A mediation model of the cognitions and behaviors that successful nascent entrepreneurs (vs. quitters) use to start “promising” companies was derived from psychological theories about the causality among situation (environment), person (cognition), and behavior. Entrepreneurship, leadership and social cognition research concepts that offer successful responses to uncertain resource-poor dynamic...

Words follow the law of brevity, i.e. more frequent words tend to be shorter. From a statistical point of view, this qualitative definition of the law states that word length and word frequency are negatively correlated. Here the recent finding of patterning consistent with the law of brevity in Formosan macaque vocal communication (Semple et al., 2010) is revisited. It is shown that the negati...

Absolute parallelism geometry is frequently used for physical applications. It has two main defects, from the point of view of applications. The first is the identical vanishing of its curvature tensor. The second is that its autoparallel paths do not represent physical trajectories. The present work shows how these defects were treated in the course of development of the geometry. The new vers...

Through interacting with urban and architectural spaces, pedestrian pathway‟s ambient fingerprints delineate ambiences with identifiable characteristics, thus characterizing landscape perception potentialities. Based on a measure of the surrounding open spaces using isovists, our proposal consists in building a sensory Digital Terrain models (DTM) in which the entropy of the function of radial ...

There are various stress factors on employees who work in a different culture and such cross-cultural factors cannot be ignored. Occupational mental health is now an issue discussed by the Government, but information from the Human Resources Department of companies indicates that the support system for workers who work out of Japan is not yet well-developed. Meanwhile, cases from an Employee As...

Small firms and new business creation have become potent forces of economic development in the United States. Prior to 1980, large firms created the majority of new jobs in the American economy. During the last decade, however, a major structural shift occurred. Fortune 500 companies lost 4 million jobs. At the same time, firms with fewer than 100 employees added 16 million new jobs [Birch, 199...

Aerospace industry is approaching a phase where the manufacturing excellence seems to hold the strongest competitive advantage instead of the design excellence. This trend emphasizes the urgent need for cost minimization and focus on process improvements rather than on perfecting existing designs. Most of the aerospace companies have already invested heavily in process improvements using variou...

A network based on the Inverse Function Delayed (ID) model which can recall complex temporal sequences of patterns, is proposed. Complex pattern can be dealt with by extending the network, for each main unit, with buffer units that carries the role of a memory. Replacing the cross correlated weight matrix with a matrix computed from a linear separation problem point of view, these pattern can b...

This column is a tutorial discussing looping in parallel using foreach and forvalues. Such may use not only local macros defined for the purpose but also other devices, including gettoken command ways to increment decrement evaluate expressions. The main idea that set of loops essentially one loop with two or more sets actions. Examples cover over integers required specific display format, gene...