This article reports the findings of a longitudinal study of temporary virtual teams and explores the role of behavior control on trust decline. We conducted an experiment involving 51 temporary virtual teams. Half of the teams were required to comply with behavior control mechanisms traditionally used in colocated teams. Their counterparts were allowed to self-direct. Cynthia Beath was the acc...

This paper presents an application of evolution programming (EP), which has no limitation on objective function, for transient stability constrained optimal power flow (TSCOPF) problem. Swing equation and limit of rotor angle deviation with respect to centre of inertia (COI) are treated as additional constraints in transient stability concern. The generator fuel cost minimization is selected as...

We present a numerical stability analysis of the Bareiss and Levinson algorithms for solving a symmetric positive definite Toeplitz system of linear equations. CommentsOnly the Abstract is given here. The full report appeared as [1]. For a revision, see [2]. References[1] A. W. Bojanczyk, R. P. Brent and F. R. de Hoog, Stability Analysis of Fast Toeplitz Linear System Solvers,Report...

The maintenance of chromosome stability depends on the precise duplication of the genome, efficient DNA repair and recombination, and proper interactions between the centromeres/kinetochores of the duplicated chromosomes and the spindle apparatus (Fig. 1). Errors in these processes lead to genomic instability and aneuploidy—a hallmark of many diseases, including cancers. Knowledge of these proc...

In this paper a special focus on the relationship between sensitivity and stability in a dynamic selective visual attention method is described. In this proposal sensitivity is associated to short-term memory and stability to long-term memory, respectively. In first place, all necessary mechanisms to provide sensitivity to the system are included in order to succeed in keeping the attention in ...

In this study we investigated the possible involvement of several amino acids (not located in the ligand-binding centre) in fatty acid binding and conformational stability of heart fatty acid-binding protein (H-FABP). We prepared recombinant human H-FABP proteins with mutations in the hydrophobic patch (Phe(4), Trp(8) and Phe(64)), portal region (Phe(16)), hinge region (Leu(66), Gly(67)), secon...

First-principles calculations of the phase stability of TiO2 Joseph Muscat, Varghese Swamy, and Nicholas M. Harrison CSIRO Minerals, Box 312, Clayton South, Victoria 3169, Australia CRCT, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, C.P. 6079, succursale Centre-Ville, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3A7, Canada CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, Warrington, WA4 4AD, United Kingdom and Department of Chemistry, Imp...

Organisers of crowd mapping initiatives seek to identify practices that foster an active contributor community. Theory suggests that social contribution settings can provide important support functions for newcomers, yet to date there are no empirical studies of such an effect. We present the first study that evaluates the relationship between colocated practice and newcomer retention in a crow...

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