Purpose: We propose in this paper to analyze what are the factors that influence knowledge transfer both intra and intergenerational in family firms. The main objective is to establish a framework that can be used later in empirical research, although we maintain a completely theoretical approach in this paper Design/methodology/approach: This study, which is a comprehensive framework character...

A functional approach for the study of the random walks in random sceneries (RWRS) is proposed. Under fairly general assumptions on the random walk and on the random scenery, functional limit theorems are proved. The method allows to study separately the convergence of the walk and of the scenery: on the one hand, a general criterion for the convergence of the local time of the walk is provided...

Introduction The entropy functional, defined on a Markov diffusion process, plays an important roll in theory of information and statistical physics [1-3], informational macrodynamics and control systems [4]. However in the known references, we did not find the mathematical results related to the entropy functional’s connections with the Kolmogorov’s entropy, complexity, and the Lyapunov’s char...

In real world scenarios for mobile robots, socially acceptable navigation is a key component to interact naturally with other persons. On the one hand this enables a robot to behave more human-like, and on the other hand it increases the acceptance of the user towards the robot as an interaction partner. As part of this research field, we present in this paper a strategy of approaching a person...

Experiences are described of parallelizing a functional finite-element program (written in Haskell) for the solution of computational fluid-dynamics problems. A transformation prototyping approach using a system developed at the University of York, which simulates idealised parallel machines on a conventional sequential workstation, is presented. In this paper we demonstrate: (a) the relative s...

The robust asymptotic stability problem of genetic regulatory networks with time-varying delays is investigated. Based on a piecewise analysis method, the variation interval of the time delay is firstly divided into two subintervals, and then the convexity property of the matrix inequality and the free weighting matrix method are fully used in this paper. By using a Lyapunov functional approach...

INTRODUCTION MR imaging with ultra short echo times (UTEs) are of increasing interest to visualize tissues with short T2 or T2*, such as cartilage and ligaments, or monitoring the temperature during cryosurgery [1]. To achieve ultra-short TEs, a self-refocused half RF is usually used for excitation [2]. However, eddy currents induced by the selective gradient can result in undesirable slice pro...

The robust asymptotic stability problem of genetic regulatory networks with time-varying delays is investigated. Based on a piecewise analysis method, the variation interval of the time delay is firstly divided into two subintervals, and then the convexity property of the matrix inequality and the free weighting matrix method are fully used in this paper. By using a Lyapunov functional approach...