Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework of critical success factors, metrics, and tools and techniques for implementing metrics for each stage of the new product development (NPD) process.Design/methodology/approach: To achieve this objective, a lit...

We extend Wolff's "local smoothing" inequality to a wider class of not necessarily conical hypersurfaces of codimension 1. This class includes surfaces with nonvanishing curvature, as well as certain surfaces with more than one flat direction. An immediate consequence i...

The retirement of Robert I. Burns from the University of California at Los Angeles provides an opportunity for recognition of the extraordinary contributions he has made to medieval history. His numerous studies of James I and thirteenth century Valencia, his many volum...

Evaluación de la diversidad de plantas de sotobosque en plantaciones de pino Szemao (Pinus kesiya var. langbianensis) en Yunnan, China.— La sostenibilidad es un objetivo clave para la gestión tanto de bosques naturales como de plantaciones, mientras que los estudios sob...

Resumo: Seja sob a forma quase oral dos monólogos de Clémence DesRochers seja na trama narrativa do romance Des Nouvelles d’Édouard, uma retórica do cotidiano se perfila nas obras literárias quebequenses; ela se faz presente a fim de provocar no leitor uma distância crí...

An attempt to sketch the background for the life and ideas of Ramon Llull (1232-1316) so as to bring out the ways in which he was in agreement with the ideas of the popes and the leading Dominicans and Franciscans of his time on missions and crusades and also the ways i...

The chapters of Francesc Eiximenis’ Dotzè discussed in this paper describe the sufferings of soldiers during a siege. The worst one is that their king has sworn to endure it all to the bitter end. Eiximenis has an imaginary Greek philosopher offer strange solutions for ...

L'ensenyament de la gramàtica constitueix avui en dia i en el pla internacional un camp molt dinàmic per a la recerca i el debat acadèmics. En aquest número especial ens volem fer ressò d'aquest dinamisme, amb contribucions de 16 investigadors que van participar en el I...

La conservación de la biodiversidad requiere pruebas fiables de las causas de extinción local. Utilizando los mejillones de agua dulce como ejemplo, llevamos a cabo esta valoración sistemática, la primera que se ha realizado, de la evidencia de peligro para cualquier gr...

Ce mémoire traite du projet de création de l’aire protégée Ya’nienhonhndeh de la Nation huronne-wendat. À travers l’exploration de la production, de la circulation et de l’utilisation des savoirs relatifs à ce projet, nous cherchons à éclairer les dynamiques constitutiv...