This paper examines the mutual relationship between the organizational use of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) and organizational culture (OC). CMC supplements communication among members of an organization to maintain the culture, especially when those persons cannot communicate by other means. On the other hand, a strong OC allows a more effective use of CMC by providing members with som...

Persistence of motion is the tendency of an object to maintain motion in a direction for short time scales without necessarily being biased in any direction in the long term. One of the most appropriate mathematical tools to study this behaviour is an agent-based velocity-jump process. In the absence of agent-agent interaction, the mean-field continuum limit of the agent-based model (ABM) gives...

An increasing number of philosophers of social sciences and of social scientists are getting interested in the relevance of mechanism-based explanations (MBE) in the social sciences. According to MBE, we explain a phenomenon by revealing the mechanism(s) responsible for its occurrence. In the social sciences, MBE has been particularly endorsed by analytical sociology. According to several propo...

1. Introduction Economy can be thought as a complex system where aggregate behaviour is determined by the interaction between individuals at the micro level [1]. This paper presents an overview of the rapidly growing field of Agent-based Modelling (ABM) that seeks to explain and forecast market price movements using a bottom-up approach. Extensive literature reviews can be found elsewhere [2-4]...

The thorough planning and implementation of maintenance strategies save time and cost. However, the integration of maintenance actions into reliability analysis often leads to system models which are regarded as unmanageable and therefore refused at operational level. Common aggravating factors in modelling are state-explosion and restrictive model assumptions. From the authors’ point of view, ...

Exposure to mixtures of toxicants (e.g., pesticides) is common in real life and a subject of current concern. The present investigation was undertaken to assess some toxicological effects in male rats following exposure to methomyl (MET), abamectin (ABM), and their combination (MET+ABM), and to evaluate the ameliorative effect of zinc co-administration. Three groups of rats were designated for ...

To improve the robustness of the generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) against steering error and inevitable misdetection of adaptation mode control (AMC) in real applications, the conventional adaptive blocking matrix (ABM) consists of coefficient-constrained adaptive filters (CCAFs) which use the output of delay-and-sum fixed beamformer (FBF) as input, in order to limit the tracking range of t...

INTRODUCTION The early diagnosis and prognosis of acute meningitis in young infants (infants 90 days old or younger) have not been well studied. We therefore investigated the diagnostic and prognostic factors for acute meningitis obtainable within 24 hours of admission. METHODS Data were obtained through a retrospective case review of 55 young infants from 1991 to 1999 inclusive. RESULTS Th...

People with anxiety disorders show an attentional bias for threat (AB), and Attention Bias Modification (ABM) procedures have been found to reduce this bias. However, the underlying processes accounting for this effect remain poorly understood. One explanation suggests that ABM requires the modification of attention control, driven by the recruitment of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC...