Background. Brand Personality (BP) is one of the most commonly used concepts in marketing literature, and academicians and marketers believe in its benefits. Today, brand personality plays an important role in strategic management and it is considered as one of the most important tactics of an organization to gain a Competitive Advantage (CA). Objectives. This paper aims to investigate the fac...

We conducted a case study through the images of an omphalocele diagnosed in the first trimester of pregnancy in a Prenatal Diagnostic Unit in order to highlight the central role of early detection of foetal malformations. We here report the case of a 42year old G2P1 patient who underwent her first ultrasound at 12w + 4d of pregnancy showing an omphalocele (A,B,C,D). The patient was informed abo...

We address the discrete-time passivity-based control laws synthesis within port-Hamiltonian framework. We focus on IDA-PBC design for canonical port-Hamiltonian systems with separable energy being quadratic in momentum. For this class of systems, we define a discrete Hamiltonian dynamics that exactly satisfies a discrete energy balance. We then derive a discrete controller following the IDA-PBC...

The efficacy of defense acquisition is highly dependent upon acquisition workforce quality, but assessing such quality remains a major challenge, particularly given the knowledgeintensive and dynamic nature of acquisition organizations and processes. Hence, it is difficult to gauge—much less predict—the impact of leadership interventions in terms of policy, process, regulation, organization, ed...