Innovation, and the creative thinking that provides basis for innovation, is of great value organizations. In this article we describe what needed people to think creatively, noting a complex, albeit voluntary, activity involving performance on certain types problems. The ways leaders influence peoples’ willingness engage in, ability solve, problems are then described. Leaders efforts must not ...

We consider the following location problem. New 5G networks are deployed by two competitive operators (called resp. O1 and O2), which we refer to as a leader and a follower due to their sequential entering the market. They compete to serve clients by installing and configuring base stations (BS). We assume that the leader had already made a decision and operating a 5G network. Follower arrives ...

INTRODUCTION The follower load represents the path of the internal force resultant passing through the centers of rotation of successive spinal segments. An ideal follower load is perpendicular to the mid-plane of the intervertebral disc and minimizes shear and bending moments at all levels. Patwardhan and colleagues showed that a follower compressive preload increases the stability and load ca...

In many species, particular individuals consistently lead group travel. While benefits to followers often are relatively obvious, including access to resources, benefits to leaders are often less obvious. This is especially true for species that feed on patchy mobile resources where all group members may locate prey simultaneously and food intake likely decreases with increasing group size. Lea...

INTRODUCTION There has been a discrepancy between in vivo and in vitro experiments investigating the load carrying capacity of human lumbar spine. A follower load concept was introduced to explain this discrepancy [1]. A follower load is a compressive load applied along a path that approximates the tangent to the curve of the column. The trunk muscles are supposed to generate the follower load ...

A follower can be divided into supporter, nonsupporter, or neutral according to a follower’s intention to a target user. Even though a follower is identified as a supporter, an opinion may not be positive to the target user. In this paper, we propose a method to classify a follower as supporter, non-supporter or neutral. To expand information of a follower, influential transmitters who support ...

We consider the problem of distributed leader-follower formation control for nonholonomic mobile robots equipped with paracatadioptric cameras. Our approach is to translate the formation control problem from the configuration space into a separate visual servoing task for each follower. First, we present an algorithm for infinitesimal multi-body motion segmentation from multiple paracatadioptri...

1 Improving Safety, Comfort and Efficiency of Convoy Vehicles Through Novel Preview Control Fuel consumption and emissions are major concerns associated with heavy trucks, and both can be reduced if the trucks travel in a very closely-spaced platoon [1]. The military deploys trucks in closelyspaced convoys where the terrain can be highly variable and the drivers often inexperienced. Traffic acc...

Source-drain follower has been designed and implemented for monolithically integrated biosensor array. The circuit acts as a voltage follower, in which a sensing transistor is operated at fixed gatesource and gate-drain voltages. It operates at 10 nW power dissipation. The wide-swing cascode configurations are investigated in constant and non-constant biasing methods. The constant biased cascod...

A new computationally efficient framework for vehicle tracking on a mobile platform is proposed. The principal component of the framework is the log-polar transformation applied to video frames captured from a standard uniformly sampled format camera. The log-polar transformation provides two major benefits to real-time vehicle tracking from a mobile vehicle platform moving along a single or mu...