Obtaining start-up funding for new product ideas in large corporations is inherently frustrating. We evaluated teams that were successful in obtaining start-up funds from large corporations to determine the importance of the executive champion and team commitment and conflict. We found that the funding level was strongly correlated (R=0.104; p=0.002) with higher levels (β=0.193; p=0.016) of cha...

We study a periodically forced system of ODEs near a point of Hopf bifurcation, where the forcing frequency ωF is near the Hopf frequency ωH and the forcing amplitude ε is small. We assume that in this system only the forcing frequency is varied and we determine all small amplitude periodic solutions of the forced system that have frequency ωF . In other words, we examine the influence of the f...

Reorienting of voluntary attention enables the processing of stimuli at previously unattended locations. Although studies have identified a ventral fronto-parietal network underlying attention [1, 2], little is known about whether and how early visual areas are involved in involuntary [3, 4] and even less in voluntary [5] reorienting, and their temporal dynamics are unknown. We used transcrania...

ÐChordal rings have been proposed in the past as networks that combine the simple routing framework of rings with the lower diameter, wider bisection, and higher resilience of other architectures. Virtually all proposed chordal ring networks are nodesymmetric, i.e., all nodes have the same in/out degree and interconnection pattern. Unfortunately, such regular chordal rings are not scalable. In ...

Certain equations with integral constraints have as solutions time-periodic pulses of a field-like unknown while a current-like unknown oscillates periodically with time. A general asymptotic theory of this phenomenon, the generalized Gunn effect, has been found recently. Here we extend this theory to the case of nonlinearities having only one stable zero, which is the case for the usual Gunn e...

Abstract In the production process of aluminum electrolytic carbon anode, kneading is to fully mix asphalt and powder obtain best paste, because completed in a high-temperature machine, there no suitable automatic real-time judgment method for uniformity paste. Real-time online monitoring based on viscoelastic change paste during potential judge this paper, Discrete Element Method numerical sim...