Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An Empirical Investigation into Interorganizational Systems Integration, and Organization Performance in the Group Insurance Industry

Interorganizational Systems (10s) are increasingly used to support exchange of businessdocuments in many industries. Though clear improvements in organization performance areforthcoming in many cases, the research evidence is based largely on anecdotes and suggeststhat performance improvements may not be uniformly attained across organizations. Thoughintegration of IOS with internal systems is recommended, the affects afforded throughintegration remain largely unexplored. This research study formulates a theoretical model ofthe complex interplay of relationships among IOS Usage, Systems Integration and OrganizationPerformance, and tests the model's validity using a dataset of 48 organizations in the GroupInsurance industry. The mode1 recognizes two conceptually distinct ways in which IOS may beused more intensively, includes two notions of systems integration which are argued todifferentially affect the organization performance advantages, and uses a multidimensionalorganization performance construct to more adequately reflect the diversity of anticipatedorganization performance impacts presumed to extend from IOS use. The results are mixed interms of direct organization performance impacts, and suggest that both notions of integrationplay a key role in facilitating attainment of the organization performance advantages.
Gain scheduling of aircraft pitch attitude and control of discrete, affine, linear parametrically varying systems

This research is motivated by gain scheduling, a technique which has been success­ fully applied to many nonlinear control problems. In flight controls, the wide variations in the characteristics of the aircraft dynamics throughout the flight envelope make gain scheduling a particularly suitable design strategy. This research consists of two parts: (1) aircraft pitch attitude scheduling scheme designs, and (2) control of a class of linear parametrically varying (LPV) systems. In the first part, the classical gain scheduling technique and the single quadratic Lyapunov function (SQLF) based LPV technique are investigated. In the classical gain scheduling design, the Hoo mixed sensitivity GS/T method is chosen for local linear time invariant (LTI) designs to provide robustness to unmodeled dynamics and para­ metric uncertainties. Following a model reduction procedure that exploits the optimal controller structure, LTI controllers designed at the selected equilibrium points are re­ duced to second order controllers and realized in a feedback path configuration. Such controllers are shown to retain the superior robust performance at each flight condi­ tion, while having a low order that is amenable to scheduling. A gain-scheduling law is developed and simulation results verify that the closed-loop performance specifications xiii are met. In the LPV design, the mixed sensitivity S/KS/T design setup is used. An approximation to the original LPV controller using the linear fractional transformation (LFT) representation is constructed. Our design exhibits potential applications of the LPV technique to commercial aircraft gain scheduling designs. In the second part, we consider a class of discrete, affine, linear parametrically varying (DALPV) systems. For this type of systems, the parameters are assumed to vary in a polytope and the state space matrices are assumed to depend affinely on the varying parameters. A sufficient condition is derived to analyze the stability and the £«, to performance of a DALPV system. For an open-loop DALPV system, a procedure is proposed to design a gain-scheduled controller such that the closed-loop system is asymptotically stable and achieves a certain level of £00 to performance.
Proposing and validating a five-dimensional scale for measuring entrepreneurial orientation: An empirical study

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to help enhance the scholarly conversation about the essential nature of the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) construct, its dimensionality and measurement. The authors focus on how EO was defined and measured in various contexts, which is the basis for the proposed five-dimensional EO scale (FDEOS). Design/methodology/approach – Survey was conducted in design industry in China. A pilot test was conducted with 20 Chinese firms. Questionnaires were sent to 1,200 firms. A total of 408 complete and valid questionnaires were received. Findings – It was found that a behavior aspect of EO as a second-order reflective model had a greater degree of agreement among scholarly community. As a result, a new FDEOS was proposed from behavioral perspective. Data were collected from 408 firms of design industry in a big developing country. Originality/value – While five-dimensional EO construct is a well-recognized concept in the literature on entrepreneurship, little is known about its measurement. The research reported in this paper provides support for this assertion and develops a new scale, FDEOS, that designed to be neutral with regard to industry context and type of organization.
A Lightweight Anonymous Device Authentication Scheme for Information-Centric Distribution Feeder Microgrid

: Distribution feeder microgrid (DFM) built based on existing distributed feeder (DF), is a promising solution for modern microgrid. DFM contains a large number of heterogeneous devices that generate heavy network traffice and require a low data delivery latency. The information-centric networking (ICN) paradigm has shown a great potential to address the communication requirements of smart grid. However, the integration of advanced information and communication technologies with DFM make it vulnerable to cyber attacks. Adequate authentication of grid devices is essential for preventing unauthorized accesses to the grid network and defending against cyber attacks. In this paper, we propose a new lightweight anonymous device authentication scheme for DFM supported by named data networking (NDN), a representative implementation of ICN. We perform a security analysis to show that the proposed scheme can provide security features such as mutual authentication, session key agreement, defending against various cyber attacks, anonymity, and resilience against device capture attack. The security of the proposed scheme is also formally verified using the popular AVISPA (Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications) tool. The computational and communication costs of the proposed scheme are evaluated. Our results demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves significantly lower computational, communication and energy costs than other state-of-the-art schemes.
ESTIMATION OF PASS-BY TRIPS USING A LICENSE PLATE SURVEY

