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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
17,469 Views
17 Pages

24 March 2023

The latest trend in today’s organizational development is to become exponential organizations. As a new organizational paradigm for the Internet society and sharing economy era, it is a more flexible, streamlined, and entrepreneurial organizati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,873 Views
20 Pages

Monitoring the Implementation of Exponential Organizations through the Assessment of Their Project Portfolio: Case Study

  • Marina Díaz-Piloneta,
  • Francisco Ortega-Fernández,
  • Henar Morán-Palacios and
  • Vicente Rodríguez-Montequín

6 January 2021

Many organizations are currently face significant challenges in terms of sustainability and technological development. Achieving sustainability in business activities, interweaving social, economic, and environmental perspectives, is one of the most...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability and Project Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,653 Views
24 Pages

This study investigates the role of the Massive Transformative Purpose (MTP) in shaping corporate brand identity and guiding brand management strategies in Exponential Organizations (ExOs). It examines how the MTP aligns internal and external brand d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,186 Views
23 Pages

4 January 2023

Academic institutions and companies generally consider HRD competency to be an essential indicator of whether HR can play its role effectively and has a close relationship with organizational performance. Based on this, this paper explores the impact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,455 Views
17 Pages

1 December 2024

The rapid digitalization of organizations has positioned the digital transformation of Human Resources (HR) as a critical trend for the future. In particular, exponential organizations—characterized by their ability to leverage digital technolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,616 Views
11 Pages

In this paper, we suggest an approach to recovering behavior-related, preference-choice network information from observational data. We model the process as a self-organized behavior based random exponential network-graph system. To address the unkno...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,214 Views
12 Pages

Anomalous Self-Organization in Active Piles

  • Morteza Nattagh-Najafi,
  • Mohammad Nabil,
  • Rafsun Hossain Mridha and
  • Seyed Amin Nabavizadeh

27 May 2023

Inspired by recent observations on active self-organized critical (SOC) systems, we designed an active pile (or ant pile) model with two ingredients: beyond-threshold toppling and under-threshold active motions. By including the latter component, we...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,648 Views
19 Pages

30 July 2021

Vibration signals contain abundant information that reflects the health status of wind turbine high-speed shaft bearings ((HSSBs). Accurate health assessment and remaining useful life (RUL) prediction are the keys to the scientific maintenance of win...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,515 Views
21 Pages

Non-Standard Discrete RothC Models for Soil Carbon Dynamics

  • Fasma Diele,
  • Carmela Marangi and
  • Angela Martiradonna

8 April 2021

Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) is one of the key indicators of land degradation. SOC positively affects soil functions with regard to habitats, biological diversity and soil fertility; therefore, a reduction in the SOC stock of soil results in degradation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differential Models, Numerical Simulations and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
743 Views
25 Pages

16 December 2025

Against the backdrop of China’s “dual carbon” strategy and regional integration, enhancing green innovation efficiency (GIE) has become a core issue for the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration (YRDUA) in achieving sustainable an...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,508 Views
20 Pages

14 March 2023

Malassezia synthesizes and releases volatile organic compounds (VOCs), small molecules that allow them to carry out interaction processes. These lipid-dependent yeasts belong to the human skin mycobiota and are related to dermatological diseases. How...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Chemical Biology—Edition of 2022-2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,396 Views
13 Pages

A Scale Invariant Distribution of the Prime Numbers

  • Wayne S. Kendal and
  • Bent Jørgensen

28 October 2015

The irregular distribution of prime numbers amongst the integers has found multiple uses, from engineering applications of cryptography to quantum theory. The degree to which this distribution can be predicted thus has become a subject of current int...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,451 Views
19 Pages

14 October 2022

Multilayer thin film assembly by the layer-by-layer (LbL) technique offers an inexpensive and versatile route for the synthesis of functional nanomaterials. In the case of polymer-clay systems, however, the technique faces the challenges of low clay...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Polyelectrolyte Complexes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,396 Views
12 Pages

