abstract. the main purpose of this paper is investigation and identification the concept of dynamic capabilities and clarifying the relationship between these capabilities with the knowledge management process capabilities. as expected, the results showed a positive relationship between these two concepts. this paper includes three main sections. in first section, we identify the concept of pro...

Older adults who undertake resistance training are typically seeking to maintain or increase their muscular strength with the goal of preserving or improving their functional capabilities. The extent to which resistance training adaptations lead to improved performance on tasks of everyday living is not particularly well understood. Indeed, studies examining changes in functional task performan...

With computing and communication capabilities now embedded in most physical objects of the surrounding environment and most users carrying wireless computing devices, the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) / pervasive computing vision [28] pioneered by Mark Weiser [32] is becoming a reality. Devices carried by nomadic users can seamlessly network with a variety of devices, both stationary and mobile, b...

We propose a conceptual framework—with the resourcebased view (RBV) of the firm as its theoretical underpinning—to explain interfirm differences in firms’ profitability in high-technology markets in terms of differences in their functional capabilities. Specifically, we suggest that marketing, R&D, and operations capabilities, along with interactions among these capabilities, are important dete...

Pristine graphene is not suitable for hydrogen storage at ambient conditions since it binds the molecules only by van der Waals interactions. However, adsorption energy of can be improved doping or decorating metal atoms on monolayer. The and decoration processes are challenging due to oxygen interference in clustering issue atoms. To improve pristine graphene, we have explored capabilities mon...

Transcoding is an important technique for reducing the bit rate or spatial resolution to meet the constrained transmission bandwidths and terminal capabilities. In this paper, we propose a spatial downscaling transcoding method to convert an MPEG-2 bitstream into an H.264/AVC bitstream. A novel feature of the proposed method is to focus on the fast mode decision that fully exploits the advantag...

Traditional transcoding on multimedia has been performed from the perspectives of user terminal capabilities such as display sizes and decoding processing power, and network resources such as available network bandwidth and quality of services (QoS) etc. The adaptation (or transcoding) of multimedia contents to given such constraints has been made by frame dropping and resizing of audiovisual, ...

Multimedia is gaining ever more importance on the Internet. This increases the need for intelligent and efficient video caches. A promising approach to improve caching efficiency is to adapt videos. With the availability of MPEG-4 it is possible to develop a standard compliant proxy cache that allows fast and efficient adaptation. We propose a modular design for an adaptive MPEG-4 video proxy t...