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Identity reinforcement or risky organizational change? : Category spanning in humanitarian projects

Kooijman, Eva A. P. ; Beck, Nikolaus

In: Administrative sciences, 2021, vol. 11, no. 4, p. 17

In this study, we investigate the consequences of organizational change that consist of adding new categories to the portfolio of humanitarian organizations. Our aim is to discern differences in these consequences between specialist and generalist organizations. Previous research has shown that spanning categories lead to disadvantages in the evaluation of organizations by audience members in...

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Managing the trade-off between groundwater resources and large-scale agriculture : the case of pistachio production in Iran

Akhavan, Ali ; Gonçalves, Paulo

In: System dynamics review, 2021, vol. 37, no. 2-3, p. 155-196

Benefiting from historically favorable conditions (e.g. low costs, fertile land, and abundant water), pistachio producers in Rafsanjan, Iran, have flourished, with pistachio orchards and production growing dramatically since the 1970s. Today, however, the enormous increase in water consumption associated with pistachio production has severely depleted groundwater aquifers, causing widespread...

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A new constructive heuristic driven by machine learning for the traveling salesman problem

Mele, Umberto Junior ; Gambardella, Luca Maria ; Montemanni, Roberto

In: Algorithms, 2021, vol. 14, no. 9, p. 25

Recent systems applying Machine Learning (ML) to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) exhibit issues when they try to scale up to real case scenarios with several hundred vertices. The use of Candidate Lists (CLs) has been brought up to cope with the issues. A CL is defined as a subset of all the edges linked to a given vertex such that it contains mainly edges that are believed to be...

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A fast direct solver for nonlocal operators in wavelet coordinates

Harbrecht, Helmut ; Multerer, Michael

In: Journal of computational physics, 2021, vol. 428, p. 15 p

In this article, we consider fast direct solvers for nonlocal operators. The pivotal idea is to combine a wavelet representation of the system matrix, yielding a quasi- sparse matrix, with the nested dissection ordering scheme. The latter drastically reduces the fill-in during the factorization of the system matrix by means of a Cholesky decomposition or an LU decomposition, respectively. This...

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Multigrid methods for fractional diffusion equations

Trotti, Ken ; Krause, Rolf (Dir.) ; Donatelli, Marco (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021INFO013.

Recent years have seen the rapid growth in interest towards fractional calculus. Fractional calculus plays an important role in modelling anomalous diffusion phenomena, however closed-form analytical solutions of such equations are rarely available, hence numerical estimates are needed. In this thesis we consider various fractional diffusion equations (FDEs), where different fractional ...

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Robust Bayesian model averaging for the analysis of presence-absence data

Corani, Giorgio ; Mignatti, Andrea

In: Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 2015, vol. 22, no. 3, p. 513-534

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Exchange rate effects on cross-border commuting : Evidence from the Swiss-Italian border

Bello, Piera

In: Journal of economic geography, 2020, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 969-1001

Are cross-border workers responsive to changes in the exchange rate between the home and host countries' currencies? I answer this question by examining the effects of appreciation in the Swiss franc (CHF) relative to the euro (EUR) on labour supply decisions of Italian cross-border workers. I use hourly data on traffic flows in Ticino, the southernmost canton of Switzerland, together with...

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From blue to steel-collar jobs : The decline in employment gaps?

Lerch, Benjamin

The adoption of labor-replacing technologies has already displaced thousands of workers in the US. In this paper, I analyze how the adverse effects of the implementation of robots in firms’ production processes are spreading among the population and how they are shaping the composition of labor markets. Exploiting exogenous variation in robot exposure across local labor markets and over time,...