A significant portion of the travel attracted by generators such as shopping centers and several other convenience-oriented land uses are pass-by trips. Methods exist for handling pass-by trips in traffic impact analysis. However, there is a dearth of data regarding the percentage of pass-by trips for a particular type and intensity of land use. The traditional way of determining the number of pass-by trips is to conduct a face-to-face interview survey. This is, however, a time-consuming and intrusive process. A study was conducted to determine whether it is possible to estimate the percentage of pass-by trips by using a license plate survey instead of the traditional interview survey. Two separate data collection efforts were conducted. At each location the license plate observations were matched by using a standard computer program. In both cases the percentage of pass-by trips obtained by a license plate survey was found to be very close to the results obtained by an interview survey. However, further studies must be conducted before the methodology can be accepted as a standard procedure for estimating pass-by trips. At a minimum, the procedure can place upper and lower bounds on the percentage of pass-by trips for a particular existing development. This nonintrusive method will be especially helpful (in terms of management of time and personnel) in determining the percentage of pass-by trips for large developments when a face-to-face interview would involve an extensive effort.
Detecting Nicotine Addiction via Eye Tracking

Smoking addiction is a growing social epidemic affecting about 1 in 5 adults in the world directly and many more in the form of passive smoking. Diagnostic tools to determine the nicotine addiction are either unreliable or restrictive in their use. This makes identification and assessment less accessible for those who need it. We attempted to evaluate eye tracking paired with machine learning as an alternative to existing diagnostic tools for assessing nicotine dependence.
Critical Information as a Success Factor in Organizations: Objective and Methodological Approach

We are witnessing the need for a quick and intelligent reaction from organizations to the level and speed of change in business processes. These imperatives are very often associated to the emerging of new information systems and technologies, sometimes bursting change and other times being burst, which bring more challenges to organizations. The arising problems can be: from wrong information that lasts; systems not fully used or explored; too much staff; slow reaction to change; etc. This can be summarized in a governance problem that requires two main confluent action methods: people to synchronize their visions, ideas and strategies in the whole organization; and, in that context, select the information that strictly answers to the performance factors at the right moment. The proposed methodology is adequate here, once it turns to the potential of approach to the entrepreneurial architecture as well as to the potential of the information system in order to iteratively select and integrate the data and resources needed for that performance. The modeling of an information architecture of the company and its business helps in the identification of critical information, that is, of the one which is according to the mission, prospects and critical factors of business success at the required moment.
Dust or Magic: Secrets of Successful Multimedia Design

1. Cyberia. Introduction: The Emancipation of the Serfs. The Computer as a "Medium. " The Computer as a Landscape. Cyberia's Geological Past. Bush, Engelbart, Nelson, and the Quest for Xanadu. Early Explorations: From "Time-Sharing" to the Personal Computer. The Beginnings of a Mass Medium: Interactive Video. From the Mac to the Seedy ROM: Cyberia Opened to the Masses, Then to the Corporate Bulldozers. 2. Eminent Cyberians. Introduction: "Tomorrow's Establishment is Today's Lunatic Fringe. " Voices from Nowhere. Voyager: Cyberia's First Viable Community. The Power of "Primary Evidence": Curtis Wong Develops the Voyager Vision at Corbis. The "Book as Hero" in Romain Victor-Pujebet's "Le Livre De Lulu. " The Nationwide Building Society and its "Interact" Project. 3. Working in Cyberia. Introduction: Do We Really Have to "Get Real"? Crying All the Way to the Bank: Microsoft's "Sendak" Saga. Get Yourself a Theory, And Make It a Good One. Audience: Who Are You Making This For - And Where Are You Taking Them? Emotion, Interaction, Participation, Carnival. "Cognitive Dynamite": Multi-Sensory Effects that Blow You Away. "Cognitive Train Wrecks" and "User Expectations. " Storyspace: From The Path to the Landscape Itself. Working in Cyberia: From Storyspace to the Real World. Trust, and the Paradox of Self-Absorbed Work. Conclusion: Rediscovering Workmanship. Bibliography. Index.
Rejuvenating the Mature Business: The Competitive Challenge