Biomass and Nutrients Variation of Chinese Fir Rooted Cuttings under Conventional and Exponential Fertilization Regimes of Nitrogen

  • Jiasen Wu,
  • Haiping Lin,
  • Lianhua Guo,
  • Jiaqi Dong and ,
  • Luyao Zhang and
  • Weijun Fu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 July 2019

Exponential fertilization has been regarded as an important technique for improving seedling quality at the initial plant-growth stage. In our study, containerized one-year-old Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook) rooted cuttings were r...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,779 Views
16 Pages

Cell Length Growth in the Fission Yeast Cell Cycle: Is It (Bi)linear or (Bi)exponential?

  • Benedek Pesti,
  • Zsófia Nagy,
  • László Attila Papp,
  • Matthias Sipiczki and
  • Ákos Sveiczer

28 August 2021

Fission yeast is commonly used as a model organism in eukaryotic cell growth studies. To describe the cells’ length growth patterns during the mitotic cycle, different models have been proposed previously as linear, exponential, bilinear and biexpone...

(This article belongs to the Section Biological Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,931 Views
25 Pages

6 January 2021

Urban population density provides a good perspective for understanding urban growth and socio-spatial dynamics. Based on sub-district data of the five national censuses in 1964, 1982, 1990, 2000, and 2010, this paper is devoted to analyzing of urban...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Growth and Demographic Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,948 Views
19 Pages

2 December 2019

We investigated the impact of conditioning compositions on the way bacteria move and adhere to reverse osmosis (RO) membranes that have been pre-conditioned by organic compounds. We used humic acid (HA), bovine serum albumin (BSA), and sodium alginat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,712 Views
28 Pages

The nature of depth distribution of soil organic carbon (SOC) was examined in 85 soils across New South Wales with the working hypothesis that the depth distribution of SOC is controlled by processes that vary with depth in the profile. Mathematical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,102 Views
12 Pages

5 March 2024

This study examined the absorption and concentration of anthracene (AN) in the garden radish. Experiments were conducted to grow radishes from the sowing stage in soil contaminated with AN and to grow radishes in soil contaminated with AN following m...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,215 Views
11 Pages

28 October 2022

In silico study of biologically invading organisms provide a means to evaluate the complex and potentially cryptic factors that can influence invasion success in scenarios where empirical studies would be difficult, if not impossible, to conduct. I u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Plant Biotic and Abiotic Stresses)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,872 Views
12 Pages

Dosimetric Evaluation of 177Lu Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy Using GATE and Planet Dose

  • Ioanna Stamouli,
  • Thomas Nanos,
  • Konstantinos Chatzipapas,
  • Panagiotis Papadimitroulas and ,
  • Lydia-Aggeliki Zoglopitou,
  • Theodoros Kalathas,
  • Paraskevi F. Katsakiori,
  • Anna Makridou and
  • George C. Kagadis
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

30 August 2023

This study aimed to compare the commercial dosimetric software Planet® Dose (version 3.1.1) from DOSIsoft and the open-source toolkit GATE. Dosimetry was performed for six patients receiving 200 mCi of Lutathera® every 8 weeks for four treatm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Medical Physics: Latest Advances and Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,023 Views
21 Pages

A Study on the Basic Properties of Oil Shale and Its Oxidative Pyrolysis Kinetic Characteristics in an Air Atmosphere

  • Zongyao Qi,
  • Peng Liu,
  • Tong Liu,
  • Xiaokun Zhang and ,
  • Changfeng Xi,
  • Bojun Wang,
  • Fang Zhao,
  • Chuanju Zhao and
  • Liang Zhang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

25 October 2025

The in situ conversion of oil shale with air injection has the advantage of self-generated heat. The fragmentation degree of oil shale affects the oxidative pyrolysis process. In this paper, the basic properties of oil shale were analyzed, and weight...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Processes and Systems)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,775 Views
7 Pages

On the Relationship between City Mobility and Blocks Uniformity

  • Eric K. Tokuda,
  • Cesar H. Comin,
  • Roberto M. Cesar and
  • Luciano da F. Costa

17 November 2019

The spatial organization and the topological organization of cities have a great influence on the lives of their inhabitants, including mobility efficiency. Entropy has been often adopted for the characterization of diverse natural and human-made sys...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 5th International Electronic Conference on Entropy and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,049 Views
12 Pages

13 December 2020

Separating non-ideal mixtures by pervaporation (hence PV) is a competitive alternative to most traditional methods, such as distillation, which are based on the vapour–liquid equilibrium (VLE). It must be said, in many cases, accurate VLE data...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Membrane Separations, Membrane Filtrations, Pervaporation, and Modeling of Membrane Separation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6,682 Views
8 Pages

Entropy of Bounding Tori

  • Jacob Katriel and
  • Robert Gilmore

15 April 2010

Branched manifolds that describe strange attractors in R3 can be enclosed in, and are organized by, canonical bounding tori. Tori of genus g are labeled by a symbol sequence, or “periodic orbit”, of period g-1. We show that the number of distinct can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,927 Views
11 Pages

18 January 2012

We demonstrate strong spectral dependence of the efficiency of fluorescence quenching in molecular systems composed of organic dyes and gold nanoparticles. In order to probe the coupling with metallic nanoparticles we use dyes with varied spectral ov...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,900 Views
10 Pages

Approach to Liver Transplantation: Is There a Difference between East and West?

  • Nazli Begum Ozturk,
  • Nathanial Bartosek,
  • Merih Deniz Toruner,
  • Aymen Mumtaz and ,
  • Cem Simsek,
  • Doan Dao,
  • Behnam Saberi and
  • Ahmet Gurakar
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

25 March 2024

Liver transplantation (LT) remains the only curative treatment for end-stage liver disease as well as acute liver failure. With the exponential increase in organ demand due to the increasing incidence and prevalence of liver diseases, the need to ove...

(This article belongs to the Section Gastroenterology & Hepatopancreatobiliary Medicine)
  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
9,370 Views
11 Pages

Developmental Drift and the Role of Wnt Signaling in Aging

  • Jan Gruber,
  • Zhuangli Yee and
  • Nicholas S. Tolwinski

2 August 2016

Population aging is a public health problem affecting the majority of the developed world. As populations age, the incidence of degenerative diseases increases exponentially, leading to large increases in public spending on healthcare. Here we summar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wnt Signaling in Cancer)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,874 Views
23 Pages

19 September 2024

Advancements in electronic device technology have led to an exponential growth in demand for more efficient and versatile transistors. In this context, organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) have emerged as a promising alternative due to their uniq...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical and Molecular Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,367 Views
28 Pages

The Effects of Temperature and Growth Phase on the Lipidomes of Sulfolobus islandicus and Sulfolobus tokodaii

  • Sara Munk Jensen,
  • Vinnie Lund Neesgaard,
  • Sandra Landbo Nedergaard Skjoldbjerg,
  • Martin Brandl and ,
  • Christer S. Ejsing and
  • Alexander H. Treusch
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 August 2015

The functionality of the plasma membrane is essential for all organisms. Adaption to high growth temperatures imposes challenges and Bacteria, Eukarya, and Archaea have developed several mechanisms to cope with these. Hyperthermophilic archaea have e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Archaea: Evolution, Physiology, and Molecular Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,127 Views
16 Pages

1 March 2019

As the global environment is getting more competitive, sustainability is increasingly becoming an important assessment tool. An exponential distribution stochastic model is developed for the purpose of assessing and measuring the sustainability of he...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,381 Views
12 Pages

Elemental Composition and Cell Mass Quantification of Cultured Thraustochytrids Unveil Their Large Contribution to Marine Carbon Pool

  • Biswarup Sen,
  • Jiaqian Li,
  • Lyu Lu,
  • Mohan Bai and ,
  • Yaodong He and
  • Guangyi Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 August 2021

