Building on multiple theoretical perspectives, we examined how e-business capability moderates the association of different dimensions of market orientation (i.e., customer, competitor, and interfunctional coordination orientation) and firm performance (i.e., financial, operational, and customer service performance). We tested hypotheses using survey data from senior executives in China. Our fi...

We demonstrate the design and formation of thin films having divergent physicochemical properties by using two porphyrin building blocks with high chemical and optical resemblance. A predetermined variation in the molecular design is efficiently transferred and enhanced when constituting a two-dimensional film via control of molecular orientation. Variations of the peripheral substituents on th...

This paper investigates the relevance of functional capabilities such as, market orientation, learning orientation, production orientation and human resource orientation, in an industry that is highly regulated and intensely price focused. Empirical findings from current literature suggest that the development of high levels of market oriented, learning oriented, production oriented and human r...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are gaining an increasing industry wide adoption. However, there remain major challenges such as network dimensioning and node placement especially in Built Environment Networks (BENs). Decisions on the node placement, orientation, and the number of nodes to cover the area of interest are usually ad-hoc. Ray tracing tools are traditionally employed to predict RF ...

This paper explores a futures perspective for practical theology. Although there are some examples of a future orientation, a systematic futures perspective has not been developed. Building on futures studies (including predictive studies on foresight and design and architecture studies), the authors propose a methodological model for future-sensitive practical theology, accounting for the prob...

The problem visual place recognition is commonly used strategy for localization. Most successful appearance based methods typically rely on a large database of views endowed with local or global image descriptors and strive to retrieve the views of the same location. The quality of the results is often affected by the density of the reference views and the robustness of the image representation...