Successful open source software (OSS) projects require efficient communication means and a steady supply of voluntary developers. Microblogging, as well as the follower network it generates, is becoming increasingly popular as an emerging Web 2.0 communication technology in many online OSS communities. However, little is known about how microblogging follower networks affect OSS project success...

Innovation, and the creative thinking that provides basis for innovation, is of great value organizations. In this article we describe what needed people to think creatively, noting a complex, albeit voluntary, activity involving performance on certain types problems. The ways leaders influence peoples’ willingness engage in, ability solve, problems are then described. Leaders efforts must not ...

In this paper a new leader-follower formation of nonholonomic mobile robots is studied. The follower is a car-like vehicle and the leader is a tractor pulling a trailer. The leader moves along assigned trajectories and the follower is to maintain a desired distance and orientation to the trailer. A sliding mode control scheme is proposed for asymptotically stabilizing the vehicles to a time-var...

We consider the following location problem. New 5G networks are deployed by two competitive operators (called resp. O1 and O2), which we refer to as a leader and a follower due to their sequential entering the market. They compete to serve clients by installing and configuring base stations (BS). We assume that the leader had already made a decision and operating a 5G network. Follower arrives ...

INTRODUCTION The follower load represents the path of the internal force resultant passing through the centers of rotation of successive spinal segments. An ideal follower load is perpendicular to the mid-plane of the intervertebral disc and minimizes shear and bending moments at all levels. Patwardhan and colleagues showed that a follower compressive preload increases the stability and load ca...

We present an application of lattice theory to the framework of influence in social networks. The contribution of the paper is not to derive new results, but to synthesize our existing results on lattices and influence. We consider a two-action model of influence in a social network in which agents have to make their yes-no decision on a certain issue. Every agent is preliminarily inclined to s...

In many species, particular individuals consistently lead group travel. While benefits to followers often are relatively obvious, including access to resources, benefits to leaders are often less obvious. This is especially true for species that feed on patchy mobile resources where all group members may locate prey simultaneously and food intake likely decreases with increasing group size. Lea...

INTRODUCTION There has been a discrepancy between in vivo and in vitro experiments investigating the load carrying capacity of human lumbar spine. A follower load concept was introduced to explain this discrepancy [1]. A follower load is a compressive load applied along a path that approximates the tangent to the curve of the column. The trunk muscles are supposed to generate the follower load ...

A follower can be divided into supporter, nonsupporter, or neutral according to a follower’s intention to a target user. Even though a follower is identified as a supporter, an opinion may not be positive to the target user. In this paper, we propose a method to classify a follower as supporter, non-supporter or neutral. To expand information of a follower, influential transmitters who support ...