Innovation is an important driver of increased productivity, sustainability and resilience in agriculture, forestry related sectors. An analysis how different types multi-actor co-innovation partnerships function can help to identify the reasons why some are more successful than others ‘speeding up’ innovation. To provide a framework for process, we developed multidimensional conceptual typolog...

Sensor networks are expected to evolve into longlived, autonomous networked systems whose main mission is to provide in-situ users – called actors – with real-time information for specific goals supportive of their mission. The network is populated with a heterogeneous set of tiny sensors. The free sensors alternate between sleep and awake periods, under program control in response to computati...

Actors is a model of concurrent computation for developing parallel, distributed and mobile systems. Each actor is an autonomous object that operates concurrently and asynchronously, receiving and sending messages to other actors, creating new actors, and updating its own local state. An actor system consists of a collection of actors, some of whom may send messages to, or receive messages from...

Studies on pretense mental state understanding in young children have produced inconsistent findings. These findings could potentially emerge from the confounding influences of action manipulation or the failure to examine possible influences on individual children's performances. To address these issues, we created a task in which 68 3- and 4-year-olds viewed two actors, side by side, on a mon...

Results of electro-thermo-elastic analysis of a functionally graded thick-walled spherical shell made of temperature dependent materials are presented in this article. All material properties are assumed temperature-dependent and also are graded along the thickness direction based on power function. Temperature dependency is accounted for all material properties including, thermal, mechanical a...