Over the years, aligning IT and business strategies has remained an important, but sometimes elusive, challenge for executives. At the same time it has garnered quite an interest among the research community. This paper seeks to provide one explanation why alignment efforts struggle. The paper first addresses the distinction between strategies as plans and strategies as patterns in decisions an...

in this paper, buckling of simply supported column with an edge crack is investigated numerically and analytically. four different scenarios of damage severities are applied to a column, open crack assumption and the effect of closing crack in stability of the column which depends on position and size of cracks, are numerically compared. crack surfaces contact is modeled with gap element using ...

In previous work we presented a methodology for designing a trading agent when several tradeoffs are present. In this paper we expand this methodology to include design decisions based on Bayes-Nash equilibria that we compute for subproblems of the original problem. In particular we compute Bayes-Nash equilibria for first price single unit auctions and m price multi unit auctions, when the auct...

Let G be a connected linear Lie group which finitely covers the isometry group of X. Furthermore, let Γ ⊂ G be a discrete subgroup. We assume that Γ is geometrically finite. We refer to Definition 2.1 for a precise explanation of this notion. If X is a real hyperbolic space, then Γ is geometrically finite iff it admits a fundamental domain with finitely many totally geodesic faces. In the other...

The need for cleanliness and availability of water the community is also getting higher. Currently, people use conventional faucets which can cause waste because are not tightly closed or must be directly. Technological advancements to innovated help in movement save clean water, one Arduino microcontroller. Based on these problems, author made a prototype making automatic equipped with motion ...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated the usefulness of 3-dimensional echocardiography (3-DE) for identifying permanent pacemaker (PPM) or implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) lead-related symptomatic tricuspid regurgitation (TR). METHODS AND RESULTS Eighty-seven patients underwent 3-DE examination: 50 patients with PPM, 17 with ICD, and 20 with cardiac resynchronization therapy devices. TR...