This study examined the influences of team charters and performance strategies on the performance trajectories of 32 teams of master's of business administration students competing in a business strategy simulation over time. The authors extended existing theory on team development by demonstrating that devoting time to laying a foundation for both teamwork (i.e., team charters) and taskwork (p...

Noise generated in flow duct propagates extensively through the connected ductwork. Its propagation through the outlets would contribute to indoor acoustic discomfort and results in environmental problem. Silencers with acoustic lining are commonly adopted for noise mitigation in flow duct. Researchers have been devoting many numerical efforts in assessing the performance of a liner design. In ...

Due to the trend of SOC/IP, design environments of SOC/IP including the system level simulation, hardware software co-simulation, hardware implementation, hardware software co-verification, and rapid prototyping are needed for education and research. The infrastructure provided by Chip Implementation Center (CIC), founded in 1992 under the National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan R.O.C., is use...

This paper reviews three different types of challenges to adaptive control. The first group comprises challenges met in the subject’s development. They include difficulties associated with the MIT rule, bursting, the Rohr’s counterexample and unplanned instability in iterative identification and control. An understanding of these phenomena and mitigating strategies are now available. The second...

Many recent public and private strategies aimed at improving the quality and efficiency of the U.S. health care system focus on measuring, reporting on, and providing incentives for improving quality. In behavioral health care, despite recent efforts, quality measurement for even the more common conditions is less well developed than for comparable general medical conditions. The absence of a c...