The recent research has highly examined innovation of businesses to improve their competitive advantages and the probability of their success. This study aimed to examine the association between intellectual, psychological, and social capital and business innovation in knowledge-based and high-technology businesses in Iran and if organizational culture moderates the relationships between the va...

Rotorcraft design is challenging with respect to fatigue considering the wide range of loads to which it is subjected. There has been a continuous requirement from the helicopter community in terms of increased flight safety, increased life of components and decreased maintenance and inspection frequency. Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has definitely catered to this requirement by introduci...

To address the growing needs for care for our aging population, both the public and private sectors are turning to advanced technologies to facilitate or automate aspects of caregiving. The user, who is often an older adult, must now appropriately trust and rely upon the technology to perform its task accurately. However, there is reason to believe that older adults may be more susceptible to u...

A high level of alertness is one of the most important requirements for people working in dangerous environments. We follow the approach of using wearable computers as guards. In this paper we propose a wearable alertness monitoring guard using physiological measures detecting eyelid closure, reaction time, head movements to determine the wearer’s actual alertness level.

This paper summarizes our conceptual and prototypical work related to the dynamic composition of heterogeneous distributed simulations using the High Level Architecture for Modeling and Simulation (HLA). Previous studies of the authors and within the HLA community have shown that federates other than of simulation type are feasible. The reproduction of federates during runtime (so-called "cloni...