The element stoichiometry of bacteria has received considerable attention because of their significant role in marine ecosystems. However, relatively little is known about the composition of major structural elements of the unicellular heterotrophic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Marine Thraustochytrids: Biology, Chemical Ecology and Biotechnology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,306 Views
23 Pages

The existence of landscape constraints in the home range of living organisms that adopt Lévy-flight movement patterns, prevents them from making arbitrarily large displacements. Their random movements indeed occur in a finite space with an upp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Fractional Calculus as an Interdisciplinary Modeling Framework)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,139 Views
17 Pages

Bioavailability of Organic Phosphorus Compounds to the Harmful Dinoflagellate Karenia mikimotoi

  • Kaixuan Huang,
  • Yanqing Zhuang,
  • Zhou Wang,
  • Linjian Ou and ,
  • Jingyi Cen,
  • Songhui Lu and
  • Yuzao Qi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Karenia mikimotoi is one of the most well-known harmful bloom species in temperate coastal waters. The present study investigated the characteristics of alkaline phosphatase (APase) and phosphodiesterase (PDEase) activities in hydrolysis of two phosp...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Microbiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,731 Views
21 Pages

Characterization of the Water Shortage Effects on Potato Tuber Tissues during Growth Using MRI Relaxometry and Biochemical Parameters

  • Ghina Hajjar,
  • Stéphane Quellec,
  • Sylvain Challois,
  • Lydia Bousset-Vaslin and ,
  • Gisèle Joly,
  • Christophe Langrume,
  • Carole Deleu,
  • Laurent Leport and
  • Maja Musse
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

25 July 2022

The potato is one of the most cultivated crops worldwide, providing an important source of food. The quality of potato tubers relates to their size and dry matter composition and to the absence of physiological defects. It depends on the spatial and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Plants—Recent Advances and Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,790 Views
19 Pages

Toxicokinetic or pharmacokinetic models, physiologically based or not, offer a unique avenue to understand the transport of toxins or pharmaceuticals in living organisms. The availability of analytical solutions to such models offers the means to eng...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,541 Views
16 Pages

An Introduction to Probabilistic Record Linkage with a Focus on Linkage Processing for WTC Registries

  • Jana Asher,
  • Dean Resnick,
  • Jennifer Brite,
  • Robert Brackbill and
  • James Cone

Since its post-World War II inception, the science of record linkage has grown exponentially and is used across industrial, governmental, and academic agencies. The academic fields that rely on record linkage are diverse, ranging from history to publ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 9/11 Health Update)
  • Review
  • Open Access
82 Citations
14,698 Views
30 Pages

Role of Citrate in Pathophysiology and Medical Management of Bone Diseases

  • Donatella Granchi,
  • Nicola Baldini,
  • Fabio Massimo Ulivieri and
  • Renata Caudarella

25 October 2019

Citrate is an intermediate in the “Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle” and is used by all aerobic organisms to produce usable chemical energy. It is a derivative of citric acid, a weak organic acid which can be introduced with diet since it natural...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nutrition for Musculoskeletal Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,026 Views
9 Pages

On the Mortality of Companies

  • Peter Richmond and
  • Bertrand M. Roehner

28 January 2022

Using data from both the US and UK we examine the survival and mortality of companies in both the early stage or start-up and mature phases. The shape of the mortality curve is broadly similar to that of humans. Even small single cellular organisms s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Three Risky Decades: A Time for Econophysics?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
11,159 Views
34 Pages

23 February 2010

Information optimization is a centerpiece phenomenon in the universe. It develops from simplicity, then continuously breaks symmetry and cycles through instability to progress to increasingly dense nodes of complexity and diversity. Intelligence has...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complexity and Symmetry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,909 Views
14 Pages

Forecasting Biocapacity and Ecological Footprint at a Worldwide Level to 2030 Using Neural Networks

  • María Andreína Moros-Ochoa,
  • Gilmer Yovani Castro-Nieto,
  • Anderson Quintero-Español and
  • Carolina Llorente-Portillo

