PURPOSE This study investigates safety climate as both a leading (climate → incident) and a lagging (incident → climate) indicator of safety-critical incidents. This study examines the "shelf life" of a safety climate assessment and its relationships with incidents, both past and future, by examining series of incident rates in order to determine when these predictive relationships expire. DE...

Decentralized cloud storage reflects a significant change in large-scale performance and economy. Removing central control enables users to store exchange data without depending on third-party [16] providers. Decentralization reduces the possibility of failures outages while increasing object protection privacy at same time. is where individuals or groups encouraged enter, store, keep available...

Decentralized sensor fusion plays a particularly important role in event occurrence detection when it comes to large scale monitoring systems. Regarding WSNs, a decentralized sensor fusion mechanism provides efficient information extraction and data reduction by means of reducing the energy and communication constraints of the embedded sensing nodes. In large scale monitoring systems event occu...

Legged animals exhibit adaptive and resilient locomotion through interlimb coordination. The long-term goal of this study is to clarify the relationship between the number of legs and the inherent decentralized control mechanism for interlimb coordination. As a preliminary step, the study focuses on millipedes as they represent the species with the greatest number of legs among various animal s...

The decentralized patch distribution mechanism holds significant promise as an alternative to its centralized counterpart. For the purpose of accurately evaluating the performance of the decentralized patch distribution mechanism and based on the exact SIPS model that accurately captures the average dynamics of the interaction between viruses and patches, a new virus-patch interacting model, wh...

The literature on knowledge sharing is extensive but organization design received little attention in this literature. A few useful exceptions are Birkinshaw e.a. (2002), Hansen (2002) and Tsai (2002). However, these attempts are yet too limited to fully understand the relationship between organization design choices and knowledge sharing. To contribute in filling this gap, we look at the funda...

Cloud Computing is a new application model for decentralized computing which can provide reliable, customized and maximum number of users with minimum resource. The development of cloud computing marks a great leap towards designing a unified, open and flexible educational information platform, sharing educational resources, and diminishing gaps in the use of educational information. This paper...