This work verified, through confirmatory factor analysis, a new measurement model for measuring dynamic capabilities based on current propositions in the literature, using a database of 1008 manufacturing sites from 16 countries. The indirect and dir...
While prior studies recognize the importance of organizational capabilities for family firm sustainability, current research has still failed to empirically identify the role of different types of knowledge accumulation with regard to these organizat...
Security systems are essential for maintaining public safety and protecting critical assets, yet most existing evaluation approaches remain static, capture only partial interactions among assets, security systems, and offenders, and lack qualitative...
Competitive intensity presents challenges to new ventures. Capabilities may lead to sustainable new venture performance. Yet, few studies have explored how competitive intensity moderates the effects of capabilities on sustainable new venture perform...
In this study grape must fermentation is monitored using a self-actuating/self-sensing piezoelectric micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) resonator. The sensor element is excited in an advanced roof tile-shaped vibration mode, which ensures high Q-f...
Many physical processes can be described via nonlinear second-order ordinary differential equations and so, exact solutions to these equations are of interest as, aside from their accuracy, they may reveal beforehand key properties of the system&rsqu...
We present a detailed theoretical and experimental study of cascaded double resonance long period gratings (C DR LPGs) for fabricated sensing applications. The matrix description of cascaded LPGs is presented, and several important particular cases a...
In the realm of dynamical systems described by deterministic differential equations used in biomathematical modeling, two types of random events influence the populations involved in the model: the first one is called environmental noise, due to fact...
To meet the demands of the food industry for automatic sorting of block-shaped foods using DELTA robots, a machine vision detection method capable of quickly identifying such foods needs to be studied. This paper proposes a lightweight model that inc...
Asserting program correctness is a longstanding challenge in software development that consumes lots of resources and manpower. It is often accomplished through software testing at various levels. One such level is unit testing, where the behaviour o...
Many practical compressible signals like image signals or the networked data in wireless sensor networks have non-uniform support distribution in their sparse representation domain. Utilizing this prior information, a novel compressed sensing (CS) sc...
Background: This study’s aim is to assess ChatGPT’s capability to analyze detailed case descriptions in glaucomatous patients and suggest the best possible surgical treatment. Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of 60 medical r...
Digitalization has become a key driver of business innovation in recent years. It provides businesses with new opportunities to innovate and create value. Digital technologies, such as cloud computing, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence,...
The traditional particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm often exhibits defects such as of slow convergence and easily falling into a local optimum. To overcome these problems, this paper proposes an enhanced variant featuring adaptive selection....
Geopolymer-based high-performance concrete (GHPC) stairs have been proposed as an alternative solution that fulfills both lightweight and load-bearing requirements for prefabricated stairs. Nevertheless, the fire resistance properties of GHPC stairs...
The spatial resolution and clarity of remote sensing images are crucial for many applications such as target detection and image classification. In the last several decades, tremendous image restoration tasks have shown great success in ordinary imag...
Different types of mulch are often used in agricultural production to enhance soil moisture and improve crop yields. The question of which mulch provides superior water retention in arid regions, where water resources are scarce, is a major concern f...
A solar heating system (SHS) with a phase change material (PCM) thermal storage tank is proposed with the view that traditional heat water storage tanks present several problems including large space requirements, significant heat loss and unstable s...
(1) Background. The rapid development of the digital economy provides a new perspective for enhancing industrial chain resilience. This study examines how manufacturing firms’ digitalization affects their industrial chain resilience, drawing on...
An external power build-up cavity of a line-narrowed 407-nm laser diode for Raman gas analysis was demonstrated to possess good gas detection capabilities. By employing an ordinary laser diode without anti-reflection coating or and a bandpass interfe...
Mature hepatocytes (MHs) in an adult rodent liver are categorized into the following three subpopulations based on their proliferative capability: type I cells (MH-I), which are committed progenitor cells that possess a high growth capability and bas...
Ordinary kriging (OK) is a popular interpolation method for its ability to simultaneously minimize error variance and deliver statistically optimal and unbiased predictions. In this work, the adaptive moving window kriging with K-means clustering (AM...
1 September 2022
Despite large-scale financial support of the government, there is increasing criticism about the inefficiency of public R&D investment that fails to lead directly to technological innovation of technology-based start-ups. This paper analyzes the...
In the presented work, we would like to introduce a new concept of a 2D solid solvent. This is a material, capable of selective ion or molecules capturing thanks to its developed surface, which is treated as deposited on a substrate (usually spherica...
The motivation for this study is to introduce and motivate the use of nonstandard finite difference (NSFD) schemes, capable of solving one-compartment pharmacokinetic models. These models are modeled by both linear and nonlinear ordinary differential...