Organizations can rejuvenate and seek industry leadership--even when their industry environment is hostile--if their managers reject standard recipes and create innovative new products, services, and, most importantly, strategies. Illustrated by many examples drawn from a wide range of international businesses, this book challenges conventional theories of strategic management and shows how immense progress has been achieved, even with limited resources, by creating entrepreneurial organizations that capture and gain leverage from experimentation, imagination, and skill enhancement at all levels. The authors identify the common features that lead to success, including a commitment to continuous change and improvement; an organizational climate that encourages experimentation and entrepreneurial behavior; and a recognition of the need to invest in knowledge and human capital. Finally, the authors chart four stages to rejuvention: building a top team, simplifying the organization; building new competitive advantages; and leveraging the new benefits.
Development of Resonant Magnetic Field Microsensors: Challenges and Future Applications

Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) integrate electrical and mechanical components with feature sizes in the micrometer-scale, which can be fabricated using integrated circuit batch-processing technologies (Gad-el-Hak, 2001). The development of devices using MEMS has important advantages such as small size, light weight, low-power consumption, high sensitivity and high resolution (Herrera-May et al., 2009a). MEMS have allowed the development of several microdevices such as accelerometers (L. Li et al., 2011), gyroscopes (Che et al., 2010), micromirrors (Y. Li et al., 2011), and pressure sensors (Mian & Law, 2010). Recently, some researchers (Mohammad et al., 2010, 2011a, 2011b; Wang et al., 2011) have integrated acceleration, pressure or temperature sensors using MEMS. A potential market for MEMS will include magnetic field microsensors for applications such as automotive industry, telecommunications, medical and military instruments, and consumer electronics products (Lenz & Edelstein, 2006). The most sensitive magnetic field sensor is the Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID), which has a resolution on the order of several femptoteslas (JosephsFranks et al., 2003). It operates at low temperature based on two effects: flux quantization and Josephson effects. This sensor needs a sophisticated infrastructure that increases its size and cost, which limits its commercial applications. Hall effect sensors have a low cost, small size, and a power consumption from 100 to 200 mW. They are fabricated on standard Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology and can measure either constant or varying magnetic field between temperature ranges from -100 to + 100 oC (Ripka & Tipek, 2007). Nevertheless, Hall effect sensors have a low resolution from 1 to 100 mT and require temperature compensation circuits (Popovic, 2004). Fluxgate sensors can measure static or low frequency magnetic field with a resolution of 100 pT (Ripka & Tipek, 2007). They have a size of several millimeters and a power
Observability analysis and observer design for controlled population dynamics

The diploma thesis studies the design of nonlinear observers with exactly linear error dynamics via transformation or immersion into an appropriate observer canonical form. A model for the dynamics of two interacting species, which was derived as a generalisation of the predator-prey model by Lotka and Volterra, is used as benchmark system for this design. In particular, an additional control input is modelled in three ways. As observability of the system is a necessary condition for observer design, the methods for an observability analysis are presented and applied to the model. After that, the theoretical basics of the observer design methods are described and used for the design of an observer with exactly linear error dynamics, with regard to the results from the observability analysis. The observers are designed as Luenberger observers with output injection for the uncontrolled system and with input/output injection for the controlled systems. Some new studies concern the invariance properties of the nonlinear observers on a state region which is relevant for the system. For this purpose, the notation of invariant observers is introduced, which guarantee a global observation of the system on the relevant region. Based on the considered observer canonical form, this notation helps to develop some general methods how to design such observers. Die Diplomarbeit untersucht den Entwurf nichtlinearer Beobachter mit exakt linearer Fehlerdynamik durch Transformation oder Immersion in eine geeignete Beobachternormalform. Als Benchmark-System fur diesen Entwurf wird ein Modell zweier interagierender Populationen verwendet, das sich aus einer Verallgemeinerung des Rauber-Beute-Modells von Lotka und Volterra ergibt. Insbesondere werden drei Moglichkeiten betrachtet, einen Eingang zu diesem System hinzuzufugen. Da die Beobachtbarkeit des Systems eine notwendige Voraussetzung fur den Entwurf eines Beobachters ist, werden zuerst die Methoden zur Beobachtbarkeitsanalyse vorgestellt und auf das Modell angewandt. Danach werden die theoretischen Grundlagen der Beobachterentwurfsverfahren erlautert, welche unter Berucksichtigung der Ergebnisse aus der Beobachtbarkeitsuntersuchung fur den Entwurf eines Beobachters mit exakt linearer Fehlerdynamik verwendet werden. Die Beobachter werden als Luenberger-Beobachter mit Ausgangsaufschaltung fur das autonome System und mit Eingangs-/Ausgangsaufschaltung fur die Systeme mit Eingang entworfen. Neue Fragestellungen betreffen die Invarianzeigenschaften der entworfenen Beobachter auf einem fur das System relevanten Zustandsbereich. Hierfur wird die Notation der invarianten Beobachter eingefuhrt, die eine globale Beobachtung des Systems im relevanten Bereich garantieren. Basierend auf der verwendeten Beobachternormalform werden mit Hilfe dieser Notation einige allgemeine Methoden entwickelt, mit denen solche Beobachter entwerfen werden konnen.
Intelligence and Strategy: Selected Essays

