Departing from prior work that demonstrates the stickiness and stability of alliance networks resulting from embeddedness, we extend matching theory to study firms’ withdrawal from alliances. Viewing alliance withdrawal as a result of firms’ pursuit of more promising alternative partners – outside options – rather than failures in collaboration, we predict that a firm is more likely to withdraw...

The nitrocellulose based materials are degraded in a natural way during their storage; the processes of degradation are accelerated when the temperature or the humidity increases. To prevent this decomposition, these materials include in their composition stabilising agents which retain the nitro groups and avoid the autocatalytic degradation of nitrocellulose. The aim of the present work is to...

This paper discusses the performance of a simple GA for parameterizing a particular biomodel consisting of a set of coupled non-linear ordinary differential equations. Comments are offered on the need for speed that motivates choice of language and processing platform for solving scaled problems.

The in-bred laboratory mouse (hereafter referred to as simply mouse) has in the past decades emerged as the go-to animal model in the arena of cardiovascular research. The reasons are straightforward: the relative ease of genetic manipulation coupled with short gestation times, the much cheaper cost of maintaining large numbers, and a large number of similarities to human genomics, proteomics, ...

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This article presents a theoretical examination of the digital divide, tracing its origins in the centre–Left social inclusion policy agenda of the 1980s and 1990s to its current status of political ‘hot topic’. It then moves on to outline four conceptual limitations to conventional dichotomous notions of the digital divide and individuals’ ‘access’ to information and communications technology ...

We study nearest neighbor random walks in fixed environments of Z composed of two point types : ( 1 2 , 1 2 ) and (p, 1− p) for p > 1 2 . We show that for every environment with density of p drifts bounded by λ we have lim supn→∞ Xn n ≤ (2p − 1)λ, where Xn is a random walk in the environment. In addition up to some integer effect the environment which gives the greatest speed is given by equall...

The issue of the impact of Law – especially Business Law – on the economy and especially on growth, has became the topic of hot debates over the last decades, within the academia as well as among policy makers, particularly in the development agencies community. For the latter, this interest grew out of some disillusion, in the 1980’s, over the effect of structural adjustment policies that have...

We introduce the book with the title of “Nature of Computation and Communication” edited by Prof. Phan Cong Vinh, Dr. Emil Vassev and Prof Mike Hinchey, and published by Springer in 2015 to scientists, researchers, professionals and students in the field of computing. Hopefully, they will find this book provoking for their research related to hot topics of computing and being useful to their fu...

This paper modifies the DBSCAN algorithm to identify fixations and saccades. This method combines advantages from dispersionbased algorithms, such as resilience to noise and intuitive fixational structure, and from velocity-based algorithms, such as the ability to deal appropriately with smooth pursuit (SP) movements.