Background/Objectives: Agarwood has a good neuroprotective effect and is often used to relieve anxiety and treat insomnia. This study compared the similarities and differences in the chromone components of two types of agarwood. It further investigat...
The code-based McEliece and Niederreiter cryptosystems are promising candidates for post-quantum public-key encryption. Recently, q-ary concatenated codes over Gaussian integers were proposed for the McEliece cryptosystem, together with the one-Mannh...
The theory of capabilities describes the need for a country to adopt different capabilities to enhance its productivity through the production of diversified and complex goods. These capabilities are not independent of the human, physical, institutio...
To solve the problem of poor seismic resistance due to the disadvantages of traditional concrete composite beams, such as heavy self-weight in prefabricated buildings, prestressed specified-density concrete composite beams are proposed herein. First,...
Aspired to build intelligent agents that can assist humans in daily life, researchers and engineers, both from academia and industry, have kept advancing the state-of-the-art in domestic robotics. With the rapid advancement of both hardware (e.g., hi...
This paper is concerned with the digitization and visualization of potted greenhouse tomato plants in indoor environments. For the digitization, an inexpensive and efficient commercial stereo sensor—a Microsoft Kinect—is used to separate visual infor...
Developing low-carbon building materials is essential for achieving sustainability in the construction sector. This study proposes a carbon-negative concrete (CNC) system that combines low-carbon binders derived from industrial by-products with carbo...
21 April 2020
The ability of a parent to step back from their own experiences in order to understand those of their child, reflective functioning (RF), can be impacted by myriad factors. We explored RF among refugee mothers in the context of having a child born of...
We show that there is a mildly nonlinear three-dimensional system of ordinary differential equations—realizable by a rather simple electronic circuit—capable of producing a generalized attracting horseshoe map. A system specifically desig...
This article accounts for what language and memory are and are not capable of in literary depictions of the Holocaust. To read, analyze, or even write Holocaust narratives, readers must expect to encounter new forms of writing and expression. This in...
Fluidized bed layering granulation is frequently used to formulate particles of high quality. From previous studies, it is well known that the dynamic behavior of the process, as well as the product properties depend on operating parameters. The proc...
The Charge-Displacement (CD) analysis has proven to be a powerful tool for a quantitative characterization of the electron-density flow occurring upon chemical bonding along a suitably chosen interaction axis. In several classes of interesting interm...
In “The Great and Venerable Teacher”, the Woman Crookback points out the path from words and language to behavior and practice, to enlightenment, and lastly, to obtaining the Dao, which is congruent with the “oneness with Dao throug...
A hyperjerk system described by a single fourth-order ordinary differential equation of the form x⃜=f(x⃛,x¨,x˙,x) has been referred to as a snap system. A damping-tunable snap system, capable of an adjustable attractor dimension...
Due to the complexity of the composite structure, analyzing the material failure process of carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP) is fairly difficult, particularly for the machining process. Peridynamic theory, a new branch of solid mechanics, is a...
4 December 2020
The purpose of this study is to identify how open innovation variables influence the competitive capability of manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in a regional territory in Southern Brazil. The research method is a survey of 67 SMEs in...
Liquid crystals act on the amplitude and the phase of a wave front under applied electric fields. Ordinary LCs are known as field induced birefringence, thus both phase and amplitude modulation strongly depend on the voltage controllable molecular ti...
We developed a novel approach in the field of spatiotemporal modeling, based on the spatialisation of time, the Timescape algorithm. It is especially aimed at sparsely distributed datasets in ecological research, whose spatial and temporal variabilit...
Different from an ordinary project, a large group mission like the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm cooperative strike mission is performed by multiple executors and needs to be strictly carried out according to the plan. Because of the complex co...
Sensor networks have become more popular in recent years, now featuring plenty of options and capabilities. Notwithstanding this, remote locations present many difficulties for their study and monitoring. High-frequency (HF) communications are presen...
Sea eutrophication is a natural process of water enrichment caused by increased nutrient loading that severely affects coastal ecosystems by decreasing water quality. The degree of eutrophication can be assessed by chlorophyll-a concentration. This s...
Nanomaterials have been the focus of intense study and growth in the modern era across the globe because of their outstanding qualities, which are brought about by their nanoscale size; for instance, increased adsorption and catalysis capabilities pl...
With the rapid development of AI technology, AI painting tools are increasingly used in art creation. However, the effects of works created by different users using AI painting tools vary. Finding out the factors that affect the level of art creation...
This article examines the question of whether developing countries with strong political capacity have lower levels of corruption. Despite the ubiquity of literature on corruption, the relationship between a state’s political capacity and corru...
Microfluidics-based drug-screening systems have enabled efficient and high-throughput drug screening, but their routine uses in ordinary labs are limited due to the complexity involved in device fabrication and system setup. In this work, we report a...
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