Leadership is known as the major factor that can influence and motivate knowledge workers to contribute and participate actively in creating, sharing and using knowledge effectively. A survey of 180 Multimedia Supercorridor (MSC) status firms was conducted to identify what leadership characteristics (in the form of social power) are needed in a knowledge-based firm. The results showed that know...

We present the results of a detailed study of energy correlations at steady state for a 1-D model of coupled energy and matter transport. Our aim is to discover — via theoretical arguments, conjectures, and numerical simulations — how spatial covariances scale with system size, their relations to local thermodynamic quantities, and the randomizing effects of heat baths. Among our findings are t...

seed dormancy is a genetically inherited trait whose intensity is modified by the environment during seed development and maturation. in order to study the effect of harvest time on the seed quality and optimum time of sowing to obtain good quality seeds, freshly threshed seeds of ten diverse rice genotypes harvested from six environments were evaluated for seed dormancy and seedling vigour ind...

1 A sparse classifier is guaranteed to generalize better than a denser one, given they perform identical on the training set. However, methods like Support Vector Machine, even if they produce relatively sparse models, are known to scale linearly as the number of training examples increases. A recent proposed method, the Kernel Matching Pursuit, presents a number of advantages over the SVM, lik...

Multi-track string is an N -tuple strings of length n. For two multi-track strings T = (t1, t2, . . . , tN ) of length n and P = (p1, p2, ..., pM ) of length m, permuted pattern matching is a problem to find all positions i such that P is permuted match with T[i : i+M ]. We propose three new algorithms for permuted pattern matching based on the KMP algorithm. The first algorithm is an exact mat...

Bioinformatics is the application of computer technology to the management and analysis of biological data. The result is that computers are being used to gather, store, analyze and merge biological data. The goal of bio-informatics is to uncover the wealth of biological information hidden in the mass of data and obtains a clearer insight into the fundamental biology of organisms. The most well...

A highly conserved amino acid sequence 442GDASE446 in the ATP binding pocket of rat Na/K-ATPase was mutated, and the resulting proteins, G442A, G442P, D443A, S445A, and E446A, were expressed in HeLa cells to investigate the effect of individual ligands on Na/K-ATPase. The apparent Km for the high and low affinity ATP effects was estimated by ATP concentration dependence for the formation of the...