1. Lord Salisbury, Secret Intelligence and British Policy Toward Russia and Central Asia, 1874-1878 2. 'Indulged in all Too Little'? : Vansittart, Intelligence and Appeasement 3. Image and Accident: Intelligence and the Origins of the Second World War, 1933-1941 4. The British 'Enigma': Britain, Signals Security and Cipher Machines, 1906-1953 5. The British Army, Signals and Security in the Desert Campaign, 1940-42 6. Clausewitz, Intelligence, Uncertainty and the Art of Command in Modern War (with Michael Handel) 7. NCW, C4ISR, IO and RMA: Towards a Revolution in Military Intelligence?
A Predictive Control Algorithm for a Yaw Stability Management System

This paper describes how generalized predictive control (GPC) is a discrete time control strategy that was proposed by Clark et al. The controller tries to predict the future output of a system or plant and then takes control action at present time based on future output error. Such a predictive control algorithm is presented in this paper for yaw stability management of an automobile. Most of the existing literature on the yaw stability management systems lacks the insight into the yaw rate error growth when the automobile is in a understeer or oversteer condition on a low friction coefficient surface in a handling maneuver. Simulation results show that the predictive feature of the proposed controller provides an effective way to control the yaw stability of a vehicle.
Compact strip-monopole antenna for WLAN-band USB dongle application

A simple printed strip-monopole antenna suitable for wireless universal serial bus (USB) dongle application is presented. The proposed antenna, comprising a folded-strip radiator and a rectangle ground, has a compact size of only 10×37×mm 2 and is capable of generating two resonances with good impedance matching conditions. Prototypes of the proposed antenna have been constructed and experimentally verified. Measured results, showing agreement with the numerical prediction, present not only good dual 10 dB impedance bandwidths of 270 MHz (2.25 2.52 GHz) and 840 MHz (5.02 5.86 GHz) simultaneously covering the 2.4/5.2/5.8 GHz WLAN operating bands, but also good radiation patterns and antenna gains.
Metateams in Major IT Projects: A Preliminary Study

This paper presents research-in-progress examining metateams in major Information Technology projects. The empirical research focuses on client project teams interacting with other teams, internal or external to the organisation, in the mix of traditional, virtual, and commercial environments that constitute today's reality of major IT projects. The paper describes the research approach and its contribution to both IS practice and scholarly research in an area where limited empirical research has been conducted. The careful selection of the foundation case and the rich data extracted from it present a solid base for the subsequent phases of the research.
A Framework for Model-Driven Acquisition and Analytics of Visual Data Using UAVs for Automated Construction Progress Monitoring

Automated assessment of work-in-progress using large collections of site images and four-dimensional (4D) building information modelling (BIM) has potential to significantly improve the efficiency of construction project controls. Nevertheless, today’s manual procedures for taking site photos do not support the desired frequency or completeness for automated progress monitoring. While the usage of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for acquisition of site images has gained popularity, their application for addressing issues associated with image-based progress monitoring and particularly leveraging 4D BIM for steering the data collection process has not been investigated before. By presenting examples from two case studies conducted on real-world construction projects, this paper suggests a framework for model-driven acquisition and analytics of progress images. In particular, the potential of spatial (geometry, appearance, and interconnectivity) and temporal information in 4D BIM for autonomous data acquisition and analytics that guarantees completeness and accuracy for both as-built modeling and monitoring work-in-progress at the schedule task-level is discussed.
The SeLiLi Project: Free Advice on Free Licenses

Although reliable figures have so far proven difficult to obtain, it is undeniable that social practices of sharing informational and information-based goods have become a substantial part of our world. Since the seminal work of the Free Software Foundation in the early '80s, these social practices continue to be based upon a set of legal instruments: copyright licenses. Free/Open Source licenses, such as the GNU General Public License, and licenses for other forms of creative works, such as the Creative Commons Public Licenses, have become much more than a mere curiosity for legal scholars: they are used day after day by persons from all backgrounds, who often do not have the necessary skills to properly understand either the legal meaning of these licenses, or the specific ways to use these licenses in their ordinary activities in a given legal system. Recognizing the cultural and economic value of encouraging new forms of creativity, based upon a some rights reserved principle that permits a more liberal and pervasive sharing of informational goods than allowed by standard copyright, the Government of the Piedmont Region has teamed with the Politecnico of Torino to create SeLiLi  Servizio Licenze Libere (Libre Licenses Service): a project based in Torino (Italy) and aimed at providing private persons, public institutions and small businesses with information and, when necessary, consulting services on these licenses, with a multi-disciplinar perspective that draws upon law, economics and computer science. This chapter describes the main characteristics of SeLiLi and summarizes the results of its first year of activities.