I T is an integral component of business strategies—including innovation strategies—in contemporary firms.1,2 As the business environment becomes more global and competitive, firms must tailor their strategy for innovating based on their own geographic location and that of their target audience, recognizing the differences in how developing versus developed countries approach innovation. Furthe...

P-cats is a web server that predicts the catalytic residues in proteins from the atomic coordinates. P-cats receives a coordinate file of the tertiary structure and sends

Surface urban heat island (SUHI) impacts control the exchange of sensible heat and latent heat between land and atmosphere and can worsen extreme climate events, such as heat waves. This study assessed SUHIs over three megacities (Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing) in East Asia using one-year (April 2011–March 2012) land surface temperature (LST) data retrieved from the Communication, Ocean and Meteorologi...

Increasingly, small firms with a history tied to a specific geographic location are having their survival threatened by new and innovative web-based entrants. This paper considers the plight of such firms and proposes an alternative means to reflect on how they may or may not learn about such threats or opportunities. Adopting an evolutionary perspective, the construct absorptive capacity is us...

This paper examines the competitive consequences of interfirm mobility. Because the loss of key members (defined as top decision makers) to competing firms may amount to a replication of a firm’s higher-order routines, we investigate the conditions under which interfirm mobility triggers transfer of routines across organizational boundaries. We examine membership lists pertinent to the Dutch ac...

The MAGIC telescope observed the region around the distant blazar 3C 66A for 54.2 hr in 2007 August–December. The observations resulted in the discovery of a γ-ray source centered at celestial coordinates R.A. = 22312 and decl.= 430.7 (MAGIC J0223+430), coinciding with the nearby radio galaxy 3C 66B. A possible association of the excess with the blazar 3C 66A is discussed. The energy spectrum o...

We present methods employed in COORDINATE, a prototype service that supports collaboration and communication by learning predictive models that provide forecasts of users' presence and availability. We describe how data is collected about user activity and proximity from multiple devices, in addition to analysis of the content of users' calendars, the time of day, and day of week. We review app...

Green coordinates define a special representation of a point inside a closed polygon in terms of its vertices and the normals to its edges (faces). This representation has been found to be very useful for object manipulation in computer graphics. The mapping defined by Green coordinates is shown to be analytic. It has a closed form formula in 2D and 3D, and it can be extended analytically throu...

Abstract Coordinate noncommutativity, rather than being introduced through deformations of operator products, is achieved by coupling an auxiliary system with large energy excitations to the one of interest. Integrating out the auxiliary dynamics, or equivalently taking ground state expectation values, leads to the desired coordinate noncommutativity. The product responsible for this noncommuta...

Detecting and correcting a difference of coordinate system definition among a team of robot is mandatory when robots operates in the same environment. In this paper we develop a system for sharing a common coordinate system. Comparing measuring results of same environment among multiple robots, it is possible to detect coordinate system error. We considered this approach and implemented a progr...