Digital technologies have created new alternative sources of entrepreneurial finance that create significant opportunities for start-ups and entrepreneurs. Among them, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have attracted significant attention from the start-up community and fro...

In smart-cities, computer vision has the potential to dramatically improve the quality of life of people suffering of visual impairments. In this field, we have been working on a wearable mobility aid aimed at detecting in real-time obstacles in front of a visually impa...

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INTRODUCTION The puzzle of price formation in the art market, and for paintings in particular, stems from the difficulty of applying the Marshallian theory of value to this particular market configuration. On one side, marginal utility - and thus demand factors - are no...

In recent years, a new form of co-operative business is taking shape in Italy: the community-based enterprise, a community acting collectively at both management and business level, to pursue common goals. Community-based enterprises grow on a system of networks of free...

El articulo es producto de un proyecto Erasmus+ Capacity Building financiado por la Unión Europea y ejecutado por investigadores vinculados a ocho universidades de Italia, Francia, España, Colombia y Ecuador. El propósito de este libro es plantear la correlación existen...

In this chapter, the Heritage Chain is applied to a specific case of heritage preservation and management in China: the “Horse and Chariot” museum . The case highlights the ability of the “Heritage Chain” to grasp a single case of heritage management with a holistic vie...

Programming distributed applications free from communication deadlocks and races is complex. Preserving these properties when applications are updated at runtime is even harder. We present DIOC, a language for programming distributed applications that are free from dead...

Pharmacovigilance is a clinically oriented discipline, which may guide appropriate drug use through a balanced assessment of drug safety. Although much has been done in recent years, efforts are needed to expand the border of pharmacovigilance. We have provided insight ...

Ambiguous notation is a powerful tool developed to deal with the complexity of mathematics without sacrificing clarity or conciseness. In the mechanized parsing of ambiguous terms, a disambiguation algorithm can be used to provide the system with the intelligence necess...