rates.

Generational garbage collection is an established method for creating eecient garbage collectors. Even a simple implementation where all nodes that survive one garbage collection are tenured, i.e., moved to an old generation, works well in strict languages. In a lazy language, however, such an implementation can create severe temporary space leaks. The temporary space leaks appear in programs t...