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Nothing New Under the Sun: Novelty Constructs and Measures in Social Studies

The concept of novelty is central to questions of creativity, innovation, and discovery. Despite the prominence in scientific inquiry and everyday discourse, there is a chronic ambiguity over its meaning and a surprising variety of empirical measures, whic ...

Emerald Publishing Limited2022

The process of Lewy body formation, rather than simply α-synuclein fibrillization, is one of the major drivers of neurodegeneration

Hilal Lashuel, Graham Knott, Marion Leleu, Fabien Kuttler, Anne-Laure Mahul Mellier, Johannes Burtscher, Niran Maharjan, Laura Emmeline H Weerens

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by the accumulation of misfolded and aggregated α-synuclein (α-syn) into intraneuronal inclusions named Lewy bodies (LBs). Although it is widely believed that α-syn plays a central role in the pathogenesis of PD, t ...

2020

Gamifying knowledge sharing in humanitarian organisations: a design science journey

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Samuel Bendahan, Adrian Christian Holzer

Humanitarian organisations provide invaluable work to improve the lives of individuals impacted by natural and anthropogenic hazards. While humanitarian organisations are highly knowledge intensive, they often fail to manage knowledge effectively. Providin ...

2020

Managerial challenges of co-creation and social innovation: the case of Dokk1

Gianluigi Viscusi

Innovation in the public sector is the only possible response to fine-tune welfare services to new and changing demands and overcome policy impasses (Halmos et al., 2019; Misuraca & Colombo, 2016; Misuraca & Viscusi, 2015). According to a growing evidence, ...

2019

Meeting Report – The 2019 FEBS special meeting on sphingolipid biology: sphingolipids in physiology and pathology

Giovanni D'Angelo

Sphingolipids are a fundamental class of molecules that are involved in structural, organizational and signaling properties of eukaryotic membranes. Defects in their production or disposal lead to acquired and inherited human diseases. A growing community ...

2019

A new approach to spatial analysis of motorcycle taxis activities: the case of Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Rémi Jaligot

Motorcycle taxis operate in a non-regulated, uncontrolled environment, raising public health, environmental and economic issues. Consideration of such issues requires an in-depth understanding of motorcycle taxis’ organizational and operational features. U ...

2017

Three Essays on Collective Forms of Organizing for Production and Innovation

Joana Rodrigues Pereira

This dissertation focuses on collective forms or organizing that through crowds or communities undertake production or innovation activities. Such organizations deviate from the traditional notions of hierarchy, authority, and control; however, they are st ...

EPFL2017

OESPG: Computational Framework for Multidimensional Analysis of Occupant Energy Use Data in Commercial Buildings

Andrew James Sonta

Commercial buildings account for much of the energy use both in the United States and globally. The role of occupant behavior within the physical building has been found to be an important factor in the overall energy use profile of commercial buildings. R ...

2017

Crowd Dynamics and Crowd Capital in Small Teams: Insights from three crowdsourcing exercises in higher education

Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi

In this work we aim to study “crowd” dynamics in small teams. To this end, we use the typology of crowds discussed in Viscusi and Tucci [2015] as an interpretive framework, arguing that other characteristics are relevant to identify crowds than the number ...

2017

Graspeo: a Social Media Platform for Knowledge Management in NGOs

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

Timely access to critical information is crucial for any organization operating in situations of emergency. Deploying an adequate information system tailored to specific organizational needs and matched to the organizational structure is essential. To unde ...

2015

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