Features of the analysis of the financial condition of the research organization

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-88
Author(s):  
М. М. Pikalkina
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Research Organization ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
Cost Planning ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Selection Of

In the article the peculiarities of the methodology of project management in knowledge-intensive enterprise. The analysis of the budgeting practices of research topics, presents the results of a study of their budgets. The authors focus on the formation of the expenditure side of budgets, cost planning on various counts. In the article the criteria of selection of the optimal budget.

Accounting for natural disasters from a historical perspective: A literature review and research agenda

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-204
Author(s):  
Massimo Sargiacomo ◽  
Stefania Servalli ◽  
Serena Potito ◽  
Antonio D’Andreamatteo ◽  
Antonio Gitto
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Open Research ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
Published Research ◽  
Selection Of

This study offers an analysis of published historical research on accounting for natural disasters. Drawing on the insights provided by an examination of 35 accounting/business/economic history and generalist journals, 11 articles have been selected and analysed. The analysis conducted on the scattered literature identified the emerging themes, disasters investigated, periods of time explored and main contributions of published research. The analysis is extended by the examination of some key conferences of interdisciplinary history associations, and of the eventual journals/issues where the papers presented were published. The investigation has also been complemented by a brief selection of books showing historical analyses of diverse disasters, typologies and periods of investigation. The stimuli provided by the study have helped to portray the main features of an open research agenda, highlighting possible future research topics and suggesting ancient and recent disasters’ loci to be investigated worldwide.

A Contingency Perspective on Effective Prototyping

1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Oscar Gutierrez
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Linear Problem ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Social Mechanism ◽  
Contingency Perspective ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
Selection Of

Current demands on prototyping emphasize increasingly complex and dynamic applications that require sophisticated social mechanism and process enablers. However, much of the emphasis placed today in systems development under prototyping focuses on the supporting technology. The imbalance between product and process perspectives under this approach is explored. A view of prototyping effectiveness is presented in terms of non-linear problem solving, adequate technical and procedural solutions, and organizational support. Implications of this view are presented on the selection of prototyping techniques and on project management concerns. Future developments in prototyping practice are explored.

Does open access citation advantage depend on paper topics?

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 696-709
Author(s):  
Hajar Sotudeh
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Abstract Level ◽  
Article Processing Charges ◽  
Processing Techniques ◽  
Citation Advantage ◽  
Selection Of

Research topics vary in their citation potential. In a metric-wise scientific milieu, it would be probable that authors tend to select citation-attractive topics especially when choosing open access (OA) outlets that are more likely to attract citations. Applying a matched-pairs study design, this research aims to examine the role of research topics in the citation advantage of OA papers. Using a comparative citation analysis method, it investigates a sample of papers published in 47 Elsevier article processing charges (APC)-funded journals in different access models including non-open access (NOA), APC, Green and mixed Green-APC. The contents of the papers are analysed using natural language processing techniques at the title and abstract level and served as a basis to match the NOA papers to their peers in the OA models. The publication years and journals are controlled for in order to avoid their impacts on the citation numbers. According to the results, the OA citation advantage that is observed in the whole sample still holds even for the highly similar OA and NOA papers. This implies that the OA citation surplus is not an artefact of the OA and NOA papers’ differences in their topics and, therefore, in their citation potential. This leads to the conclusion that OA authors’ self-selectivity, if it exists at all, is not responsible for the OA citation advantage, at least as far as selection of topics with probably higher citation potentials is concerned.

The causes, impacts and mitigations of delay in megaprojects in the Sultanate of Oman

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adekunle Sabitu Oyegoke ◽  
Naseer Al Kiyumi
Keyword(s):  
Rank Order ◽  
Site Management ◽  
Sultanate Of Oman ◽  
Construction Planning ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
Importance Index ◽  
Efficient Construction ◽  
Mitigation Methods ◽  
Selection Of

