How do social media facilitate adjustment to changes in social structure and culture? This research examines the impact of online social networking on online and offline social capitals and adjustment of international students in the United States. A survey of 195 international students in a major Midwestern university showed that students’ interactions with Americans and home country friends u...

Size-dependent longitudinal and torsional vibrations of nano-beams are examined by two-phase mixture integral elasticity. A new and efficient elastodynamic model is conceived by convexly combining the local phase with strain- and stress-driven purely nonlocal phases. The proposed stress-driven nonlocal integral mixture leads to well-posed structural problems for any value of the scale parameter...

Engineering conceptual design can be defined as that phase of the product development process during which the designer takes a specification for a product to be designed and generates many broad solutions for it. It is well recognized that few computational tools exist that are capable of supporting the designer work through the conceptual phase of design. However, significant recent developme...

Motivation and Research Question The plight of the record industry is well known – sales of recorded music have fallen steadily since 2000 as the growth of digital sales has not been fast enough to compensate for the decline of physical cd sales. For example, in 2007 alone physical sales fell 13% to $15.9 billion while digital sales grew by 34% to just $2.9 billion, leading to an overall 8% dec...

A novel registration algorithm using Local consistency of point dispersion (LCPD) is proposed, which is based on a new type of measure of consistency between two sets of point data. It is expected to be effective and robust in registration of randomly distributed inconsistent observed data points, and has been recognized to bear wide range of convergence into true solutions through experiments ...

T developments combine previously distinct technologies that result in converging markets. In converging markets, firms from different industries compete against each other, often for the first time. We propose that firms introducing new products in converging markets will learn vicariously from other firms in the market. Further, we propose that this learning will vary across the dual-technolo...

Engineering conceptual design can be defined as that phase of the product development process during which the designer takes a specification for a product to be designed and generates many broad solutions for it. It is well recognized that few computational tools exist that are capable of supporting the designer work through the conceptual phase of design. This paper presents a prototype const...