27 August 2022

Constant environmental deterioration is a problem widely addressed by multiple international organizations. However, given the current economic and technological limitations, alternatives that immediately and significantly impact environmental degrad...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
94 Citations
11,670 Views
17 Pages

16 March 2017

Wildfires are a dominant disturbance to boreal forests, and in North America, they typically cause widespread tree mortality. Forest fire burn severity is often measured at a plot scale using the Composite Burn Index (CBI), which was originally devel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Sensors, Multi-Sensor Integration, Large Volumes: New Opportunities and Challenges in Forest Fire Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,464 Views
15 Pages

Modeling Soil Organic Carbon at Coastal Sabkhas with Different Vegetation Covers at the Red Sea Coast of Saudi Arabia

  • Ebrahem M. Eid,
  • Amr E. Keshta,
  • Sulaiman A. Alrumman,
  • Muhammad Arshad and ,
  • Kamal H. Shaltout,
  • Mohamed T. Ahmed,
  • Dhafer A. Al-Bakre,
  • Ahmed H. Alfarhan and
  • Damia Barcelo
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Healthy coastal sabkhas (sabkha is an Arabic term for a salt flat) offer plenty of ecosystem services including climate change mitigation. However, fewer research studies were conducted at coastal sabkhas compared to other coastal marshes. This study...

(This article belongs to the Section Marine Environmental Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,647 Views
13 Pages

Power Laws Derived from a Bayesian Decision-Making Model in Non-Stationary Environments

  • Shuji Shinohara,
  • Nobuhito Manome,
  • Yoshihiro Nakajima,
  • Yukio Pegio Gunji and ,
  • Toru Moriyama,
  • Hiroshi Okamoto,
  • Shunji Mitsuyoshi and
  • Ung-il Chung
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

19 April 2021

The frequency of occurrence of step length in the migratory behaviour of various organisms, including humans, is characterized by the power law distribution. This pattern of behaviour is known as the Lévy walk, and the reason for this phenomenon has...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,561 Views
15 Pages

Visual Colorimetric Detection of Edible Oil Freshness for Peroxides Based on Nanocellulose

  • Xiongli Jiang,
  • Jun Cheng,
  • Fangwei Yang,
  • Zhenyang Hu and ,
  • Zhen Zheng,
  • Yu Deng,
  • Buyuan Cao and
  • Yunfei Xie
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

5 May 2023

Traditional methods for evaluating the edibility of lipids involve the use of organic reagents and complex operations, which limit their routine use. In this study, nanocellulose was prepared from bamboo, and a colorimetric reading strategy based on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Safety and Functional Analysis of Lipids and Derivatives in Foods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,793 Views
18 Pages

28 October 2024

This paper focuses on the safety-critical fixed-time formation control of quadrotor UAVs with disturbance and obstacle collision risk. The control scheme is organized in a distributed manner, with the leader’s position and velocity being estima...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flight Control and Collision Avoidance of UAVs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,690 Views
11 Pages

15 March 2023

Chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) is the main sunlight absorber in surface waters and a very important photosensitiser towards the generation of photochemically produced reactive intermediates (PPRIs), which take part in pollutant degradat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Advances in Photochemistry)
  • Review
  • Open Access
274 Citations
31,770 Views
19 Pages

22 February 2021

The serious global microplastic pollution has attracted public concern in recent years. Microplastics are widely distributed in various environments and their pollution is already ubiquitous in the ocean system, which contributes to exponential conce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microplastics in Aquatic Environments: Occurrence, Distribution and Effects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
16,468 Views
20 Pages

Knowledge Management in the Esports Industry: Sustainability, Continuity, and Achievement of Competitive Results

  • José Manuel Saiz-Alvarez,
  • Jesús Manuel Palma-Ruiz,
  • Herik Germán Valles-Baca and
  • Luis Alberto Fierro-Ramírez

30 September 2021

The increasing popularity and exponential growth of esports as a worldwide phenomenon has created a whole new industry with important implications for the different key players in the value chain. The digitalization process, which accelerated after t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Management in Organizations: New Trends and Challenges)

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