Purpose Project delay is becoming a problem in the Sultanate of Oman as evidenced by many delayed projects across the country. The purpose of this study is to examine causes and effects of delays in megaprojects in the Sultanate of Oman with recommendations to mitigate same. Design/methodology/approach A systematic review of literature identifies through main stakeholders the numerous causes, impacts and methods of mitigating delay from previous studies. A questionnaire survey on Oman was carried out to sample opinions from the practitioners; 53 questionnaires were received and analysed using the relative importance index (RII) method. Findings The five most frequent causes of delay in the Sultanate of Oman, in rank order, are: selection of the lowest bid, instead of best bid for the client (RII: 0.698); the financial condition of the main contractor (RII: 0.664); delay in decision-making by the client (RII: 0.656); and poor construction planning by the main contractor (RII: 0.649). Also, the findings indicate that extra cost (RII: 0.754) and project time overrun (RII: 0.724) are the most significant effects of the delay in the Oman megaprojects. The use of experienced contractors and consultant (RII 0.675), efficient construction planning by the main contractor and effective site management and supervision (RII: 0.667) are essential mitigation methods of construction delay in Oman megaprojects. Originality/value The study recommends three-part novel solutions to mitigate delay in the Oman construction industry.

Selected Research Topics of the Dondoni Group over the Last Two Decades (2000–2020)

Synlett ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (14) ◽  
pp. 1361-1371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Dondoni
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Bioorganic Chemistry ◽  
Multicomponent Reactions ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Synthetic Methods ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Main Target ◽  
Sulfur Fluoride ◽  
Primary Rule ◽  
Selection Of

From a selection of research topics carried out in our laboratory during the last twenty years it becomes apparent that our main target was the discovery of new or improved synthetic methods together with new properties. Our efforts were made with the aim of being of some utility to other fields of research, with particular emphasis to glycobiology and heterocyle-based bioorganic chemistry. We performed new chemistry mainly in the field of carbohydrate manipulations taking as a primary rule the simplicity and efficiency manners. Toward this end, modern synthetic tools and approaches were employed such as heterocyle-based transformations, multicomponent reactions, organocatalysis, click azide–alkyne cycloadditions, reactions in ionic liquids, click photoinduced thiol-ene coupling, and click sulfur–fluoride exchange chemistry. With these potent methodologies in hand, the syntheses of carbohydrate containing amino acids up to proteins glycosylation were performed.1 Heterocyclic Glycoconjugates and Amino Acids2 Triazole-Linked Oligonucleotides: Application of Click CuAAC3 Non-Natural Glycosyl Amino Acids4 Non-Natural Oligosaccharides5 Calixarene-Based Glycoclusters6 Carbohydrate-Based Building Blocks7 Homoazasugars and Aza-C-disaccharides8 Synthesis of Glycodendrimers9 Peptide and Protein Glycoconjugates10 Conclusions

Physical and remote access to the European Volcano Research Infrastructures as a strategy to promote the community building: efforts, challenges, and results.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Letizia Spampinato ◽  
Giuseppe Puglisi
Keyword(s):  
Community Building ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Remote Access ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Scientific Communities ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Physical Access ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Volcano Observatories ◽  
The Ideal

<p>Indeed, nowadays data sharing via internet is one of the most used approaches to networking scientific communities. However, the opportunity to physically access Research Infrastructures (RIs) and their installations and facilities is potentially the most powerful mean to build up a community. Physically access, in fact, makes the ideal conditions for the RI’s providers and users to work side by side on specific research topics. This is recently the case of the European trans-national access activities promoted in order to allow and push the volcanology community to use either the volcano observatories, to carry out experiments or fieldworks, or laboratories, for exploiting analytical and computational facilities, belonging to the main European volcano research institutions.</p><p>The EUROVOLC project has granted the access to 11 RIs for an overall of 45 installations, including single facilities of pools of mobile instrumentation and of laboratories, and remote access to collections of volcanic rocks, of 5 European countries (France, Iceland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain). In the frame of the project, the trans-national access offer has come from 7 partners (IMO, UI, INGV&CNR, CIVISA, IPGP, and CSIC) acting in 7 WPs (13, 14, 16, 16, 17, 18, and 19).</p><p>The EUROVOLC work-plan has foreseen two calls, one in 2018 and the other in 2019, allowing users to apply for access the RIs, and the effective physical access in 2019 and 2020, respectively. Each call has been managed according to a stepwise process based on an excellence-driven criterion, in which the roles of the various actors and the schedule have been previously defined.</p><p>This contribution aims at presenting the management and coordination efforts related to the trans-national access activities in the frame of EUROVOLC including the preparation and the launch of the 1<sup>st</sup> call, the process of the selection of the proposals, the feedback from the management of the 1<sup>st</sup> call, the preparation of the 2<sup>nd</sup> call, and a critical analysis for improving the management of the 2<sup>nd</sup> call.</p>

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